EULOGY ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF ANDREW JACKSON, BY GEORGE BARSTOW, ESQ. AT MANCHESTER, N. H., ON THE 12TH OF JULY 1845. E U L a Y 15723 . ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF AN DREW JACKS ON, PRONOUNCED BY GEORGE BARSTOW, ESQ., AT AlANCHESTER, N. H. ON THE 12TH OP JULY, 1845. Manchester, July 15, 1845. Sir: By Vote of the Committee of Arrange ments for paying a tribute of respect to the memory of Gen. ANDREW JACKSON, I am directed to ex- lend to you the thanks of the Committee for your ex cellent Eulogy ., delivered on the 12th inst., upon the life and character of that eminent patriot, and to ask of you a copy of the same for the press. Yours, respectfully, C. E. POTTER for the Committee. To GEORGE BARSTOW, ESQ. Manchester, J\T. H., July ISth, 1845. Sir} I am induced, by your flattering request, to place the Eulogy at your disposal and am very truly yours. GEORGE BARSTOW. To C. E. POTTER, ESQ. AMERICANS: We are assembled in this place to pay a last, mournful tribute to the most remarkable man of the age. Andrew Jackson, victorious in so many fields, has triumphed over the last enemy man. The orisons of millions have arisen for his en trance to the celestial mansions, and we are met to indulge in sweet and pleasant remembrance of the man whom we deplore. With funeral dirge and sol emn requiem we have come to celebrate the obsequies of departed valor. How shall I shadow forth the grand outlines and great proportions of such a character? In what lan guage can the story of such a life be told? To pre sent him truly, he must appear brave, as he was seen in battle ; determined, as he was found in council; serene, as he adorned society. Yet why do I fear lest the eulogy of departed worth should be feebly spoken? He needs no eulogy whose panegyric is a nation's tears. No storied obelisk, or sculptured monument, or proud eternal pyramid is necessary to perpetuate his fame. His noblest monuments are the minds where his own principles are instilled and his own example implanted. It is written that he was the youngest child of Irish emigrants of Scottish origin. It is the same blood that peopled our own county of Hillsborough. Not more pure is it found by Flodd en-field or Bannock- burn than in the vales between our hills. It is the martyr blood of Scotland, mingled with the warm cur rent of the Irish heart. In his character are exhibited the iron resolution of Scotland and the generous ardor of the Emerald Isle. In the woods of Carolina, on the wild banks of the Catawba, in the Waxaw setttlement, he was born* and there he was nursed to freedom. The wilder ness of the frontier folds in its bosom an infant destin ed to be the leader of armies and the representative of an age! But it is of little consequence to inquire what particular spot may have been the birth place of such a man as Jackson. No matter where he was born, whose fame encircles the world, nor how hum ble were the first days of one whose after life fills the brightest page of a nation's annals. America was his birth place, and his renown belongs to the whole land. How strange are the mutations of earthly things! When Jackson was a child in Carolina, the Indians _ of Georgia and all the roving tribes of the South, pos- o f sessed their hunting grounds from the Atlantic to the banks of the Mississippi. The red men knew not that there was a child near them, idly sporting with the flowers and tracking with tiny feet the paths of their early hunters, before whose prowess their arrows would all be broken and during whose life their coun cil-fires would go out and their war-cry become a for gotten sound over the whole land eastward of the srreat Father of Waters! When he was a boy, his talents were perceived, and were quickened by the genial warmth of a mother's i They promise to repay the pains of culture and he is placed at school. During the intervals of study, she pours into his delighted ear the traditions of their father-land tells him the wrongs of his father and his country, and fires his soul with the love of lib erty and glory. Ah, how many of us are forced to icknowledge that if we have a lofty purpose, agener- Otis impulse, or a high aspir.itiou, uo o\\<: it to the watchful pride and holy ambition of a parent. The war of ihs revolution invad -s the peaceful shades of the academy. 'J ho buy of the future her- mitag?, even then a man in spirit, feels his bosom throb with the heart of a soldier. From a mother's lip he has learned to love liberty. Can he fail to be found on the .si le of liberty? -No. Freedom calls out to her champion and in a moment his choice is fixed. His books are thrown aside, and with his musket on his shoulder and his brother by his side, he hastens to the American standard. By the fortune of war, ever fickle and fearful, they are both prisoners in the en emy's camp. A British otlicer, who had trod the battle fields of Europe without feeling humanity cr regarding the laws of nations, attempts to con pel his young prisoners to acts of menial service. 