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Lit os mark the effect of the discovery s all cal calculator" of what has been produced by genius, constitute greatness; Unnecessary that there should' ly engaged in fulfilling the duties of his command 1 ~ - — —'• - - ■ ^ - tall co ,. _ - . --- - o-.-.—, 1 . wirjTrT.mil! ;:—rr—r — . ~ r —„„ of the militia that our freedom dc- this necessary effort to supply tho troops with food,, dignity at the Hermitage, and taking at the time myj afforded us by nature, is, in tho grand economy of its finds. Ah outbreak on the part of the Creek na- was alone perfectly collected. Calling a halt, he : first lesson* in the science of the Heavenly bodies, I i operations, definitely assigned or. not, is a question tion soon put General Jackson’s assiduity to the test, directed the orderly to muster Uio men—eee that all ; could not refrain, when called npon for a toast, to j which men differ upon, and will continue to do so; so At the head of the Tennessco troops be marched un wore present, and state, that if at camp a single, cry out, with a feeling, almost of inspiration, for 1 by wh^uroceases we reach our destiny, ayi come to on tho Indian frontier. Oh how soon did he find absentee was found who hod not been shutdown by {there were many around who began already to see! fulfil tfloduties specifically appropriated to us, if they that military attainment alone was not sufficient; .1 -1—,J„, a giant in the path of their ambition—" Gen. Andrew j really are, is not more successfully attempted to be this could only be known by hard blows and daring Jackson—like Jupiter, we behold him revolving in j solved. General Jackson at all events, although his j action. Martinets may be found outranking talent; his retired orbit, unsullied by the faint assaults of aspiring spirit would not tamely submit to tho serin- J jealousies may bo found disturbing tins' im&pensn- «•“ ‘r-!~ *» - *• «* XIJUIAltC ’ <■ 'j'r.c lives of great men all remind us, \Vc can make our lives sublime. Ami, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. Foot-tops, tiiat, perhaps another, Sailing o'er iiic's solemn main, A jorlorn and shipwreck’d brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.” tViil your children; the sons of tho Republic, I iavc a different aim. The Fathers of the Revolu- •.on consecrated our glorious Fourth to the hearing n j i^ndering over sublime traits of character, and j>Mc diet Is of daring, tiiat tlie fire of genuine chival- r, mayhe ever kept ulive, and tho pre-eminence of ;r .ocial and political relations made rather to dc- don this virtue in our people than upon the ssnltr. of low intrigue or cold calculation. May I ructroJ ia achieving something on the present oc- siofl in furtherance of tliis liigli object. Put mere was another reason for the establish ment of this, our great National Jubilee. This was, o to have portrayed the immediate acts of greatness a, t| H y shall Item time to time occur, as to furnish ti c best guides, by which to direct future gencra- in tue management of all matters of political import If I fail in these eflbrts, with the life of Andrew Jackson licfore me, it will be my fault, not !:.it of the Hero of both the battle-field and the ouncil chamber. In Fi lecting from the life of one who was con- fianlly engaged in the onward enterprise of a young iud energetic people, it is difficult to fix upon the exact trait which would indicato to all alike the meet index to tho true character. That which suuld strike me as most decisive would perhaps altogether escape another. It is to tho taste of tlio individual selecting, that the choice must at last lelong. With myself the little urchin of the interior ■f Snath Carolina, a province at the time, or if not, the hoy educated in tho iinliiU of the provincial, refusing most peremptorily to black the boots of an itigust officer of his majesty; the officer with sword Irawn and raised to striko him; presents tho most distinguishing trait in the disposition of our great licit min; determination—indomitable determina tion. Fathers of America, teach tliis trait to your hiidren; mothers of the Republic, look for it in your sons; and while on the one hand you watch its too great frowardness, on the other repine not at its idle inconveniences, for it alone makes for your country emulators of the invincible Jackson. If I he wrong, let me select a second in the cata logue of greatness which lays before me; disinter estedness <f self. The man who could achieve so much fr.r his country—who could labor so hard and fo Ion? in her cause, must have possessed tliis noble qiui.ty. Let us mark it in its first decisive exhibi ts. A recent emigrant to the new State of Ten' nowe at the time, an ill treated wife was presented iniui her distress to the-sympathies of a group of young practicing atlqjnrys. Most looked on with indifference. Andrew Jackson alone sprung for ward, awl offered every assurance of protection. His own conscience asserting the right, he placed all the formulary of civilized society, which bad been attempted to be engrafted upon uncivilized, at defiance; and in shielding from brutal oppression the person of a delicate female, in the end won for himself a wile, who richly repaid him in