The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-02-19
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
The Journal having been read

TERMINATION OF DEBATE.
The House resumed the consideration OF the resolution
offered by Mr. McCLELLAND, and pending when the
House adjourned yesterday, providing that the debate
the bill to provide for continuing certain public works in
the Territory of Wisconsin, should in thirty min
ues after the House should again go into committee on
said bill
The question being put the resolution, il deci-
ded in the affirmative, by yeas 81, nays A.
JACKSON MONUMENT.
Mr.. N1cCLERNAND rose and said MIR. Speaker, |
rise for the purpose of presenting the memorial OF the
Jackson Monument Committee of this city, praying Con-
gress place at the disposal of that committee four brass
and two brass mortars, weighing IN all 1880 lbs
to be used material IN constructing a monument TO
General Andew Jackson and TO ask for the memorial the
favorable consideration of this honorable body Too
much praise cannot be bestowed upon the members OF
this committee for their zeal and public spirit in noble
enterprise, upon the country for the promptness
and beality with which they have responded to It, To
this extent they have dsproved the charge, 1t be not al
together untrue, that republics are ungratefu The
committee represent that they assured ample
may be obtained by voluntary contributions to en-
sure the early completion of the monument They state
that the column OF Napoleon formed after the model Of
that ofhe Emperor Traan made of the taken by
Napoleon the battle of Auserlitzhat the equestrian
statue of Wellington, of completion, Is to
be made of the brass pieces captured by that general at
Waerloo; and il satisfactorily appears that the pieces
asked for the which captured by General
jackson gallant and brilliant affair al Pensacola IN
ISL and tina, they unserviceable From these
considerations the committee appeal to Congress to devote
these pieces to the purpose OF peetuatng the form OF The
to his country This disposition of these trophies
is peculiarly approPriae-not that "sculptured stone
or ever during brass can add TO the lmperis ,n,
that raised by grateful peaple TO the memory OF
departed hero, should embody in its form, part at
least of the tokens of his ctores 1t not only sane
toned By custom, but is eminenty proper means OF
perpetuating the influence OF the vrtuous and patriotic
examples of 'the illustrous dead" This is not the
proper occasion to pronounce aJor@ euoy Upon l me
glory, and happiness of his country Blu, may be al
lowed to say, that Andrew Jackson was no man OF a
common order Left faherless and frendless in his
Youth he wrote the word-"ercector'-up his crest,
and pushed his way upward and onward TO power and
disncon--from the rank of private to that OF gene
rail- and from the position OF citizen to that OF chef
magistrate OF the republic The name of jacksonville
indomitable-the strong -wlled--the honest--the un-
hnching--the man of IRON has become household
word TO his countrymenan invocation OF patriotism and
duty TO all lands What he said and did is written on
that record OF words and deeds accumulated from the he
rosm and wisdom OF ages; and there, as lesson and
incentive 10 posterity, it will be written forever.
Endowed, perhaps, with a less bold and subtle phi
Iosophy than Jeferson-with less dazzling and the
orett genius than Napoleon, he was the equal of
both energy and concentration OF purposether supe-
rior in the attribute OF common sense His principles
were lofty and stem-proof alike against power and cor
rupion As Aristedes, he could have written, unmoved,
the ballot of his ostracism, watched, unempted
By the ckerng torches of night the which
sirewed the field of Marathon. As general, he was
active and daring, yet vgiant and ludicous To
sancy and fortiiule be added impetuous and almost
romantic valor Al the battle of New Orleans he won
the crowning glory of his military There he con-
fmed the great truth proclaimed upon the classic plains
of Plata-he pre- of free States in the defence
of their hearthstones and independence, the
weldy empires OF crowned conquerors. As it is the
habit of free people to delegate great authority TO
man, who is the reflex of the popular wil-the indi-
viduazed Argora through which the voice OF nation
is heard in after ages, il is not to be wondered that
Jackson, with such qualities he possessed, should
have been that man to the people OF his time The pride
we feel in the man is not partisan pride. 1t arises
from what he did for his country. There are many in
ltht1 hall trhp haor1al
but fearlessly-when he wrapped in his pride of
power and place, and welded, with bodness and energy,
/ the sword of State. But this arose from honest
difference of opinion 1t not dlscreditable them
nor him An that fierce denunciaton, generated and
sustained by party zeal has passed away with its
There is no Vanda hand 70 tear away the first leaf in his
was to obscure his fame has passed away forever.
have no more to add am confident that the prayer OF
the emoralists will be granted by this honorable House
The memorial was then read as follows