The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-06-25

BILE alike praise and to blame, make return to
the living who proffer it. II exerts humanzIng nhu
the universal heart 1t promotes the formation
of true national characters il sofens the aspertes Of
party it incites to vrtuous emulation. Next, in puri-
ty and meetness to the thanksgivngs which owe the
God who gave and guided and sustained them is the
feeling of grateful should cherish
towards those who the instruments of His goodness
To claims great men, Of every age and time
of every sect and party let us then be faithful Let
their lives let the canvass and the marble perpetuate
the image of their forms let poetry and music breathe
ed voice their echo their praises to the
remotest shores that wherever American oostep
there, too the memory Of their greatness shall ABIDE
beauty and excellence-the joy of all the Earth
The facts and incidents which belong to the romantic and
eventul life Of Andrew Jackson are too numerousto al
low on the present OCCASION to attempt any extend
ed biographical sketch After brief notice of his early
life shall therefore, conne myself to general view
of such portions of his active to
best calculated to illustrate the prominent features Of
his character and his important services to his
country. He the Of respectable parents,
belonging to the most hardy, viruous and
full of all orders of socetythe great middle class
parents, well known natives ireland though
Of their ancestors originally from Scotland
Th " emgrated to South Carolina in 1855 He was born
at the Wasaw settlement in that State on the 10th Of
March, l767 he died Sunday the Sth day Of the pre-
sent MONTH having been spared to the good old age of
than 70 years, retaining to the last remarkable
degree his extraordinary intellectual powers his ardent
affections, and his deep interest in the happiness of his
friends and the welfare of his country. The Pc
cularities of his character in harmony. with
his extraction. The martyr blood of Scotland blended
dence of his in her genial Cline coursed in his
veins and no man. probably ever lived who united in
with the quick and ardent Of the other
Deprived soon after his birth, of his father his eldest
troops himself compelled by the approach Of the enemy,
to abandon at the age Of fourteen the academy which
surviving brother to the military Services Of his connpy
both soon after captured by the enemy both assaulted
and wounded because scorning to submit to personal
dignity The other OF the two brothers dying OF the wound
thus received his mother after pressed by fatigue
and grief into an untmey grave was an ardent
and susceptible youth placed in circumstances like
y to make deep and lasting impression his charac-
ter The child" Ito the words of great poet of
our own tmes) the child is father OF the man. And
when we consider the baptism of blood by which Andrew
Jackson in the spring time OF his youth dedcatedto
fahfulness the burning zeal with which, from youth
TO age, he presented himself living sacrifice at her atari
Passing over the intermediate space, find him. at the
age of twentyone established the practice Of the law
in what was then one OF the back settlements of North
Carolina. 1t was region OF restless activity of stirring
interest OF wild adventure. The scanty population
thiny scattered extensive territory was con-
santly exposed to tho nroads of powerful tribes Of In
dams still the occupants OF its primcval forests They
had been subugaed during the of the Revolution
by the American arms but were ready, when
cut of the unprotected family. In the border conflicts
which grew out Of this condition of the territory,
Jackson renewed the instructions in the drill and muster
which he boyhood and added to them lessons
in the warfare OF the Indians both destined to be
afterwards employed on wider theatre and for in
hnitely greater ends Intestine feuds also distract.
cd the Inhabitants many of their number were
rude In manners, and Of them reckless in char
acer the collection of debts, by force of law,
task Of difficulty and of danger and the lawyer un-
dcrtook needed activity of body well intellect
hrmness Of nerve as well Of purpose vigor Of
well as Of understanding Jackson, bringing with him an
unsullied reputation was Immediately employed in
OF this sor and he entered the discharge of his pro-
essonal duties with the promptitude and energy
often displayed by him in matters higher and more
extended interest In these, and other professional eff
fonts of the like nature, he is bese by opposition and
and embroled in collisions, which might have proved
fatal to one less honest and courageous but his manly
hnn md hic fpna Ia Of -. H.
pite OF every impeachment, establish his reputation
and professional the necessary consequence
Another result is that he becomes universally known
Of the first citizens in point Of character and inu-
ence, Of the young community, now rapidly increasing
IN numbers and about to be organized, with the
and by the cession OF North Carolina as Territory Of
the United States. This event takes place in $780, and
Andrew Jackson receives from George Arlington then
President Of the United States his first appointment
ohcehat OF Attorney of the United States for the ne
Territory In the short space of six the territorial
government is superseded by the admission into the
Union Of the State of Tennessee Jackson is member of
the Convention which forms the constitution and he takes
an active part in the preparation OF that instrument II
contains some peculiar provisions which deserve mo-
ments notice The members Legislature are chos-
en- for two years aud meet only bennisy except when
called together extraordinary occasions fbis ar
rangement is founded the idea that while annual
oeAgs Of the legislative body are indispe nsble in
countries having an hereditary executive the like ne.
cessity does exist where the executive chosen by
and responsible to- the peoples and that the people them
selves are the best conservaors of their rights Tho
bill Of rights in this Constitution is the most lbe
raj and comprehensive adopted by any of States Il
asserts in tho strongest terms the Inherent and uncon.
tIoabe sovereignty Of the people and right to in
struc as well as to petition their representatives.; it
denounccs pcreues and monopolies contrary TO the
genius oil free state and II orbids the grant of any he
reditary emoluments, privileges honors. from the
subsequent life OF Jackson IL is easy that he
have assented, with warm heart all these visions
Immediately on the admission of the new State into
the Union Jackson chosen Of her delegates in tho
House OF Representatives; and the year he is APP
pointed one OF her Senators in Congress lie in
this distinguished body. which Thomas jefferson
was then the presiding officer until 1913, and thus
Joys opportunities OF forming personal friendship with
statesman and political philosopher, with whose sen-
ments his entirely concur and for whose genius he
cheshes the highest admiration In 1899 he rctires by
voluntary resignation from the honorable post Most
unexpectedly 10 himself, he is Immediately appointed
Judge Of the Supreme Court Of his State a station
which he accepts with reluctance and from which he
withdraws at an early day He does so with the esen
which he then supposes he may be permitted to accom-.
plsh, Of spending the residue Of his days in the quiet
retreat Of country life Little does ne dream OF the
brilliant destiny that awaits him. In the meantime
another preparation for that destiny, the field officers Of
one OF the divisions of the Tennessee militia
gers to his lofty patriotism his martial spirit,
mad chosen him without consultation WITH notice
to him. their Major General. This commission
he retained until 1914 when no received the
like appointment In the army Of the United States.
We are now to contemplate ANDREW JAcKsor In
that new and conspicuous theatre in which he at
tracted tho regards not only Of America but Of the