1 hey assert tho rights of war and appeal to the honor of Lngland. For this, Robert, the elder, is struck down mortally hu actcnstic .sagacity he selects the rising Territory of Tennessee as the scene of his future abjcdc ; and iroiu that time his name is identified with the West. A bright professional career opens before him. The illnstiious \V ashington, ever alive to the promotion of talent, is made acquainted wilh the n.an in all the West u.cst lue hiri.se.f, ai.d he commissions Andrew Jackson as an Attorney of the United States. And now the star of empire takes its way -westward. The waves of emigratic-n are over-leaping the Alle- ghanies pouring down their sides encirciing the lakes ascending the streams over-spreading the prairies. 'Ihe reckless and roving, lh.3 tumultuous and daring are crowding by tens of thousands to the rivers of the West. Who can mould these vvi.d elements into the edifice of Freedom? Who can make them subserve a nation's interests? Who but Jackson, the greatest of the emigrants the chief of the pion eers? He can construct thl fabric of society out of wounded and Andrew receives a sword cut on arm. Little did the British officer imagine, that the adventure and make it subservient to a nation's pro- boy whom he had so cruelly wounded, was destined gress and power. In the centre of the W'est he will to scatter an army whose iron tramp had shaken a stand like the master builder of a temple, and the co- continent. No one could tell that an intellect slum- ' ' -* -* -" --- ' "- bered in the boy of the Waxaw settlement which would cause the name of Andrew Jackson to be in scribed on glory's imperishable tablet. Hi-; mother strives with ceaseless effort to relieve the prisoners. Worn down by fatigue and heart bro ken by tho death of her elder son, she soon falls a victim to her sorrows and toils; but not till she had written upon the heart of her surviving warrior a les son which will make the volume of his own life a leg acy to his country and the world. The war closed. And now he is in th*,- world without a near relative on the wide, wide sea of life. Gallant young sailor! on life's ocean launching thy bark alone. Well mavost thou dare tho elements, lor shnuldst thou sink, there ii not a kindred eye to see thy struggle, or a fond heart to be broken by thy fall' Pleasure, which to an old man is an empty sound, has attractions for the young, and to tho syren voice of that charmer ho listened till he had wasted his scan ty patrruony. And now ho is left destitute, and the chart and the compass of life seem to be thrown awa v. But is thore thou no guide? Is there no beacon light visible to tho mind's eye? Thanks to Memory, the teachings of a mothor are never lost. Amidst the clamors of folly, rn the mazes of pleasure, a still small voica comes up from a mother'.-' grave, :md with more than earthly eloquence bids us ren:en,h'-r that such an one as she has lived and died. It scr-ms to bo a liv ing murmur from that fountain of allertion which in life is not made bittor evm by ingratitude and is nev er exhausted by forgiveness. To tho melody of that voice the future statesman listens. He pauses and reflects he resolves and his .studies are resumed. In 1786 he was admitted to the bar. At that time the country was recovering from the shock ef the rev olution. Commerce, industry and tho arts had reviv ed. Standing solitary and alone, innumerable diffi culties rising around him, every endearing recollection of hi native state blotted out by the death of all his near relatives, the intrepid orphan turns his eyes to the young West. There he beholds a theatre wor thy of his hopes and his conscious power. Wih char- materials like these. He will direct the wild spirit of lussal structure will rise around him with the majestic proportions of his own character with the massive strength and solid grandeur of his own glory. W hen the Indians attack the settlements he is once more a soldier. How quickly the forts are garrisoned and the enemy repulsed. Meanwhile his talents have secured him a distinguished standing with all classes, and when the territory is ready to became a State he is chosen a member of the convention to frame a con stitution. On that instrument, so distinguished by- sound views and liberal provisions, the broad seal oY his character is stamped. Ho had now become more widely appreciated and it was resolved to raise him to the highest station Accordingly he was elected the single representative of the State in Congress and the next year a Senator of the United States. But he is already tired of office and its burdens He leaves the Senate and is appoint ed a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State. Still longing for retirement, he resigns his seat on the bench and bids adieu to public life. Ihus at the aae nf forty-five, we find him relinquishing those distinctions which youth often covets and to which manhood i seldom mdtllerent. That he might be where the cares of public lift, could not intrude, he removes a few miles from Nash yi Ic and devotes himself to the life of " 1 here, on the beautiful banks of the where the bine ridges