Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-06-26

l6. The President, Immediately after the
reception of the sorrowful intelligence of the
death of this truly great man, issued the fol-
lowing order, which We copy from the Union:
BY The President Of the United States:
ANDREW JACKSON is no more! He depart
ed this life on Sunday, the eighth instant, full
of days and full of honors. His country de-
plores his loss, and will ever cherish his men,
DRY. While a nation mourns, it is proper
that business should be suspended, at least
for one day, in the executive departments, as
a tribute of respect to the illustrious dead.
i accordingly direct that the departments
of State, the Treasury, War, the Navy, the
Post Office, the office of the Attorney Gene
RAJ, and the Executive Mansion, be instantly
put into mourning, and that they be closed
during the whole day tomorrow.
JAMES X. POLK.
Washington City, June l6, 1915.
The Secretary of the Navy, who, in the
absence of Gov. Marcy,is also acting Secrett-
ry of War, on the same day issued the follow
ing General Order. 1t is, as the Ohio States
man observes, a beautiful tribute from the
first historian of the age, to the memory OF
one who, as a warrior and statesman, had
"illed the measure of his country's glory:"
GENERAL ORDER.
WASHINGTON, June l6, 1916.
The President of the United States, with
heartfelt sorrow, announces to the army, the
navy, and the marine corps, the death Of An
REV JACKSON. On the evening of Sunday,
the eighth day of June, about six o'clock, he
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The nation, while it learns with grief the
death of its most illustrious citizen, finds So
lace in contemplating his venerable character
and services. The valley of the Mississippi
beheld in him the bravest, and wiscst, and
most fortunate of its defenders. The coun-
try raised him to the highest trusts in militia.
ry and in civil life, with a confidence that
never abated, and an affection that followed
him in undiminished vigor to retirement
watched over his latest hours, and pays it;
tribute at his grave. Wherever his lot wa:
cast, he appeared among those around him
first in natural endowments and resources
not less than first in authority and station,
The power Of his mind impressed itself OF
the policy of his country. and still lives, ant
will live forever, in the memory of its people
Child of a forest region, and a settler of the
wilderness, his was a genius which, as it came
to the guidance of affairs, instinctively at
tached itself to general principles, and, in
spircd by the truth which his own heart re
vealcd to him in singleness and simplicity, h,
found always a response in the breast Of hi
countrymen. Crowned with glory in war
in his whole career as a statesman, he show
ed himself the friend and lover of peace
With an American heart, whose throbs wer
all for republican freedom and his nativ
land, he yet longed to promote the widest il
tercourse, and the most intimate commerce
between the. many nations of mankind. III
? was the servant of humanity. OF a veht
ment will, he was patient in council. delibcl
ating long, hearing all things; yet in tn
moment of action, deciding with rapidity
Ola noble nature, and incapable of disguise
his thoughts lay open to all around him, an
won their confidence by his ingenious franz
ness. His judgment was of that ~solidity, tina
he ever tempered vigor with prudence. TIL
fushings of anger COLD never cloud his fac
ultics, but rather kindled and lighted them NJ
quickening. their energy without disturbin
atheir balance. In war, his eye at a glanc
discerned his plans with unerring sagacity
in peace, he proposed measures with instint
tive wisdom, of which the inspirations wer
prophecy. In discipline stern, in a just RESI-
luton infexible, he was full Of the gentle
affections, ever ready to solace the d~istresse,
and to relieve the needy; faithful to h
friends feryid for his country. Indifferent
other rewards, he aspired throughout life
an honorable fame, and so loved his fellow
men, that he loaged to dwell in their affc
Tomato remembrance. Heaven gave hi
length of days, and he filled them with dee,
of greatness. He was always happy; hapI
IN his youth, which shared the achievemel
ofAour national independence; happy in h
after years, which beheld the valley of Il
West cover itself with the glory of free al
ever increasing States; happy in his az
which saw the people multiplied from two
twenty millions, and freedom and union NAL
their pathway frcm the Atlantic to the p
cifc; thrice happy in death, for while he b
lieyed the liberties of his country imperish
bic, and was cheefed by visions of its co
slant advancement, he departed from this Ii
in full hope of a blessed immortality, throu!
the merits and atonements of his Redeem,
Officers of the army, the navy, and {
marine corps, will wear Grape on the left al
and on their swords, and the colors of I
several regiments will be put in mournin
for the period of six months. At the ma,
stations, andzen public vessels in commissiC
the flags will be worn at halfmast for o
veek; and on the day after this order is
ceived, twerty-onc minute guns will be fire
beginning at IL o'clock. At each militia
station, the day after the reception of t
order, the national flag will be displayed
halfstaff from sunrise to sunset; tbirte
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