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

} good name was 10 be nttainted by some intended
, congressional proceedings; he came therefore,
into t1e presence of the peoples representatives
J at Washington, only 10 vindicate his name: and
when that was achieved, he was once more com.
muning with his own thoughts among the groves
OF the Hermitage.
1t was not his own ambition which brought
him again to the public view. The affection of
! Tennessee compelled him 10 resume seat on
the floor of the American Senate, and, after
years Of the intensest political strife, Andrew
Jackson was elected President of the United
i States
Far from advancing his own pretensons, he
always kept them back, and had for years repress-
ed the solicitations of his friends to become a
candidate. He felt sensibly that he was devoid
of scientific culture, and little familiar with let
ters; and he never obtruded his opinions, or pre-
ferred claims TO place. But, whenever his opin
ion was demanded, he was always ready to pro-
nounce it; and whenever his country invoked his
services, he did not shrink even from the sta
tons which had been filled by the most cultiva-
ted men our nation had produced.
Behold, then the uneHered man of the west,
the nursling of the wids, the farmer of the
Hermitage, little versed in books, unconnected
by science with the traditions of the past, raised
by the will of the people TO the highest pinnacle
of honor, to the central post in the civilization of
republican freedom, 10 the station where all the
nations of the earth would watch his actions
where his words would vibrate through the civil
lized world, and his spirit be the moving star 10
guide the nations. What policy will he pursue
What wisdom will he bring with him from the TO
rest2 What rules of duty will he evolve from
the oracles of his own mind2
The man of the West came as the inspired
prophet Of the West: he came as one free from
the bonds of hereditary or established custom; he
came with no superior but conscience, no oracle
but his native judgment; and, true to his origin
and his education--true TO the conditions and
circumstances of his advancement, he valued
right more than usage; he reverted from the
pressure of established interests to the energy
of first principles
We tread on ashes, when the fire is not yet
extinguished yet not 10 dwell on his career as
President, were to leave out of view the grand
est illustrations of his magnanmity.
The legislation of the United States had fol-
lowed the precedents of the legislation of Euro
pean monarchies; it was the Office of Jackson TO
lift the country out of the European forms of le-
gslation, and to open it to career resting on
American sentiment and American freedom.--
He would have freedom verywhere-freedom
under the restraints of right; freedom of indus
try, of commerce, of mind of universal action;
freedom, unshackIcd by restrictive privileges, un-
restrained by the thraldom of monopoes.
The unity of his mind and his consistency
were without parallel. With natural dialec-
tics, he developedthe political doctrines that suit
ed every emergency, with precision and a har-
mony that no theorst could hope to equal. On
every subject in politics--I speak but fact
lie was thoroughly and profoundly and immova-
bly, radical and would sit for hours, and in a con-
tinued flow of remark make the application of
his principles to every question that could arise
in legislation, in the Interpretation of the con-
stituon.
His expression of himself was so clear, that
his influence pervaded not our land only, but all
America and all mankind. They say that in
the physical world, the magnetic fluid is so diff
fused, that its vibrations are discernible simulta-
neously in. every part of the globe. So it is with
the element of freedom. And as Jackson de-
veloped lis doctrines from their source in the
mind of humanity, the popular sympathy was
moved and agitated throughout the world, till
his name grew everywhere to be the symbol of
popular power.
Himself the witness of the ruthlessnes of sa.
wage life, he planned the removal of the Indian
tribes beyond the limits of the organized States
and il is the result of his determined policy that
the region east of the Mississippi has been
transferred to the exclusive possession of culti-
waited man.
A pupil of the wilderness, his heart was with
the pioneers of American life towards the set
ting sun. No American statesmen has ever en-
braced within his affections scheme so liberal
for the emigrants as that of Jackson. He long
ed 10 secure 10 them, not pre-emption rights on
ly, but more than pre-emption rights lie long
ed to invite labor TO take possession of the unoc-
cupied fields without money and without price
with no obligation except the perpetual devotion
of itself by allegiance TO its country. Under the
benificent influence of his opinions, the sons OF
misfortune, the children of adventure, find their
way 10 the uncultvated West. There in some
wilderness glade, or in the thick forest of the fer
tile plain, or where the praires most sparkle
with flowers, they, like the wild bee which sets
them the example of industry, may choose their
home, mark the extent of their possessions by
driving stakes or blazing trees, shelter their log
cabin with boughs and turf, and teach the virgin
soil to yield itself 10 the ploughshare. Theirs
shall be the soil, theirs the beautiful farms which
they teach to be productive, Come, children of
sorrow! you on whom the Old World frowns
crowd fearlessly to 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 its
grandeur of useless luxuriance to the beauty and
loveliness of culture. Yet beautiful and lovely
as is this scene, it still by far falls short Of the
ideal which lived in the affections of Jackson
His heart was ever with the pioneer; his policy
ever favored the diffusion Of independent free
holds throughout the laboring classes of our
land IrGs
Il would be sin against the occasion, were |