Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1861-01-09
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Past and Present.


Andrew jackson, a predecessor of James
Buchanan, as President Of the U. States
and Commsuder.in Chief of the Army and
Navy thereof. in a letter written in May,
1888, to the Rev. A. ] Crawford, soon after
that crisis was over in which the State OF
South Carolina, in Convention assembled
put 10 exercise her claimed right to secede
from the Union. by authorizing and en-
powering her Governor to declare her to be
out of the Union, il the Federal Govern
ment should attempt to use coercion in
carrying out "the supreme law Of the land, "
formed the resolution to have the leading
spirit of the contsmscious State, John O.
Calhoun, arrested for treason. 1t now
seems that ."old Hickory"-that man OF
whom jefferson said. che has more Of the
old Roman in him than any man now liv
ing, /" lived to repent Of having waited for
the threatened collision. In ths life Of An
drew jackson. by Parton. We read these
words:
General Jackson lived and died ir this
opinion. In his lsst sickness he declarsd
that in rejecting upon his Administration
he chiefly regretted thai he had not had
John G. Calhoun executed for treason -
MY country said the General, would
have sustained me in the act. aud his fate
would have been warning to traitors in
ali time to come"
r. In a letter Of his. written in May. 1898.
and recently read in the United States Sen.
ate, he says: ~
81 have had a laborious task here, but
nullific alton is dead. aud its actors aud
courtiers will only be remembered by the
people to be execrated for their wicked de-
signs 10 sever and destroy the only good
government on the globe, and that pros
p.riiy ard happiness we enjoy over every
other por ion Of the world Haman's GAL
lows ought to be the fate of all such ambi-
tious men who would involve the country
in civil war, and all the evils in its train,
that they might reign, and ride in the
vhirlwipds and direct the storm The free
people of the United States have spoken
and consigned those wicked demsgogues
to their proper doom. Take care of your
nullifers, you have among you. Let them
meet the indignant frowns of every man
who loves his country. The Tariff. 1t IL
now well known, tras a mere prefext.
Therefore, the Tariff was only the pretexf.
an 4 Disunion and Southern Confederacy
the real object. The ne=t prstert icih be the
Negro or Slavery Question"
Thus did "old Hickory" under the in
spiration of his cold Roman patriotism
write aud prophecy in 1888. Just ten years
after, in June, 1913. be wrote his will. In
that document are two bequests, worthy of
being now transcribed:
Seventh. / bequeath to my beloved ne
phew, Andrew j. Donslson, son Of Samuel
Dnnelson, deceased, the elegant sword pre-
sented TO me by the State of Tennessee.
with this Injunction: That he fail not to
use it when necessary in support and pro-
lection of our glorious Union, and for the
protection Of the constitutional rights OF
.ur Uelovel country, should they be as
sailed by foreign enemies or domestic frai-
tors. ss .-
Eighth. To my grand nephew, Andrew
Jackson Coffee, bequeath the elegant
sword presented to me by the Rifle Compa-
oy of New Orleans, commanded By Capt.
Beal, as q memento Of my regard, and TO
bring TO his recollection the gallant servi-
ces of his deceased father. General Johu
Coffee, in the late lndian aud British war,
under my command, and his gallant con
duct in defence of New Orleans IN lSl4-I5
with this INJUNCTION: That he wi-ld it 10
the protection of the rights secured TO the
American citizen under our glorious Con
stitution, against all invaders. whether
soreigo foes, or intestine traitors"
Such are the bequests. written by the
same hand that had inscribed the warning
a decade earlier, against wicked dema
gogues," who, intent upon "disunion and
Southern Confederacy," were plotting "tS
involve the country in civil war, aud al
the evils in its train, that they might reign
l-"plotting to destroy the only good gov
erumsnt on the globe" The same hand
let it not be forgotten, wrote that prophecy
which We nov perceive is being fulfilled Il
the very letter. "The next pretext will b
the Negro. or Slavery Question"