The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-09
ANDREW JACKSON.
p az Edition of tLe Baltilnore R,p,lbIican,

Il Ma. EDrroR beg to send you a beautiful and
eloquent tribute TO the memory ofAndrew Jackson,
out out of the Dublin Weekly Freeman's Journal
u Of July l2th last. You will do your readers
great favor by repubshing il. The character of
the sage and hero Of the Hermitage is fully appre-
GATED in the country of his ancestors in his own
and Il cannot but be gratifying 10 Americans to
| md him admired in other lands as the champion of
freedom whilst his name is enrolled IN their records
and enshrined in their memory, side by side with
those of Washington and Franklin I'll.
| From the Dublin Freemsn's Journal.
DEArH OF GENERAL JAcksoN.--A packel-shp mr.
rived at Liverpool on Tuesday last, furnishes us,
though having but one days later from Amer.
lea, with the deeply-to be-lamented tdnss of Gene
raj Jackson's death This event took place at his
private residence, the ''Hermltage," in the
State of Tennessee, on the 9Th of June last, in the
18TH year of his age. An old comrude IN arms, hur-
ryDg TO the veterans wing bed, TO abide with him
in the final conflict, which it is the lot Of all men
10 sustain, met his physician on the way, proclaim
ing that the hero was no more.
We can imagine how this intelligence has been re-
celved throughout America. Friends palsled with
| sudden grief, and they who were once his foes,
now voluble eulogists Of his character. Over his
grave there is heard but one gush Of universal sor-
row. Ills death is indeed national calamity to
his countrymen, and wide void left IN the ranks
of manhood. Though, for years, he had not min
gied in active public life, the oracle memorable for
heard in the arthes and respected in the highest
quarters. His very mutterngs were treasured by
the very 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--a lu-
iAinary has gone down in the west, and the flash of
his sunset has come out to us across the waters.
America may well lament her loss. He had
grown with her growth, limb Of the giant oak;
and in his fall the stems and all the branches are
shaken. Kingsd often; and the common herd of
conquerors rush down the preGpces of time to their
| own undoing; but the fall of virtuous citizen,
brave and mercfu in war, straightforward and In
corruptibe in peace, who made his arms shield,
and his power beloved, cannot be sustained by any
country, however rich in public virtue without the
sense of bereavement which is never entirely for
gotten. The New World has lost second Wash
ngton in Jackson's DEATH for although their char
acters may differ somewhat their moral construc-
ton was the same Times and temperament
modify the operation of similar principles, and
so with them. Jackson more ardent, more
tenacious more of the iron cast of Napoleon
in his action. He man Of unparalleled
frmness in the camp and in the cabinet. Made
as if to mould the future national character of
America, his own was deeply marked with all
the great republican lneaments. And he has inn
pressed hmselfmore deeply than any other man
Washington or Franklin not excepted---on the
general character Of his people. He has given them
boundess national ambitlon--an ambition not to
ensave but to liberaenot to centralize, but 10 diff
fuse power-not to heap wealth in one imperial for
tress but to partition its influences, and scatter its
advantages, over the erea OF the confedcracy.
General Jackson was born in March, 1867, OF
Irish parents. While yet lad, he entered the ar
my Of the revolution, and carried bis mushet
throu the war of independence. The greatest event
in his military career was the proud prerogative he
enjoyed of terminating, by one master-stroke, the
war with England of lSl2-'l5 On the banks OF
the Mississippi, at New Orleans, he encountered
the of the Peninsula and their seried hosts
were levelled with the marshy waste which they
had polluted by their presence. In Furnishing the
ncursons Of the Indians, his usual fortune attended
him; civilized skill and savage vile were alike bro
ken before him.
There grew up in America, after The second war
with England, a moneyed monopoly, called the
United States Bank. This great machine, in the
hands of reckless and negligent men, would, if suf-
fered TO exist, have long since jeoparded the ber-
ties and the prosperity Of that country. Jackson
made President, and he everthrew by an ex-
eriion of his daring genius, this dangerous enorm
y. The factous rallied, and the avarcious con-
spired against him; never was statesman so baitcd
by the snarling emissaries of bastard arstocracy;
he said not to retort or TO hear by working under
the fury of The storm, with fearful few, he swept
away this standing army Of usurers, as completely
as he had swept away the hosts Of Pakenham.
The public voice at last was heard in his defence,
and he placed second time in the chair of the
Presidents. In his eight years of Office he gave
which has never since been changed
We cannot here enter at length into the considera-
ton of the varied events of the long life of this Illus
trious We say illusrious-not in common
places of senseless eulogy but because we consider
that great integrity without pretension, ambition
without selfshness and success without arrogance,
are among the best titles to that high appellative
The world has known no man more pure than Jack
SON America will feel his loss most intimately.
But why should not we here throughout the hero's
atherland give voice to deep regret, and utterance
to our melancholy pride in the departed The home
which his parents oved--the altar where they were
marred--he last spot Of Irish soil they saw
may be unknown; but the fame of their reflects
back upon their country too boldly and brightly to
be confined to localities or have limits less extern
sive than his island. Ever in his life he was proud
of his descent and his heart would glow at the sight
Of any of lreland's humblest sons. While CRATE
full peope--over whose growth he had watched for
whose rights he braved death in the field, and the
fury of strong bad faction in peace--while they
are rendering due honor to his virtues, his services
and his example, some son of Ireland, banished by
misrule, will, we trust as q representative of the
people of the hero's fathers, mngle in their grief
and claim, sad prerogatve of his birh-right, TO
mourn for the illustrious dead.