Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-01-04


Andrew Jackson, predecessor of James Blu .
chanan, as President OF the United States and
COMMUNICATIVE the Army and Navy there
OF, in letter written in May, 1888, to the Rev.
A. j. Crawford, soon after that crisis was over
in which the State of South Carolina, in Conyen-
tion assembled, put in exercise her claimed
right to secede from the Union, by authorizing
and empowering her Governor to declare her 10
be out Of the Union, if the Federal Government
| should attempt TO use coercion" in carving
out "ihe supreme law Of the land" formed the
resolution to have the Leading spirit of the con.
tumacious State, John c. Calhoun, arrested for
treason. 1t now seems that "old Hickory"-
that man of whom Jefferson said, she has r1ore
.of the old Roman in him than any man now
living" lived to repent of having waited for the
threatened collision. In the Life of Andrew
jackson, by Parton, we read these words -
'Gsueial Jackson lived and died in this opinion. In
his last sickness he declared that In reaeeg upon bs
Administration he chiefly regretted that he had noi had
John q, Calhoun executed for treason any country1
SAID me General, would have sustained me in the act
| time to Gomez So
In letter of his, written in May, 1888, and
recently read read in the United States Senate
he says
81 have had laborous task here but notification is
dead and Its actors and cOuTtiers will only lie reme
Dered by tue people to 10 exeerated for their wicked
signs to sever and destroy the only good on
the Bl0be anu that property and happiness We enov
over every other portion of the world. AAmans ga6ws
ought to be the fate OF all such ambitious mon who would
involve the country IN civil war and all the evils in its
tram inst thty might reign aud ride In the whwiGds
and direct the storm The free people OF the United
States have spoken and ronst ned those wicked dems
gogues to Their proper doom Take your nnlers
you have them among YOU Let them meet tha indgnan
iIowns of every man who loves Ills country The fsri
II Is now we'll known ipls prrferi. y Thpre
FORE the tariff was only the prs5t and Disunon aud
southern CenieierAey Me real object Tai pRRrsxr
WILL nR THE NEGRO OK SLAVERY QUESTION"
H.,
ton of his "old Roman" patriotism, write and
prophecy in 1888. Just ten years after in
June, 1913, he wrote his last will Iu that
document are two requests, worthy of being now
transcribed -
"seventh, bequeah to my beloved nephew. Am REw
j. DosELsoN, OfSAMGEL DoSEsoN, decessed eeprnnt
sword presented to by the State Of Tsnuessss 9TH
ms injunction That lie fail not to 1t hen ngces-
sary support and protection Of or glorious Ti ami
r he protection Of The donsfuiiondl rights Of Oh BE-
lpyd COUNTRY should they be aaaici by i5rega enemies
Eighth To my srand-nephOw, ANDREW JACKSON COP.
fss beqneath the elegant sword presented to by the
Ride Company of New oreansi commanded by Captain
Bea as memento OF my regard and to bring to his re
collection the gallant services q his deceased flihs
General jobs Coffee In tho late Indian and british war
under my eommAnd, and bis gallant conduct III defence
Of New Orleans in Is4-l5 10Th this injunction THAT
he wed IN the protection Of the rights secured to the
American cizeu under glorious Constitution gaips
all invaders whether foreign foes INTESTINE TRAITORS
Such are the requests, written by the same
hand that had inscribed the warning decade
earlier, against wicked demagogues," who,
intent upon "disunion and n Southern Confeder
Acy." were plotting "to involve the country in a
civil war, and oil the evils in its train, that thew
might reign"-"plotting to destroy the only good
government on the globe" The same hand, lot
it not be forgotten, wrote that prophecy which
we now perceive is being fulfilled to the very
letter 1.-THE next pretext will be the Negro, or
Slavery Question"
Contrast the past with tho present What
forecast did Andrew Jackson possess Born
and bred in the South, how we'll had he learned
the character of the elements growing up into
rank misrule, under the guidance of sophistcal
and ambitious leaders Yet he did not contem.
plate, perhaps, that the time would ever come
when an Administration and large portion Of
the whole people would virtually deny that there
is any sngacity in sustaining government ac
cording to the supreme law, and should tamely
submit 20 see the property and power of the
government lawlessly wrastsd from the peoplsl