The Arkansas banner., 1845-07-30
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i.ary command, the highest i'll judicial office
 He seemed to be recognised as the first ii love of liberty, the first in the science of legislation, in judgment, and integrity.
 Fond of private life, he would have re- signed the judicial office; but the whole country demanded his service. sNature,n they cried, ''never designed that your pow CTS of thought and independence of mind should be lost in retiremehtD But after lew years, relieving himself from the cares ot the bench, he gave himself to the activi- i " and the independent life of husbandman. He carried into retirement the fame of natr- fal intelligence, and was cherished as "a prompt, frank, and ardent sonlD His yigor oI character constituted him first among all with whom he associated. A private man as he was, his name was familiarity spoken round every hearth-stone in Tennessee.- Men loved to discuss his qualities. All dis cerned his power; and when the vehemence and lmpotuosiiy of his nature were observed upon, there were not wanting those who saw, beneath the blazing fires of his genius, the solidity of his judgment.
 His hospitable roof sheltered the elnigrant and the pioneer; aud, as they made their way to their new homes, they filled the mountain sides and the valleys with his praIse.
 Connecting himself, for season, with man ol business, Jackson soon discerned the misconduct oi his associate IL marked his character, that he insisted, himself, on pay ing every obligation that had been contrac- ted; and, rather than endure the vassalaqe oi debt he instantly parted with the rch do- main which his carly enterprise had acquired with his own mausion-wih the fields wlSch he himself had first tanned to the plouzhahgre-- the forest whose trees were a, familiar to him as his friends--and chose ra'her to dwell, for a time, in rude log cabin, i1 the pride of independence and integrity.
 On all great occasions, Jackson's influence was deferred to. When Jefferson had &C., qulred for the country the whole of Louis. lana, and there seemed some hesitancy, on the part of Spain, 10 acknowledge our pos- sessions, the services of Jackson were so- Iicited by the national administration, and were not called into full exercise, only from the peaceful termination of the incidents that occasioned the summons.
 In the long series ol aggressions on the freedom of the seas, aud the rights of the American flag, Jackson was on the side of hIs country, and the new maritime code of repubicanlsm. In his inland home, where the roars of the breakers was never heard,' and the mariner was never seen, he resented the continual aggression oil OUT commerce and on our sailors!
 When the continuance of wrong com pelled the nation to resort to arms, Jackson, lpI hN tl,a .,fk l. greatness, yet with modesty shat would have honored the most sensitive delieacy of nature, confessed his willingness to be em- ployed on the Canada frontier, and it is a fact, that he aspifed to the command to which Winchester was appointed. We may ask, what would have been the result, if the com mand of the northwestern army had, at the opening of the war, been intrusted to d man who, Ill action, was eRef so fortunate, that his vehement will seemed 10 have made destiny capitulate to his designs?
 The path of duty led him in another di- rection. On the declaration of war, twenty five hundred volunteers had risen at his word to follow his standard; but, by coun- iermanding orders from the seat of govern ment the movement was without effect.
 new and great danger hung over the West The Indian tribes were to make one last effort to restore 1t to it's solitude, and recover it for savage life. The brave, relent- less Shawnees--who, from time immemori- al, had stroIed from the waters of the Ohio to the rivers of the Alabama-were animated by Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet, who spoke Co them as with the voice ol the Great Spirit, and reused the Greek nation to desperate massaeres. Who has not heard of ther terrible deods, when their ruthless cru city spared neither sex nor age? when the infant and it's mother, the planter and is his l family, who had fled for refuge to the for tress, the garrison that capitualatd--all were slain, and not vestige Of defence was left in the country The cry of the West deman- ded Jackson for is defender; and though his arm was then fractured by a ball, and hung in sling, he placed himself at the head of the volunteers of Tennessee, and resolved to terminate forever the hereditary struggle, Who can tell the horrors of that campaign? Who can paint rightly the obstacles which Jackson overcaEe-mountalns, the scarcity of untenanled forests, winter, the failure of supplies from the settlements, the insuborGi- nation of troops, mutlny, menaces ol deser- [ CT over men, by which his personal prowess and attractive energy drew them in mid-win- ter frcm their homes, across mountains and morrasses, aud through trackless deserts?- 1 Who can describe the personal herolsm of Jackson. never sparing himself, beyond any of his men eneounteriDg toh and fatigue, sharing every labor of the camp and of the march, foremost in every danger, giving up his horse to the invalid soldiefi While he himself waded through the swamps on foot' None equalled him i'll power of endurance and the private soldiers, as they found him passing them on the march, exclaimed, She is as tough as the hickoryn " es," they cried to one another, s.lhere goes Old Ilichoryt'
 Who can narrale the terrible events the double battles of Emucsiaw, or the glorious victory of Tohopeka, where the anger of the general against the lahering was more ap- l paihng than the war-whoop and the rifle of the savage? Who can rightly conceive the field of Enolochopco, where the general, as he attempted to draw the sword to cut down flying colonel who was leading regiment ! P arm.