The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1853-09-08
NO. XXI.
AEpREw JAcKsoN.-Lippard, the author, was
one OF the committee who waited upon Gen. Jackson
while President against the removal Of
government funds from the United State Bank.

government funds from the United State Bank.
he gentleman thus describes the AFFAIR."
HE Vas a man? Well do remember the day
waited. He sat there in his chair-I can see
the old warrior-ace, with It's snow white hair even
now. We told him Of the public disiress-,he man.
usactures ruined, the eagle shrouded in crepe, which
was worn at the head Of twenty thousand men in In
dependence Square He heard all. We begged
hlin to leave the deposits where they were; up
hold the Great Bank in Philadelphia. S,i!i he did
not say word.
Al last of our number more irery than the rect
'ntina,ed tha, if the Bank crushed, rebellion
might follow. Then the old rose--I can see
him yet.
Come, he shouted in voice Of thunder, as his
cenchef fsht hand raised above his white hairs,
Tome, with bayonets in your hands Instead c. peti
tions-surround the White House with your legIons;
am ready br you all. By the Eternal, with the
people at my back, whom your gold can neither buy
nor awe, III swing YOU up around the Capitol, esch
feoel OF YOU, on gitbe, high as Haman's.
When think, says the author, 0l that
standing there at Warrington, batting with Rll the
powers of Bank and panic combined, betrayed by
those III whom he bad Trusted led by all that the
snake OF malice cond hiss, or the fend oi false hood
howt-when think that man, placing his hack
against the rock and folding his for the blow,
while he uttered bis awful VOW
BY the Eternal will no, swerve an inch from
the course have chosen'
| l must confess that the records Of Greece and
Rome--nay, the proudest days of Cromwell and Ma
poieoi-cdilnOt H-inlsn al INSTANCE C VII. IKE that
.! Andrew jackson. when ne placed life. sonl and
fame, on the hazard OF die Zoe the peoples welfare.
WOMAN AND FLowERs.--Thc editor Of the Lou
svie Journal has very readable article under this
head, from which we cut .he closing paragraph. I,
i Of the poetry Of natural ana rehaed senti-
nents:
BLESSINGS the heads Of those " 10 send fowery
presents to those whose energies have been oesoia,sd
by disease! tloWeis linpart not only fragrance aud
beauty TO ones SICK room, but they absolutely light
up the gloom that hangs around it like dark curtain
and cause cheeTIuness To take the place OF hea,iuess
and oppression Of heart. Often has soul ftt sx-
ceednsly grateful to those dear women who have
considered our low estate and sent flowers fresh rs.
2 ant aud beautiful, 10 cheer invs sldisn. Could
we sue~ their pathway through life with flowers,
how eagerly would our hand perform the task. Had
Towers no other oince than TO minister to the pleas
of the sick, that Of itself would be sulcien, rea-
son why they should be cultivated. Bu; when We
remember that ,hsy only an ever PHEASANT joy
TO The eye bnt are also tue and genIa teachers Of
moral truth and excellence, well tender prompt
ers 10 the hShes tanf most refined sentiments We
can perceive Of how great importance il il that the
hand ana heart oi woman power is in her oyelness
and she ought 70 do everything in her cover 20 en-
courage it. Her loseliness has broken the bondago
/ III which many sillui bound, through ma
ny wear Let her increase her power by adding to
her ovehness, and this she viii not fail to do II she
gives hex heart up TO love o The beautiful poetry of
-eafth.''
/ Some one, we know not who, very shrewily ie0nes
money to be admirably adapted for taking stains out
oi character.
I The Kafirs at the Cape Of Gooi Hope are much
pleased with Cohs revo!ve,s. They call them God.
pistols"
ltls said thai Of the five hundred and forty yourx
adies who iaiaied last yea', than one hail fell
/ INTO the AIMS o gentlemen. Oal. two had the
fortune to Iai On the nor, and 0f the hall who ,eii
IN The gcn'emsn's aims, suange 1t MAY seem, not
one received The slightest ini,l,ture - SanGusky
Register.