of the Alleghanies There he will retire from e.st station in the world. jnd there will tho child be kd, i Rafter "ather's There his ashes will repose" "~ ~ fl ~ " y the * grave patriotism while beading over the the Hermitage. ^ h 4rZ C r tei " plat u therCtlremeDt of Ja, Wfcg beauty gather? around the subject of of the department of war; "but the g aware of the importance of fectiou and Friendship Nature with her bloom and beauty Honor with its dignity Experience with its wisdom all attend upon the scene of his repose. Yet it is a hero whom we contemplate, and one who can hear the call of his country in the deepest solitudes of nature. The field officers of his division have elected him a general, and the war with Great Britain rouses him from retirement. The President, Madison, to meet the exigencies of the occasion, issued his call for fifty thousand volunteers. General Jackson addressed the citizens of his division, and twenty-five hundred men flew to his standard. Putting himself at their head they descend the Mississippi, like its own deluge of wa ters as sudden, as overwhelming and as sure. This expedition was rendered fruitless by orders from the pvernment has become importance 'of his services. So he is commissioned a Major General in theaimy of the Un ion, and appointed to the defence of the South. Ever victorious, he seems to be led by the hand of Destiny. Whenever he appears waving his troops forward with his avenging sword, he seems like one commissioned to execute the will of Heaven. When mutiny arrays his own soldiers against him, he confronts them alone and with a single musket conquers his owa troops, that with them he might conquer the enemy. At length the eighth of January dawns. Before him are the pride of England and the conquerors of Europe. You know how they were formed in solid column and advanced how the mists of the valley rose and discovered them near what cheers rent the air what vollies succeeded vivid as lightning in stantaneous as thunder what carnage ensued and how the pride of valor and the flower of chivalry re coiled before the man of the iron will the injured boy of the Waxaw settlement. With that day the towering hopes of the enemy fell and the last wave of invasion rolled back from our shores. I shall not dwell upon New Orleans. It is a brill iant theme it is a household word. I shall hardly mention the campaigns against the Creeks and Semin- oles, although it was in these, more than any where else, that Jackson displayed the qualities of a gener al. I love rather to trace him again to retirement where he lives, blessed in domestic life and social in tercourse surrounded by friends rich in a nation's gratitude venerated by all. What a theme for med itation will his own deeds afford him ! By his prow ess a city has been saved Sedition'has been awed Beauty has been rescued, and Beauty, with express ive sentiment, has strown the hero's path with flowers. Woman, ever grateful to her brave deliverers, and in her judgment of men seldom wrong woman, to her praise be it spoken-has generally rendered justice to the saviour of New Orleans. Not entangled in the conflict of parties, she has been able in her quiet sphere, to look away from the prejudices of the hour, and from her heart of hearts to pay a spontaneous tribute of praise. She was the first to feel a new security in his appear ance before New Orleans, when he came, amidst de pression and gloom, as the defender of the South a rainbow of promise, arching the van of a storm. Before the battle, when his troops were defiling through the city, a crowd of the daughters of France had collected on the quay, am! were giving vieht to heir distress in erie> and tears. He called upon his lid-de-carnp, Mr. Livingston, and told him to address hem in the French language. "Say to them," said le, "not to be alarmed. The enemy shall never each the city."* These prophetic words coursed the treets like electric fire. Sorrow was ended despair vas converted into confidence and hope. All men felt all but the envious acknowledged, that a remark able military genius had been displayed in the cam- )aign which had just closed. But the war is over, and he returns to his own fields, bringing back, with fhe olive branch, a sword ,vhich was drawn only for defence and sheathed only n victory. There, in the midst of a noble and flour- shing statepre-eminent among the valiant, he stands ike a tower. At the first whisper of danger the eyes of the country will turn to him and wait in silent confidence of his genius, until the moment of action shall again arrive. The expected time is not long de- ayed. One savage tribe, the Seminoles, less injured 3Ut more cruel than the rest, are kindled up by for eign emissaries, and the crisis requires a genius rapid and creative self-confident, and at least as sagacious as the foe. All minds are turned upon Jackson. The of the Hermitage comes forth again, like a heaven-guided agent and performs the mission for the country. But it is the last of his campaigns. Just before it closes, he is prostrated by a climate where disease falls with