The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-20


a report, requested Robert Goldman, esq., vice presi
dent, TO take the chair.
On motion by Mr.. Ward, the secretary was re
quested to solicit the remarks Of the president fol-
publication.
TRIBUTE or RESPECT
The chairman of the committee appointed to talk,
measures to commemorate the occasion Of the death
of ANDREW JACKSON, and to draught resolutions APP
propriatey TO illustrate his virtues and his WORTH and
the feelings excited by his departure, submitted
report, preamble, and resolutions, which were
9lmously adopted as follows:
The Democratic Association of Washington city
feel il duty to record their archives the sent
ments with which they are impressed by the death
3of ANDREW JACKSON, an honorary member thereof
Every portion of the American community owes
homage to his memory; but the democracy Of the
metropolis of the Union are sensible of superadded
obligations beyond those felt in common with their
lcountrymen. Ii is mournful pleasure now to lay
that offering at the grave of our benelactor-w which,
while living, he would never allow to he rendered
| the person who had so essentially served the com
immunity Of which we members
Andrew Jackson's labors, which should impress
the city of Washington with peculiar sense of
gratitude, began in the hour of its deepest gloom
land humiliation when its capitol was in ashes--the
executive mansion and other public edhces IN ruin
and the Vanda invaders, who had spread conAagra-
Istruction of the government itself, by sabbing al
Ievery vital point of the confederacy The hopes
land frebrands of the enemy were extinguished in
their own blood at New Orleans. From that mo
ment, this city had new and frmer foundation in
the strength the confidence, and the glory which his
success impaired to the republic washington, which
Twas sunk in sackcoth and ashes, humbled in the
dust, again looked up and felt the impulse of the
Irevlying power
The next struggle of the re-cstablisher of the
government, was with those who pronounced 1t a
I"weak and penurous government, incapable of con-
with the colossal power of Grea; Britain
with those who had thrown up their caps with Joy,
when they heard that the capitol was fired by for.
leigh troops the Congress hurled from its halls and
the President driven from his home--with those
Iwho voted against the reconstruction of the NATIONAL
edfces and the restoration Of the nations dignity,
providing suitable habltatons for its representa-
1tives. Andrew Jackson triumphed over these do
fmestic enemies of the country and its metropolis.
He came to Washington, and found it yet but a
skeleton. 1t looked like the city Of dead, rather
han living government. The capitol still sur
rounded with rubbish, was pent up with bound
larry that suited cemetery. The President lived in
Ia corner of his house; its magnificent halls remain
ling naked, unfinished, and unvisited, the exterior
Unfinished, and In a state of adaptations; the
grounds iacent torn with gullies, enclosed with
ragged fences, and covered with sunied trees the
|ll-built brick offices, in keeping with the scene,
|were painted in the hue of second mourning the
great avenues of the city were unpaved, its walks
were without shade or water, and the resources of
the corporation Frustrated under load of ire
|deemabe debt.
Those who would appreciate the peculiar obliga-
|tions of Washington city to Andrew Jackson, must
contrast its present condition with that just depict
led. There is not an Improvement which had not
Its origin in his time, and not fostered by his
IL auence He extingushed nearly million of the
|city's debt; he extended, and beautifully planted
the grounds of the capitol, the tastefully finished
walks and rising groves that surround the Pres-
dents mansion, the pure and cool water drawn I'M
|aqueducts from the neighboring hills, and which
|rses in fountains and expands in basins the pub
|ic grounds; the paved and shaded avenues and the
noble structures which have sprung up on the foun
dations of some of the departments-the precursors
|of those designed by him to complete the appendix
ICES of the capitol in keeping with tsef-al attest
the magnanimity of the elevated mind which, in
building up city as the head of great republic,
felt no repugnance that, at the same time, he adj.
|vanced the fortunes of his personal adversaries
His noble design comprehended the construction of
Ia bridge across the Potomac, n range of lofty
|arches of stone, TO link the northern and southern
States together by structure which should be AM
emblem of the durability which he wished for the
Union; but the plan-for which he had obtained
THE consent of Congress- and made the preliminary
defeated by the federal repre-
sentative of contiguous district in Virginia most
interested in the work, and who was permitted by|
THE city authorities to take charge of its interests n
Congress. He was unwilling that Andrew Jackson
should erect such monument to his own fame, all
Though associated with incalcuable advantages to
ibis immediate constituents At his instance, the
law authorizing the arched structure repealed
land causeway substituted, which threatens TO make
|one-half the river morass, and to fill the city with
malaria.
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