Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-01-11
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tin Van Buren,, as his successor. Tne
people stood Loyalty by Jackson be-
cause he stood unfinchingly by them.
Such was his popularity that for 20
years all the arguments of his enemies
were answered and silenced by "Hur-
rah for Jacksonw
Loved by the People.
Even at this distant day it is difficult
AYE. impossible-to decide whether
the people loved him more for his vices
or his virtues. His vices and his vir-
tues were the vices and virtues of the
great body of the people from whom he
sprang and for whom he wrought He
owned the fastest horses of that era
and, like old Harper of Kentucky, ran
them from eend to eend." He possess
ed the gamest chickens then known
among men and fought them for all
they were worth. He kept an ample
supply of the most improved firearms
to be had for love or money and ever
held himself ready to use them on all
proper occasions, but he was honest
truthful brave, chaste. tender, sober,
industrious, charitable, patriotic and
faithful to his friends as the needle to
the pole. Having welded power vaster
than that of any king, prince or poten-
tate. with modesty and good sense that
did him infinite credit and set whole
some example he refused to sleep his
last sleep in the sarcophagus of Ro-
man emperor and is forever enshrined
in the hearts of all lovers of human
liberty.
He was the first American president
who came from the plain people. The
posthumous son of a poor Irish immi-
grant, born in the humblest of frontier
log cabins, reared by a widowed moth
er destitute of all the luxuries and
most of the comforts of life, he lived
to be the foremost man of all this
world and left as a rich legacy to the
human race name which is one Of the
beacon lights of history He was the
first citizen west of the Alleghanies
elevated to the chief magistracy of the
most puissant government in all the
food of time. and he carried over the
mountains to the. federal capital the
fateful message that the denizens of
the Mississippi valley propose to con-
troll the destinies of this republic
Forever and forever.
As long as the river flows
As long as the heart has passions
As long as life has
A Great Speech.
He was not an orator such as Mark
Antony declared the younger Brutus to
be, and yet by the delivery of a single
sentence of seven words, Our federal
Union; it must be preserved" re
squelched notification for 30 years and
furnished the inspiration which pre-
served the republic in the crisis of its
fate, thereby exercising more influence
than has been exercised by all the ora
tors since the confusion of tongues at
Babel
His veto of the national bank bill
was one of the most heroic, patriotic
and salutary acts performed by any
statesman since governments were first
instituted among men, and his farewell
address deserves to rank with Wash
ington's farewell address, than which
no greater paper was ever written by
an uninspired hand.
BY his achievements in the cabinet
and in the field he conquered for him
self conspicuous position in the small
but goodly company of the lmmortais.
What this country most needs at this
very moment is another Andrew Jack
son in the White House to veto the At
lantie City money bill. to squelch such
enemies of the masses as Lyman ].
Gage and to stand as a friend of the
plain people bravely, periodically and
perpetually. That William j. Bryan
possesses most of Jackson's good quail
ties | know and that he will be presi-
dent firmly believe Would to God he
were in the presidential chair now!
Then we would not be turned over,
bound hand and foot, to the tender mer-
cies of the National Bank association.
But the old saying runs, 1T is the dark
est just before daybreak," and let us
hope that a new and better day is
about to dawn on the American people
"a day which will recall by its SPLEEN
dor the haIcyon period when Andrew
Jackson was at our head