The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-03-30

and sea, disaster and humiliation had
befallen us by land. Our soil had been
invaded, our capital captured and raw
aged by fire. Our wide seacOast, so
promising to commerce, seemed help
less of defense. And when England
gathered at Jamaica her vast Armada,
bOastfully threatening to seize our
great river, rob us of our new-bOught
territory, and push her ships and arms
in triumph nOrthward till her Gordon of
empire bound us from Canada to the
gulf, who compared her mighty prepa-
ration with our feeble forces, without
some fearP Who but Andrew JackSOn2
(Applause.l With the daring patriot
ism of LeOnidas, intelligently skillful as
1t was desperate. he flung by night his
little band upon the enemy, instantly
then, gaining delay to raise hasty
breastwOrk, with bloody slaughter of
her trained and veteran army he gave
England, more by YalOr than by arms,
her most ignOminiOus defeat, and,
changing our humiliation to joy, fin
ished the war in glory by the splendid
victory of New Orleans. applause.
Not alone by a savage or foreign
enemy was that love of country tried.
When his hair was white with the tolls
and wars of more than threescOre years,
when care, disease and grief had long
pressed hard upon his soul from the
very people he had fought and labOred
for, from his own southern cline, a
deadly blow was leYeled at this country.
The treason of secession raised its hOr-
rid front 10 defy the constitution and
tear our Union asunder. Though many
trembled, the Old PRESIDENT was un-
shaken. With the fierce alacrity of
youth he met it before it came forward,
and raising that fitting cry of a Repub-
lies chief magistrate. "By the God of
heaven 1 will uphold the lawsP' he
struck the treason down. Great
cheers. He knew but one dealing with
his cOuntry's enemy, whether he came
in ships across the sea or traitOTOusly
at home struck at the sacred bond of
uniOn-tO fight him on the instant, and
fight him to the death.
Aud this is the devotion everywhere
of the true Jackson Democrat. This
led him to the fOre-ranks of war. When
a second time secession aimed its NOR
tai stroke upon our nations bend;
when, alasl no Jackson stood in front.
Forgotten all divisions lOOsed all other
ties, this devotion bound the jackson
Democrat to all true comrades in arms.
Let the warriors who fought with
tongues and offices at home raise their
chatter in yainl 1t was not they. This
fellowship of the brave in patriotic duty
then saved the republic to men; and
shall be its safe foundation forever.
FellOW-DemOcrats, these were the
ruling guides of the illustTiOus man
whose name and inspiration you in
woke tonight. But volumes only can
tell the many deeds and services by
which he eXemplified them in action.
Yet would bid you mark his dealings
with another peculiar dangeaT to pOpu-
lar institutiOns-the clutch of great
corporation on the Government. Like
other combinations of capital, the bank
of the United States had its field and
day of usefulness. In its useful works
it was entitled to credit and protection,
and both it received. But with strength
1T grew ambitious and strained for un-
just power. 1t stretched out its arm
and took the Congress in its grasp. 1t
dehed the executive, and a weaker one
would have bent to its will. But Jack
son smOte it, like Hercules the
dragon, and it fell And with it fell to
us the warning: Keep corporations in
their place. Hands off the Govern
ment of the free! [Grea and prolonged
applause.
And still more pertinent to the day is
1T to recall his entrance on the field of
! national politics. Then, as now, a vi
ciOus party system bound the people
and fet cred their free choice. Spurning
the power of the caucus, he burst its
bands of false cohesion as a mass of
cObweb, and won the people over
whelmingly by direct, open war. Let
us emulate the pregnant example.
Down with mere intrigues for Officel
Democracy wants no hireling sOldieTy
who war for sack and spoil. APP
plause.l Up with our clear-cut prin-
ciples which mark the manhood of a
freeman, and recruit our hosts from
them who will fight for the right be-
cause 1t Is right, for love Of country and
fellOw-men.
There is work enough to do, were
we all herculean. The Augean stables
must be cleaned of lOng-accumulated
corruption, our public trusts set utterly
above the reach of political beasts of
prey, our trade made free of taxes
which rob the people, our commerce
to ride the waves of every sea be-
meath our cOuntry's flag. [Applause.l
Fill up, then, gentlemen, a bTim-
ming cup to the glorious memory of
Andrew JacksOnl With joy all good
men may drink it, through the re-
united nation. In Southern homes his
name must have peculiar honor. For
he was theirs from whom we claim
this heritage of glory. And so was
majestic Washington. So was Jeffer-
son, and long line of sacred men,
Ory. Well may they jump the sins of
later generation to sink into obliv-
ion, and seize again on the traditions
of the fathers as theirs and ours to-
gether. Drink to the glOries of the past,
the hopes of coming time. And while
this Government bears the ark of lib
erty down the ages, green grow the
laurels on the herO's grave and sweetly
rest his sleep. Abide with US forever
the alert and fearless courage, the open
simple honesty, and pure patriotic love
of Old Hickory! [Great and prolonged
cheering.l