Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-11-11

dreeded. and a. one Of the most success
fI,l. debaters In the turbulent assembly,
he fall IKE Chatham, during an exciting
discur ~, and was borne on friendly
shouldoes 10 the Speakers room, where
ON The third dAy, IN the language 81
Benton = he DID under the done OF 49,
oapitol, h tn presence OF the national
representations his expiring words being,
sfhis = the llet Of sarth." AlNx-Pres-
idsnt = xsll assa menber of House
az Reegaoentntives, and d31n4 under
these Extraordinary circumstances while
Congress was in session, his obsequies
were attended with unusual pomp-1r.
Calhoun, who had been his associate in
the Cabinet of Monroe, and Mr.. Clay and
of his own Cabinet, and Gen. Scott, then
at the head Of the army, helping to bear
up the pail.
jackson resided at the Hermitage eight
years after he left the Presidential chair.
During his stormy administration he re-
vived and rehabilitated the party founded
by Jefferson; and when he died, in June,
1916, he left it in full possession>of every
department Of the Federal government
under the lead of his successful but not
splendid disciple, James K. Polk. In
1844 Gen. jackson favored the renomina-
ton Of Van Buren,; and four years after
ward, Curing the famous campaign of
1848, the elder Blair furnished the Barn
burners Of New York with letter from
the Sage Of the Hermitage, written in
1914, wherein he predicted that the
Democratic party would yet do justice to
Van Buren, by again comforting upon him
the honors of the Presidency. This letter
was one of the keenest weapons which
Tilden, Church, Richmond, Cagger, Gas.
sidy, and their Free Soil associates en-
ployed in their crusade against Gen. Cass,
the regular Democratic nominee for the
Presidency.
After Van Buren, shook the dust of the
White House from his garments, he re-
tired to Lindenwald, where he cultivated
his fields and entertained his friends for
seven years with philosophic serenity
which the tempests Of faction were not
allowed to disturb. IN 184S, yielding to
the solicitations of the Radical Democracy,
he laid down his hoe just long enough to
punish Cass for defeating him in the
Convention of 1874, and then, like Cincin-
natus, returned to his farming. He made
an extended tour through Europe in 1858,
a, and 8; wrote patriotic letter in favor
of the Union in the early stages of the
rebellion; and died on the Gath of July,
1862.
Tyler, after he left the Presidency,
dwelt on the banks of the James. He
dropped quite out of sight till the out
break Of the rebellion, when, in the
winter of 1861, he presided over the
abortive "Peace Convention" of the Bor-
der States, which met at Wizards Hotel,
and was sometimes called "Willard's Con-
gress." Soon afterward he joined the re
bellion, whereupon a commander of a
loyal German regiment made his summer
house on the lower James his headquar-
tiers. Mr.. Tyler died in July, 1862, a
member of the Confederate Congress.
Neither Polk, Pierce, nor Buchanan
took any part in public affairs after they
ceased to be President. Polk died at
Nashville in June, 1S49, only three months
subsequent to the close of his term, at the
comparatively early age of fifty-three.
Pierce made three years tour in Eu-
rope, and uttered few words in favor of
the Union at the commencement of the
war. Buchanan, from his retreat at
Wheatland, published feeble defense Of
his administration.
OF the surviving ex-presidents it is
hardly necessary to speak. Fillmore,
since he left office. has made the Euro
pean tour, received the degree of Doctor
of Laws from Oxford University, and has
just presided over Commercial Conven-
ton at Louisville, where, Judging from his
speech, the only event in American his
tory of which he has any distinct recol-
lection, is his official approval of the Fugi-
tive Slave law. johnson, though de-
feated in his aspirations for the Senate, is
not the kind of man to lapse into obscu-
rity, even if he should live to the age of
the antediluvians.