the dews, and it is thought by hia friends that the hand of death is upon him. So he was placed on a litter and hurried back towards the groves of the Hermitage. Long before his arrival, Afiection meets him in the way. A wife a ministering angel has come to dispute a victory with the king of terrors. It is the energy of love robbing death of a triumph. . With the conquest of the relentless Seminoles, the military career of Jackson closed. He now looks around upon a country flourishing beyond example at peace with the whole world. Ambition, for he had an honorable ambition, has been satisfied fame is secure ; and in the shades of retirement he will pass the evening of life. He will not be tempted forth to those fields of adventure where man always sees the blossom of joy but never reaps the fruit. Withdrawn from office and its cares, pleased with seclusion and bound to it by a thousand endearments, nothing seems wanting to complete that happiness which is often sought but seldom found on the mountain tops of ex alted station and in the perplexing maze of public cares. But what voice is that which calls him forth to mingle yet again in the stir of life? It is the voice of Tennessee, calling her favorite son to the public councils; for a crisis is approaching when all the wise and true will be needed to grapple with the giant in terests which are beginning to array themselves against Freedom. It is soon found that a leader is required one who will personate in himself the masses of the country ; and from the floor of the Senate he is select ed to lead a contest which closed with his election to the Presidency, and closed the life of his wife. Dur ing the long strife of parties, she had been keenly ex cited by the constant reproaches which were so freely bestowed, and had exhibited throughout the canvass an unnatural strength and vivacity. But when victo- * Cobbett's Life of Jackson, page 95. ry declared fur the side which she thought \\:M right, the golden bowl was found to be broken, siou of success snapped the cords of life. The revul- Sothe vine falls from around the oak, for the storm which the oak withstood has withered the vine. She was buried at the Hermitage. And long after that, when the hero himself drew near his end and a friend offered to give him kingly burial, away from her side, you know his beautiful reply. "I cannot per mit my remains to be the first in these United States to be deposited in a sarcophagus made for an Empe ror or friend. I have prepared a humble depository for my mortal body, beside that wherein lies rny be loved wife; where without any pomp or parade, 1 have requested, when my God calls me to sleep \\ith my fathers, to be laid; for both of us there to remain. until the last trumpet sounds to call the dead to judg ment when we, I hope shall rise together, clothed with that heavenly body promised to all who believe in our glorious Redeemer who died for us that we might live and by whose atonement I hope for a blessed immortal ity." In no way could personal respect be more cour teously shown than in the oiler which had been made of a monarch's tomb to the Kx-Presideiit of a Republic But ah, there wag a spot, clad only in summer verdur and guarded only by angels, over which none but the moon and stars keep nightly vigils, yet far dearer t< him than the tomb of a monarch and all the magnifi cence of a monarch's burial. It was there that the hero had laid down what he most loved and then he wished to belaid, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, with the object of youthful attachment; when; no storied uro, or sculptured pile, or ever burning taper might perpetuate the empty pageantry of regal power. It is not the statesman or the ambitious ruler that -peaks in his reply. It is tha man, wishing with the simplicity of a forest-child, that they who in life were united, in death might not be divided; but that hearts which had participated in the same affections and \irtues. the same joys and sorrows, miiht share the same re pose and awaken together to the same immortality. When we turn to the civil career of Jackson, a broad field is opened before us. It was an adminis tration full of violent collisions and heated controver sies. All felt that a strong hand had taken hold of the management of affairs. An antagonist a\-t>-m \vas arrayed in opposition from the beginin^; and though its interests were powerfully represented, yet when they rushed against him, they were met by an iron will that could no mare be shaken thrtn tin; pillars of the capitol. As well might the breakers roar against a castle that frowns from a rock over a temp'-stnous M*. Unbending integrity watched over the, nation's inter ests. Yet his wasaa administration calculated to eij- list the enthusiastic support of friends and the undy ing hostility of foes. It made n compromises. It turned not aside frem the fixed lino of duty. that was clear, Jackson seemed alike, indiderent to censure and praise. To all foreign nations alike he presented that simple rule of his own "ask nothiu" t n( , A that is not clearly right and