Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-10-22

rank, had secured by an undoubted title, the
appelIaton Of the Ancient Dominion. lie
parted from life rather than was severed
from il, and the news Of his death came
over the nation like the sunset of glorious
day.
1t was in this great city-amidst "the
pomp aud circumstances" of a civil celebra-
! ton Of the Nations Birthdav-hat the pa
triot, james Monroe. breathed his last
| The roar Of the rel joicing cannon-the man
! ifeslaton that the men of the Revolution
were remembered-rung in his dying ear.
He had been one Of them. lie had enjoyed
the confluence of the Father Of his Country.
IL will send Mr.. Monroe" said Washington
to that famous Committee of the Demo
cratic party, who called on him respecting
the vacant embassy to France. The coun-
try saw with establishment the death of an
other President on the Anniversary Of A.
merican independence. Surrounded by the
kindness and attention of his own kindred,
his frame yielded to disease, after struggle
of many days. The city turned from its
rejoicing to pour unfeigned sorrow over The
las, of the Presidents who had won place
in the hearts Of the People, in the eyenlful
days when Colonies faded and States sprung
10 being.
And who wiII--who can ever forget the
death of brave Old Tippecanoe lie who
had by valor and fidelity, by doing coura-
such home in the peoples heart, that the
herculean effort of desperate party machine
ry could not remove him thence. lie who
in fai,hfuness to his principles and his
| friends, and caudor and courtesy to his op-
ponen,s-conducted canvass, of such Wig
or as the like never before was seen. and
has not since been experienced. lie who.
after winning and wearing the laurels of the
proudest triumph that ever a civil contest
afforded, yielded TO the Destroyer. Even
yet, it is vivid in our memories, Of the in
,ensiy of feeling with which the news Of
| his illness was watched, as it came (wllh
laggard step, which would now be unedura-
ble) day by day, and of the tears that fell
from ''eyes unused to weep" when the man
! that never lost battle, left this world Of
uncertain happiness and most certain grief
| The White House then first felt the tread Of
The skeleton foot, and the startled heart Of
the people throbbed with fcrvor of sorrow
till then unknown.
And Jackson, the brave warrior who
never los. the enthusiastic confidence Of the
people-a confidence against the giving Of
which able men reasoned well-bul which
was fully yielded to the last; the man Of
determined will, and whose energy wrote
strong records in his country>s history, died
in the midst of peaceful home those a
round him, who were spared TO attend his
declining years, and with their kindness
making radienl Ile's last hour.
| In the Hermitage, the President who had
welded power, SO fully and freely bestow-
ed, by a popularity, between the era Of
Washington and his own, without parallel
in this retreat from the cares that do so
wait upon place and station, Gen. Jackson
died. lie had fingered long he felt and
acknowledged the slow and sure step Of
decay, His fame belongs to the country.
He must have been a great man, indeed,
who could so cluster the affections OF the
people around him.
In the Capitol itself-wihin the arches
that had echoed back his words of surpass-
ing wisdom and eloquence, he Jied--who
ellis sire sage-himsefa greater was"
| As, from his very boy hood, he had been
identified with the public service, SO the
halls of the public council heard his d, ing
words. The business Of the Nation was
hushed in silence, least It's progress should
disturb the parting spirit, and the assembled
Representatives knew it was a reflection Of
the will of the People, that they should
gather around his coffin, as children when a
father dies.
Though health forsook him in a moment,
there was time for the Nation TO hear It'd
ings that it was about to lose its highest in
tellect-its most valuable memory-Free-
| dom's veteran-he who never lalcrod in
good cause, or spared bad one. John
Quincy Adams seemed, though aged, to be
of the class of Iife's BUSY men, aud in the
midst Of energetic action, he died. There
were none to fill his place, and it remains
untitled.
| Mr.. Polk, when lie met the fate that
comes to all, was the tenant Of a happy home,
surrounded by all the circumstances tha,
tend to make life condition Of good. lie
had achieved, at au age much younger than
that of his predecessors, the highest honor
bis country could bestow on him. That
he became President by popular election,
is an evdence-which a thousand theories
are powerIess TO gainsay-.hat he was a
man of ability, Of talent. He had an event
ful administration, the history of which in
wisdom and impariai,y it is moi vet the
time to write. Its anxielies and cares wrote
their sad impress on his physical frame
His decease--so soon after the expiration
Of his term Of office-seemed painfully sud
den, and all other feelings merged into an
universal aud un(eIgued regtet There was