The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-01-14
CANTON, OHIO, JANUARY IA, lS1b

4tn OF MHrcn next Inc American peO- |
pie will understand what they want an
increase of the standing army for. We
will teach the that the only army we |
want in this country are part OF the |
same people many thousands OF whom
are now assembled here. We have had |
taste OF standing armies, 1t has proved |
to be bitter upon our tongues, and will |
see IN the future whether the Am rlcan |
people will trust their liberties to stand !
ing armies, who can crush out III one
night sovereign State OF this Union.
There it is, draped in black. a State
has disappeared. Louisiana as soyer-
eign State Of this Union has no existence.
This night Il part OF the standing army
paid by your taxes has crushed 1t out OF
existence Let these things 90 unre-
buked and in Il very little time from this
you will hear that there was some defect
in the returns of the election Of October
to the new House of Congress at Wash
ingtOn. | have mentioned the little con-
lrast of Jackson's conduct at New Or
leans with the conduct of the butchers
that are down there now. We have no
occasion to fear, however, if the Ameri-
can PEOPLE can be made to realize the
irightful danger to which this example
subjects us.
Now, dare say, as this toast implies,
and has been limited to you by our hon
ore, President, that you will expect me
to say something of my personal knowl-
edge OF Andrew jackson. If | were to
undertake to speak one-tenth Of what |
know personally with regard to thai eX-
traordmary man, you would be kept here
some hours. But there are some little
incidents which | will take the li'erty 10
name, and which impressed me SO deep
ly that | shall never forget them. There
are few men now alive that ever witness
ed what | witnessed in 1915, VIXEN | was
eight years of age. The battle of Orleans
had been fought on the Sth of January.
The victory on that occasion made An
drew jackson the most beloved and ad-
mired man then alive, except ore, and
that one was the first to call jackson the
last of the Romans. On Jackson passing
through Virginia, the whole State rose to
receive him. A committee delegated by
the authority of the State met the old
hero at the State line.
The town of Lynchburg, Virginia,
where | lived at the time, was a stop
ping point in his progress on his way
to report % the Government at Wash
ington. There was on that occasion a
universal outpouring of the people to re-
ceive him as he approached the town OF
Lynchburg. 1t was not only men, but 1t
was BOYS and children, and everybody
who could think or feel, that were desi-
rous of manifesting their gratitude to the
hero of Orleans. was then let out, like
the hundreds of others, from school to
see the show. Jackson and his family,
and the families of several of his aides
decamp, had approached in procession,
the ladies in carriages and the men on
horseback, at the head Of the principal
street of the town. When the procession
had proceeded that far, two men dis
mounted from their horses; they placed
themselves at the head of e procession
and advanced down street with uncov-
cred heads. These two men were Thos,
Jefferson and Andrew jackson. APP
plause. Some other little incidents oc-
cured which are personal to myself, and
leave them out. jackson was afterward
elected, as you all know, President ofthe
United States. During the two first years
of his Administration the Bank of the
United States applied to Congress for a
renewal of its charter. 1t had become a
great money power in the country. A
large part of its stock was owned in Eng
land 1t began to intermeddle and direct
the politics of the United States, as far as
was in its power to do so. 1t got its char
ter renewed. By the old charter, the
revenues of the United States were plac-
ed in deposit with this bank. They were
not three or four hundred millions of
dollars as they are now, but they were
large. They were the instrument of
power for the bank, and Jackson thought
that institution dangerous to the liberties
of the people, because it had tampered
with members of Congress to get its char
ter, and hesput his veto on it. That Gre
ated tremendous uproar. Jackson was
denounced as tyrant. The whole COM
mercial seaboard class, who were under
the control of the Bank of the United
States, set up the clamor that to refuse
to renew that charter was to ruin the
whole American people through its COM
merce and its internal resources. Jack
son put his veto on it, however, but the
bank had some time yet to exist under
its charter, and it commenced a system
of warfare upon Jackson and his admin
istration that has hardly ever been
equaled in this country.
All this time after the failure to renew
the charter it still held the public money
in deposit. Well, there the case was it
was a battle between Jackson and the
people. A large part of its loanable cap
ital through which ii exerted this tremen-
dous power was a deposit of the Govern
ment OF the Uuited States in its vaults.
Jackson concluded that as they were
making war on him he would defend
himself little, so he issued Treasury
order to Mr.. Duane, then Secretary of the
Treasury, to remove the public money
from the vaults and put it in certain State
banks. Then came new storm. He
was denounced as Il violator not only Of
the act organizing the Treasury Depart
ment, but likewise the Constitution of
the United States, and when Congress
Met they opened a regular war upon
him. The President of the bank in the
meantime, was shelling out his money,
and freely using 1t to corrupt Congress
and obtain the passage of an act by which
the deposits were to be restored back to
the custody of the Bank of the United
States.
The war took two forms. In the House
of Representatives it took the form of a
resolution authorizing or requiring the
Secretary of the Treasury to restore the
money back to the bank. In the Senate
ittook the form ofa series of resolutions
offered by Mr.. Clay, condemning Jackson,
denouncing his acts as unconstitutional,
and indirectly passing on his impeach-
ment. The war ragged with unabated
fury throughout the entire session of
Congress. BY the election of the people,
the House of Representatives had fifty
two majority of jackson men, but the