The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-29
From HIrs NJ IL. Patriot.
FROM. THE SENIOR EDITOR.

Arrival at Nashville, TsnnossrSVls Wall To Inc "hsr-
mitsge"-Gen. Jackson bis health employ msnis
| feeling for the result OF The vote, IN the u. o.
| Senate, on the Annexation OF Tonas-lhe 20
mocraey of the Granite State" appreciated at the
| West, &c, &c.
ssrm AND, kentucky March 8, ls45.
i The clo,isx afternoon Of as bright sun, and as
bland an atmosphere - was ever ieit IN ita'y a'i
ride 10 an open gig over one OF those metal tufn
pixies which verge 40 several directions no" NAsu
Vile brought NC within sight Of tie Hermitage
on the evening OF the 26th ult. Rejecting iha'
the unobtrusive mansion the residence oil the
man who, OF all those living, had done most LOO
ms country and who stands al this time hrst M The
hearts Of his countrymen, approached IL as "e
ground To be consecrsted and visited by myrads oil
The generations yet TO be born and reflected ha''
even if the object of my visit had not been IN the
land Of the living, the sight OF the location alone
the grounds cultivated under his personal directions,
and the rooms he had occupied, would repay The IRA
weller who understood and appreciated the eAraofd'
nary talents and merits Of the man. My grauhea-
ZION was 10 be stl greater had not only reason 10
believe him to be in the land of the living but had
lust received information that bis health was better
than IL had been some previous months.
After my arrival at Nashville on FRIDAY,
| February %, feeling too unwe myself to go im
mediateIy 10 the Hermitage, ] despatched note
TO the General that would call on HIM the first day
conhnc inc to the house, 1 was unable to accept The
invitation Of Major Doneson, Saturday, To take
seat with han and Tuesday morning he again called
with information that the General bad prepared 10
meet Monday, 1.-THE previous day) and had en-
gagged some friends al dinner. Tuesday aitrrnoon
had risen from Of those painful cases oil prosra
ton which have so often encountered IN The last
two years, and had the qualification OF feeling IN
creased strength with the ride. l was met and vel
coined at the door by the bright face which, ten and
twelve years ago, was wont to cheer and enliVen
and elicit admiration at the W bite House at Wash
ington, the wife of Andrew Jackson, IT,, who has
been the sosce Of the Generals declining days and
his constant end aectionate attendant since his
tirement and at IN the presence OF the man
whom, of all Others, | had most desired again TO
meet
found Gen. Jackson better in health than ex-
pected yet weak, If Il were any other man, could
scarcely suppose he would live week For the last
four months he has attempted to take his customa-
ny meals with the family. He sits through the day
in well-consructed easy chair, with his writing ma
terias his miniature bible and hymn book before him
To him are brought soon as the mail arrives, the
newspapers; and during the four days tarrled at the
Hermitage, his first inquiry was for the daily Wash
ington newspapers and the letters bearing the post
mark of the capital. With all his bodily weakness,
his intellect seems to have been frightened and
tured by time, and his attention to the most minute
public affairs is greater than that of some of the
mozt wary statesmen and politicians engaged in pub
lic life The all absorbing topic with him now is the
Annexation Of Texas. His correspondence with
Gen Houston and Others has given him knowledge
of the state Of that question: II exists In the int
rests and feelings of the people Of that country and OF
the western States that is not generally understood by
the people His feeling for the result Of the vote in
the Senate was intense, and his whole countenance
frightened at the annunciaton in letters Of two
cesslve days that majority ofthe Senate would pro-
badly vote for the resolutions.
The General has engthened out his life for years
by his prudence and abstinence. His complaint is
pulmonary one lobe Of the lungs he believes to be
entirely consumed. This condition is shown by the
shortness Of BREATH which almost entirely preciude
the benefit of personal exercise. When he moves il
is so quietly as to produce disturbance. His fee
and ankles swollen from continued sitting, anc
he finds substitute for salutary exercise only in the
bathing of his limbs every evening in those emolient
calculated to produce healthy action of the skin.
! w cak as he is, he shaves with his own hand anc
combs and adjusts the ample gray hair which con
tnues to add to the dignity of his appearance
4 1t is not age simply that has reduced the old Hero
to his present weakness. Had his life been that o.
thousands of the present generation, he might have
lived to be an hundred years Of age, and no more ex
hallsted than he now is Exposure in the campaign
of 1915 brought on diarrb9 which continued witt
more or less violence for four months, and which
was cured after the case seemed to be hopeless In
the Seminole campaign of 1915, he had hermorrhagt
of the lungs, which was probably the commencement
of the disease afterwards gnawing his vitals.
OF the highly interesting intercourse with the vete
ran enjoyed for four days, shall hereafter have
much to say to my friends on my return and to the
public may have that to repeat which, if it shall
crafty them much as it did me, will not be word
ihi own away. claim the right to speak as the re
preventative of Gen. Jackson in New Hampshire, al
we'll from an earlier friendship, from the fact that
am the only person from this State who has travell
ed four hundred miles out of his way to visit the He
70 since his retirement to the Hermitage. The Stats
which has stood firm the ground of principle OF
all questions of National politics since l828-whici
has never been veered to the right hand the left b.
heartless demagogues who in other States have cor
rupted the people with their own money, and mslet
them in moonshne projects of gaining wealth by spe
culation and of protecting labor by higher taxation
the State which has been led astray by false is
sues-is as highly appreciated in the great West, q
10 the East her praise is upon the to- que of ever
patriot and by none is she higher compliments
than by the Hero of the Hermitage, who has carrie
out her principles in the vetoes of the Bank and tn
Maysville road bill.
STRANGE cIRcumsrANcE,-The st. Louis Repub