The Arkansas banner., 1845-07-30

of the desert excuses for lcentiousness ;- | 0vershadowing genius of their time inspired them with good designs, and filled them with the counsels of wisdom. Dwellers in the forest, freest of the free, bound in the spirit. they came up by their representatives, on foot on horseback, through the forest, along the streams, by the buffalo traces, by the ln- Would the doctrines of freedom lead them to live m unorganl2ed society, destitute of laws and fixed institutions,
 At a time when European society was be- coming broken in pieces, scattered, disunited and resolved into its elements. q scene en- sued in Tennessee, than which nothing more beautifully grand Is recorded iH the annals of the race.
 These adventures in the wilderness longed to come together in organized society. The dian paths, by flle bla1ed forest avenues. to meet in convena 'n among the mountains at Knoxyille,"and frame for themselves q con sttution. Andrew Jackson was Aere, the greatest man of them all-modest, bold, de- termncd, demanding nothing for himself. and shrinking from nothing that his heart approved.
 The convention came together on the ele- venth day of January, l796, and finished its work on the sixth day of Eebuary.- How had the wisdom of the Old World valniy tasked itself 10 frame constitutions. that could, at least, be the subject of expe- riment; the n en of Tennessee, in less than Twenty-Five days, perfected fabric, which, m It's essential forms, WIS to last foreyer.- They came together, full of faith and reyer- enee, of love to humanity, of confidence in truth. In the simplicity of wisdom, they framed their constitution, acting under high CT influences than they were conscious of--
 They wrought in sad sincerity,
 Themselves from God they could not free:
 They buded better than they knew;
 The conscious stones to beauty grew
 In the instrument which they famed. they embodied their faith in God, and ill the im- mortal nature of man. They gave the right ol suffrage to every freeman; they Yindica- ted the sanctity of reason, by giving freedom of speech and of the press they revereneed the voice of God, as t speaks in lhe soul .oi man, by asserting the ntlefeashle right of man 10 worship the Infinite according 10 his cons' fence; they established the freedom and equality of elections, and they tleman- ded from every future legislatora solemn oath "never to consent to any act or thing what ever that shall have even tendency to les sen the rights of the people,"
 These majestic lawgivefs, wiser than the Solons, and Lycurgnsas, and Numas of the Old WorId-lhese prophetic founders of State, wao embodied i'll tdeif constitution the sublmest truths of humanity, acted without reference to human praises.
 They kept no sPeeial record of their do- mgs; they took no pains to vaunt their deeds; and when their work was done, knew not that they had finished one of the sublmest acts ever performed among men, They left no record, as 10 whose agency was eonspic- uous, whose eloquence swayed, whose gen erous will predommated nor should we know, but for tladition, confirmed by what followed among themselves.
 The men of Tennessee were now peo- pie, and they were to send forth a man to stand for them in the Congress of the United State!-that avenue to glory--that home of eloqaence-the citadel of popular power; :; and, with one consent, they united in selec- ting the foremost man among their Iaw-giv- ers-ANDRGW JAcKsoNs
 The love of the people of Tennessee fol- lowed him to the American Congress and he. had served but single term, when the State of Tennessee made him one of it's rep reseniaiiyes in the American Senate, where he sat under the auspices of Jefferson.
 Thus when he was scarcely more than thirty, he had guided ihe settlement of the wilderness; swayea the deliberation of a people in establishing it's fundamental laws acted as the representative of that people, and again as the representative of his organ ized State, disciplined to q knowledge of the power of the people and the power of the States; the associate of republican states men, the friend and companion of Jeller- son.
 The men who framed the constitution of the United States, many of them, did not know the innate life and self preserving en- ergy of their work. They feared that free dom could not endure, and they planned d strong government for its protection.
 Dailng his short career in Congress, Jack son showed his quiet, deeply-sealed, innate, ntuitive faith in human freedom, and in the institutions of freedom He was ever, by his votes and opinions, found among those who had confidence in humanity and in the great division of minds, this child of the woodlands, this representative of forest life in tho west, was found modeslly and firmly on the side of freedom. It did not occur to him to doubt the right of man to the free de- yelopment of his powers; it did not occur to him to place guardianship over the peo- pie; il did not occur to him 10 seek to give durability to popular institutions, by giving to government strength independent ol popular will.
 From the first he was attached to lhe fun damentaI doctrines of popular power, and oi the policy that favors il; and though his reverence for Washington surpassed his rev. erence for any human being, he voted against the address from the House ef Represents lives to Washington on his retirement, be- cause it's language appeared to sanction tho financial policy which he believed hostile tc republican freedom.
 During his period of service ill the Senate Jackson was elected major general by the brigadiers and field officers of the militia oI Tennesses. Resigning his place in the Sen ate, he was made judge of the supreme court i in law and pouitV. such was inc confidence