Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-07-12

of MIR. Bancroft, at Washington, on the death of
Gen jackson
His vigor of character constituted him first a.
thong all with whom he associated. A private
man as he was, his name was famil ary oxen
found every hearth.stone in Tennessee Men
lived to discuss his qualities. All discerned his
power and when the vehetnence and impe,u.
nsI'y ofhls nature were observed upon, there
were no, wanting those who saw, beneath the
blazing fires of his genius, the solidi,y of his
Judgment.
His hospi,ablc roof sheltered the emIgrant and
their new homes, they filled the mountain sides
and The valleys with his praise.
Connecting himself, COR season, with man
Of business, Jackson soun discovered the miscoD-
duct OF his associate. II marked his character,
that he insisted, himself Oh paying himself eve.
ry obligation that had been contracted and, ra.
iher than endure the vassnlage Of debt, he in.
stantly parted with the rich domain which his
early enterprise had acquired-with his own
mansion-with the fields which he himself had
first tanned to the poughshare-- with the forest
whose trees were as familiar to him as his
'rends-and chose rather to dwell, for time,
in rude lng.cabin, in the pride of independence
and integrity.
When the continuance Of wrong compelled
the nation to resort Is arms, jackson, led by the
instructive knowledge of his own greatness, yet
with a modcsty that would have honored the
most sensitive decacy of nature confessed his
Willingness to be employed on the Canada from
tier and yet i, ia a fact, that he aspired to the
command to which Winchester was appointed.
We may ask, what would have been the result,
If the command of the northwestern army had,
at tie opening OF the war. been entrusted to
man MhU, IN action, was ever so Fortunate that
his vehement will seemed to have made desti.
ny capilulate to his designs
Who can narrae the terrible events of the
double battles of Enuckfaw, or the glorious VIC
tory of Tohupeka, where the ahgct of the gene
raj against the tal,erng was more appalling
than the war.whoop and the rife OF the savage!
Who can rightly conceive the field Of Enoto.
chopco, where the general, as he attempted to
draw his sword to cut down flying colonel who
was leading n regiment from the field, broke
again the arm which was newly knit together,
and, quietly replacing it in the cling, with his
commanding voice arrested the flight of the
troops, aud himself led them back to victory?
Who shall recount the counses of prudence,
: u i,Ii s,,C IA, Il
from his lips to cheer his soldiers, his skirmish.
es and battles till that even'nl morning when
the day at 6nnkers's Hill had it's fulfirnent in
the slorions battle at New Orleans. and Amer.
majesty of vctorlons power.
These were great deeds for the nation fer
himself he did greater. f!sd not Jackson been
renowned Tor the vehement impetuosi,y of his
and the unbending vigor of his se,!will Be.
hold the Saviour of Louisiana, ell ga arlanded with
victory, viewing around 'i.n the city he had pre-
served, the maldens .Id children whom his he.
Trsm had protec'e.i, stand in he presence of a
petty Judge, who gratifes his wounded vanity
by an abuse OF his judicial power. Every breast
IN tie crowded audience heaves with indigna.
mn, lie the passlonatc the mpetuous-he
whose power VAS TO te humbed, whose honor
questioned, whose laurels furnished, alone stood
sublniely serene and when the craven Judge
'rembcd, and taltcred, and dared not proceed,
himself, the aeralened one, babe him Ike cour-
IA stN hy T.,
when the law was made tie instrument of nsul,
and wrong on hinIscl.-at the momen. Of his
mos, perfect claim To ths highest civil honors.
Peace came with IT'S delights once more the
country .;ished forward n the development Of
lis powers once mole the arts Of industry hea.
bed the ~nnnls that war lad inflicted and,
lures, wealth gushed abundanlly under the free
activity of nnTestraned enterprise.
Bot the passions of the southern Indians were
no, arraved Nv the peace with Great Britain:
and foreign eriiscares were still among them,
TO inhame and direct their malignty. Jackson
was called forth by his country to restrain the
crdety of the treacherons and unsparing Sem
lnoles 1t was in the train Of the events ofthis
Marks and abote the ancient towers of St. Au
eistine. His deeds in that war, of themselves
form a monument 10 human power. to the celer-
ity of his genius, to the creative fertility OF his
resources, his lnthitve sagaciiy. A. Spain, in
his Judgment, had committed aggression, he