The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-15
WHOLE NO. 929.

iy of truth, in the imper shable power of
popular feedom, in the deslinies of human
itv, in the virtues and capaciyof the people,
in his country's institutions, in the being and
overruling providence ofa merciful and ever
living God. .... ..,..s..
HIS LAST MOMENTS.
The last momen, of his life on earth is
at hand. II is the Sabbath nf the Lord: The
brightness and beauty Of summer clohe the
fields around him: nature is in her glory
but the subl;mest spectacle on that day, on
ear h, was the victory of his unbenching
spirit over death ITSELF
When he first felt the hand of death upon
him, "May my encmes," he cried, "fnd
peace; may the Liberties of my country en'
dure forever"
When his exhausted system, under the ex-
cess of pain, sunk, for moment, fiom de-
bility," Do not weep" said he to his adopt
ed daughter; "my suherings are loss than
those of Christ upon the cross" for he, too,
as "A disciple of the Cross, could have devot-
ed himself, in sorrow, for mankind. Feel
ing his end near, he would see all his family
once mole ;and he SPOKE 10 them, one by one,
in words of Tenderness and affection. His
Two ltllc grandchildren >ere absent at Sun
day-school. He asked for them; and as
they, came, he prayed for them, and kissed
them, and blessed them. His servan's were
then admited: they gathered, some in his
loom, aud some outside of the house, cling
ing to the windows, that they might gaze
and hear. And that dying man, thus sur
rounded, in eush of ielyjd eloqucnce,
spoke with inspiration of God, of The Re-
decmer of salvation through The alonemont,
of immortality, of heaven. For he ever
thought that pure and undcfilcd religion was
The foundation of private happiness, and the
bulwaik of republican institutions. Having
spoken of Immortality in perfocl conscious
ness Of his own approaching end, he bade
them all farewell. "Dear Children" such
were his final words, dear children, serv-
ants, and friends, trust 10 meet you all in
heaven, both white and black--all, both
white and black" And having born his tes-
iinony to Immortality, he bowed his mighty
head, and, without groan, the spirit of the
greatest man of his age escaped 10 the boz
som of his God,
MS LOFTY COURAGE.
Up TO the last, he dared do anything that
it was right to do. He united personal cour-
age and moral courage beyond any man of
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 Of his greatness is this: By in
lutive conception, he shared and possessed
all the creative ideas of his county and his
time. lie expressed them with daunlless
inlrepidiiy; he enforced them with an i'm
movable will he executed them with an
electric power that attracted and swayed the
American people. The nation, in his time,
had not one great thought, of which he was
not the boldest and cearest exposiior.
HIS uNooNoUERABLE FlRMNEss.
History does not describe the man that
euualled him in tirnness of nerve. Not
danger, not an army in battle array, not
wound, not widespread clumor, not age, not
the anguish of disease, could impair in the
least degree tile vigor of his steadfast mind.
The heroes of antiquity would have con-
templatcd with awe the unmatched hardi-
hood Of his characer and Napoleon, had
he possessed his disiuleresed will, could
never have been vanquished. Jackson nev-
er was vanquishcd. He was always FORUM
ate. He conquered the Wilderness; he Con-
quered the savage; he conquered the bravest
veterans trained in the baitle-felds of Eu-
rope; he con quered everywhere in states
manshp; and, when death came 10 get ihe
mastery over him, he turned that last enemy
aside as tranquility as he had done TIE
feebicst ofhis adverslrcs, and escaped from
earth in the triumphant consciousness ofim-
mortality. ..,. ..,
HIS RESTING PLACE.
His body has its fit resiing-place in the
great central valley of the Miss; ;ssipp; his
spirit rests upon our whole territory; it ho-
vers over the Wales of Oregon, and guards,
in advance, the frontier of the Del Norte.--
The fires of party spirit are quenched at his
grave. His gIults and fraties have perish
ed. Whatever of good he has done, lives,
and will live forever. aa 'a
Observation-Disclosures first, King of France,
and Henry eighth, King of England, being
ut issue, the latter resolved to send Francis
IN ambassador 10 say fiery and threatening
words.-He made the appointment of Bsh-
op Bonner, in whom he had grea, confidence.
This Bishop said il would be placing his life
in too great danger, beard King so naughty
S Francis first, Do not fear," said the King.
"If the King of France should do such a
thing, would cut off the heads of many
Frenchmen, here in my Kingdom" I" be-
Ieve you my Lord; ; but which of those heads
would fit so well upon these shoulders as
this9" touching his own head as he spoke.