| Show TH THE HERO HERD or OF NEW sketches of the career carcer of andrew jackson ms his sturdy americanism and his flis picturesque personalize personality Persona lilY y by F A obed author of tim josephine the life or of george ton toll vie etc etc cops right ri bt the author I 1 KS rl tho the bank neto was accompanied by a long aud and exhaustive paper which the new kew yolk characterized a ai indeed and neilly Leli beneath cath contempt an appeal of ignorance to ignorance or prejudice to prejudice of alia tin blushing partisan pait isan hostility to the obbe of partisan servility yet this appeal of ignorance to ignorance was mas answered liy by the people in ill no uncertain tones lones issued lis as it was on the cie ce of another presidential election and not long after the forrow sorrowing ing american exclaimed the city is lost the ie 10 turns from the country chiae in all one way time tillie is no doubt that jackson jac 1 soll and van buien no elected ele eted they anero it if the evidence of their popularity could be ba gauged by electoral otea notes out of a possible the opposition despaired of ever rescuing the flona tile the grip of those rapacious rascals who lad had it by the ho throat dut but it was not man many months before most of the opposition papers were hurrahing hur for general jackson JacL sou in ill admiration of his big energetic action and I 1 proclamation in ill legain to the nullifiers the ibo intensely national na lional and latest tonn tone of Jal soua declaration 11 says mr roosevelt in ilia his life of benton a that might have well come collie from washington or lincoln and tha t would have r fleeced fleeted high hon hen 1 or on either though warmly approval by benton was very to many of if the southern democrats and was too ranch much even erca for fir erlain of alie gs in fact it reads like the utter utterance ance ol of some rome great or republican leader Doub lles s the old generals hatred of calhoun Cal houll had bad much to do with the issuing of this proclamation and the ordering of troops and blips of war to south carolina the state stale as lie ho thought of his nativity it has often been declared that if andrew jackson tad lad been in the tha presidential chair when villen the ultimate ordinances of secession were passed 29 years liter later bo be would have acted as promptly as is lie did dd on oil this occasion but at that time it was vas the tariff latter 0 1 el M 1 I 1 FT 41 g 14 J s carri carml GF adayr THE WAE sn 11 P 1 OLI ly tile the slavery question which pavo gave the their grievance gner gli evance asce aud and it is ia not believed that jackson tho owner of slaves laves fc would have acted as bisin as did denton when the fugi tv tro e slave elave act was passed in 1830 wo we know that he weakened and rather than uc u 0 the force ho be so displayed dippl ayed aligned though again t his couvil convictions eions clays celebrated compromise bill by which a gradual reduction was mae mada la in tho the obnoxious duties and the milliners placated somewhat during the summer of IS when LIS hia popularity may be raid fairl to laa have e reached its ha apogee president jallison Jac lison re alved to treat himself to tile wo of universal adulation hy by indulging la iii some rome little about the country but at the outset of his travels hu be was wai with tile tho unwelcome fact that thero there were rome eoina nabo vho did not nol williis willingly gl contribute their voices to swell ewell the aman of praise it wag while lie ho was boing down the tha potomac for tile the purpose of if laying tho the cornerstone of tho the mary washington monument that tho the having stopped at alexandria a certain lica tenant Pt randolph andolph came aboard aud pulled or attempted to pull the presidents dents fi nose ilose lie escala sk inthia re ream itaki i lm strange to say bay a fact bunted lui ly tile the position tiou iu in which ho found the pcs ident when assaulted pinned eil in bt t eon a table had and a chi chair ir A fiery alexandrian offered to pursue and d alay 61 y tile hie rascal it if lie lia could be 10 assured of pardon iu in case of conviction but the gallant old general proudly said no sir 1 cannot do that I 1 want no lie mau mail to stand between me and my assailants ant and none to tile take revenge on my account dut but had hadI I 1 been prepared for this cowardly villains approach tip I 1 cau can assure you ton all that he would never have had biad the temerity to under undertake talin such reich a thing again 1 no ko