The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1845-08-02

been much promoted by his services
and associations in the war. His dis
cipline of himself as the chief in com
mand, his intimate relations with men
like Livingston, the wonderful deeds in
which he bore part, all matured his
Judgment and mellowed his character.
Peace came with its delights; once
more the country rushed forwa in the
development of its powers; once more
the art of industry healed the wounds
that war had inflicted; and from COM
merce and agriculture and manufac-
lures, wealth gushed abundanty under
the free activity of unrestrained onter-
prise.
And Jackson returned to his own
fields and his own pursuits, to cherish
his plantation, to care Tor his servants,
to look after his stud, to enjoy the af-
fection of most kird and devoted wife,
whom he respected with the gentlest
Difference, and loved with an almost mi
raculous tenderness.
And there he stood, like one of the
m'ghtiest forest trees of his own West,
vigorous and colossal, sending its sum-,
NIT to the skies, and growing on its
native soil in wild and inmitable mag
nlicence, careless of beholders. From
all parts Of the country he received
appeals to his political ambition, and
the severe modesty OF his well balan-
ced mind turned them all aside. He
was happy in his farm, happy in seclu-
sion, happy in his family, happy within
himself.
But the passions Of the southern In
dians were not allayed by the peace
with Great Britain; and foreign ennis,
sartes were still among them, to inhame,
and direct their malignity. Jackson
was called forth by his country to res
train the cruelty of the treacherous and
unsparing Seminoles. Ii was in the
train of the events Of this war that he
placed the American eagle on St.
Marks and above the ancient towers
of ST. Augustine. His deeds in that
war, of themselves, form monument
to human power, to the celerity of his
genius, to the creative fertility OF his
resources, his intuitive sagacity. AS
Spain, in his judgment, had committed
aggression, he would have emancipated
her islands; OF the Havana, he caused
the reconnaissance to be made, and,
with an army of five thousand men, he
stood ready to guaranty her redemp-
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| But when peace was restored ,and his
Office was accomplished, his physical
strength sunk under the pestilentiaD
influence of the climate, and, fast yiel-
ding 10 disease, he was borne in litter
across the swamps of Florida towards
his home. 1t was Jackson's character
that he never solicited aid from any
one; but he never forgot those who
rendered him service in the hour Of
need. AT time when all around him
believed him near his end, his wife has
tened to his side, and, by her tender
ness and nursing care, her patient ASST
duty, and the soothing influence of de-
voted love, withheld him from the grave.
He would have remained quietly at
his home in repose, but that he was pri-
vately informed, his good name was to
be attained by some intended congress
sional proceedings;he he came, therefore,
into the presence Of the peoples repre-
sentativcs at Washington, only to vim
dicate his name; and, when that was
achieved, he was oncemore communing
with his own thoughts among the
groves Of the Hermitage.
1t was not his own ambition which
brought him again to the public view.
The affection of Tennessee compelled
him to resume seat on the floor of
the American Senate, and, after years
of the intensest political strife, Andrew
Jackson was elected President of the
United States.
Far from advancing his own preten-
sions, he always kept them back, and
had for years repressed the solicitations
of his friends to become candidate.
He felt sensibly that he was devoid
Of scientific culture, and little familiar
with letters; and he never obtruded his
opinions, or preferred claims to place.
But, whenever his opinion was de-
manded, he was always ready to pro-.
nounce it; and whenever his country
invoked his services, he did n OF shrink
even from the station which had been
filled by the most cultivated men our
nation had produced.
Behold, then, the unlettered man Of
the West, the nursing of the wllds, the
farmer of the Hermitage, little versed
in books, unconnected by science with
the tradition Of the past, raised by the
will of the people to the highest pima
Gle of honor, TO the central post in the
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