The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-15
MR.. BANCRoFT,s GRAFTON.

. This truly eloquent and just eulogy of the de-
parted hero and statesman, ANDREW JACKSON, was
delivered at Washington, on the 9th ut. We
have not room to give it entire, but have made
such extracts as we thought would prove mo st
acceptable to our readers:
GEN. JAcKsoN's RESPECT FOR THE LAW.
Had not Jackson been reno wned for the
vehement impotuosi'y of his passions, for his
defi,nce of others authority, and the unoend-
ing vigor of his selcwil? Behold the savior
of Louisiana, all gallanded with victory.
viewing around him the city he had preserved,
the mlidens and children whom his heroism
had protected, stand in the presence of
pretty Judge, who gratifes his wounded
vanity by an abuse of his judicial power.
Every breast in the crowded audience heaves
with Indignation. Hes the passionate, the
impatnous-he whose power WAS TO be
BUNDLED, whose honor questioned, whose
lnurels furnished, alone stood subllmely
serene; and when the craven Judge trembled.
and filtered, and dared not proceed, himself.
the arraigned one, babe him take courage,
and stood by the law even in the moment
when the law was made the instrument Of
insult and wrong on himself, the moment
of his most perfect claim 10 the highest civic
honors.
HIS ORIGINALITY AND vIGoR OF THOUGHT.
Behold, then, the unlettercd man of the
West, the nursing of the wilds, the f'rmer
of the Hermitage, littlo versed in books, ull-
connected by science with the tradition OF
the past, raised by the will of the people to
the highest pinnacle Of honor, 10 the central
post in the civil zltion of republican freedom,
TO the station where all the nations of the
earth you'd watch his actions-where his
words would yibrate through the civilized
world, and his spirit be the moving-stNr TO
guide the nations. What policy will he pur-
sne? Whit wisdom will he bring with him
from the forest? What rules of duty will he
evolve from the oraces of his own mind?
The MN of the West came as the inspired
prophet of the Wes': he came as one free
from the bonds Of hereditary or established
custom; he came with no superior but con-
science, no oracle but his native Judgment; I;
and, true to his origin and his education
true to the conditions and circumstances OF
his advancement, he valued right more than
usage; he reverted from the pressue of esta-
blished Interests to the energy of first prlnci-
pies. -... .......
HE WAS TRULY AMERICAN IN HIS IDEAS OF FREEDOM
We tread on ashes, where the fire is not
yet extingnished; yet not to dwell on ms
career as President, were to leave out OF
eviw the grandest illustrations of his magma
nimity.
The legislation of the United States had
followed the precedenis of the Legislation OF
European monarchies; it was She office OF JACK
son TO lift the country out of the European
forms Of LEGISLATION, and to open TO it career
resting on American sentiment and Amer'-
can freedom. He would have freedom
Observation-Disclosures under the restraints OF
right; freedom of industry, of commerce, OF
mind, OF universal action; freedom, unshacN-
led by restrictive privileges, unresiralned by
the thraldom of monopnlles. .r
F.. --.. HIS RADIcALIsM. r
On every subject in politics. speak but
a f,ct-he was thoroughly and profoundly
and immovaby vadical; and would sit fol
hours, and in Il continued flow OF rem lrK
make the application of his principles to
every question that could arise in legislation
or in the Interpretation of the constitution.
HE RECOGNISED THE FREEDOM OF THE SOIL.
A pup1 of the wilderness, his heart was
with the pioneers of American life towards
the setting sun. No American statesman
has ever embraced within his affections
scheme so LIBERAL for the em'grants as that
of Jackson. lie longed to secure to them,
not prescription rights only, but rilore than
pre-empton rights. He longed to invite
labor TO take possession of the unoccup'ed
fields without money and without price
with no oblig ltion except the perpetual devo-
lion of itself by allegiance 10 lis country
Under the benefcent Influence of his op
mons. the sons of sfnrtune, the Children OF
adventure, find their way to the uncnlnVated
West. There in some. wilderness glade, ol
in the thick forest of the fertile pl lin, OF
where the prairies most splrkle W tn wers'
they, like the Wild bee which sets them the
example Of industry, may choose their home
mark the extent of their possessions by drlv
inc stakes or blazing trees, shelter their log
cabin with boughs and turf, and teach tho
virgin soil to yield itself to the plougbsha.rre r
Theirs shall be The soil, theirs the heant'fn
firms which they teach TO be productive
Conn, children of sorrow! you on whom the
Ola World frowns; crowd fearlessly TO the
forests; plant your homes in confidence, TO
the country .tches over you; your ch'ldre. =,
grow around you as hostages, and the w WI
tlerncss, at your bidding, surrenders lis gran
leur of useless luxuriance 10 the beauty ah'
Ioveliness of culture. Yet beautiful ant
lovely as is this scene, it still ny far l.ll !
short of the ideal which lived in the atfcc
tions of Jackson. His heart was ever witt