The Arkansas banner., 1845-08-06

tive life had always had unity of perception and will, which in action had never ialteIed from doubt, and which in council had always reverted 10 first principles and general laws, now gave itself up to eommuning with the in- finite. He was a believer: from feeling. from experience, from conviction Not shadow of scepicism ever dimmed the lustre ol his mind. Proud phiiosopher will you smile to know that Andrew Jackson perused reve- rently his PsalIer and Prayer-bookand Blble' Know that Andrew Jackson had faith Ill the eternity o( truth, in the imperishable power oi popular freedom, in the dtstl0ies o hu- manity, in the virtue and capacity oi the peo- pie, in his coulry's institutions, in the bcng and oyerruling providence of a merciiul and ever living God.
 The las moment of his life on earth Is at hand. It is the Sabbath of the Lord: the i brightness and beauty of summer clothe the i fields around him: natlre k in her glory: but ehe sblumest spectacle on hat day, on earth; was the victory of his unblenchng spirit over death ilseli.
 When he first felt the hand of death upon ] hun, May my enemies,n he cried, stind peace; may the liberties ofmy country endure i forever
 When his exhausted system, under the excess fpain, sunk; for a moment, from de- bitity," nol #eep," said he 10 his adopted ] daugbter .'mY sutlefings are less than those i of Christ upon the eross,' for he, too, as q di.cipla oi the cross, could have devoted him- sell, in sorrow, for mankind. Feeling his end near. he would see all his family once mo c; and he spoke 10 theal, one by one, ln words of tenderness and affection His two Itde grandchildren were absent al Snndy- school He asked for them; and as they came, he prayed for them, and kissed them and blessed them. His servants were then admitted they gathered, some in his room, and some on the outside of the house, cling ing 10 the windows, thatthey might gaze and hear. And that dying man, thus surrounded, l in gush ol tervid cloquence, spoke with in- spiration of God, of the Redeemer, of saliva 1 ton through the atonement, of immortality, 1 of heaven. For he ever thought that pure and undeiled religion was the foundation of pri- vate happiness, and the bniwark of republican institutions. Having spoken of immortality in perfect consciousness of his own approach ing end, he bade them all farewell. "Dear children, "such were his final words, ssdear l children, and servants. and friends, trust to meet you all ja heaven, both white and l hlack-all, both white and black" And having borne his testimony to immortality he bowed his mighty head, and, without Il eroan, the spirit of the greatest man of hi age escaped 10 the bosom of his God.
 In life, his career had been like the blaze of tho sun in the fierceness of its noon-day glory his death was lovely as the midest sunset of summers evening, when the sun goes down in tranquil beauty without a cloud. To the majestic energy of an ln- domltable will, be joined heart capable oi l the purest and most devoted love, rich in the tenderest affections. On the bloody battle field of Topoheea, he saved OH infant thai clung 10 the breast of its dying mother: Il the stomicst moment of his presidency, al the imminent moment of decision, he paused in his way, to give good counsel 10 a pooI suppliant that had come mp to him for sue cor. Of the striles in which he-was engagef in his earlier life, not one sprung iron himself, but in every case he became involved by standing forth as the champion of the weak, the poor, and the delenceless, to shelter the gentle against oppression, 10 protect the emlgrant against the avarice of the speculator ! His generous soul revolted at the barbarous practice of duels, aud by no man in the land have so many been prevented
 The sorrows of those that were near to him went deeply into his soul; and at the anguish of the wife whom he oved the or phans whom he adopted, he would melt into tears, and weep and sob like child. No man in private life so possessed the hearts oi all around him no public man of this centu- " ever returned to private life with such an abiding mastery over the affections the peo- pie. No man with trucr instinct recieved American ideas: no man expressed them so completely, or so boldly, or so sincerely He was as sincere man as ever lived He was wholly, always, and altogether sincere and true
 Up to the last, he dared do anything that il was right to do. He united personal cour- age and moral courage beyond any man off whom history keeps the record. Before the nation, before the world, before coming ages, he stands forth the representative, for his generation, of the American mind. And the secret ol his greatness IS this: By inlui- tive conception. he shared and possessed all the creative ideas ofhs country and his time He expressed them with dauntess intrepidi- v; he enforced them with an mmoveable will; he executed them witban electric power that attracted and swayed the American peo- pie The nation, in his time, had not one great thought, of which he was not the boldest and elearest eXposier.
 History does not describe the man that equalled him in rmncss of nerve Not dan- ! ger, not an army in baule array, mot wounds, | noi wile-spfea4 clamor not age, not anguish i ol disease, could impair in the least degree the vigor of his steadiast mind The heroes t el anliqaity weuli have contemplated with awe the unmatched haraihead of his char actor and Napolean, had he possessed his dl>in;eres,ed will, could neverhave been van eGis ed. Jackson never was vanquished. { He conqurel the bravest veterans trained in | the baule-6elds of Europe; he conqured everywhere ih statesmaushp; and, when death cana to get the mastery over him, he turned that last enemy aside as tranquilly as he had done the ieeblest of his adversaries. an aSpaDeH from eorth ,, .i,a t.4us,,,,,...