The Arkansas banner., 1845-07-30


 words of tenderness and affection His two little grandchildren were absent at Snndy- school. He asked for them; and as they came. he prayed for them, and kissed them and blessed them. His servants were then admitted: they gathered, some in his room, and some on the outside of the house, cling mo to inc windows, that they might gaze and hear. And that dying man, thus surrounded, in rush of fervid eloquence, spoke with In- sDirafjon of God, of the Redeemer, of salya- tion through the atonement, of immortality. of heaven. For he ever thought that pure and undefled religion was the foundation of prl- vatc happiness, and the bulwarl1 of republican institutions. Having spoken of immortality in perfect consciousness ofhis own approach inc end, he bade them all farewell 'Dear children. ''such were his final words, ''dear children. and servants, and friends, trust to meet you all in heaven, both white and hlaek-all, both white and black.7 And having borHe his testimony to immortality, he bowed lis mighty head, and, without oraaa, the -aieit of the greatest man of his aya escaped to the bosom Of his God.
 In life, his career had been like the blaze of tho sun ia tie GefceHess of is noon-day glory; his death was lovely as the mildest sunset of a summers evening, when the sun goes down n tranquil beauty without cloud. To the majestic energy of an h. d0mfatle aiil, be joined heart capable of the narest a4t taos5 3e4o!ed love, rich in the tandefest affections. On the bloody battle field of Toeoheca, He saved on infant thai clung 10 the breast of its dying mother in the stogmiest moment of his presidency, al the imminent moment of decision, he paused in his way, 10 give good counsel to poor suppIiant that had come up 10 him for sue cor or the stEifes in which he was engaged ill his earlier life, not one sprung from himself, but in every case he became involved by standing forth as the champion of the weak, the poor, and the deleneele5s, to shelter tae gentle against oppression, to project the emieHaat against the agarice of the speculator. His generous soul revalted al the barbarous practice of duals, and by no man in the land have 90 many been prevented.
 The sorrows of those that were near to him went deeply into his soul; and at the anguish of the wife whom he loved, the or phans whom he adopted, he would melt into teafss and weep and sob like child. Nc man il private life 90 possessed the hearts ol all around him: no public man this centu- " ever returned to private life with such an abiding mastery over the affections of the peo- pie. No man with truer instinct receved American ideas: no man expressed them so completely, or so boldly, Or so sincerely. He Was as sincere a man as eyer lived. He was wholly, always, and altogether sincere and true.
 Up b the last, he dared do anything thaf 1t was right to do. He united personal coug- age and moral courage beyond any man of whom history keeps the record. Before the nation, before the world, before coming ages,= he stands forth the representative, for his generation. of the American mind. And the secret of his greatness is this By in'ui- tive conception, he shared aud possessed al the creative ideas ofhis country and his time He expressed them with daanlless iHtrepidj- ty he enforced them with an immoveable will; he executed them wiiha electric power that attracted aud swayed the American pe8- ple The nation, in his time, had not one great thought, of which he was not the boltest and ciearest expositer.
 History does net describe the man that equalled him iH lirnlness of nerve. Not dan ger, not an army in batdaanay, not wounds not widespread clamor, not age, not anguish of disease, could impair ia the least degree the vigor ol. his s'ead'ast miud- The heroes of antiquity would have contemplated with awe the unmatched har,lihood of his char actar; and Napolean, had he possessed his djsintefested will, could neverhavc been van quisael. Jackson never was vanquished He conqnrad inc bravest veterans trained in the batlo-felds of Europe; he conqured everywhere ih siatesmanship; and, when dea.h cana to get the mastery over him, he turned that last enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the feeblast Of his adversagies. and escaped ffom earth in the triumphant consciousness of immortality.
 His body has is fit place in the great central valley of the Mississippi; his spi t rests uhon our whole territory; it horees over the wales of Oregon, and guards ia advance, the frontier of the Del Nome. The fires ofpaty spirit ale qaenched al his grave. 1T faults and failties have perishaa. Whatever of good he las done, lives, and will live forever.