Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-06-21

tary, whom President, simply a. the easiest
way Of getting rid Of . troublesome family ap-
pendags-a wifs's relation, that hung around
his neck, giving him all sorts Of annoyanees
on every possible occasion wherein q consti.
tutionally Ssaiapropos man might vex ono Of
his (Jackson's) clear head, honest heart, and
Straightforward character. An auecdots of
the twain, still current in Washington, 90 for
chilly illustrates the character Of both, that
wo cannot refrain from repeating il bore
jackson had commendsble horror of ap.
pointing any one to Office who claimed place
on tho ground of connection with Ills family,
and DonelsOn had troop of cousins to remote
degrees, who were hungry for place. Jackson
remarking that D. was especially careful of a
particular bundle of papers, one day casually
enquired to what they referred "They are
the recommendations to Office Of members of
our family" was the reply. "Then burn
them, burn them, burn them!" was the imme.
diate answer Of the so emphatic old man.
Donelson to the contrary, not one of them got
| Office under Jackson.
As sort of tribute to Jackson's former
position in public affairs on the Democratic
side, Mr.. Polk gave Mr.. Donelson an unim-
portant mission abroad, the first public trust
committed to his hands, wherein he earned
the reputation Of being as veritable twadler
as ever was fooiishly called into the public
service. He had literally nothing to do in
the discharge of his duties abroad, and he did
it, up to the handle''
He returned to Tennessee at the end of his
bootless mission, and there remained o DO.
ljticsl nonen;ity, until Mr.. Richie, feeling
the hani of time laid on him too heavily to
permit him to continue longer at the head of
the organ of the Democratic party, patriot,
cally determined to give up his position here;
when, to solve the difficulty existing in sup
plying his place with successor not up to bis
eyes in the sectional and clique inter-party
Democratic squabbles, he beihought him of
Mr Donelson, because he had been the e!eps
of jackson, and had been VIGOROUSLY so long
out Of politics as to render it probable that he
was not afflicted with the inter party likes
and dislikcs, which Mr.. Richie very Justly
conceived likely to unfit the editor of the
metropolitan Democratic organ for doing
equal and exact justice to all sections of {" the
harmonious" So Mr.. Richie sold the Union
to him in connection with a man of back
bone. the late General Armstrong, who en- L.
joyed Jackson's love. for his own manly quail.
lies Of hoart and head, not having been merely
tolerated by the old hero because Of his con.
nection with the family of his revered wife,
Donelson took charge of the Union only at
olcs to demonstrate his utter and entire in.
competency for the discharge Of duties that
require forsthOught, we'll balanced political
principle, and ordinary sagacity. To say that
lis short editorial career was a Iamentable
failure, will hardly express the truth; as it
took him bat very few nentas to satisfy the
Democratic party in Congress that he was in
taliec:ually as weak and trilng as child of
twelve years OF age, and had no more fixed
principles than are possessed by Lewis c.
Levin, whiiom o faro dealer, afterwards a
s,rolling temperance lecturer, subsequently, a
member of Congress through the monentary
mistake of an ignorant and ovsr-excited con-
stitueacy, (of which they have not done 70
pentiug to this day. and always blather.
skiting, windy demagoguo, In company with
whom, ne Uonelson) seems to be stump ping in
behalf of the only political cause Of which he
is really fitting representative
Such, reader, is Andrew Jackson Donelson.
the man who boasts in his speech of his rela.
tioDship to jackson without having in his
veins one drop Of the family blood that
coutsed in the old hero'g tho man who was
for many years the worry worm of Jackson
life; the man who, In few months, man aged
10 write himself, through the columns of the
Union, into the reputation of being the silliest
nincompoop that ever ran the risk of proving
himself an asa, by assuming ths discharge Of
duties for which he was fitted neither by ma
ture, education, nor experience. de left
Washington in shocking bad odor with the
whole Democratic party in Congress and the
Administration, and has boon growing ia
Tennessee from that tine to this, suffering
under q very affecting (political) sors-head,
made up Of mortified vanity, tbs failure to
obtain for young son in-law Of his a full
mission, and disappointed hopes of making
fortune as the conductor Of the Democratic
party organ. His Know Nothingism is
simply the result Of the fact that his former
political friends, on weighing him in the
balance and finding him wanting in every
attribute to fit him for the proper discharge
of the duties he. undertook to perform,
took them from his hands, with an universal
shout of derision ~ the bold imposturs in
volyed in the act Of one of his want of intel.
lectual vigor and political backbone. In ven.
turing to undertake the conduct of the nation al
organ Of the Democratic party
The Imposture take it for granted
that our respected contemporary, the Journal
Of Commerce, and other journals that gener.
ally look to the well.being of society and obe-
dience To the laws 10 what thev mint m ncapn