Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-24

the madens and children whom his heroisIn had pro-
ected stand in the presence Of petty Judge who graft
Every breast in the crowded audience heaves with
Indignation. lie, the passionate, the impeuous = he
whose power TO be humbled, whose honor question
ed, whose aureIs furnished alone stood sublmey
and when the judge rembled, and faered, and
dared proceed hmsel the arragned one, babe him
take courage and stood by the law IN the
when the law was made the instrument of insult and
wrong hmset-at the moment Of his most perfect
claim to the highest civic honors.
His country, when grew hold many millions,
the generation that then coming in, has risen up
do homage the noble heroism of that hour. Woman,
whose feeling i always right did honor from the hst TO
the purity Of his heroism The people OF Louisiana, TO
the latest hour will cherish his their greatest
benelacior.
The culture Of Jackson's mind had been much promot
ed BY his services and in the His dis
cpne Of himself the chief in command, his intimate
relations with like Livingston, the wonderful deeds
IN which he bore a part, all maured his judgment and
meowed his character
| Peace came with its delights; once the country
rushed forward in the development Of ITS powers once
the Of industry healed the wounds that had
inflicted; and from commerce and agriculture and
facures wealth gushed abundanily under the free acty
i ~ Of unresraIned enterprise.
| And Jackson returned his fields and his own
pursuits cherish his plantation for his servants
TO look after his stud, TO enjoy the affection OF most
kind and devoted wife, whom he respected with the gen.
les Difference, and loved with an almost miraculous ten
derness.
And there he stood, like one of the migbes, forest
of his West vigorous and COLOSSAL sending its
wild and iniiiabe magnIcence, careless of beholders
From all parts of the country he received appeals TO his
balanced mind turned them all aside He was happy in
his farm, happy IN secuson happy IN his family happy
within himself
ayed by the peace with Great Britain and foreign ennis
saries still among them to afame and direct their
: maignty. Jackson called forth BY his country
restrain the cruelty of the ireacheous and unspaung
semnoes. 1t in the train of the events OF this
that he placed the American eagle ST. Marks and
above the ancient OF ST, Augustine His deeds in
D that war; OF themselves form monument TO human
power the celebrity of his genius the creative fer
iy Of his resources, his nuilye sagacy. As Spain,
in his judgment, had committed aggression, he would
emancpated her islands, Of the Havana he caused
the reconnaissance be made and, with army OF five
thousand men, he stood ready guaranty her redemp
5 ton From colonial thtaldom.
But when peace restored. and his Office
complshed his physical strength sunk under the pesti
lena influence Of the climate, and, fast yielding dis
ease he borne in litter the swamps Of Flor
ida towards his home. Ii Jacksons character that
: he never solicited aid from any bv he never forgot
those who rendered him in the hour of need A.
time when all around him believed him near his end
his wife fastened to his sde and, by her tenderness and
nursing care her patient assduy and the soothing in
/ huencc of devoted love- withheld him from the grave.
but that he privately Informed, his good
TO be atianed by intended congressional proceed
Is nss he came therefore, into the presence Of the peo
name; and, when that was achieved he was once more
e communng with his thoughts among the groves of The
Hermitage.
II was not his own ambition which brought him again
. to the public view. The affection OF Tennessee com
PEELED him the floor of the AmericaI
= Senate and, after years Of the ntenses political strife
= Andrew Jackson elected President of the Unitet
"' States.
lie Far fiom advancing his pretensions, he Away
re kept them back and had for years epressed the so
TONS of his friends 20 become candidate He felt
he siby that he devoid of scientific culture, and it'll
m familiar with letters and he obtruded his opinion
preferred claims to place But, whenever his opinion
ne demanded, he always ready pronounce II
or and whenever his country invoked his services, he d
a. shrink from the station which had been filled
the most cultivated men nation had produced.
IN Behold then, the unlettered of the West, IN
nursing of the wds, the farmer of the Hermitage lIil
IA versed books unconnected by science with the trad
ton of the past raised by the will of the people tn
highest pinnacle OF honor to the central post in the
" illZaion of republican freedom 10 the station where
20 the nations of the earth would watch his acions-wher
a. his words would vbrate through the civilized world
W hls spirit be the moving star 10 guide The nations. VIVA
st. policy will he pursue What wisdom will he bring wit
at hun from the forest What rules of duty will he evov
To IOm the Oracles Of his own mind
The man Of the West came NJ the inspired prophet
the West lac free from the bonds of hered
al tary established custom he with superiu
e. But conscience, oracle but his native Judgment and
re- his origin and his education-irue the
tons and circumstances of his advancement, he value
~ right than usage he reverted from the pressure
- established interest to the energy Of first principles
I've We tread ashes where the fire yet extingusl
ed; yet to dwell his President,
leave out OF the grandes illustrations Of his MAJ
er The legislation of the United States had followed III
p.ecedens of The legislation Of European monarcles
tie the office Of Jackson lift the country
u.s. European forms Of Legislation, and TO open TO
resting American sentiment and American freedom
nj He would have freedom where-freedom undo
the restraints of right; freedom of industry,
ICE merce Of mind, of universal action freedom, unsacI
ed led by restrictive privileges, unfestraned by the tha
en- dom of monopolies.
The unity Of his mind and his consistency were will
70 parallel With natural Dialects he developed III
political doctrines that suited every emergency,
- precision and harmony that tbeoris could hope
equal On every subec in politics. speak but fact
he thoroughly aud profoundly and immovably rad
ne cal and would sit for hours, and in continued flow
IA remark make the application of bis principles ever
an Interpretation OF the constitution
err His expression of himself clear, in
i'd pervaded land only, but all America and
Is. mankind. They say that in the physical world ii
be magnetic fluid is dused that It's vibrations are di
cernbIe simultaneously in every part Of the globe. So
Ne is with the element Of freedom. And Jackson deye
oped its doctrines from their in the mind
lid mainly the popular sympathy moved and ag,tate
ON throughout the world Till his grew every where
nd be the symbol of popular power.
Himself the witness of the ruhessness Of savage If
he planned the removal of the Indian tribes beyond ii
b. limits Of the organized States and is the result Of h
determined policy that the region of the Mssissip
has been transferred to the exclusive of Gull
V waited man.
Sa' pupil of the Wilderness his heart was with the
vas of American life towards the setting sun
American statesman has embraced within affs
op tons scheme liberal for the emg.aas that of Jac
ord He lonsed 10 them, presumption
ent only, but more than presumption rights lie iouged
Wy invite labor take possession Of the unoccuped fell
lib without money and without price with no obligatio
except the perpetual devotion of itself by allegiance
its country. Under the benefcent influence OF his op
rr ions the of misforune the children of adventure
The find their way the uncultivated There
he wilderness glade, in the thick forest Of the ieri
he plain, where the praes most sparkle with flower
they, hike wild boe which sets them The examine
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