The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-07-16

Ia|NSoh was elected major general by the brlga-
ders and field officers of the militia of Tennes-
see. Resignng his place in tine Senate, he was
made Judge of the supreme court in law and
equity; such was the confidence in his integrity
OF purpose, his clearness of judgment, and his Vi
gor OF will TO deal justly among the turbulent
who crowded into the new settlements of Ten
nessee.
Thus, in the short period of nine years, An
drew jackson was signalized by as many eviden-
ces OF public esteem as could fall TO The lot of
man. The pioneer Of the wilderness, the de-
fender of IFS stations, he was their lawgiver, the
sole representative of new people in Congress,
the representative ofthe State in the Senate, the
highest in military command, the highest in iu-
dlcIai office, He seemed to be recognized as the
first in love of liberty, the first in the science of
legislation, in judgment, and integrity.
Fond of private life, he would have resigned
the judicial office; but the whole country de-
manded his service. "Nature," they cried, "ne-
yer designed that your powers Of thought and in
dependence of mind should be lost in retire
ment." But after few years, relieving himself
from the cares of the bench, he gave himself to
the activity and the independent life of hus.
bandman. He carried into retirement the fame
of natural intelligence, and was cherished as ga
prompt, frank, and ardent SOUL" His vigor of
character constituted him first among all with
whom he associated. A private man as he was,
his name was familiarIy spoken round every
heaHh-stone in Tennessee. Men loved TO dis
cuss his qualities. All discerned his power; and
when the vehemence and impetuosity of his ma
ture were observed upon, there were not wanting
those who saw, beneath the blazing fire of his ge-
MUS, the solidity of his Judgment
His hospitable roof sheltered tho emigrant and
the pioneer; and, as they made their way to their
new honest ,they filled the mountain sides and the
valleys with his praise.
Connecting himself, for season, with man
af business, Jackson soon dscelned the miscon-
duct of his associate. 1t marked his character
that he insisted, himself, ON paying every oblga,
ton that had been contracted; and, rather than
endure the vassalage of debt, he instantly part
ed with the rich domain which his early enter
prise had acqured-wih his own manson-with
the fields that he himself had first tanned with
the ughshare-with the forest whose trees
were as familiar to him as his friends-and
chose rather to dwell, for time, in a rude log
cabin, in the pride of independence and inleg-
rity.
On all great occasions, Jackson's influence
was deferred TO. When Jefferson had acquired
for the country the whole of Louisiana, and there
seemed some hesitancy on the part of Spain, 70
acknowledge our possession, the services OF
Jackson were solicited by the national admins
tration, and were not called into full exercise
only from the peaceful termination of the Incl
dents that occasioned the summons.
In tho lopu cor;ag oc u,> al, e.
dom of the seas, and the lights of the American
Hrg, Jackson was on the side of his country, and
the new maritime code ofrepublicanism. In his
inland home, where the roar of the breakers was
never heard, and the mariner was never seen, he
resented the continued aggressions on our CON-
merce and on our sailors.
When the continuance of wrong compelled
the nation to resort 10 arms, Jackson, led by the
instructive knowledge of his own greatness, We:
with modesty that would have honored The
most sensitive delcacy of nature, confessed his
willingness 10 be employed on the Canadian
frontier; and it is a fact that he aspired to the
command to which Winchester was appointed
We may ask, what would have been the result, If
the command of the northwestern army had, at
the opening of the war, been ntrusted to man
vehement will seemed TO have made destiny cap
ulate TO his designs.
The path Of duty led him in another direction.
On the declaration of war, twenty-five hundred
volunteers had risen at his word to follow his
standard; but, by countermanding orders from
the scat of government, the movement was with
out effect. ....... ...
A new and great danger hung over the West.
The Indian tribes were to make one last effort TO
restore it 10 its solitude, and recover it for saw
age life, The brave, relentless Shawnees. who
from time immemoriaI, had strolIed from the wa
ters of the Ohio to the rivers of Alabama-were
animated by Tecumseh and his brother the Pro.
phet, who spoke TO them as with the voice of the
Great Spirit, and reused the Creek nation 10 des-
perate massacres. Who has not heard of their
terrible deeds, when their ruthless cruelty spa
ied neither sex nor age2 when the infant and its
mother, the planter, and his family, who had fled
Tor refuge to the fortress, the garrison that capi-
mlated-all were slain, and not vestige of de-
fence was left in the country? The cry of the
West demanded Jackson for its defender; and
though his arm was then fractured by ball, and
hung in sling, he placed himself al the head of
The volunteers of Tennessee, aud resolved to
terminate forever the hereditary struggle.
Who can tell the horrors of that campaign2--
Who can paint rightly the obstacles which Tack
son overcame-mountains the scarcity of unten-
anted forests, winter, the failure of supplies from
the settlements, the insubordnaton of troops,
mutiny, menaces Of desertion? Who can mea.
sure the wonderful power over men, by which bis
personal prowess and attractive energy drew
them in mid-winter, from their homes, across
and morasses, and through trackless
deserts2 Who can describe the personal heroism
of Jackson, never spafing himself, beyond any of
his men encountering toll and fatigue, sharing
every labor of the camp and of the march, FORE
most in every danger; giving up his horse TO the
invalid soldier, while he himself waded through
the swarnps on foot? None equalled him in
power of endurance; and the private soldiers, as