The Arkansas banner., 1845-08-06

of the State in the Senate, the highest in.mil- itary command, the highest in judicial office. He seemed to be recognised us the first in love of liberty. the first in the science of legislation, in judgment, and integrity.
 Fond of private life, he would have re- signed the judicial office; but the whole country demanded his service Mature" they cried, ''neVer designed that your pow CTS of thought and independence of mind should be lost in retirement But after a few years, relieving himself from the cares of the bench. he gave himself to the actiyi- tv and lhe independent life of a husbandnlan. He carried into retirement the fame of nati- fal intelligence, and was cherished as "a prompt. frank, and ardent sonl.n His vipor of character constituted him first among all with whom he associated A private man as he was, his name WAS familiarly spoken round every hearth-stane in Tennessee Men loved to discuss his qualities All dis cerned his poweg and when he vehemence and impetuosity of his nature were observed upon, there were not wanting those who saw, beneath the blazing fires of his genius, the soidity of his judgment.
 His hospitable roof sheltered the emigrant and the pioneer; and, as they made their way to their new homes, they filled the mountain sides and the valleys with his praise.
 Connecting himself, for a season, with a man of business, Jackson soon discerned the misconduct of his associate. IL marked his character, that he insisted, himself, on pay ing every obligation that had been contlac- ted; and, rather than endure the vassalage ot debt, he instantly parted with the rch lo- main which his early enterprise had acquired with his own mansion-witl, the fields which he himself had first tanned to the plough ughshare-with the forest whose trees were as familiar to him as his friends-and chose rather to dwell, for time, in rude log cabin, in the pride of independence and integrity
 On all great occasions, Jackson's influence was deferred to. When Jefferson had ac- qnired for the country the whole of Louis jana, and there seemed some hesiancy, on the part of Spain, to acknowledge our pos sessions, the services of Jackson were so- licited by the national administration, and
 
 the peaceful termination of the incidents that occasioned the summons.
 In the long series of aggressions on the freedom of the seas, and the rights Of the American flag, Jackson was on the side oi his country, and the new maritime code of republicanism. In his inland home, where the roars of the breakers was never heard, and the mariner was never seen, he resented the continual aggression on our commerce and on our sailors.
 When the continuance of wrong com pelled the nation to resort to arms, Jackson, led by the instinctive knowledge of his own greatness, yet with fnndesty that would have honored the most sensitive dellcacy of nature, confessed his willingness to be em- ployed on the Canada frontier; and il is a fact, that he aspred to the command to which Winchester was appointed. We may ask, what would have been the result, if the com mand of the northwestern army had, at the opening of the war, been ntrusted to a man who, in action, was ever so fortunate, that his vehement will seemed to have made destiny eapitulate to his designs
 The path of duty led him in another di- rection. On the declaration of war, twenty five hundred volunteers had risen at his word to follow his standard; but, by conn- demanding orders from the seat of govern ment, the movement was without effect.
 new and great danger hung over the West. The Indian tribes were to make one last effort to restore il to its solitude, and recover 1t for savage life. The brave, relent- less Shawnees-who, from time immemori- al, had strolled from the waters of the Ohio to the rivers of the Alabama-Were animated by Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet, who spoke to them as with the voice ol the Great Spirit, and reused the Creek nation to desperate massacres. Who has not heard of their terrible deeds, when their ruthless cru- city spared neither sex nor age? when the family. who had fled for refuge 10 the for tress, the garrison that eapltuaatd-ali were slain, and not vestige of defence was left in the country The cry oi the West deman- ded Jackson for it's defender; and though his arm was then fractured by a ball. and hung in d sling, he placed himself al the head Of the volunteers of Tennessee, and resolved to terminate forever the hereditary struggle. Who can tell the horrors oI that campaign : Who can paint rightly the obstacles which Jackson overcame-mountalns lhe scarcity of untenanted forests, winter, the failure Of supplies from the settlements, the insubordi- nation ol troops, mutlny, menaces oi deser- tion: Who can measure the wonderful pow CT over men, by which his personal prowess and attractive energy drew them m mId-wln- ter from their homes. across mountains and morrasses, and through trackless deserts?- Who can describe the personal herolsm of Jackson, never sparing himself, beyond any of his men eneountering toll and fatigue, sharing every labor of the camp and of the march, foremost in every danger; giving mp his horse to the invalid soldier, while he himself waded through the swanps on foot' None equaIled him III power of endurance and the private soldiers, as they fund him passing them on the march, exclaimed. "he is as tough as the hickory.n 'Yes," they cried to one another, ..lhere goes Old Hickofyio
 Who can narrate the terrible events efthe double battles of Emucklaw, or the glorious victory of Tohopeka, where the anger of lhc general against the faltering was more ap- palling than the war-whoop and the rifle of the savage' Who can rightly conceive the