Year: 1876

grateful surprise she arose 10 take hel
leave, when the President said to her


Madam, you will please take the note
to the cashier Of the Bank of the Metrop.
oils with my request that he will dis
count it at once, and that he will please
to give timely notice of maturity to the
maker of the note" Timely notice was
given, and it is needless to add that the
note was paid promptly when it became
due, without taking advantage even OF
the usual three days grace.


Great injustice has been done to the
character and fame of Gen. Jackson in
the estimate made of him, mostly by
his political opponents, especially in
charging him with tyranny in the exer-
else of an almost ferocious will in his
great public career. Nothing was ever
more unfounded.


Col. Thomas Benton, who of all men
of their times knew him best from many
years acquaintance, and who, from hav-
ing been in deadly feud with him at an
early period of their lives in Tennessee,
became, after he attained to the Presi-
Dental Office, his warmest and most de-
voted friend, writes in the following
interesting manner of him in his +" Thirty
Years View," published after Gen. Jack
sons death


"His temper was placable as well as irrras-
chile, and his reconciliations were cordial and
sincere. or that my own case was a signal in
stance. After a deadly feud became his con-
fdential adviser, was offered the highest marks
of his favor, and received from his dying bed a
message Of friendship, dictated when life was
departing, and when he would have to pause
for breath. There was deep vein of piety in
him unaffectedly showing itself in his rever-
ence for divine worship, respect for ministers
OF the gospel, their hospitable reception in his
house, and constant encouragement Of all the
pious tendencies Of Mrs. Jackson. And when
they both afterward became members Of a
church it was the natural and regular result of
their early and cherished feelings. He was
gentle in his house, and alive to the tenderest
emotions and of this 1 can give an instance
greatly in contrast with his supposed charac-
ter, and worth more than a long discourse in
showing what that character really was. l ar
rived at his house one wet chilly evening in
February, and came upon him in the twilight,
sitting alone before the fire, a child and a lamb
between his knees. He started little, called
a servant to remove the two innocents to an
other ROOM and explained to me how it was.
The child had cried because the lamb was ont
in the cold, and begged him to bring it in,
which he had done to please the child his
adopted son, then not two years old. The
ferocious man does not do that and though
Gen. Jackson had his passions and his violence,
they were for men and his enemies who
stood up against him, and not for women and
children, or the weak and the helpless, for all
of whom his feelings were those Of protection
and support"


The great old patriot is gone from
earth to heaven, and there never can
scarcely be a name connected with
the history of this country that will be
more priced or held iii higher estima-
ton than that of Andrew Jackson.


True mar-staunch friend, and true
patriot-he loved his country and its in
stitutions, and was, all through long
and eventful life, devoted to its honor
and best interests. He loved the peo-
pie, and always felt that they would
stand by him in all his political acts, be-
cause they believed that he would ever
serve them truly and faithfully.


In conclusion, it may be safely said
that there never existed public charac-
ter who through life acted more thor
oughly on the principle inculcated in
the solemn and impressive adjuration of
the great churchman and statesman,
Cardinal Wolsey, to his friend and fol-
lower, Cromwell "Be just and fear
not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be
thy country's, thy Gods and truths. -
The Rfa1ubLic.