submit to nothing wrong." I O f tne state, South Carolina, goaded by wrongs that made the central government cease to be a blessing, array ed herself against the union, it became his duty to compel submission. But the chivalrous Carolina.her- self the injured party, must be treated with the high consideration due to genius and patriotism. She is no worthless foe to be trampled on with indifference or crushed by blind force. Although the President can wield against a dissenting state the whole force of the Union, he resorts to no menace until Carolina has had a full hearing before the country and the world. And after the country has pronounced against her, still he entreats and remonstrates. "There is yet time," said he to the Carolinians, "there is yet time to show that the descendents of the Pinckneys, the Sumpters, the Rutledges, and the thousand other names which adorn your revolu tionary history will not abandon that Union, to support which so many of them fought, and bled, and died. I adjure yon", scid he, "as you honor their memory, as you love the cause of freedom, to which they dedicated their lives, as you prize the peace of your country, the lives of its best citizens, and your own fair fame, "to re trace your steps. Snatch from the archives of your Stale the disorganizing edict of its convention. 'Bid ils members to reassemble and promulgate the decided expressions of your will to remain in the path which can alone conduct you to safety, prosperity and honor. Tell them that, compared to disunion, all other evils are light, because that brings with it an accumulation of all. Declare that you will never take the field unless the star spangled banner of your country shall float over you that yon will not be stigmatized when dead, and dishon- jred and scorned while you live, as the authors of the irst attack upon the constitution of your country." Thus the President entreats, thus he clings to :he hope of reconciliation to the last. But when re- nonstrance has failed and argument is closed, he rises in the majesty of his determined purpose, and vlnle his eye flashes unwonted fire, from his lips drop hose golden words "The Federal Union it must be )rcserved." Thp. ntmnnL.<> v.-;ii<. * *i i he national pulse thrills to the words; ind Ihe loud chorus ofa nation's approbation, swelling from the whole circumference of the union, pronoun- :es with final judgment, "the Union must be preserv- I cannot forbear to mention one other occasion which is familiar to all; when, menaced on every hand by opposition, deserted by the timid and waver ing, every act of his public life misreresented an motives assailed, he stood collected in himself 'midst turbulence' and disorder and threats of ruin' ;e a motionless rock in mid ooean,that rears its ma-' stic head above the waters and stands unmoved bv the fury of the storm. Time has wromrht n,,t problem which was then unsolved and the wrought out the .i ;. - - . "J*V-HVM icdsun. fetters of antiquated precedent and tyranny of custom, he came to the chair By the steady presentment of this grand maxim to "the! "J "i^ *?? the bouild g step and buoy- world, long arrears of claims withheld were adjusted, I JJ t ^S? 6 of fr ? edoin 's son. Jt was a post of and in every instance peace was preserved. minds Y^t h' ^ en ^ ed by the In his internal administration of the government the courts, full of ---- ' ^ m - c . an 'P s mor e than same fixed principle? are apparent. When his native ages almost ii which would make him known in the oldest courts of Europe as the first of American statesmen. This man, who had made his home in western wilds, where the rank atmosphere of a city was never breathed and the din of commerce was never heard, was to point Industry to new fields, Trade to new enterprises Commerce to a career which would freight her ships with the wealth of lands yet unexplored, and would cause the American tar to repose under the stripes and stars of his country, in every sea, with a security hitherto unfelt and unknown. This man's name was to become a fortress to the friends of liberty through out the world. The science of legislation is not always taught in schools. In sudden emergencies, when strong minds were apalled by obstacles which Experience had nev er seen and could not weigh, his native judgment brought forth a doctrine of universal application. Amidst embarrassments where theory was confounded and learning could furnish no rule of action, his com prehensive rnind developed a principle always in ad vance of received opinions,but founded in reason and always leading to practical and satisfactory results. When a complication of financial dfficulties envelop ed his friends in a labyrinth from which there seemed to be no escape, and all were groping in darkness, he was the first to discover a thread which led back again to the light of day. It was not when sailing on summer seas that his true character appeared. But when winds were loud and waves rolled high, his mastering spirit rose superior to the elements, curbed their wild play and produced a calm. Never did his eagle eye