Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-23

NOS grhnteu Dy the constitution or the
laws He called upon the people to
rise and drive the Goths from the
capitol, meaning Jackson and the
Democratic party, of which he was the
acknowledged leader. he having been
elected to the Presidency over Mr.. Clay
himself
Calhoun declared many OF his acts
were unauthorized and illegal, and such
could never have been consummated
during the Roman period. except I'M
der Caligula or Nero 1t was. he said,
the melancholy evidence of broken
spirit, ready to bow at the feet of power.
These remarks show the spirit of the
times, and how mischief is made by
division among chiefs. A moral is
pointed on the subject by one of the
greatest poems, in the sentence:
Achilles wrath; to Greece the direful Spring,
OF woes unnumbered.
Thomas II. Benton, the Missouri Sen
ator for 80 years, gives most graphic
description OF the expurgation from the
records of this resolution of censue;
tells Of how tho Senate galleries were
thronged with dense masses, and of the
illumination of the hall by great chan
delier, gas and electricity were not
known then; how, as the night wore on,
and the debate proceeded, the specta-
tors became excited, and Calhoun said,
''The day is gone; night approaches,
and night is suitable to the dark deed
wo mediate" and twas full midnight
when tho final vote was reached. Ben
ton relates how Jackson's enemies.
who had gathered IN the galleries just
above him, broke forth with Kisses; how
the leaders were arrested and taken to
answer before the bar of the Senate,
thus checking further expressions of
hostility, This was the night of Janu-
airy 14th, 1881, and jackson regarded
this as the browning victory of his
civil, as New Orleans had been that Of
his military life. He gave n dinner to
the expungers, as he called them, and
their wives
A faint outline Of the denunciations
at the time of jackson would be too
long for this article. He was called
tyrsnt, despot, usurper, charged with
being destroyer OF his country's lib
erty, rash, ignorant imbecile, running in
dustry, annihilating confidence be-
tween man and man, plunging an in
nocent and happy people from the sum-
NIT of felicity to the depths of misery,
want and despair. His defenders,
equally able and expressive men, re-
ported the successes of his sway in re-
pairing 80 years of the country's wrongs
from spoliation of foreign powers, pay
ing vast sums to idemnify the same; the
reduction of taxes, the payment of the
public debt, the removal of the Indians
from the Southern States 10 permanent
homes in the West, the completion of
the public defenses, the circulation of
$75, 200, 900 in specie, a spectacle never
before seen, and the admiration of Eu-
rope, and of incalculabe value to in
dustry, morals, economy and solid
wealth; the very reverse of all that was
charged by his enemies, who vented
columns of curses against him. His
admirers claimed that from President
Jackson the country first learned the
true theory of the constitution, and that
his entire public career was adorned
with specific acts which illustrated the
,ntutive sagacity of his intellect the
firwuess of his mind. and his entire de-
votion 10 the public good. So! bene6-
cent and so glorious was his entire
career, that where to begin and where
to end. in enumerating his gooG deeds
would embarrass anyone who might at
tempt his eulogy. He was among the
first of generals and the first of states
men, and his civil competitors shared
the fate of his military opponents. all of
his assailants being crushed, be they
foreign or domestic, civil or military
He impressed upon the age in which he
lived the stamp of his arms, of his
diplomacy, of his domestic policy, of his
genius. In word, his transcendant
merits operated like miracle upon the
generation in which he acted, and pos
terity credits him with being one of the
most heroic and successful of soldiers,
the ablest of statesmen, and a Colossus
among the benefactors of lis country
Like the great Washington, next to
whom he was the most conspicuous
man in our history, his direct line be-
came extinct at his demise, but he had
adopted two children, the nephews of
Mrs jackson, and one of these, his
private secretary while he was Presi-
dent, also candidate for President
on the Fillmore ticket in 1856, the Hon
Andrew jackson Donelson, was known
10 many of our citizens, as he was a
cotton planter in the Yazoo Delta unit,
his death few years ago, and he
traded with our merchants very largely.
From MIR. Donelson many reminis-
cences of the greatest man of his day
have been preserved. He told of his
placable as well as bis irascible temper;
of his cordial and sincere reconciliations
often after deadly feuds; of the deep
seated vein of piety; of his hospitality;
of his passions and his violence; of his
adherence of debt, public and private,
and how he never contracted any him
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