The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-01-14
HE UNION: WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING JANUARY a. 1853


Andrew Jackson did bsqusah TO that man the sword OF
New Orleans, az solemn and final moral OF his life
long con hdenee and friendship. give you. therefore
| General Robert Armstrong The who according @
the statement OF Jackson turned the fate OF the battle and
saved his army at Enotochopeo.
This toast was drunk with much enthusiasm and three
hearty and deaening cheers were given.
! Gen. ARMSTRONG rose in reply, and said:
| Mr. President and gentlemen, beg leave 10 return
my most grateful acknowledgements TO the Distinguish
ed orator OF the day for the sentiment which he has
Just done me the honor TO propose ana also most sn
cerey TO thank the company around me Tor The Kindness
with which il has been received.
need hardly say sir. that make no CLAIM 10 have
done anything deserving OF the high honor OF the renal
which my eloquent friend has attributed TO General
Jackson in relation 70 my conduct while bearing arms
under his command II General Jackson ever said any
thing of the kind concerning IL must be aiken only
signal instance OF the unbounded generosity with
which his noble heart, iogefu OF his llustrlous
deeds. always wont 10 bear the most willing witness
TO all that honestly and faithfully attempted by
others who CHANGED in any way 10 be associated win him
| in counsel or in arms
But upon this occasion. consecraed TO the honor Of his
great name. should do the deepest injustice 10 my ee
ngs if did not publicly acknowledge, far the proud
est recollection OF my life, the degree oil personal friend
ship and confidence which duriag his mighty he
bestowed upon me- and which the approach Of his last
hours did not seem TO weaken
Mr.. President, il is we'll known that when General
Jackson left the Hermitage 10 the duties of the
presidency he had Just been called TO submit, the
death ot his beloved wife. 10 mos. af cling dispense
ton OF Divine Proyidence. well remember his proslra-
ton and distress under the bereavement well remem.
Der how, the very night before he lett the Hermitage.
he aided with his hands to place upon the tomb OF
her he had loved and ost the monument which told
OF her virtues and can never forget the tones in which,
when that pious work done, he said 10 his friends
around him, "AND NOW co TO GIVE MYsKty 70 MY
COUNTRY" E### #e' at#
Mr. President, I will not this time trust myself 10
refer any but the general terms 10 that ndescri
baby painful event which has just saddened the whole
country in carrying desolaon into the home and heart
of him whom the people Of the United States have al
bv acclamaOn chosen fill the Stallion
filled by the Hero OF the Hermitage The solemn and
final seal OF similarity IN mourning and bereavement has
two and characters which in different crcum-
had already exhibited many parallel points OF CON-
mon merit, interest, and hope.
give you, sir
sration OF General Fierce Both in their commencement
destined to the christening Of private calamity and sor
lie benehcence and honor /!
The Washington Union An abls champion OF demo-
nsn.y WORTHY 10 be- inused as he was. with the sword Of
Andrew Jack son as precious legacy,
VIM M. OvEaToH, esq.,, behalf OF the Washington
Union, responded to this He said For those con-
nec,ed with the editorial management OF the Union.
thank you, gentlemen, sincerely for the kind man
ner in which you have received the complimentary
iment just announced. At all times, and under all cir
susaGss, the labor, care and responsibility weighing
on daily journal are heavy burdens; but, without in
curing charge Of, Of ndelicaey may say that in the
OF more than ordinary difficulty Ii that task has
been performed the appreciation OF the dem
cratic party. the remembrance Of past difficulties and OF
past tolls must be OF qualification and OF pleas
ure E
We had every stimulus TO exerlion. By unhappy
divisions in ranks by artfce, and by a comb
nation OF lortutous circumstances the wing party
succeeded four years ago, in obtaining the control OF
the executive branch Of the government. The people
sion soon dispelled but yet the emphatic condem
nation which overlook the whg dynasty did not restore
union and concert OF action to the democracy II was
H., ~ EraaEt in h.nrea ~.
affirm of the democratic creed of lslS. with the adj
dons which four years OF peril made necessary, that
clear light seen breaking through the gloom Then,
for the fret time, the dangers Of the past and the difficulties
that behind added beauty 10 the prospect which
lay before IL il the after long period of
darkness, bad al length forth in his majesty, gd
ing the vapors with ms beams and gathering his chefes
glory from the envious clouds that would obscure him
We stimplaed by the bright prospects OF
the future than by the remembrance OF the gloomy val
lev we had passed through The reunion Of the sound
democratic elements which had been sundered for
became possibethe rescue OF the executive branch
OF the government from The enemy became possible.
Another impulse progress another step toward the per-
fecon OF domestic and foreign policy, became pos
sibe.
How the Washington Union discharged The duties of
its position amidst the difficulties which recently encom
passed the democrats party it Is not for TO say. BIT
can give assurance that 1t was animated by earnest
desire TO DO all could DO, TO maintain that glorious
which every true democrat ia proud TO advance-which
no true democrat will wound by unnatural blow
Deeply impressed with the glorious achievements of the
past, and mindful OF the inesmable benefits which
federal Union has showeIed upon never forgot that
the sancy of the State governments was the only found
alton which that Union could rest aud be sustained
and ii labored zeaously. il ably TO restore raternal
feelings TO those who had been aenated from each other
that the confederacy should not be consolidation OF
hostile States coerced by the bayonet and held together
by the strong OF central authority, but league OF
friendly united by common hopes aud CON-
mon fears, by a common language and a common re- |
lgion by the remembrance OF a common ancestry, and
the proud memories OF glorious past.
Gentlemen, when Andrew Jackson, whose memory we |
hi- day honor, and with whose person many OF
you yet of middle age, familiar, frs, took up
defence OF his county, there were but three millions OF
inhabitants scattered along the Atlantic sea- board But
der the operation of our benign nsuIioDs three millions
oil colonss have grown into mighty nation inhabtiDg
the iairest land which the shines in his course
Stretching IRON The Saint Lawrence TO the Gulf sf Mex
ico the of population has rolled westward with
steady and majestic movement, posating The forest in
its course and leaving in it's track fertile fields and thru
wing villages and busy Cities and above and beyond all
has the mighty advanced-it has su amounted he
A leg banes-it has passed over the Mississippi valley
the Rocky mountains failed 10 arrest its advances for,
pouring through every pass has rolled on even to the
shores of the Pacific, and there founded mighty /
empire, looking toward the setting sun, and preparing
to grasp from the furthes West long soug CON-
msrce of the iur,hest East This rapid and extraor.
binary development is the result of the democratic poll
cy. The which our adversariea have placed L
upon the ebook have been speedily erased. and Of
repudaied by their authors The acquisition OF Louis
lana, Of Florida, of Texas OF California was the work
OF the democratic party. The tyranny OF the money
power has been desroyedmon opoes, class LEGISLATION,
special privileges and the cunning conrivances b,
wi check