The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-09

day of Aaron Burr's trial at Richmond,
were Indians and Jackson had always
shown that he held the Southwestern
mans opinions that Indians had no rights
within or without Federal law that 4 white
man was bound to respect. But nullifca-
ton of the tariff laws involved directly
the power and prestige Of the Federal
government and Jackson had too much
personal pride and vanity to allow the
government Of which he was the head to
be defied and insulted by Calhoun, whom
he bitterly hated. Jackson lives in popu-
lar memory and tradition only because he
put down this treason OF Calhoun, and yet
if he had done his duty in regard to
Georgia and the Indians, notification
would never have been ventured upon by
South Carolina. The South was astounded
by Jackson's proclamation as inconsistent
with his former action and presumed con-
stitutional theories, and probably did no
injustice to his motives in ascribing Jack
sons attitude to his furious and intense
hatred of Calhoun.
With Jackson personal feeling, not rrin-
cipte, always carried the day. Any body
who opposed him, who criticised him, CEN
sured any portion of his public or private
career he always hated and crushed at the
first opportunity. He was As years of age
before he had any Career; he was a prom
inent man in his new state, but had held
no political Office in it; planter. store
of hn ro
known as faithful friend and an inn
placable enemy. Prof Sumner, Of Yale
college, q free trade Democrat of the most
unblemished record for party loyalty, ac-
curately describes Jackson as a man "for
whom an opinion or q prejudice always
became personal right or interest.
To approve it and further it was
to win his gratitude and friendship; to
refute or oppose it was to excite his ami
mostly" He had the intensity and vigor
of an unframed and untamed character;
he had never been taught by home breed
ing and culture. by precepts and discipline
to suppress undue personal feeling; to
practice self-control and courtesy. He put
his personality always at stake. and never
distinguished the man who merely dis
puted his notions from the man who vio-
lated his rights; he had the great military
virtues of extraordinary force of will and
executive energy, and yet he was not
superior general, but merely good parti-
san commander of the quality of man like
Gen. Sumter. of Revolutionary fame; he
was brilliantly successful in politics, and
yet he was SO lawless q president that
nothing but his patriotic devotion to the
Union and resistance to notification has
rescued his name from severe odium.
He was gallant soldier, bat not good
general; he was patriotic man, but in no
man at all; but he possessed some great
qualities; he was very picturesque his
torical character, as all men of intense,
untamed and untamable barbarian indi.
viduality are when they occupy high posi-.
tons in military or civiclife. An extraor-
binary man; remarkable man, an excep-
tional, an eccentric man was Andrew
Jackson, but in no sense was he great
man, either as soldier or statesman. He
never to the end of his life had legal tone
of mind; never any reverence for law; he
was law unto himself; Jefferson and Clay
both disliked him and feared him as mere
military chieftan; he often buiided better
than he knew or intended, and quite as
often did more mischief than he plotted
or contemplated.