The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1883-02-10
Andrew Jacksou...1h1 llar,


can Democracy owes more 30 Jackson
than TO any one else; nud tha, ul long
as tho Democratic party oXistH Unjust
aud will retain essentially the shape
and color he gave 10 from 1920 To 1877
Bat ssijio from ;ho soldier, a.atusmeu
and politician, thore Us THE MAN; 60
whom q stronger and deeper interest
attaches for all wEo care 10 study hu
man nature i'm i'4 rlrcet devel0pmeui5.
List US Try 10 look 30 him in thia dry
light, uutinged by partisan pa sialty
OF prejudice; ana ia so doing We may
catch the secret az Die wonderful power
upon his contempurpr,os, and lhe hold
he still has upon Che vast majority oi
his eountrymen.
The manhood OF Jackson W. his
most prominent characteristic. There
never was more thoroughly manly
man than he, and this quality If il
can be called ono made him, naturally
aud inevitably, leader Of men. 1t
has been said, with ms much truth ss
felicity, that il no had joined "a COM
pauy Of emigrants in early dpya $50 ca.
tire stranger and tho camp had been
attacked the Same night by lndian9,
the commend would at once hayo bocn
psaignoi 10 him, with fullest confidence
in his abIty 10 meet Tie emergency.
His fault4 we're mother few Dor small,
but among hem there was MOI one that
lesseucd .J respect even VI his Bit
terest cnemics. He was unsplriugly
denounced, intensely hated gnd vim.
dicitively tonight; but always respected
because OF the tremendous force that
was in him. Often desperate, coca
cnsionally a. crupulous, be was never
moan. DC could and would de9l dead
~ blows, but ihby were always in the
face; never "b,low the bclt' or behind
the back. The war he wagod upon his
opponents was terrible, but no stopped
to no tricks and had hearty contempt
for trickcry and trickstors. What he
did, whether good, bad or indifferent,
was open and above board. His famil-
iar saying, 81 take the responsibility"
me mt precisely what it said, and ro-
veals the silent feature OF his life. He
never lodged, never shrihed, and des.
pissed shrikers and dodgers, He lad
the supremest confidence in himself.
At times it may have been rash and
presumpluous, but, at any rate, it was
his governing idea, and usually Che re-
suit justified it. Hc had, too, 40 al
times and under all circumstances,
"the courage OF his convictions :" %
courage that seemed to strengthen
rather thau weaken with the rising
clamor of opposition aud tho growing
fierceness OF personal attack. Whether
right or wrong no always believed
himself right. file had no doubts on
the subject, and always acted with o
promptness aud energy which indicated
that lie did not think others should
hayo any. Age and REELECTION did not
soften. much less oblitorate, this pc.
culiarity. Not long before his death,
in u conversation upon the use of fed
eral patronage during his Gdminisira-
ton, he declared that he had removed
no man from Office for political reasons,
but only "ior cause" 4 friend who
visited him in his last illness saw an
old pistol on the mantle and was ex-
aiming it when the dying man re-
marked very quietly; That is the pis-
tol with which killed Mr.. Dickinson
He was then seventy eight and a mem
Der Of the church but neither advanc,
ing years, converting grace, nor near
ness to the grave had brought repent
anoo or regret. He would have Killed
Dickinson then and there under the
same provoeation. This confidence and
courage was supplemented by an in
domitable will; will which nothing
could break or bend, and which neither
the assaults Of foes, the trcachery Of
friends, sorrow, sickness or suffering
could crush. Literally AN iron will 1t
was; If, indeed, iron is stroug enough
to represent it. This it was which car
ried him through ordeals that would
have pulverized ordinary men which
blotted failure" from his vocabulary
which would be satisfied with nolhiug
but victory, and victory complete ana
overwhelming. Coupled with his con
iidence and courage it made him ire.
sistible, and nobody ever did success.
fully resist him from beginning 20 end
OF his career, except the Indies OF Wash
iugton who would not recognize Mrs
Eaton. Confidence, courage and viii
made him the soul and right arm o.
every enterprise in which he was Gu,
gagged, No odds, however great, daunt-
ed him; aud the greater the odds the
higher ross the confidence and courage
and frmer grew the will. II Fred
Douglas motto, God and ono mako !
mejority,' had been submitted 10 him
he would have amended IL TO read
jackson himself, by tho Eternal, 10 4
majority" With any other opposing
general than Jackson, the flower OF thu
British army would have had Booty
and Beauty" in Now Orleaus, Instead
Of laying their bones in the Bwainps OF
Chalmeite, With any other president
than Jackson, Biddle and the United
/ Stateslhank would have had salvation in.
stead OF humiliation; and with any
ether president than jackson, South
/ Carolina nulhlcation would have bios
somedinto aeoession.thirly years earlier
No single man in American history hag
been, We think, 30 nearly omnipott ut
[ Nor has there oven boon a lHor illus
| tration Of Che power Of the spirit over
The haah Dickinson's bullet airucA
and shattered Jaoksona bleasihono
inhiotiug d wound from whiohhe mover
entirely recovered, aud which finally
was th0 indireet cause OF his death. Hu
never ilinohod; took aim dohheFalol,
and pulled the trigger but The pis,o
was only 40 hali'cooki chen cooked 10
simod agoin and slow ihC man who bod
dalod 10 breathe VtIl egaipst ths
fame OF an idoliaoi wilo Leaving thg
fatal Held no VnlBoi sonic disimon b