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Jackson and d'4A Amos nj 5 Kendall,

Scribe and amanuensis, to write
tie broadside eaitorialsof the Globe
under his dictation and instruction,
but notwith his diction. lie was
better thinker than his, scribe, his
scribe q better writer than be. lie
would lie-dewa and smoke and die
tate hisiaeas as vel as he eouldex-
press them, and Amos Kendall
wouha.wriseua~ paragraph andaaread
it. That was not the thing many
times the scribe would write and
rewrite again and again, md fail
to "feteh a compass of the
meaning. AT last by alteration and
correction, correction getting nearer and near
er to il, he would see it, and -behim-
self astonished at its mastery pow
er..,c er.c General jackson needed such
an Observation-Disclosures learned
and industrious as Mr.. Kendall was
He could9think, ,abutconld not write
he knew what nerve, to touch,
but he was NO surgeon skilled in
ths.instrument Of dissection.-Ken=
dali was. But how came eAmes
Kendall there, in G eneraf jackson IS
sanctum, where his saints picture
hung? - She had been most ma
igned Iby Amos Kendall, the edl-
t6rof Clay's' leading journal in Ken
tdcky,, during the canvass. i Ken
dali bad; called her i"Aunt Rachel
with the corn cob pipe y and had
exaggerated Robard's 9 wrongs and
Raehel's failings in every term Of
reproaoh and .Eidicule. There was
the, chief enemy who had maligned
her there' tufg the picture OF the
picture of the wounded saint, and
thereswas the lpasbands3vepger $who
volunteered a VOW at her grave
Thu @as mighty asfrange!D otso,
haweser,-.to- those Mho. knew Gen.
.Jacksop we'll. No man was cooler
il lis calculations than he was. =
Nsswodld solnetimes seem to'fght
most rashly, but no one ever knew
him to fight at all u,fesst thereEwas
q stake up worth fighting for: -
Kendall had been a.poor Yankee
sskoolmaster, and was q rrotege of
al Mr. rgClay. LIE had been but a
larehDg, and was but pen for the
political malice of Mr.. !Clay's party.
What had he President Jackson)
to gain by fighting the pen, the
rn9resana nnebsis, when bis aim to
stay the pfoihpter of'atfhfs wrongs?
Kendall, for cause, left the, fallen
house of Clay and fed to the rock
of powersand strength. lie knew
much, could fsveal much, could de.
liver up all the enemy's armory.-
lFawas indefAigable, an nsesupuleus,
ahd able He was the very wea-
apa iii apngn acio US patron to use,
and could surest strike the arch
enemy-he had been the arch enc.
my's Own.
GenemtJacksonth thencould throw
away prejudice, passion, vengeance
itself, and vows, and -coolly take
Amos to that chamber, in, presence
of that picture, though he had ap.
piled the ''scavenger daughter" Of
VaEture Sto s.Aunt Rachel Prs Amos
Kendall was his man, and he could
land did usehhim with tremendous
effect to destroy his first atron, Mr..
Clay. : &--C g 4. j
Such was General Jackson, the
linau With whom Mr.. Tyler and his
:" "compeers lad to deal at Tie begin.
ming of Mr.. Tyler's career in thu
Senate ofTthe United States / Nc
-tsvo omend were ever more unlike
than Mr.. Tyler and General Jack.
son. They were bred in totally
different scenes and schools in life
% IT7;athe one q, child of gentle people
and brought. up in ease; the other
apoor boy of humble Irish extrac
tion, orphaned and exiled by wal
!, and poverty to build his own for
tunes in the western wilds of Ten
nesse; the one taught and trained
blythe best Of teachers and books,
ifheoI other q He:cules Of action
without learning, except that which
was self.taught; the one winning
the stakes ,oiolIeI by gentleness .a1l
graee,e theo other taking them by
InaiH force aud commanding sue
cess by seizingthe prize he sought
the one q civilian and orator, the
other warrior always in the camp
of life, a 1sadgr ofmep, and in eve
ry sense tremendous actor. Mr.
Tyler had,touched him sorely in tht
Sendef point of Afbathn OF and Am
blister, and he remembered villa
he deemed an unkindaess, and he
showed no good opinion of, or ia
nitoE. to, any one who had eensnred
sahis cqurseI aia that affair. Feeling
that Mr.. Calhoun had eensurea him
sinyshe cabinet of, Mr. Moaroe, he
separated from him. though they
wereaeleeted onnth he same ticket;in
h1S28,a Thus, ME,jjCalhouns friends.
among whom was Mr.. Tyler, were
soon made to stand aloof frcnl
General Jackson; though I'm the
wGas .askop The Naysvile Road
bill, the States rights party still
maintained some of the leading
measures of the administration.
.GITakEl OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES