The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1864-02-10

dari set up by the Administration jour |
mails trenches upon the domain OF patriot |
ism ; but we are here to night a.lestin. !
our veneration for ANDREW JACKSON by |
concentrating his heroism in the field. |
and his statesmanship-and IN this CRATE
lul tribute we do not do our duty it wei
fail to lift into prominence the fact, that
he hela the preservati n of the American
Union paramount to all other earthly con
sideratluns. He was no novice in states
manship; he was no wild theorist; he was
not unlearned in human nature; but, with
a grasp of mind, larger, bolder and more
tenacious than that with which most men
are endowed, he grappled all question.
pertaining to the science of government
aud placed them in their proper positions
To him, when he occupied the Presden-
tial chair, the Administration OF the affairs
OF government was no snecure hard pro-
blems presented themselves his moneta
ry mersure arrayed against him, in embit-
tered hostility, the capital of the nation;
but the people sustained him. In more
important point than this was he tried and
not found wanting, South Carolina fret
ted herself into an unhappy temper over
what was considered the unjust discrim
ination Of Tariff law, and while in the
temper, she raised the standard Of nulli-
fication Thus the authority of the Fod
eral Government was challenged. How
did JACKSON, that grand, stern old man,
who then was the administrator of the
i9overnment Of the United States, treat
this challenged? He went out to the Reo-
pie of South Carolina in :he form of a
fatneriy address, and III words tempered
With kindness he besousht them not to
qufer themselves to be p:ecipitated
against the Federal Government by sedi
tious men; made them understand that it
was his sworn duty to see that the laws of
the United States were executed; that in
this nAtter lie had no election but that
he would lay before Congress the griev
Iances Of which they complained and ur ,e
upon that body the duty OF so amendin z
the tariff law as to render 1t acceptable to
those upon whom IL operated uni Justly
/ lie dii 80. ue conSelej al extra Session
OF Congress, laid before that boly the
grievances of South Carolina, aud with
1.-THE aid OF Clay aud Web, ,tc- md their pa
itriotio compeers. the law WIS amended,
! South Carolina vas pacIfied, not life
was sacrificed, ann yet uny prize and chLr
aceer oi tus Amer; &>la Oa..aa Sas 40, hu
inflated or diseredited. The spirit OF
:. conciiiatipn au.l COM promise w. tt umph
! ant, and the nation went forward in glo-
irious career. OF greatness and prosperity =
Aud when this great and good inan bado
adieu 10 pa oiic lIie, Ao t1Jk an affection
ate leave Of iths peor!c through Fare
we'll 4 ldress. |; WAS not spirit Of pride
! or egotjSm or vanity that PROMPTED this
for the preservation AMI perpetuation OF
the AAe. itIn Uuiol. lie sAN ,Aat -icc
ticn lism Was gathering force aad s re- GtL
/ under tho abolition banner, he saw th,t
ifthe public mind Of the tree States should
bseome so de5a dctiad as 10 put into pow
er party pledged TO Ia. s1ctluAai,sm
the worst Of calapitiea would ba.dlt tat
} Union, anil hence hs eIrnestly hesor5h
! the American people to crush It ont in its
r. incipient stages. Plainly did he tel
them that this gevernhleut cousd not bt
maintained alrue by tAe c4erc.se o.. Tax
: cocrc;rc ?on or coIi1oI IL it " the Goa
I stitutinn. More thla this was wantins.
The people of allrparts OF the Union mus
! be- made to feel that their interests ar,
: identified Win the petpctuat.on uf III,
Uuion-that liz it they ilI security 10
S their persons ana ser property, test Is
Government should be So admn;stcre,
as to beget love from the governed-tha
in fact, the Governm1It Should 90 "a
4 more THAI an administrators TO eAecdt
G tlleif W Ill. Have no! tho ulen who pro
fame the Mans OF J4ck;on by claimin;
that his life and teachings give sanction
and justification to their intense war-clam
: or aud malignant hate against the Santh
5 studied carefully his action in regard t
a South Carolina aud the address he CAV
to the 1 Aneric7n people a. parting lega
> cy? Jackson possessed soul too larg
mind too comprehensive, sense of JUS
. tice too exalted, ever to have sufero
! himself to have been the passive instru
: neut in the hands OF an atrocioEs section
alism. No! there would have beeu n
D civil war in this goodly land of ours,
Jackson inetead Of Lincoln, had been in
lauyurated on the 4th of March, lS61.---
Let Us suppose that jackson had been el
II ected President by plurality in 1860
d instead Of Lincoln; and suppose tho part
@ that had put him iA nomination had adop
ted platform in which there was plan
obnoxious to the pleasure Of large por
. tion OF the free States; say it was an ab
e straction; say that while it encroache
e upon the spirit of the Constitution OF tn
!. United Statea it did not infract the lette
Of that instrument; say that In Decembe
L following the discomfort i'll the free State
had become formidable: that they bega
to besirt them ,slves with the steel ella
armor Of war; that as these trou ubles loom
ed up, tue conservative men in the Sout
who had given to jackson their supper
es Fastened to the Hermit sc and bcsougt
G, him to issue an address TO the Mother
!, people, assuring that as the President
. the United States he would sanction n
% encroachment, The apprehension Of fwhic
u threatened to throw them into hostilit
to the first auth ority of tho Fee eral Go
"A ernmeat; d. y5a think Jackson woul
. have remained silent
Aud suppose that the Southern peop
had begun to petition Congress by thou
c. ands, imploring that body to pass SOU
=; | ,mandneut IN tha Couktitution Of II