The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-06-21
THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY
EDITED BY J. r. MORRIS.
WOODSFIELD, OHIO:
DE.aTH OF GENER.aL LqCKSON'!
TURDAY, JUNE 21, lS45.

a DEPTH OF GENERAL JACKSON!
4 Although we might have been prepared for this
4 melancholy event, after reading the almost daily
accounts of his continually failing health; yet we
hardly realize the fact Of the death of the great
Z est Statesman and general Of his day. We have
Aever associated the name of ANDREW JACK
gSON with the wisest and best of our land The
ssmeasure of his davs was FULL and he has departed
,sto another and better world. Future generations
,swill rise up and call him blessed.
Il From the Ohio Statesman.
aTHE LAST OF THE REVOLUTIONARY
A PRESIDENTS.
The Statesman of to-day gdes forth to its read
aers shrouded in mourning. ANDREW JACK
sSON is no more! The warrior, statesman, and
sChristan has passed to his final home, and now
sleeps beneath the green turf of the Hermitage, by
sthe side of the fond wife he loved so well. Yet
Though the dust will claim all Of him that is mo r
ta, his fame will live, fresh and green on the page
Sof his counry's history, so long as truth, virtue
land single hearted patriotism find admirers.
q The history of ANDREW JACKSON is the his
atory of his country, SO intimately is his name
sassociated with her prosperity and her honor
2Among her warriors he ranked second only to
THE Father Of his County; among her statesmen,
ghe took his place with Thomas Jefferson. He was
] lone to be admired for his patriotism, revered for
u ibis wisdom, and loved for his virtues.
4 The death Of General JACKSON, though long
Sexpected, will plunge the nation in grief, and be
gregarded as national calamity
4 General JACKSON, at the tender age Of fourteen
senered the army of the Revolution in defence of
athat liberty to which his whole life attested his
gunswerving devotion. There his two brothers
Offered up their lives in defence of the same prin-
Pile; and he, for whose death the people of this
1 mighty republic now weep, carried to that grave,
swhere he has lately been laid, an enduring me-
moral of that fierce contest. Later in life, he
commanded the armies of the republic, and the
| plains of 1'alladtga and Emuchfao-of Iohopeka
1 Eand :NeW Orleans, attest his courage and his
Rsuccess.
1t was not because ANDREW JACKSON poured
Sout his blood upon the fields of the Revolution
g was not because of his success in defending the
slrontier from the tomahawk and scalping knife OF
1.-The savage, and New Orleans from pillage, and her
beauty from pollution by licentious British SOL
sdiery that he was SO loved and reverenced by the
american people. Great as were the services he
performed in the field, greater were those he
achieved in the cabinet, as the President of the
country his arm had protected. Amid the fire and
smoke of New Orleans, or while with impetuous
sardor he was storming the Barrancas, his courage
and patriotism were perhaps less tested than when
she grapped, in fierce contest, the money power
which was endeavoring to sap the very foundation
sof the republic. 1t was the stern indomitable
senergy of President JACKSON which saved the
Bank of the United States, with all it's train of
villainies, to be driven to the wall, and to sink
with the weight of the corruption itself had caus-
led.
In attempting to write notice of one 50 loved
and venerated, we feel as if noticing the death of
IA relative near and dear. Too long have we
fought in the ranks of that party of which, after
1.-The death of Mr. Jefferson, he became the acknow-
sledged leader, not to love that brave and single
hearted old man, as the child loves parent; and
when we think of these things, and reflect that
the eye which flashed in victory is now closed,
and the heart, SO warm in all the generous impul
lses of the human mind, is now cold, we cannot
but feel as though we had lost the best and dearest
of friends the nation the wisest and brayest of her
statesmen and warriors, and-in the words of a
poet, called forth by the sickness which terminated
Ibis mortal existence--that
"The word which bids his spirit hence,
Will wake nations wo;
And o'er his calm, and quiet grave,
A nations tears will flow
For him, the noble and the good,