Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-04-08
9 GFN ANDREW JACKSON,
Born March Is, 1867,
Died June s, l,45.

IAiss.mple cpilaph, II viii be recoocted, was
al hi' oHn direction lie permitted nothing
! more. There is on coquence IN these few words
tina, moves and iustructs one more than the most
hat5eriug and elaborate epltaph could have done
! He whose history every ody knows does sot need
J to have that history scorded on ms tomb. IL
DIES and eptapha are Tor those who reach but
half way up the ladder Those that roach the
top have no further need Of suef assistance.
Upouihe other slab were inscribed these vords,
I Tor copy Of which confess my Indebtedness
to my accomplished fellow pilgrim, Mrs p.
" Here lies the remains Of Mrs Rachel Jack
son, wife OF President jackson, who died the
22d Of December lS2S, aged CT.
p" Her lace was lar, her person pleasing her
temper autabe and her heart kind she de-
lighted IN relieving the wants Of her fellow
creatures, and cultivated that divine pleasure by
the most liberal and unpretendiug methods. To
the poor she was u beneiactJr. to the rich an
example to the wretched " comforter, to the
prosperous an ornament. Her piety went hand
IN hand with her beHeyOlence, and she thanked
| her Creator for being permitted to DO good 4
being SO gentle, and yet 50 yruous, SANDER
might wound but could not dishonor Even
Death, when he tore her from the arms of her
husband, could but transport her to the bosom
Of her God. :"
This epitaph was composed by Major Henry
Lee Of Virginia, now deceased,
Close by the mausoieum stoud miniature
monument, with this inscription
''In memory Of r. 6. W, Earle, artist. friend
and companion Of General Andrew jackson,
who died at the Hermitage the 10Th September
/ 1887
have just bethought me Of the fact that not
one Of the great gone reposees under what may
/ be called a costly monument. They are gene
rally cheap aud going to decay, as this one of
/ JacSson's IS Republics are iorgetiul 4 suit
able ana becoming monument al rich taste and
good sculpture, should designate tie spots
where the bones Of our grvat Ge40 lcpuse. Us
q shame that the graves d, Washington. and
Franklin, and Andrew jackson are not 50 desig-
mated
And 50 stood by the tomb Of Old Hickory.
while the land for which he fought was shaking
with the Stupend0us commotl1n OF civil war.
while the hereSy which he hated was mad with
the desire and IN arms with the determination
to tumble into ruin this machess handiwork
OF government, while the Uuiou that he loved
SO hereby was trembling IN tue balance OF par
ricldal war
Surely 1t will not be considered possible for
me to narate the thoughts, prayers, and tur-
bulent emotions that possessed me ON that sacred
splendid spot. bent over the old stone slab -
Was 1t only high.heated Imagination that made
Inc hear, away down under these, the frenzied
whiSper-choked, bmothcred, trotling to yet
out, through the light teath--The Union must
and shall Be prcspc,d
They passed here only month since-rHEy
the armed host with strange flag doing honor
to ms ashes ! South Carolina that h. crushed
anu tennessee that he dotted on. bent in frater-
nAl embrace over his grave, and the stars and
bars, and death $ head, and Pelican, and Pal
matto o,er them all
Good God And is there. then, 10 wide n
guilt between the living and the dead Is there,
then, a law SO inexorable that jackson should
not have witnessed, and Witnessing, SHOULD not