The Arkansas banner., 1845-07-30


 rican-Jackson followed the example of his l predecessors; but he followed 1t with the i full consciousness that he was reseung the
 country from the artificial system oi finance
 which had prevailed throughout the world;
 and with him il formed a part of system by which American legislation was to separ- ate itself more and more eGactually from
 European precedcnts, and deyelope itself more and more, according to the vital principles
 of our political existence
 The discharge of the debt brought with f, of necessity, great reduction of the public i burdens, and brought, Of necessity, into view, the question. how lar America should follow, of choice, the old restrictive system of high duties, under which Europe had oppressed America; or how fur she should rely on her own freedom and enterprise and power, de- lying the competition, and seeking the mar kets, and receiving the products of the world. The mind of Jackson on this subject req soned clearly, and without passion. h he abuses of the system ol revenue by eXCes- sivc imposts, he saw evils which lhe public mind would remedy; and, inclnng with the whole might of his energetic nature 10 the side of revenue duties, he made his earnest but tranquil appeal to the judgment of the people,
 The portions of country that suffered most severely lroma system of Iegi. lation, which, in it's extreme character as t then existed is now universally acknowledged to have been unequal and unjust, were les tranquil; and raIying on the doctrines of freedom, which made our government a liaiited one, they say ia the oppressive acts an assumption oi power which was nuFatory, because t was exercised, as they held, without authority from tEa people.
 The contest that easued was the most momentous iH our annals, The geeale minds of America engaged in ihe discussion Eloquence never achieved sahlimer aiampha in the American senate than on those oeea- sions. The country became deeply divided :; and the antagonist elements were aTraved against each eiaer under forms of clashing authority meaacins civil Waf; the freedom of the several States was invoked against the power of the United States; and under the organization oi a State in coYention, tine re. served rights of the people were summoned to display their energy, and balance the aa- thofity and neutralize the legislation of the central government. The States were agiia- ted with prolonged excitement; the friends of freedom throughout the world looked on with divided sympathies, praying that the union of the States might be perpetual, and also that the commerce of the world might be free
 Fortunately for the country, aud forta- nately for mankind, Andrew Jackson was al the helm of stale, the representative of the principles that were to allay excitement, and 10 restore the hopes of peace and freedom. By nature, by impulse, by education, by con= vietion, a friend to personal freedom-by ed- ucatioh, political symPathies, and the fixed habit of his mind, q friend to the rights oI the Sfates-HHwiliag that the liberty of the States should be IamPlel under f3at--un- willing that the constitution sboeld lose Is yiger CT be impaired, he rallied fer the con- stiution: and in is name ne puniishcd 10 the world '.THG UNION: IF MUST BE IRE SERVED" Ihe words were q spell to hush evil passion, and 10 remove oppression. Under his eaidmg influence, the favored interests, which had struggled to peFpetuate unjust legislation, yielded 10 the voice of moderation and reform; and every mind that hal for moment contemplated a rupture of the States, diacardel 1t forever. The whole
 influence of the past was invoked III favor Of the constitution; from the council chambers of the fathers, who moulded our institutions from the hail. where American indepea- dence was declared, the clear, loud cry was uttered-''the Union it must be preserved.f From every battlefield of the revolution from Lexington and Bunker il.ll--irom Sara toga and Yofktown-from the fields of Eu- taw-lrom the caue-brakcs that sheltered the fMarion-lhe repeated. long prolonged echoes came up-.'the Union: it must ba preserged.7 From every valley in our land from every cabin on the pleasant mountain sides-from the shipsat our Wharves-ltom the tents of the hunter il car westegnmazt p"airies-irom the living minds ot the livlng millions of American iseemea--iram tie thicl>ly coming glories oi fuuriy-thc shgut wentap, like tAesound of many Wateas, '.tae Union ii must be presevest.2 The friends of ,he protective system, aud they who had denounced the protective system s.atas- men of the North, that had wounded the NpttsytttttsVH itl ttt ttftc G| GGli4tttAat statesmen of the South, whose minds had carried to lts extreme the theory of SJaie righis-ali eanspirad together all bgeatbed prayers for the perpeJuiy of the Haioa.- Under the prudent iifmness ol Jackson-ua- der the mixture of justice and general rcgaed for all interests, the greaies, danger to oae institutions was turned aside. and mankin3 was encouraged to believe thal oar Union, like eur freedom, is impe.sHaba
 The moral of the great eyeats of jho-e days is this that iha people can discern right, and will make tAeir way to know ledge olright; that the whole human mind, and therefore with i the mind of the nation, has a continuous, ever improving existence; that the appeal fom lhe unjust legislation Of to-day must be made q0etly, earnestly, per- sevegingly, to the more eId.4ftiened collective reason of tomorrow; that submission is dGe To the popular will, iu the confidence lhat the neape, when iii error, Will amend tbeir dolngs that in popular government igius- tice is Heitaeg to be established by force, nor to be resisted by force; in a word, that the Union, winch was constituted by consent, must be preserved bv love