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CHI stauparo,
117EIGH. SATURDAY, NOV. IL. 1858.
THEN AND NOW.


durnr his Administration. Col. Benton said:
{. Rnt another and harder trial was still to be
encountered Gen. Jackson was reelected; and
summation of politicians aided by the Bank OF the
limited States and by nearly thousand subordinate
banks and by vast body of merchants tor Wnonl
he had procured rich indemnities) confederated TO
make good their propheciesto scourge the country,
and to charge the distress which themselves created
upon the President whom the people PreIerTeu ana
thus accomplish in the second term OF ms auilnhs-
tration what had failed in the first The panic OF
1S33-'34 and the execrable sentence OF condemna-
tion which the bank demanded, which the Senate
pronounced and which the people expunged, was
the fruit of that confederacy Then, indeed we had
war. in which many stout hearts quailed, in which
MANY timid friends fell off, and in which many weak
counses were offered The whole earth seemed to be
in commoton against one man. Revoiu tIon was pro-
claimed. The Senate chamber resounded Win oe-
nunciation; the bank columns marched IN succession
upon the Capitol distress meetings were universally
held; distress memorials poured In daily the puOnc
press groaned all business was broken up; terror
and calamity were spread in every quarter; ana all
was charged upon the wickedness OF the man whom
tbe foIv of the people had elected President. He
Nr b. had near and clear view OF all that Ireneh-
dous scene; and witnessed the CAIN courage, the
composed reliance the perfect confidence OF the pa
triot cbief-the hero President-in all that dreadful
conmotion Often at a late hour of the night, when
the battle of the day was over, (ony to be renewed
with fury the next mornlng) he had VISITED the
presidential mansion and found its former thronged
halls deserted, the
in his chamber and never beheld a more impressive
or instructive spectacle While friends and foes be-
Geved all was lost, and that his administration was
completely overthrown, he himself had no such fear.
He trusted in God and his country! He relied upon
Providence and the people! He confided in the Pow
or above which protects and in the intelligence which
sustains! He never fatered for an instant-neVer
accented counsel from the timid or treacherous-
never dreamed of captuating to the bank or its con-
federates His confidence complete, perfect, I'M
waverng that the American people could and would
sustain him and sustain him they did The eXpung
ing resolution and the election of to car
nv out his policy was the response of the people to
the confidence he had reposed in them.
Thus the second great trial was over; and the peo
ple were second time found equal to their high
cation and capable of sustaining the form of govern
ment which their ancestors had founded The ter
mination of the second term of General Jacksons adj
ADMINISTRATION was still glorious than the first
and still higher proof of the capacity of the people
to govern themselves 1t terminated in peace and
prosperity; with the respect of all nations, with
universally improved condition of the country; the
public debt entirely paid half our imports free from
taxes the currency ofthe Constitution restored and
indemnities in gold brought home to the merchants
from France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark Naples, for
spoiations committed on their commerce forty years
before and in the time of his early predecessor The
hero President retired from his station, great in
peace as in war; and ustifying by the events of his
administration, the choice of the people"
The &c hero President did outride the storm, and
conduct the ship of State into secure haven, with
the sunshine of hope and prosperity playing upon
the stars and stripes flying from the masthead. He
went before and blazed the way for those who were
to come after him &; his genius always dan
gers increased-hcsitaton, doubt, despair had no
place in his counsels-no Judgment in his heart He
qcas man! GLORIOUS old jackson la man to whom
the masses rallied and chung as to the very embodi-
ment of confidence and power-a man who, if not
fautess was never faithless to his pledges to the
people, or to the Constitution and liberties which
he had bled and suffered to establish man who,
he said in his farewell address, thanked God that
He had given him heart to love his country with
the affection of son"-and man who walked right
on, in the performance of his duties faction
the treachery of pretended friends dema-
gogues and traitors to the party, and over all comb
nations of whatsoever character with will like iron
and purpose unalterabe as the DEGREES of fate.
The present besetments and difficulties of the ma
tional Administration bear comparison with those
OF JacksOns day. Disappointed aspirants, misera-
lGie placehunters, and bad men may, however, con-
tribute increase these difficulties but they can
neither move Gen. Pierce from the policy he has a
doPted nor detach from him the masses of the Dem
ocratic party They are just where they were. They
are the same men on whom the arm of jackson
leaned for support, and who are looking now, as
aforetime not to see whether the President will fall
but to cooperate with him where cooperation is
neededtO cheer him by the interest they take in his
Administration, and by their unbought voices, in the
great work of retrenchment REFORM and of allaying
sectional agitation which has been committed to his
hands. Gen. Pierce stands pledged to scourge Abo-
h1onism out of public place-to discountenance
Freesoism and faction, and to unite, as far as he
may, the Democratic party as the GREAT UNION PAR
TY OF THE COUNTRY and these pledges will be faith
fully redeemed They hare been, thus far; and no
Southern Wing who has due regard for truth in pol
ltlcs will assert the contrary.
The WHITE SLAVES OF ENGLAND" by John G.
Golden, is the title of work which has been polite
~ placed in our hands by the Rev. Mr.. Adams of
OF the Methodist Church, Agent for this and other
BOOKS and among them Goodrichs History of all
Nations. This work by Mr.. Golden presents upon
The authority of documents either official in their
nature or which no one can dispute, most graphic
and narrowing picture of the degradation and suffer
ing of the aboring classes of Great Brtainof Great
britain, whose people Of the better class, as they
are termed sadly afflicted in their conscences on
account of the alleged evils of African slavery! We
nave heretofore read many of the details presented
Ill THIS work. but they here given more at length
accompanied by explanations and comments; and
N saying that there is suffering more depriva-
uon' more woe in one year year among the white
iaoorng classes of England than has been experien-