The Arkansas banner., 1845-08-06


 itwas not his own ambition which bronehi him again to the public view. Theahecnon of Tennessee compelled him to resume ( seat on the floor of the American Senate, and. after years of the intensest political strife. Andrew Jackson was elected President oI the United States.
 Far from advancing his own pretensions, he always kept them Jack, and had for years repressed the solicitations of lis friends to become candidate. He felt sensibly that he was devoid of scientific culture, and little familiar with letters and he never obtruded his opinions, or preferred claims 10 place. But, whenever his opinion was demanded, he was always ready to pro- nomce il; and whenever his country invoked his services, he did not shrink even from the station which had been filled hv the most cultivated men our nation had produced.
 Behold, then. tue unlettered man of the West, the nursing of the wilds, the farmer of the Hermitage, tie yersed in books, un- connected by sssenee win the tradition of the past, raised by the will of the people to the central post in the civilization of repub- lican freedom, 10 the station were all the na- lions of the earth would watch his actions where his words would vibrate through the civilized world, and his spirit be the moving star to guide the nations. What policy will he pursue2 What wisdom will he bring with him from the forests? What rules of duty will he evolve from the oracles of his own miud2
 The man of the West came as the inspir- cd prophet of the Vest he came as one free from the bonds of hereditary or established custom he came with no superior but con science, no oracle but his native judgment and, true to his origin and his education--- true to the conditions and circumstances of Of his advancement, he valued right more than usage; he reverted from the pressure of established interests 10 the energy of first principles.
 We tread on ashes, where the fire is no, yet eXtnguished; yet not 10 dwell on his career us President, were 10 leave out of view the grandest illustrations of his mag naninily
 The legislation of the United States had followed the precedens Of the legislation of European monarehies; il was the office of Jackson to lift the country out of the Euro pean forms of legislaton, and to open to it career resting on American sentiment and American freedom. He would have freedom rywhere-freedom under the restraints Of right; freedom of industry, of commerce, of mind, of universal action, unshaekled by re- striciive privileges, unrestlained by the thfal- dom of monopolies
 The unity of his mind and his conssten- cy were without a parallel. With natural dlalectics, he developed the political doc trines that suited every emergency, with a precision and harmony that no theorist could hope to equal On every subject in politics, speak but fact, he was thorough ly and profoundly and immovable radical and would sii fer hours, and in continued flow of remark make the application of his principles to every question that could arise i'll legislation, or in the interpretation oi the constitution.
 His expression of himself was so clear, that his influence pervaded not our land on- ly, but all America and all mankind. They say that, in the physical world, the magnetic fluid Is so ditfased, that it's vibrations are di,cernibIe simultaneously in every part Of the globe. So il is with. the element of free dom. And as Jackson developed its doc tfines from their source in the mind Of hu- Ilianity, the popular sympathy was moved and agilated throughout the world, till his name grew everywhere 10 be the symbol o popular power.
 Himself the witness of the ruthlessness O savage life, he planned the removal of tht Indian tribes beyond the limits of the organ ized States and it is the result of his deter. mined policy that the region east of the Mis- sissppi has been transferred to the exclusive possession of cultivated man.
 A pupil of thc wilderness, his heart was with the pioneers of American life towards the setting sun. No American statesman has ever embraced within his affections scheme so liberal for the emigrants as that of Jack son. He longed to secure to them, mol pre- empiion rights only, b,i. more than re- amp- ton rights. He longed to invite labor to sake possession of the unoceupied fields without money and without price; with no oblga- ton except the perpetual devotion of itseli by allegiance to it's country. Under the beneGcent influence of his opinions, the sons of misfortune, the children of adventure, find  their way io the unculllvalted West. There in some wilderness glade, or in the thick forest of tte fertile plain, or where the prai- ries most sparkle with flowers, they, like the wild bee which se.s them inc example ofin- dustry, may choose their home, mark the ex- tent of their possessions by driving stakes or blazing trees, shelter their log-eabins with boughs and turf and teach the virgin soil to yield itself 10 the ploughshare. Theirs shali be the soil, theirs the beautiful farms which they teach to be productive. Come. children of sorrowi you on whom the Old World frowns; crowd frarlessly 10 the forests; plant your homes in confidence, for the country watches over you; your children grow around you as hostages, and the wilderness, at your bidding, surrenders it's grandeur oi useless luxurance 10 the beauty and loYeli- ness of culture Yet beautiful and lovely as is this scene, it still by far falls short o the ideal which lived in the affections of Jack. son. His heart was ever with the poineer his policy ever favored the diffusion of in- dependent freeholds throughout the aboring classes of our land.
 It would be a sin against the occasion, were ] to omit to commemorate the deep devotetlness of Jackson 10 the cause and to