The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-08-23
ANDREW JACKSON,
Ernm ihn Dl .hhn Freeman,s InurnaI.

,ics, with ihsadeeply TO be lamen'ed Il,
, dines Of GeneralJacksCn's death rms
event took place at he private resldenc,
,he sHermilage,' in The western state of
Tennessee, on the 9Th of-'Juae last,
In The rs h year ol>his age. An OLD
comrade ia tuas, hurtying to the veter-
an, dying bed 10 abide with him ia H.
nal conflict, which it IS the lot OF all
men TO sustain, met his physician on
the way proclsiming lha, the hero was
no more.
We can imagine how thisinielligence
has been received throughout America.
Friends pslsied with sudden gref, and
they who were once his foes, now valu
able Biologists Of his character. Over his
grave thee is heard but one gush OF uni.
.yersaI sorrow. His death is indeed 81
q, national calamity to HE country ymen, end
a wide void left in the ranks OF man
hood. Though for years he had not
mingled in active public lfe, the oracle
memorable for truth and aye thus velled
in honored privacy, was in the farlhes'
and respected in the highest quarters.
HIS very mutlerings were treasured by
the favored few, who lately saw him
. face TO face, and the word Of his mouth
decided the destiny Of the Continent
A erea, career, indeed, is closed; lu,.
minsry has gone down in.the west, and
the fash Of his sunse, has come out 10
.us, across the waters.
America may we'll lament her loss
He had grown with her grow,h, limb
of the giant oak! and 10 his fall the stem
end ali the. branches are shaken. Kings,
s die often, and,lhe common herd oil con-
ouerors rush down the preclplces oil
time TO their own undoing, but The fall
. ofs virtuous citizen, brave and mercltul
. in wat, s,ragh, forward and incorrupt;
. in peace, who made his arms shield,
and his power beloved, cannot be sus-
, tanned by any country. however rich IN
= pubic virtue, without the sense OF be.
reavement which is never entirely for
gotten. The new world has lost Sec
5, ond Washington 10 aJackson's death
for though their characters may differ
somewhat their moral construction was
&. the same. Times and Temperament,
modify The operation Of similar Princi''
pies, and Sd with them. jackson was
more ardent, more, tenacious, more oil
the iron cast of Napoleon in his action.
He was man Of unparalleled hrmness
in the camp and in The cabinet. Made
rUvuf1 49, c.->-- Ill - 80. n
ter of America, his own was deeply
marked with all the great Republican
linesments. And he has impressed
himself more deeply than any other
q man, Washington OF Franklin not ex-.
copied, on the general character of his
people. He has given them bound
less national am mbillon--an ambition not
TO enslave but to liberate-not 10 cen
tralise, but diffuse power-not 10 heap
wealth in one imperial fortress, but 10
partition its influence, aud scatter its ad
vsntsges over the area Of The confederacy
General Jackson was born in March
1867, OF Irish parents. While yet
lad, he entered The army Of the Revolu.
lion, and carried his musket through
war OF Independence, The creates. event
OF his Gililsry career was The proud prerog-
alive he enjoyed, Of terminating by one
mssters,roke the war with Eegland Of ls-
I2-'l5. On The banks of The Mississippi
al New Orleans, he encountered The veier-
ems. Of the Peninsula, and their serried hosts
were'levelled with the marshy waste, which
they had polluted by their presence. In
Furnishing The incursions of The Indians, his
usual forluDe attended him--civilzed skill
and savage vile were alike broken before
him.
There grew up in America after .he sec
ond war with England, moned nonopo,
ly. called the Uni,ed S.ales Bank. This
greg, machine, in The hands of reckless and
negligent men, wseld if suffered TO exist
have long since jeopardized The liberties and
ihe prosperity of that country. jackson
was made President, and he e-oyerlhrew, Sy
an exeition Of his daring genius, this dan
gerOus enoImily. The factions rallied, and
,he avsricious conspired seains, him; never
was statesman SO balied by The snaring
remissarles of bastard sriStocracy;he stay.
ed mol 10 rotor. or TO hear, but working ua.
'.der sbe fury Of The storm, with faithful
few, he swep, away this Standing army OF
usureIs ss completely as he had swept a.
way .he hosls OF packenhsm. The public
voice al last was heard in his defence, and
he was placed second time 10 the chair OF
Abe PresdeD's. In his eight years Of
office he gave a new complexion 10 Ameri
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