The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-07-16

ways had unity OF peFcepllOu anu VIII "h'SH IA
action had never filtered from doubt, and which
IN council had al ways reverted to first prncipies
and general laws, now gave itself up 10 commu-
ming with the Infinite. He was believer: from
feeling, from experience, from conviction. Not
q shadow of scepticism ever dimmed the lnstre !;
ofhis mind. Proud philosopher! will you smile
10 know that Andrew Jackson perused reverent-
ly his Psaier and Prayer-book and Bbei Know
that Andrew Jackson had faith in the eternity OF
truth, in the imperishable power of popular free
dom, in the des,iries of humanity, in the virtues
and capacity of the people, in his countrys IN
stitutons, in the being andoverruling providence
of a merclul and everything God.
The last moment of his life on earth is at
hand. ID is The Sabbatho of the Lord: the bright
ness and glory of summer clothe the fields
around him; nature is in her glory; but the sub
imost spectacle on that day, on earth, was the
victory of his unblenching spirit over death ITSELF
When he first felt the hand Of death upon him,
l"May nv enemes,n he cried, Sind peace; may
The liberties of my country endure FOREVER"
When his exhausted system, under the excess
! of pain, sunk, for moment, from debility, "DoI
not weep" said he 10 his adopted daughter; "my
snf1erings are less than those of Christ upon the
ctoss;n for he, too, as a disciple OF the cross,
could have devoted himself in sorrow, for man.
kind. Feeling his end near, he would sec all
| his family Cnce more; and he spoke 10 them, one
Eby one. in words of tenderness and aitetton.-
His two lie grandchildren were absent at Sun
Iday-school He asked for them; and as they
came, he prayed for them, and kissed them and
blessed them. His servants were then admitted:
| they gathered, some in his room, and some on
the outside of the house, cngIng TO the windows
that they might gaze and hear. And that dying
man, thus surrounded, in gush of tervld eloz
qucnce, spoke with Inspiration OF God, OF the
| Redeemer, of salvation through the atonment,
Iof Immortality, of heaven. For he ever thought
that pure and undefled religion was the tounda-
ton of private happiness, and the bulwark OF re-
publican institutions. Having spoken of lmmol-
Italtv in perfect consciousness of his own ap-
preaching end, he bade them all farewell "Dear
1 children" "such were his final words, "dear chill
dren, servants, and friends, | trust to meet you
all in heaven, both white and black--alI, both
white and black" And having borne his testi-
mony to Immortality, he bowed his mighty head,
and, without groan, the spirit of the greatest
Imam of his age escaped to the bosom of his God.
In life, his career had been like the b'aze OF
the sun in the fierceness of his noon-day glory;
) his death was lovely as the mlidest sunset OF a
) summers evening, when the sun goes down IN
| tranquil beauty without cloud. 10 the maJes-
, tic energy of an indOmtable will, he joined a
heart capable of the purest and most devo-
ted love, rich in the tenderest affections. On
the bloody battlefield of Tohopella, he saved an
infant that clung to the breast OF IFS dying moth
err in tho stormiest moment of his presidency, at
1.-The imminent moment of decision, he paused in
, Ibis way, to give good counsel to poor suppllant
t that had come up to him for succour. OF the
> strifes in which he was engaged in his earlier
} life, not one sprung from himself, but in every
case he became involved by standing forth as
4 the champion of the weak, the poor, and the de-
5 fenceless, to shelter the gentle against oppres
sion, to protect the emgrant against the aVarlce
h of the speculator. His generous soul revolted
t at the barbarous practice of duels, and by no mai
y in the land have so many been prevented.
The sorrows of those that were near to hin
! went deeply into his soul; and at the anguish o
. the wife whom he loved, the orphans whom he
i adopted, he would melt into tears, and weep anc
e sob like a child, .s .....
= No man in public life so possessed the hearts
/ of all around him: no public man of this century
ever returned private life with such an abiding
= mastery over the affections Of the people. M
t, man with truer instinct received American ideas
j. no man expressed them so completely, or s.
:, boldly, or so sincerely, He was as sincere
" man as ever lived. He was wholly, always,an
Q altogether sincere and true.
t, Up to the last, he dared do anything that
e was right to do He united personal courag
1t and moral courage beyond any man of whor
D history keeps the record. Before the nation, ,be
N fore the world, before coming ages, he stand
g forth the representative, for his generation,
l. the American mind. And the secret ofhis great
OF ness is this: BY intuitvo conception, he share
and possessed all the creative ideas Of his cour
TRY and his time. He expressed them with daun
SIS less inlropdty; he enforced them with an i'nmc
/ Ivable will he executed them with an electri
power that attracted and swayed the America
Id people. The nation, in his time, had not on
We great thought, of which he was not the bolde
IN expostor,
= History does not describe the man that equa
II led him in frmness of nerve. Not danger, n
IT'S an army in battle array, not wounds, not wild
IL spread clamor, not age, not the anguish of dl
d, ease, could impair in the least degree the Wig
lis of his steadfast mind. The heroes of antiqui
as would have contemplated with awe the inmate
e. ed hardihood of his charactery and Napoleon, hi
It's he possessed his disnterested will, could nev
lit, have been vanquished Jackson never was va
lat quisbed, He was always fortunate. He co
cd quered the wilderness; he conquered the savag
ty he conquered the bravest veterans trained in Il
he battle fields of Europe; he conquered everywhe
~, in craftsmanship; and, whom death came to 9
nd, the mastery over him, he turned that last ener
zee aside as TRANQUILITY as he had done the fecblest
he his adversaries, and escaped from earth in t
as triumphant consciousness of Immortality
,od His body has its fit trestng-place in the gre
ion central valley of the Mississippi; his spirit re-
he upon our whole territory; it hovers over the va
Isl. of Oregon, and guards, in advance, the front
ork of the Del Norte The fires of party spirits
on auenched at his grave His faults and frailt
inl La.... r,or;rI,nL Mhntnunr &c .rond La hnr lo