discover the path of duty so clearly as when clouds were gath ering and the hearts of men were failing them for fear. So it is ever with true greatness. In a whirlwind where weakness is swept away, the fires of genius are only kindled to a blaze. It is known that in Indian warfare the great obsta cle to success and that which baffles the ablest com manders is the dih'culty of bringing the enemy to a gene ral battle. His sagacity readily overcame this difficulty. By a series of skilful manoeuvres he induced tha Indians to collect their forces and hazard a general engage ment; and the result of every battle in which he was engaged with them shewed not merely the superiority of h; white rnanand the ability of the commander, but illustrated the power of Civilization to cope success fully with Barbarism and brought the Indians to trace in every setting sun a type and a symbol of their doom. In the more peaceful fields of legislation a similar success attended him. His mind was tuned in per fect harmony with American intelligence and Amer ican sentiment: He understood the wants of the country, knew the feelings of the people, and foresaw wh-it would be their ultimate views of a measure, which in its present operation, appeared to be in con flict with their interests. Thus with a calm reliance on the people, he was always busy with some great ! experiment, always "From present evil still deducing good." He was the friend of industry, the friend of the emi grant and the settler, the unwavering protector of the interests of Labor. Long will the faee of honest Toil be lighted up with a kindly glow at the mention of) his name and his deeds will be rehearsed with delight in the lowly cabin of every pioneer. Legislators! who have seen his wisdom! Vet erans! who have fought by his side! peaceful citi zens! who have been guarded by his vigilance! You can all attest that I have paid no undeserved tribute to his memory. And thou, wide-spreading Com merce! Arts! that flourish in the shadow of peace! Agriculture! with flocks upon a thousand hills! If you could speak you would all say that in the man whom we now deplore, you have lost a benefactor and a friend. But what, after all, was the chief cause of his un precedented influence over the public mind? It was this. The people believed him honest. That was the secret of his sway over public opinion. Thus pop ularity, the most fickle of all the possessions of great men, was to him as steady as his integriry, as uni form as the purity of his life. But I will not consider his public measures further lest I should trespass upon the proprieties of this occasion. Those who differ from him in opinion will bear me witness that his motives were uniformly right. The truly great and magnanimous among his opponents admit the integrity of his opinions and the freedom and sincerity with which they were always expressed. But it is in his own language that his vindication is most ap propriately made. He had been accused of unhallow ed ambition arid thus made answer to the charge. "No ! the ambition which leads me on, is an anxious desire and a fixed determination to restore to the peo ple unimpaired, the sacred trust confided to my charge to persuade my countrymen so far as I may, that it is not in a splendid government supported by power ful monopolies and aristocratical establishments that they will find happiness, or their liberties protection; but in a plain system, void of pomp protecting all and granting favors to none dispensing its blessings,, like the dews of heaven, unseen and unfelt, save in the freshness and beauty they contribute to produce. It is such a government that the genius of our people requires such an one only, under which our State* may remain for ages to come, united, prosperous and free. If the Almighty Being, who has hitherto sus tained and protected rne, will but vouchsafe to make- my feeble powers instrumental to such a result, I shall anticipate, with pleasure, the place to be assign ed me in the history ot my country, and die contented with the belief, that I have contributed, in some small degree to increase the value and prolong the duration of American Liberty." Before he had thus vindicated himself he was elect- d to preside over the Republic for a second term. For eight years he guided the ship of State sounding all the depths and shoals of political life and encounter ing its storms. At last the venerable pilot is obliged to seek the haven of rest. He comes from the deep,the aged mariner, with broken health and decaying frame like the wreck of a once gallant ship, which floats to- the shore with riven beams and shattered sails, to drop down piecemeal and perish on the strand. On the occasion of his departure from Washington, two skill ful mechanics, representatives of the industry of the land, desiring to testify their admiration,constructed a carriage from the timbers of the ship Constitution, the "Iron-sides," of the war, and brought it to the Lx- as a git' i that in this h might I-.; conveyed to the hermitage. What mure fitting con veyance could be offered to bear the