a long life u domestic happiness for tliis daring act of youthful gallantry. I claim from the fair sex of America a pari.mil for the youth who shall ever prove a shield to female innocence, let her bo found the victim of him iwho takes her cither from or to society to im, pom upon her helplessness. Am I still at fault J Why then let me set before ray countrymen the example of Jackson as one who knew cheerfully how to obey the call to public scr- viee, both civil and military. It is a high and dis- tmguishing evidence of disinterestedness; and wo Hud it most forcibly traced in every line of the life of our long to be cWished soldier and statesman. What bait an invalid of Tennessee to do with the invasion of the Gulf States ? It is idle to refer bark to the ilia of his boyhood as sufficient cause to urge him to the field. It is equally so to attribute it to the reckless ambition of a fiery spirit as evinced in the second trait to which I have alluded. It was neither of these. Andrew Jackson took the field liecausc tho interest of the country required it; and while there evinced tiiat exact idea of duty which must ever characterize the well disciplined or disin terested will. Rut it may not be enough to point out evidences of determination and of disinterestedness. To con stitute a hero there is at least one other quality to be superadded, which can alone give efficiency to the rest I mean bravery. It was the moral courage of Andrew Jackson which made him the idol of a whole nation—which made him the respected of the whole world. Now will I take him at the bead of a refractory army, quelling rebellion by hia own turn; now in the unhappy issues which he waa at times obliged to submit to in hia connexion with a w orld that will undertake to settle its own attain of honor as they are called, to prove hia bravery. I will 1-lace hfm foremost in a foraging party in the wilda of Alabama: the Indiaim occupying the surround- mg country, and his own troops afraid to obtain the supplies which the forests afforded, although they were m want of the common necessaries-of life. l*t us suppose the fudge ended, or bring the party within a lew miles of carup on its return, the sun being about set. Let ist at a certain point of the valley directing their march homeward, discover * sudden the hills which shitted it, thickset with the fcr instant death upon his reaching the tanks. The effect was electrick; an unit of forco was created, which, not only maintained perfect onlcr on the march, but so surprised the enemy as entirely to keep them at bay. Determination—disinterestedness—bravery; give me these united in any one individual, and we must how down to him “ were our knees of brass,” as a great man—as a ruler of his own age—as a model ol all future, ages. That these were the prominent points in the character of General Jackson, I have just shewn; tiiat ho realized by them the homage of which I have spoken, there is os little doubt; that he will be upheld as the pattern of our youth in all Uio offices of public and of private life, in peace and in war, can with as little propriety be questioned. But traits of character do not alone constitute great ness ; there must be genius—there must be talent highly improved. It ia not the disposition alone, but the disposition and intellect combined which make up the whole man. Unquestionably! and willingly do we enter upon the history of tho depart ed cliicltain and sage, to trace, as we have already done those evidences of mind which best comported with so noble a heart. First then as to tho deter mination which led the son of an Irish Emigrant widow, uot affluent in circumstances, to the study and practice of law in the new Stare of the West, rather than till the fields of the less enterprising State of his birth. Was this not an indication of genius—a fire within tiiat would net be quenched save by burning out 7 I at least, regard this as the best proof of an aspiring intellect. In a country like ours, where tlic avenues to preferment are left open to all, I like to trace in the countenance even of the schoolboy, who ploughs to-day and spells to morrow Uio daring idea that he might be President of the United States; and thanks to the history of our country, there arc many who, if they have not actually fulfilled this exalted destiny, secured to us by the wisdom of our forefathers, have been greatly instrumental in giving effect to tlic administration of those who have; for wlint man thoroughly imbued with the spirit of self-help, but surrounds himself, when called upon to assume important responsibili ties, with confident souls like Ids own. But why dwell upon tho question of General Jackson’s gen every step in life evinces tliis pre-eminent quality; tho quality of graspiug only upon those tilings which are grandest, most important and most pervading in their nature. See him issuing seventy writs tlic first day be entered upon bis legal prac tice in tlic courts of Tennessee; and why I because ho regarded tlic law as the most sacred palladium of our liberties; all tilings being weak indeed tiiat are not based upon the principle of justice. See him marching back to their proper muster ground an army of men, of whom lie suspected the general government of desiring to take advantage; and read his letter to the Secretary of War, charging him With having lost his pro-eminent claim of being the supporter of the rights of the dependent soldier.