one knowing him cau doubt this thid particularly remembering hii similar reply to another shail ir circuit mances at tho time of tho ho B amton affias the tha bullet he be deceived at it that time by the way wai not extracted till chewin the winter preceding thi a bault i ault tins this happening by tho the strangest of coniCK liucc when jessie bentono bentons Ben Beu tons listher was diviny civill tho lia to mr clay oil tho the presidents account having performed tile tho pious duty assigned hini of Fic pic siding at tile the hying of the corn cornerstone corne istone elstone though tho the monument was not erected until 40 years after tho the president to washington and early in tune june set out tor for a tour through the north and east cast going as far as concord N II 11 and salem mass received with oveia demonstration of regard which ingenuity could devise the time finally art aniced ived for the expiry of the bank charter au aa event its officials ficiala of could not prevent or postpone though they raised heaven and earth the Jacks omans said also another place down below 1 I till you said the president one day tj ti a member of tho kitchen cabinet whether to lewis kendall greene or hill is not stated the bauk bank is id brolie abe shea 3 broke sir mr diddle is a proud nun sir and lie he would never have cono come on to washington to ask ak lor for a postponement it if tile the bank had bal hal bal the money never sir tho the banks broke crohe and diddle inoes it and nine years liter later the poor old bauk went down lie ho was wont to point to this pi aud and exultantly ray eay 1 I told you so A fixed idel with him now dow was that the go eminent deposits depo hiti with the bank were nvere bems being used to debauch theaon the congress my mind li is made up on oa that matter lie w said to tho the editor of lis organ the hie globe diddle Eidd lc you know is ia actually 11 aing ing the pC piu ples oples money to frustrate frusti tito the peoples will if lie he had not the public Dio money licy he be could coald not do it eigo lie he was no louger longer to have tile the bublic bainy they were gradually with withdrawn ua byll 11 deposits alo cc asins tilly I 1 M bu liering finally do de posit pouted etl banks in various parts of tho the coraor t this was the last and decisive blow uz ik ahe he united states bank the removal ot of the deposits was not deb accomplished all at once nor until tho the secretary of taw trea treasey mr duane haf bad bern been repealed by the mere compliant roger koger B taney tancy then the desired for the ho UCB was within three lays time and taney avas reN vardel duil ly by the position soon attar vacant of chief ot of tho the supreme court benjamin F Butler was appointed to tile the attorney generalship and lived to eulogize ulo gize his chiff in ill words of burning elo luence what taney lived to do the people of this country lian have e good reason to thus did tile thoi irei dent crush tl the ir alil buik reward lis his elieud and alad penisi his enemies on oil dec 20 mr clay introduced in the he senate nh bil famous tiu tiou of for dismissing the secretary and without Nv warrant arrant tile the deposits in collden Fd edford I 1 resolved le that the president in inalie tile late executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue las I 1 assume assumed d upon apoll himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and the laws br iu iia derogation of loth both 11 in ltd its support lie he delivered a speech tah which il I 1 ex exasperated 1 sp 0 rated the president to the of neld madness ness and ho be is said raid to have exal excl exclaimed a I 1 11 I 1 c 1 I aft after c r reading it oh ob if I 1 over ever live to get these r robes obes of OT office co off me 1 I will bring that rascal to a dear account mr Cal calhoun houll even surpassed mr cuy clay iu in his aurl indignant denunciation of tho the plunderers of the treasury three month were waited in debating this trivial affair an and it tile tho vote of ci diiuro iuro finally dully pa pasith bd only to be erased four years later meanwhile hard bard times fro from tho and uncertain condition of affairs petitions petition camo caino pouring in front froin all ovir the country tor for the re tul buiu 11 of the go eminent moneys to their original of oc deposit tho the united states bank lu in tho naino baino or of god eicle baell bcd the arto after th the hundredth or so deputation had i ed him w what 11 n t do the people think to gain bain by sending their memorials