wreck of an old soldier to his last rest. Just before waving adieu at the Capital he publish ed h'n farewell address to the country. You remem ber the clo-iinir passage "Mv own race is nearlv run. Advanced age and upon the face of an old man a mortal? lurn yum eyes to the enchanting picture of Liberty, and kmdie into rapture while you gaze. Then turn to your sub jects and break the yoke of oppression. Compare your unequal and complex systems with the simple and fair government of the Republic. Dare to be just. Take off the shackles of ancient bondage; for I would rather be in a shepherd's cot where Lib erty and God reside, than adorn a palace with marble courts where the mind is in chains. The incident which I have just mentioned brings me to the death bed of General Jackson. A few days before his last, his symptoms grew more alarm ing and it was apparent that his dissolution was near athand. The lamp of life began to glimmer in its socket. Yet his intellect remained unclouded. He knew that death was near and could see distinctly the filing sands of his last hour. Finally, on the eighth of June, at the close of a summer's sabbath day, fit emblem of his life's calm close, about the hour of six, when the sun was nearing the gates of the west, the hero passed away like that sun, the glittering dews of morning failing" health warn me that before long, I must pass beyond the reach of human events and cease to feel issitudes of human affairs. I thank God that my lit'.- has b -en sp -nt in a land of liberty, and that h: : has giv.Mi me a h -art to love my country with the affection of a son. Filled with gratitude for your con- Mid unwavering kindness 1 bid you a laat and Farewell." Thus the chiefii.ui departed. His work is finished, his errand is dor, e. lie returns once more to the sanctuary of the hermitage i~[>;i'i.l out life's taper to tho close, the flame from wasting as it <>" a proud speci the setting sun, with the sure promise of a glorious rising and a heavenly day, and not like a light, which, kindled by less than an almighty mind,is lostin a night that kncws no dawning, in a grave on whose gloomy portal the light of hope never shines. It was the f.tith of Jackson that the soul of man is menof the arts of our country and a faithful likeness of j immortal, that the body may perish but the in- him who raised that country to the highest pinnacle of tellcct survives that the soul lives in eternal youth earthly glory. On tin- lineaments of that noble face kiu^s and potentates will z 17." in long siicc'-s^ion, per- haps for ages to come. 'I he itOIJ of his lif: will grow familiar to them, and with it our history, and if they and endless progress. To his capacious mind the harmony of the spheres, the stars in their courses and the order of the seasons were so many evidences of a creative hand. A Divinity seemed to stir within can find nothing in our free institutions and principles him the ennobling sentiment of the soul's immortality, of civil liberty to venerate and admin-, tl..-\ will rev- H believed it, not because Cicero had spoken it, not erence America because it is tlv land of .1 ur'tson. [because Plato and Socrates taught it, but because a It will be no small praise to American art, if this greater than Socrates, the Eternal had written it. painting is thought worthy to adorn the same gallery where the heaven-guided pencil of David has drawn the face of Napoleon in colors that almost make the He regarded Christianity as the greatest boon of Heaven to the pilgrims of a day. When his eye grew dim, he traveled by its light. When his strength canvass breathe and the walls to seem instinct with failed he labored in its 'hope. And when his work life. If the silent face of our hero could speak there, was finished, when he had done all that he could for would it not say, Princes and rulers! W hy look ye his country and mankind,in full confidence of a better life the illustrious soldier departed. Consoled by his exalting tfnth, we will believe that the riling orb *Heal v . which hu=; sot in our sky ou!) hastens to another morn- : forgot lo pay homage to the Mo:,t High. Washing- ing and rises in the horizon of a higher sphere. ton moved through life with the high consciousness of A morion na nnr ahip'fl iti wrir mir {Tinnf* in Americans, our shield in war, our guide in peace is no more. Jackson is gone, but his memory lives, our hearts. It lives in the .