The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-06-18
From the N. Y. Morning News
GENERAL JACKSON is DEAD!

JhChSON 10 DEADi
When venerated and beloved father has been
lying for weeks, awaiting almost daily the slow
mons which is to be the signal for his escape from
the sufferings which have long made life only bur-
|ienwhen the blow at last does come, its sharp alb
Emptiness seems scarcely mtigated by any length Of
Expectation preceding it, The burst of grief, still
suspended long the last dim spark of vitality
yet fingered, even though no hope yentured to whs-
|per of possible future recovery, then breaks forth
sudden gush, from the depths of the hearts sur
rounding the long-prepared death-bed almost as ag-
|onizngly as though there had been no warning of
he fast-approaching event. This is a frequent OBJ
servauon in the daily history of private domestic
affection. The same thing is srikingly felt on the
announcement of the death of General Jackson,
We are all almost startled as though we had not
been, for weeks past, opening every western mail
with fear and trembling, lest it might at last prove
the bearer of the long-expected intelligence.
Is il possible that General Jackson is really dead;
It seems harder to believe of him than of other men.
Something of the feeling attaches to his person
which prompted tie French soldier to reject as inn
possible, the news Of the death Of the emperor:
He dead .No-he is not capable Of such thingn
|Such power, such force, such energy, and all
80 noble IN nature pure in motive, patriotic in
every end and ain,it is hard to bring the mind to
realize that that great soul have indeed gone for
ever from midst, where he had so long filled a
space now left wide void, never TO be again
Died by any other man of our day and generation
hal General Jackson can indeed be dead!
Yet it is so, in sober and solemn truth; and the
announcement of the fact has already swept across
he greater part Of the length and breadth of the land
like kncll in which every man, on whose ear il
strikes, feels that he has direct personal concern
For there is none into whose life he has poured
some portion Of the influence of his own eventful
life and powerful character. He was the great man
|pf our day and countryside Saul in our midst,
taller by the head and shoulders than the rest of the
lpeoplea born skiing of men," in that nobler sense
|of the phrase, which might be permitted even by his
sturdy democracy, that refused to sleep in the sar.
|cophagus of imperial pride. We all feel that the
monarch oak has at last felt the blow and we pause
land hold our breath for time, while the startling
sound of its fall echoes through the forest which
supplies no successor to the long unrivaed honor.
Nor will the reverberatons of that echo pause till
1hey have encrced the earh for there is no quarter
|of 1t so remote or ignorant that the of the
death of General Jackson will not be told and listen
led to there, as an event of moment and interest.
No death, probably, since that of Washington,
has awakened so deep sensation in the breast of
he American people, as that which this intelligence
Twill dffuse it spreads. There will everywhere,
doubtless, be strong expressions, in the various
modes--funeral professions, orations public meet
|ngs and resolutions of the universal national feeling
on the occasion. And no other grave than WASH
Iington's own will be consecrated by more deep and
earnest blessings of grateful country.
Biographical sketches are written of more com
|mon celebrities in announcing their decease. OF
General Jackson it Is sufficient to say that he is
dead, and then to be silent in meditation upon the
greatness Of his fame and our loss.