Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-10-02

But the eonouerer Of the Creeks and the victor Al
New Orleans was to be called to other duties and
: higher sphere. There awaited him honors beyond
s what he had hitherto won; yes, and enemies more
' vindctive than any be had yet subducd JACKSON
= was nominated for the Presidency.
Who remembers not the. terrible malignity Of the
contest that ensued! Who turns not now with grief
and shame, from the remembrance - =. : p.
As ancient mythologists tabled two Loves, one ol
heavenly origin gentle ingenious exalted; the other
born Of Night and Of Erebus, violent riotous and
debauched; among US, there two spirits of
party the generous, nObly emulous, publicspir-
ted ready TO do battle for the right yet scornng
false words and base means; the other, miserable
and vile, living for self, working for lucre; stone.
blind to the brightest excellence In an opponent
envious, lcentous; creature that preys garbage
and battens by the graves of the dead.*
p L know not if there be, IN free and happy
country, one vice that stains its freedom, one
that more mars its happiness, than the sway of this
foul and bastard spirit We have seen it stalk un.
shamed, over the land; raising its brazen front in
city and hamlet waking up, for its own sinister ends,
passion, prejudice, hatred revenge cherished by the
bad because by its aid they rise creeping into
the hearts of the good, and marrng there Gods no.
blest work, the kindness and mercy and truth and
upright thought, that make the honest man.
i There was a noble conquest achieved over error,
when that one, Of human rights the hottest firm ally
of Truth, faithful herald of Improvement even the
right of FREE SPEECH, was guaranteed to the freeman.
There is another conquest yet to acheye-over our
selvesI We have snatched from Tyranny the censor
ship of the press let us entrUst it to Charity and to
| Justice. <fi
/ Are my words too strong? Is this censure over
harsh Recall to MIND, We who say it is, the days
and dUings to which | have alluded. Through toll,
Privations dangers daily recurring. difficulties that
before him without end, had JACKSON persevered
at sacrifice of every thing but life ITSELF had rescued
the State Of his adoption from Indian massacre and
saved the Metropolis of the South from foreign page
Who, if not such man, might demand at the hands
of his country fair dealing and decent respect And
yet when the voice of grateful people called up the
name of JACKSON, as of one worthy to fill the chair
Of Chief Magistrate what convict, loaded down with
crime and destined the Penitentary, what criminal
awaiting death for desperate deed of blood,
ever assailed with vituperation vile,
more opprobrious =,
From the tomb of the departed patriot, party vio-
lence shrinks back, indeed, silent and abashed. All
why render that justice to the living which
repentance accords, all too late, to the dead!
From that halowed tomb, let us look back on what
we have done. Now that death has interposed his
Christening veil, do we not all feel the sin-the shame!
If feel it not; we must be in love with evil passion
like that Persian, who babe his attendant, thrice each
day, recall his mind to its revenge. ., :
Nor let our selfreproach accept the poor pallation
that if JACKSON suffered from party yindictveness for
a time, success rewarded him at last. Alas! how
was that high reward embittered for him ] The
Demon of Party, maddened by the hope of sPoils and
of Office, had stopped at nothing Domestic privacy
was outraged. Woman herself was assaulted, even
In the sanctuary of her duties. Tales the crueest
that could wound matron's ear, and false as cruel
penetrated to his very home and reached the heart of
her, the chosen companion of his youth the cherished
wife of his bosom. The election proceeded prosper
ousy but Its result was known, she had sunk
beneath the bastard blow; and aged mourner
wandered, unheeding the tempest which his name
had coured up throughout the land solitary and sad
amid the shades of the quiet Hermitage
He stood, at last, victor indeed over party mallg-
nity triumphant every outward enemy, but with
his household gods shivered around him his hearth
cold and desolute; the light of his home, quenched
for ever. Empty victory in which the heart had no
share Vain triumph purchased at such a cost
! The heart of good man, stricken and estranged
by adversely turns with deeper devotion to the dis
charge of duty. That such was the frame OF mind
in which JACKSON assumed the reins of State, his
deeds evince. Politicians will differ, as politicians
must to the result of his measures; but who will
deny to him upright intention, single hearted zeal
for what he believed right! Who will be found now
to doubt, whether ANDREW JACKSON preferred to his
own ease, to his selfish good, to his own private
advantage, high and disinterested considerations OF
public utility!
If such sceptics there be, their remembrance let
me call up that act of President JAcKsoNs, the most
Influential in its ultimate results, the most rudey
assaled by his enemies, and perhaps the most doubt
fully received, at the moment, by his friends,
The charter of an institution commanding great
wealth and clothed with lucrative immunities, was to
expire during JAcKsoN's administration; and Its
friends applied for renewal Upon the conduct of
that Institution either in the earliest days of its exis-
tepce towards the close of Its career make here
no comment. / speak not even, of its national ln1u-
ence, for good for evil. But remind ITS friends,
that two years after the late United States Bank OPP
ened its DOORS the premium on its stock had reached
the sum of Fifteen Millions of dollars and that 1t ul-
tmately settled down average of about half that
sum. So, without DOUBT, would it have Deen again.
The application for the charter, then, was an applca
ton for privilege worth millions OF dollars
To grant 1t, was, virtually, to make TO certain men
gift of that enormous amount.
What request, to be made of republican govern
ment to be granted by Congress and a President
what dangerous and terhptation-laden request was
this Seven millions of dollars l. At this day there
is more absolute power, more actual influence over
men, more commanding weight In national affairs,
lodged in the Golfers that contain seven millions
of dollars, than there was in the ranks of a
steel-clad army The stern dint of iron once ruled
the world; the subtle sway of gold controls it now
Inc request ,Tr this vast be parchment
Slight instrument of great deed duly attested
by the presiding officers of both houses, and lacking
but the words "ANDREw JACKSON to give 1t vital
energy, laid before the President And never to
Roman Tribune, guarding, from his station at the Sc
nate door, the rights of his Pebeen constituents was
question as momentous submitted!
The thoughts that may have passed, In that hour OF
suspense and deep import, through the mind of the
hero-statesman, none may fathcm. But this we
know. Two courses of action lay before him. The
one,. to evoke the example of Washington and of
Madison to concur with the majority of Congress !
to secure the friendship of moneyed power, which
no one, not absolutely bent on sefmartyrdom would
wish to have for an enemy 10 conclate tens Of thou'
sands of his opponents; in fine, by writing two sim
pie words IAN act generally expected of him. and
which. once done was not calculated TO awaken, IN