bele it if they send 10 of them signed by all the men women and chialdi children aeu in ill tile tho land and boating bearing the alio names ot of all on the gravestones I 1 will not dot relax a particle from ray my position nor lid did he be as it may teem leom needless to mention to tb the last the very last act of his presidency WM was to pool call ji a bill for relief relict of tho the baliu rency ot or tu alio currency anwa woma havu have boa been an ed by congress over ins its veto ho hail bai tho the supreme Fatis satisfaction faction of seeing tile the last dollar of tho the national debt paid during ch ring his big administration and of term terminating tile french imbroglio with honor to our aur nation and by tho payi pigment nent rl ef ohp tour installments due us by treaty corred through the friendly intervention ol of ecat britain in november 1830 la beheld the consummation of his most moat cheri hed hopes in the election cletion of mr van duren curen to tile the president y i n triumph disappointing alike to clay and calhoun Ual houn and a deadly blow to tho the bank another triumph was the ear expunging ging from the alio fenuto nato journal of tho the vote of can ure pa bcd four foar years before and which was furilla secured by tho persistent importunity of oe his hia great friend senator boiton on march iti 16 1837 five years later in 1812 IS 13 congress rendered another act of graco grace by remitting tho the fill fim inigo imposed ed upon him by tile tha indic at now mow oilcans tor for rc refusing fusing to obey his big wi wiit it of habeas corpus in fit 1815 1813 and which originally 1000 now dow amounted with interest to 2700 in b his is firem farewell ell address he be just justly aly congratulated tho the country upon being ati lat treo free from froin debt and also from oni tangling taug liag alliances lie ho added at tile the close cloro of this address s my illy own race is nearly run advancing age and failing health bedith warn mo me that before long I 1 must pass beyond the he reach of human bu ill an events aud and benso to feel fed tho the N of human affairs i chalk god goa that my life has bas been pent in ilk a lan alanl 1 of liberty and that hellas he has given mo me a heart to lovedy love my country with the affection of a ou and filled with gratitude for your constant ami kindness I 1 bid you a lat la t aud and affect affectionate ionato farewell the opposition papers could not dot retrain refrain from accusing him of aping a certain great in tins this farewell address and tho the now how york american spitefully said happily it is the 13 last t humbug which the nim popularity of the illiterate violent vain and iron willed soldier cau can impose upon I a confiding cud and credulous people cut but his hii intimate friend friem I 1 denton benton says 1 esav I saw him dehait with that ionic loo of quiet enjoyment v which aich the inward satisfaction is of the rt at exchanging the tha cares of office tor for the repose of home when lie retired farm public life at last lie waa 70 years of age infirm and full of livins and ami though lie ho was possessed of a 1000 acro acre farm fann and no negro groc cs ho be walteg to a friend 1 I le e turned home wit with ill just 90 in money having expended all my salary all and C ag nf 1 wyit V kr 0 r in 1 H V 5 t I 1 hill ed ft 3 8 I 1 A K 1 1 Z 41 JACKSONS TOMB most of the proceeds of my cotton crop found everything out of impair c coin oin and everything else to buy having lilt but one trat tract of land lan 1 besides my homestead which I 1 live have soli and which lias has enabled me to begin the new year fre fr e fr I 1 from ona debt relying en ell my industry and economy y to yield us a support trusting to a kind providence for a good season reason and a prosperous crop lie ho managed to keep the wolf from the door however and passed eight years on his beloved d plantation free from care cara and politics except when called upon in an advisory capacity la ill 1813 1843 ho be complied compiled with the desire which his wife had often expressed when nihon living and became a mem her of the church ills his list words were two years later r after ft ter suffering most excruciating agi agonies allies lor months and aad when he be knew she be end was vas nigh digh ge be rood good children and we nye kill all meet cot in heaven beaven it was near the end of a lovely lay day in june 1843 1845 5 that this gallant spirit passed passe d tram from arth in the triumphant consciousness immortality tar END |