( NATioNALIrv.--Amougt the most de, lorahic pr,i-
udices IN cNistence, and wh,h ;end prevent wha,
the French call The ''soliGal,v oi The Jeore s'--tte
binding oi the family Of in the link If counon
b.o'hti hood, is The rrejrdce termed national Here
are fifteen or twen, millions of hating another
fifteen OF twenty millions Of men and womco, for no
other cause than the chance occurrence Il II ferance
OF birthplace! Oi ali prsiutice. this Ell ely is The
most absurd, TOR II refuses CONSIDER mans claims
10 respect and hIndncs, the grounds Of he ,r-
es ard good GtrosltIon which he ma. posses,
but bhndiy condemns him for ar occurrence over
which be could possibly have con,Toi--for being
born III part al the would rather than another--
nrd the shoIi->'5hitd recipient OF tins pseu-
dice, actually claims credit himself ibat he was
born IN The llght lace! h We Infs me-
chano's shop some day, and hnd him wh,I ping one
Il his apprentices, Lecausc he was bad bly, but
because he Dutch boy We should feel lustly
dignan;. Does not every act equally wrong ard
FOOLISH who dIsregsTds tba, ty. and violates ustce
because va. born spot that NO choice Of
his selected!
What constitutes nationality? If an American
ianly Is travelling III Italy, and child is born on the
Jomney Is that child foreigner an Iialianl II an
Austrian atisoctat Was spying through land.
and has family should be ieased, would that pre-
9ent the .ouns stranger from being arsiocrat and
make hin fee republican American! We oncc
~u' sscd odd instance o. deciding upon the nation.
ally oi an ndlyidualthe patty in question certainly
made havoc with the Engl,-h language, on which ac-
count some enlightened indv Gias "a II, cursed him
for Du,chnan. The itsu.,ed ,;a,, indignantly re.
PEELED the cha ge ard aSservated solemni, that
he was rs uuiy an American as Bny one present! We
afterwards advised h,m, On any similar occasion
TO violate the uuh but az. openly; TO our ssonish-
ment he reiterated The assertion, aud in answer %
ncredu'ous request for exr ana,ien be answered
81 Was no DeutC huan foi mine Guiter was init uie
I ven Was torn der sea,
! The mere fact OF birth a se;i gives no nation.
atty ~ the Of true aud wiling citizenshiu
Nonid an educated man, who had been born in Ger
aoy bat reared in the spirit ,. Amer lean ep utcan-
i'm, II taken ba, to Austria, be an Austrian! TIE
tie OF country VIII always have its influence &c ias
the te Of human Iaren'age. but gives 10 the
wife he has choso0 deI tn and strength of affection
which he could never bestoy aEou Tue parents hom
he had not chOson. Ia The manner na,ural1et
citizen. who has rencunced all other governments,
and honestly 'alty this, viii love the FIRE
AMI g.o ous country Of hs adopts with devotion
as high above he blind, Instructive feelings Of Rus-
sian serf, heaven is above earth. No one is mere
truly i,abued N,th the spirit Of American nationality
than he who has forsaken the land Of his birth his
soul olng The despotism that igned there
TO adopt voluntarily as his own, country whose in.
siinlioLs be aduires hose glory he cberishes, and
whose People ne loves. No aeci0ent of BIRTH could
make ,ha: forsigner.-I Gin. Sun.
Why is watchdog larger at night than be il
in the morning!
Because he is le, on. a, nigh. and taken in 10
the morning
JUsr So.---A real live Yankee, jus, caught will
no, be found deficient in the following qualities:
He is selfdenying self-relyins, always trying.
ard into everything pryng.
He is lover Of piesy. propriety. uosoriety and
the temperance society.
He i. dragging. Dragging. sagsng. striving,
thriving. swoppng, jus'Ilng. busting. wrestling,
musical. qoizzIcai. astronomical. Philosophical.
and con,cal son Of character, whose manifest
destiny is to spread civilization to the re,aptsss
cornors of the earth with an eve slwyss on the