Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

mcwornfiou of the Life and services !
OF Andrew jackson, delivered at the
K.a>t Front Of the Capitol in the City
OF Washington, June ~, ls4J.
The men Of American revolution are no more The
ace III creative has passed away The last surviv
inc srer of the Declaration Of Idepenpence has long
since ief. the earth. Washington lies his Po-
tomsc surrounded by his family aud servants Ad-
ans The colossus Of Independence, reposes in the remot
grave yard Of his native region Jefferson sleeps ON
the heights Of his Monticello, whence his eye over
looked his beloved Virginia. Madison the last survivor
Of the who made constitution, lives only In our
hearts But who shall say that the heroes, IN whom the
image Of God shone most brightly, de not live forever
They filed with the conceptions which called
America being they lived for those conceptions
and their deeds praise them
We are met to commemorate the virtues Of one who
shed his blood for independence took part IN winning
the territory and forming the early Institutions oil the
West and was imhued with all the great ID which con-
sssute the force Of country On the spot where
he gave his solemn feay the People-here. where he
pledged himself before the world to freedom to the consii
tuition and the aws-we pay tribute to the
Of the last great name, which gathers round It,
self al the associations that form the glory Of America
South Carolina gave a birth place to Andrew Jackson
On frontier. far up the forestclad banks OF
the Catawbs 10 region where the settlers just be-
ginning cluster his eye first the light There his
infancy spored in the ancient forests and his mind was
nursed freedom by their influence. He was the young
est son of an Ifish emgran Of Scottish ORIGIN who two
years the great of Frederic of Prussia fled
America for relief from indgence and oppression His
birth in 1867, at time when the PEOPLE OF our land
but body of dependent colonists scarcely more
than millions IN number scattered along immense
coast with no army, navy, union and exposed to
the attempts of England control America by the and OF
military force HIS boyhoo grew up in the midst of the
contest with Great Britain The fret political ruth
that reached his heart that all are free and
equal great fact that besmed his understand
ing was his country's independence.
The strife. increased, the shades Of his
r.
ell the Of horror that accompany civil and
when but year older, with elder brother he shoulder
ed his muske and went forth to strike blow for his
country.
Joyous ere Tor America and for humanity But for
him. the orphan boy the events were full OF agony and
grief His father His oldest brother fell
victim the Of the revolution another his comPan
ion in died Of wounds received in their j1nt cap
witty; his mother went down the grave victim gric
and Efforts to her and when peace came he
alone in the world. with kindred cherish him
and little inheritance but his untried powers.
The nation which emancpaed itself from British rule
organizes itself: the confederation gives way the
siituOs: the PeTfectDg OF that consturon-that graHd
Of the thousand years of modern history-s
pIshea America exists a people. gains unity gov
ernment and takes its place nation among the pow
ers If the earth.
The next office to be performed by America, is the TAX
ing possession Of the wilderness The magnificent ives
valley cried the civilization Of popular power
that it must be occupied by cultivated man.
Behold then, orphan hero stcrnly earnest,
Grated TO humanity from childhood by sorrow having mel
ther father, MOTHER sister, surviving brother
young and yet solitary and therefore bound tn
closely collective man-behold him elect for hi
lot go forth and assist in laying the foundations of
cety in the great valley Of the Mississippi.
AT the very time when Washington plelgng BIZ
and future generations to the support of the popua
institutions which be the light of the human
the time when the institutions of the old world
rocking 10 the CENTRE and the mighty fabric that had
he mid
Jackson in the radiant glory and boundess hope
confident ntrrpditJ Of twenty one plunged into the vii
derness crossed the great mountain barrier that divide
the from the Atlantic followed the path
Of the early hunters and fugtves and,
the neghborhOud TO his parent State went still fu
Their and further 10 the till be found his home in III
most beautiful region of the Cumberland There, fror
the hrst ne was recognised as the great pioneer undo
his courage, the coming emigrants were sure 10 6n
q shield.
The lovers of adventure began to pour themselves in
the territory. whose delicious climate and fertile sn il
vited the presence of social man. The hunter with b
rife and his attended by his wife children Ii
herdsmsn driving Tie few cattle that were 10 multiply
they browsed the cuItvatOr of the sol-all Il
inviting region Wherever the bending mountains ope
ed pass-whereyer the buaoes and beasts Of The lores
bad made trace, these of nature children OF huma
y, in the highest sentiment Of personal freedom
occupy the beautiful wilderness whose paires blossome
everywhere profusely with wild fowers-whose woods
spring put TO shame by their magnificence, the cultivate
gardens Of man.
And now that these unettered fugitives, educated on
the spirit of freedom destitute of dead letter erudo
but sharing the living ideas of the age had made the
homes m the West-what would follow Would IN,
degrade themselves ignorance and infideity Won
they make The soItudes Of the desert lice
tiousnessl Would the doctrines Of freedom lead them
live in unoEganized society, destitute of laws aud fixed
stitutionsi
At time when European society was becoming brol
in pieces scattered dsunited and resolved into it's
emens, scene ensued in Tennessee than which nohir
more beautifully grand is recorded in the annals Of Il
These adventures wilderness long ed To come
gether IN organized society. The overshadowng gen
Of their time inspired them with good designs and fill
them with the counseIs of wisdom DweIers in the f.,
est freest OF the Free bound ia the spirit they came 10
their representatives, foot on horseback through n
forest along The by the buffalo Traces by the
dian Pshs by the biazd forest avenues TO meet in CO
venton among the mountains Of Knoxville and frame
themselves constitution Andrew jackson thei
the greatest man of then aIl-modest bold determine
demanding nothing for himself, and shrinking from n
thing that his heart approved.
The convention came together the eleventh day
January 1896, aud finished its work on the sixth day
FEBRUARY. How had the wisdom Of the Old World val
u ssked itself TO frame constitutions that should at lea
he the subject Of experiment. the men Of Tennessee
less than twenty five days. perfected fabric which in
essential FORMS to last forever. They ogeth
full of faith and reverence, of love humanity of con
dence in truth. 10 the simplicity of wisdom they fran
their constitution acting under higher influences than
conscious Of
They wrought in sad sincerity
Themselves from God they could free
They builded better than they knew;
The conscious stones TO beauty grew.
Ia the Instrument which they framed, they embodi
their faith in God and in the immortal nature of ma
They gave the right Of suffrage every freeman III
vIDdicated the sanety of reason, by giving freedom
speech and Of the press they voice of G..
speaks in the soul Of man. by asserting the indeea
bic right of worship the Infinite according 10
conscience they established the freedom and euuaity