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gerous Of men, and yet he was Of the
same political party and they we're fast
friends until a rupture occurred while
Calhoun was Vice-President under John
Quincy Adams.
Jackson had speech Of Gen. Hayne.
of South Carolina, printed on satin for
distribution among his friends. he adj
mired it so much. 1t was one of his
first in reply to Webster, in defense of
the local interests Of the South, and in
vindication of the Democracy. Yet
later on he became so great an admirer
of his ancient antagonist--We Webster
that he thought very seriously of max
ing him Chief Justice of the United
States, to succeed the venerated Mar
shall, and to which place he finally APP
pointed Roger B. fancy, Of Maryland.
the man whose decision in the bred
Scott slave case made him famous;
badly abused by freedom shriekers and
applauded by Southerners.
jackson was a man of extraordinary
force of character, and no period of
American history was marked with
more stirring incidents or was moro re-
piete with instruction than was that of
the eight years no was President of the
United States from 1899 10 1887. He
possessed an active, astute and vigor-
Gus mind. He was honest patriotic
and always personally dsinterested.
He was profound Judge Of men, and
was always able to control the actions
of his associates. He was a thorough
Democratic Republican in principle.
He believed in the reserved rights of
the State and the people, and in the
capacity of the American people for self
government lie acted with indom-
table courage and inflexible frmness
when in 1882 the country was menaced
by the insurrectionary notification doc
trines of South Carolina and he openly
threatened to arrest the prominent
leaders, Calhoun among the number,
at Washington City, and subject them
to prompt punishment should they per-
severe in their insane project While
executive chief of tho nation he never
quailed any more than he did when he
met the savages in battle, the British
on the plains of Chalmette, or when he
rushed with uplifted cane upon the
mind-diseased English house painter,
Richard Lawrence, on the 30th of Jan
uary, 1885, after the would-be assassin
had snapped two percussion horse-pis-
tolls at him only eight feet distant. The
intention to kill tho President was
brought about through the same infu-
ences which impelled the lunatic Gui-
teau to murder President Garfield, and
that was the extreme partisan Vows so
strongly presented by the newspapers
and the speech-makers of the time. He
permitted no array of factionists against
the public authority, either in the days
of the nullitiers or at an earlier period,
when he arrested agitators at New Or
leans.
The illustrious hero of the Hermitage
passed the last eight years of his event.
full life at his own quiet home in this
State, in peaceful and contented man
ner He died June Sth, 1845, at the
age Of IS, having been born In the
Waxhaw Settlement, South Carolina, In
1867 of Irish parents. During his
career he WA charged with being a
tyranG a usurper, and an imperial
despot because at simes he was COM
PEELED to resort to energetic sxpedienss
to encompass the peculiar dangers and
difficulties with which he was beset,
Those who knew him, and we have
few people left who were familiar with
his character from personal knowledge,
say that he conversed with an easy
familiarity. was always profoundly
courteous to the gentler scx, tenderly
mindful of all who came within his own
social circle, and that in all of his pri-
Vate life he was invariably kind, obliging
and polite in his demeanOr. There
were eminent public mensin whose in
tegrity and patriotism he had no conf
deuce, and there were subjects the men
ton Of which would rouse him to a
pitch of stormy Indignation, and in such
cases he adopted a tone and manner
that called forth the malevolent epithets
of his foes. When assailed he knew
how to defend himself, and despite
those who traduced and charged that
he sought a third term of the Presi-
deney, no one supposed that Andrew
jackson was deficient either in integ-
rity, patriotism, or in a true devotion to
the cause of civil and religious freedom.
Two public acts are recorded i'm
pugning the legality of Jackson's Off
cial conduct, both of which he was con-
solcd with seeing condemned by the
national representatives before he died.
The first was the payment by the United
States Of the fine of $1,000 for offending
the dignity of Judge Hall, of New Or
leans, during the time, Gen. jackson
was in command then and after the bat
tie One Lombard, member of the
General Assembly, had written and
published an inhOmmatory article
against Jackson and martial law,
saying it was tyrannical and unneces-
sary, and urging the soldiers to go
home. The general had him impris-
oned. Judge Hall issued hdbeGs corpus
writ ordering his presence in court.
The general GENT tho iud0o ont ~ thn