Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-08-21

GENERAL JAcxsoS-The Dublin Nation liberal
Irish paper one Of whose editors resided IN this
country for several years. thus speaks of the Western
hero:
"A working upright, unaffected man was ASpREw
J.cxsoN He found his country beset with difficulties
he sent the foreigner bowling from Its borders and
the gambler from its capitol We hoDored much hrs
valor his sagacity, and his unboastng PATRIOTISM
we honored him as man and true citizen nor can
his uniform concern for ireland be forgotten, while
our struggles for religious and national liberty IS re-
membered. He was not lrIshman. Though the
son of Irish peasants, he was born IN, and lived,
fought and thought for America; considered himself
an American, and was in character, interests and
feelings His claims for the gratitude and regret Of
Ireland are far higher than any ties Of blood could
give-he lreiand's staunch unbougtt friend, and
one of the most useful if not the most snowy soldiers
of freedom in our age He is gone where MIltiades
and Epaminondas Tell and Washington, Bruce and
Tone, are gone before him. Proud be the flight OF
Americas eagle over his tomb May never foeman
to his republic plant standard there May the soil
that holds him lack honest President, and
as successful General!r
From the Dublin TIreEandl Freeman's Journal.
DEATH OF GENERAL JACKSON. "A packet ship
arrived at Liverpool Tuesday lost, furnishes us
though having but days later news from America
with the deeply to be lamented tidings of General
Jacksons DEATH This event took place at his private
residence the Hermitage" In the western state Of
Tennessee, the Sth June last In the 18th year of
his age. An old comrade in arms, hurrying TO the
veterans diving bed to abide with him In the final
conflict, which it is the lot of all sustain, met
his physician on the way proclaiming that the hero
more.
We can imagine how this intelligence has been
received throughout America. Friends palsied with
a sudden grief and they who were once his foes
voluble eulogists of his character Over his grave
there is heard but gush Of universal His
death is indeed national calamity to his countrymen.
and wide void left in the ranks of manhood. Tho
for years he had not mingled In active public life, the
oracle, memorable for truth and age thus yelled in
honorable privacy, heard in the farthest and
respected in the highest quarters. His very mutter-
ings treasured by the favored few, who lately
saw him face TO face; and the word of his mouth
decided the destiny of the Continent great career
indeed, Is closed iuminary has gone down in the
West, and the flash of his sunset has to US,
across the waters.
America may well lament her loss. He had grown
with her growth, lamb of the giant oak and In his
fall the stems and all the branches are shaken. Kings
die often, and the common herd of conquerors rush
down the precipices of time to their undoing,
but the fall of vrtuous citizen brave and merciful
in war; Straightforward and incorruptible peace,
who made his arms a shield, and his power beloved,
cannot be sustained by any country, however rich in
public virtue, without the of bereavement which
is entirely forgotten. The world has lost
second Washington in yackson's death, for though
their characters may differ somewhat, their moral
construction the same. Times and temperament
modify the operation of similar principles, and so
with them Jackson was more ardent, tenacious,
more of the iron cast of Napoleon In his action He
was man of unparalleled frmness in the camp and
in the cabinet. Made as if to mould the future
national character Of America, his own deeply
marked with all the great Republican lineaments.
i And he has impressed himself more deeply than any
other man, Washington or Franklin not excepted on
the general character of his people He has given
them boundess national ambition-an ambition not
to enslave but to lbefate-not to cetralise, but to
diffuse power-not to heap wealth in one imperial
fortress, but TO partition its influences and scatter Its
advantages over the arena of the confederacy.
The ustrious deceased has been fortunate in his
biographers in both hemispheres. Amongst Europe
ans, Cobbett's was the nature most general TO his
own; and in America Kendall has character worthy
the great subject of his pen. General jackson was
born In March, 1867, of Irish parents. While yet
lad he entered the army of the Revolution and car
ried his musket through the war of Independence.
The greatest event In his military career the
proud prerogative he enjoyed, of terminating by
master-stroke the war with England of 1Sl2-'15. On
the banks of the Mississippi at New Orleans, he
encountered the of the Peninsula and their
settled hosts leveled with their marshy waste
which they had polluted by their presence In pun
ishing the incursions of the Indians his usual
attended hm-civilized skill and savage vile were
alike broken before him.
There grew up In America after the second war
States Bank. This great machine, in the hands of
reckless and negligent men. would if suffered exist,
have long since jeopardized the liberties and the
prosperity of that country. Jackson was made Presi-
dent and he overthrow by exertion Of his daring
genius this dangerous enormy The factious rallied,
and the avaricious conspred against him never was
statesmen batted by the snarling emssaries Of
bastard arstocracy he stayed not TO reto to hear
but working under the fury of the Storm with faith
full few he swept away his standing army of usurcrs
D as completely as he had swept away the hosts OF
Packenham. The public voice at last heard In
his defence, and he placed second time in the
chair Of the Presidents. In his eight years Of oce
he gave a new complexion to American politics, and
: one which has never since been changed. Even the
nominee of his opponents Mr.. Tyler was commuted
: to the political faith which he had inculcated.
We cannot here enter at length into the considera
ton of the varied events of the long life of this illus
trious man. We say illusrious not In common place
q of senseess eulogy; but because consider that
great integrity without pretension, ambition without
se6shness and success without arrogance, among
the best titles to that high eppeative The world
has known no man more pure than Jackson. America
will feel his loss most intimately. But why should
not we here throughout the heros fatherland, give
voice to deep regret and utteance our melancholy
pride in the departedi The home which his parents
loved-the altar where they were married-the las,
spot of Irish soil they may be unknown, but the
fame of their reflects back upon their country
broadly and brightly to be confined to localities OF
have limits less extensive than this island Ever in
his life he was proud of his descent, and his hear
would glow at the sight of any of Irelands humbes
N sons. While grateful people-over whose growth
he has watched, for whose rights he braved death In
the field and the fury of strong bad faction peace
q while they are rendering due honor to his virtues
II his services, and his example, some of Ireland
banished by misrue, will trust representative
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