The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-01-15
ANpRnW JACKSON.
Extracts From Speech Delivered at the
Anniversary Celebration at Wooster by
Capt. b. +. Weybreoht Of Alliance.

Extracts From Speech Delivered at the
Anniversary Celebration at Wooster by
Capt B. F. weybreoht Of Alliance.
In the days OF Pericles and Simonides
the Athenians held an annual feast to
perpetuate the memory OF their honored
dead-and there every year, from the ut
termost points of the known globe, from
Egypt, from Persia and from Syria, came
pilgrims TO listen to the orators and bards
whose matchless words and heroic songs
told the story Of Grecian greatness.
We pay homage tonight to parsonage
whose services to his country were more
potent for good than Miltiades were TO
Athens. We celebrate an event OF more
moment to America than was Marathon
to Greece.
The glory OF our republic is not so much
in liberty as in equality. Individual SOW
ereignty In place of hereditary authority Is
the true test of Democracy. In the early
dawn of civilization republics existed, yet
their magma charta did not recognize the
equality of citizenship. The patrician
clothed In the purple robes of authority
lorded II over the plebian in the servile
rags OF poverty. Our glory recognizes the
great commonality, the political equality
of the people.
Thus IL was, that under the benign influ
ence, aided by his own gifts OF heart and
of head, America bequeathed to the world
as the product OF higher civilization the
immortal name of Andrew jackson. In
him more than in any other parsonage OF
his time, was embodied the genius OF the
western world.
Born at a time when royalty first trem-
bled before the oncoming tide of revolu.
ton, Andrew jackson became a partici-
pant in that struggle, the browning glory
of which was the emancipation OF bis
couutrymen.
AT the early age of thirteen with sword
and with gun he became the companion
of Marion and of Sumpter in their heroic
defence of the Carolinas. With his
brother he was made prisoner of war
and they suffered all the cruelties that so
marked the British subjugation of the
South. In that prison pen his brother
died-murdered / might say,-and their
noble mother, animated by mothers
love, fastened to that charnel house and
from the grasp of death nursed back to
life her only son. Her mission was ac-
Seized with the fever her spirit passed
to the realms above, and her body was
buried, no mortal knows where. Asit has
been beautifully said ANDREW Jackson
was now alone, even knew not where to
find his mothers grave, never knew where
to pour his orphan tears on the ceasless
clio that covered the remains OF all that
was dear to him on the earth. He had no
father like Hannibal to lead him to the
altar of his country, and there make him
swear eternal hostility to Roman power,
| but in the depth of his orphan heart, and
| and IN the presence of the God that guided
| his footsteps did he swear eternal hostil.
| ity against that modern Rome whose iron
| heel had troden out the spirit of his father.
| land. Who had sought to subiugate the
| land OF his birth, the refuge of the OPP
| pressed and had stepped his murderous
| sword in the blood of his own kindred.
After the final defeat of the British in
the Revolutionary struggle, we find Jack
| son pursuing the profession OF law. Re-
moving from Carolina to Tennessee, ne
took prominent part in in the admission
| of that territory into the Union. A men,
| Der of It's first constitutional convention,
| he was the author of two great and lead
| ing propositions that he always defended
| as maxim and followed as guide in his
| political life.
| 1st-The inherent indefeasible and un-
| comfortable sovereignty OF the people.
| 2nd-The injustice and enormity OF
| perpetuities and monopolies.
| Think of il! In 1876 Andrew jackson
sounded the keynote that for almost one
| hundred years has marshalled his follow
ers in the struggle against the enemies of
| good government; with a foresight al
| most approaching the prophetic; he ofall
| the statesmen of his age warned his coun.
| trymen that centraliza alton and legislation
| IN behalf of privileged interests was trea
son against the guaranteed liberties of the
people.