-Inch he has left to our coun- It lives embalmed long train of b!essin try. It can never die never until man forgets his benefactors and ceases to bestow applause upon virtue. Time, in removing him farther from our view, will only increase the lustre of his fame, as the future accountability Jackson was sustained in death by the lively hope of a glorious immortality. Hu mility was the constant ornament of Washington, and there is no appearance of ostentation in the whole ca reer of Jackson. It was the fortune of Washington to lay the foundations of our Temple of Liberty. It was the fortune of Jackson to stand like the angel at gate of Paradise and guard the entrance with his sun shines with a growing effulgence at his setting and | flaming sword. Washington was the father Jack- shews his broadest circumference when his fires begin j son the saviour of his country. Both lived like patri to tinge the mountain top that is to hide him from our view. Shall I open the volume of history and compare Jackson with the heroes of past ages? Shall I say that he resembled Epaminondas, in unsullied patriot ism Hannibal, in vigor Caesar, in rapidity of thought and power of combination? Shall I say that he was like the good Aurelius in private virtue, and Cincin- natus in the love of retirement? No, I will not com pare him with the heroes of the past. But there is a name one immortal name one hallowed name, that furnishes a parallel. I would blend the re nown of Jackson with the mild glory of Washington. Of each it may be said, he lives but once in an age. Each had "A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to act his seal, To give the world assurance of a man." Washington, with Spartan virtue, resigned a victori ous sword and retired from a triumph. Jackson, with Roman firmness, met the assaults of corruption, struck dismay to the heart of Treason and periled fame and interest in the cause of national reform. Washington invested Freedom with every attribute that could win the affection of the citizen, or command the respect of the world. Jackson founded our national policy in immutable principles of justice, established an indisso luble union between the virtue and happiness of a peo ple, and taught the rulers of the earth that national good faith was the only condition on which the peace of the world could remain unbroken. The steady policy of Washington was never shaken by the turbu lence of Faction. The firm administration of Jackson was never moved by the hoarse clamors of Avarice. Both were* lovers of fame,but made it subordinate to the general interests of humanity. Both were endowed with the tumultuous passions that always accompany greatness and sometimes mar its lustre. Both were free from those petty vices that often disfigure the finest characters in history. Washington, like the sun, rose amidst a chaos of jarring states and discordant inter ests, and all moved around him in harmonious con cert. Jackson, like the magnet, drew all elements to himself, and made the remotest sections of the repub lic vibrate to a central attraction, which drew together and united in one bond of union the interests and wishes, the patriotism and enthiftiasm of a great na tion. Both were influenced by a permanent and op erative principle of religion. Jackson always ac knowledged an over-ruling Power Washington never ots and died like men. Washington, in his day, was first in war, first in peace andjlrst in the hearts of his countrymen Jackson filled the measure of his country's glory. And hereafter the true American will find it difficult to determine whether his patriotic emotions are more strongly awakened at the tomb of Mount Vernon, or the grave of the Hermitage. Let me take a last view of him whose death is a nation's bereavement. Once arraigned before an earthly tri bunal, he has gone to the higher tribunal of the world. There nothing will be extenuated, or aught set down in malice; and whether he was condemned for an act of duty and others were wrong, God will judge. He sleeps in the cold, silent grave. Those facul ties which have been so long and so successfully ex erted for our benefit, are quenched in death. The strong arm that defended us lies mouldering in the dust. The tongue is mute the lips are sealed. The eye which has so often watched, even in retirement, for a nation's safety, is closed forever. Do you ask now, if this man of so chequered a life, was without a fault? That I will not answer. The voice of censure must not be heard at the grave. There errors are forgotten Revenge is satisfied Re sentment dies. If he had a fault, and who has not, Charity, with her mantle, shall cover it. If there was a stain upon that bright escutcheon, tears such as angels weep shall blot it out. In dews that distil from the Heaven where Mercy holds her seat, the stain shall be washed away. Come then, Americana, gather around the grave of your hero. Listen to its sublime teachings. Treas ure them up for yourselves. And would you leave something to your children more precious than riches, teach them the example of Jackson. Low in the grave, beside the loved and lost, his mortal remains decay. But in his life and in his death there is a grandeur that defies decay there is a beauty which will only grow more beautiful in the lapse of ages. Long after the monumental marble shall crumble and the cypress that shadows his rest shall fall, History will carry the bright record of his deeds to posterity, painting and sculpture will blazen them forth; bards will sing them to other times, and the name of Jack son will be revered, even in those distant barbarous lands, where nothing is now known of America save the name of Washington. Lithomount Pamphlet Binder Gay lord Bros. ' Makers Stockton, Calif. PAT. JAN. 21, 1908