The Arkansas banner., 1845-08-06

a part of his own Tennessee, and the high way to the FloridaS, were his gifts to the Union. These were his trophies.
 Genius as extraordinary as military events can call forth, was summond into action in i'll this rapid, efficient, and most fortunately conducted war.
 Time would fail were to track our hero down the watercourses of Alabama to the neighborhood of Pensacola. How he long ed to plant the eagle of his country on it's baitlemenlsl
 Time would fail, and words be wanting, were l to dwell on the magical influence of his appearance in New Orleans. His pre- sence disspated gloom and dispeled alarm :; at once he changed the aspect of despair in- to confidence of security and hope of ac- quiriug glory. Every man knows the tale of the heroic, sudden, and yet deliberate daring which led him, on the night of the twenty third ol December, to precipitate his little ar my on his foes, in the thich darkness, before they grew familiar with their encampment, scattering dismay through veteran regiments of England, and defeating them, and arrest ing their progress by far inferior force.
 Who shall recount the counsels of pru- dence, the kindling words of eloquenee, that gashed from his lips to cheer his soldiers. his skirmishes and battles. till that eventlul morning when the day at Bunker's Hill had its lulfilment in the glorious battle of New Orleans, and American independence stood before the world in the majesty of victorious power
 These were great deeds for the nation for himself he did greater. Had not Jackson been renowned for the vehement impetuosily of his passions, for his defiance of others a,l- thority, and the unbending vigor of his self wlll Behold the savior ol Louisiana, all gar landed with victory, viewing around him the city he had preserved, the maidens and ehil- dren whom his heroism had protected, stand in the presence of petty judge, who grati- fes his wounded vanity by an abuse of his judicial power. Every breast Tn the crowded audience heaves with indignation. He, the passionate, the impetuous-he whose power was to be humbled, whose honor questioned, whose laures tarnlshed, alone stood subi- mely serene; and when the craven judge trembled, and fuullered, and dared not pro- eeed, himself, the arraigned one, bade him take courage, and stood by the law even in the moment when the law was made the in- strument of insult and wrong on himsell--at the moment of his most perfect claim 10 the highest civic honors.
 His country, when it grew to hold many more millions. the generation that then was coming i'll, had risen up to do homage to the noble heroism of that hour. Woman, whose feeling is always right, did honor from the first to the purity of his heroism. The peo- pie of, Louisiana, 10 the latest honr, will cherish his name as their greatest bene- factor.
 The culture of Jackson's mind had been much promoted by his services and associa- tions in the war His discipline of himself as the chief in command, his intimate rela tions with men like Livingston, the wonder ful deeds in which he bore a part, all matur- ed his judgment and mellowed hls charac- ter.
 Peace came with it's delights; once more the country rushed forward in the develop ment of it's powers; once more the arts of in- dustrv healed the wounds that war had n- flicled; and. from commerce and agriculture and manufactures, wealth gushed abundanlly under the free actiyiy of unrestraIned enter prise.
 And Jackson returned 10 his own fields and his own pursuits, to cherish his planta- ton, to care for his servants, to look after his stud, to enjoy the affection of the most kind and devoted wife, whom he respected with the gentlest delerence. aud loved with an almost miraculous tenderness.
 And there lie stood, like one of the nigh tiest forest trees, of his own West, vigorous aE q colossal, sending it's summit to the skies and growing on it's native soil in wild and inimitable magniicence, careless of behold CTS. From all parts of the country he re- ceiyed appeals To his political ambition, and the severe modesty of his well-balanced mind turned them all aside He was happy in his farm, happy in seclusion, happy in his fami- ly, happy with himself.
 But the passions of the southern Indians were not allayed by the peace with Great Britain; and foreign emissaries were still among them, 10 inname and direct their ma- lignItv. Jackson was called forth by his country to restrain the cruelty ol the treacl- erous and unsparing Semino es. It was in the train of the events of this war that he placed the American eagle on St. Marks and above the ancient towers of St. Angus tine. His deeds ;n that war, of themselves, form monument to human power, to the ceerity of his genius, to the creative iertill- ty of his resources, his intuitlve sagaclly = As Spain, in his judgment, had committed aggression, he would have emancipated her islands; of the Havana, he caused The recon noissance to be made; and, with an army oi five thousand men, he stood ready to guar aniy her redemption from colonial thral- dom.
 But when peace was restored, and his ol- fee was accomplished, his physical strength sunk under the presidential influence oi ihe eli mate, ,and, fast yielding to disease, he was borne in litter across the swamps of Florida to- wards his home. It was Jackson's character that he never solicited aid from any one; but he never forgot those who rendered him ser- vice in the hour of need. At time when all around him believed te was near his end, his wife hastened to his side; and, by her tenderness and nursing care. her patient ass- duty. and the soothing influence of devoted love, withheld him from inc grave.
 He would have remained quietly at his home in repose, but that lie was privately informed. his good name was to be altainted