— Ilis eye of genius saw at a glance, that if the object of the department were accomplished, and the regu lar array reinforced by ncccssiluous individuals, that instead of the chivalry of tho citizen soldier, which his experience in the revolution had taught him to respect far more than tiiat of tlic mercenary veteran —a chivalry in fact upon which our very institutions depend; lie should be the instrument of inflicting a deadly wound upon the interests of the country.— lie determined to offer himself as a sacrifice rather. Take him in the field of diplomacy, when directed by the government to negotiate with full powers with the authorities of Spain. He had no sooner discovered tho duplicity of tho functionaries who rule over this unfortunate people; and farther, their inefficiency as a government from their instability at home, than he advised the Secretaiy to force them into measures, and lost no time to carry his advice into effect; warning the party in opposition, tiiat it must he taught what it was to tamper with tho rights anil reputation of a nation of freemen. All arc ac quainted in the buttlo field with his coup d’oeil, whether in subduing the viudictivo treacherous savage, circumventing him in ambushes, or bayonet ing bins from his fortre.-sca.—Or in opposition to the veteran ticops of the Fcnintnla war. It makes no difference to genius what is brought to oppose its object; all are alike obstacles to be overcome, and his invidious satellites.” The factions of petty poli ticians who even began then to effect the move ments of our government, had failed to reward him with the prime command of our peace establishment; because perchance his laurels had not been made to bloom in a northern atmosphere; or because be would not bend to every breath of special policy; or because the people of the West were not tho bone and sinew then of the Republic, and could not sound the merits of their chief with sufficiently loud clarion. At all events he was lost to the ranks of the regular army, and was to my young imagination, there, the imple farmer; the ploughman perchance of his own seven acres. It was a glorious sight to the young soldier of tho Republic—it read a grand lesson on the subject of a soldier’s office: “ in war the tiger, in peace the lamb.” But if I do leave the field of Orleans, are there none others ift which to find the traces of General Jackson’s geniust We have alluded to tho retire ment of tlic Hermitage os a fit sequel to the achieve ments of his public life; could the justice or wisdom of government fail to acknowledge the law that nothing at all-valuable can in seven years be want ing to the demands of usefulness. At any rate it was not the case with tho man, who, the more the nation dwelt on his merits, the more it found to approve. Negotiations with the Spanish govern ment were on foot for the Fioridas.—The Seminole tribes were infesting the borders adjacent to these territories. Who but the dcplomatist who told the Governor of Pensacola a few years before, “ that all farther discussion should be carried on by the mouth of his cannon,” was calculated to conduct the first; who but the chieftain, who had subdued nation after nation of onr Indian toes, to conduct the second. General Jackson was sent to Florida; and when I shall have Ftated a single fact in each field of entor- prize, I will leave the question, not of genius, but of consummate genius to you. First, then, the cam paign. After forced marches of twenty miles per day, unheard of in the annals of war, and particu larly through a wild and barren country, tho troops in advance came in sight of an extensivo lake. It was near night fall; tho twenty miles had been ac complished, but the General knew that tliis lako lay within five miles of the celebrated Suwancc towns, the head quarters of the enemy; and upon their ar rival at the one margin of the lake, there were a par ty of Indians seen upon the other who had instantly- taken to flight. To loose the panick which the des truction of tliis town would produce, might change tlic whole character of the war, and instead of a single night of labor and danger, they have months of both. The troops were ordered “ to halt, to un- sling knapsacks,” and in an instant after were on the march “double quick time” for the Suwannee Towns. As may be supposed the army kept pace with tlic Indian runners; at least it arrival licfore the alarm became too general, and before morning there was nothing left to tell the tale, save perhaps the pen which I now hold, for I got the incident from gallant officer of the Seminole army, Col. Gadsden, of South Carolina; the same, who, when some yeare before, was ordered by General Jackson, as his en gineer aid, “to march him to Pensacola,” asked him for the route; “ route,” exclaimed the determined mind, “ why, have yon no compass 1” An old sea man’s compass was accordingly screwed by Col. Gadsden into the pummel of his saddle, and thus was a distance of some hundreds of miles overcome by an army, with no other mark or trace through the wild woods than an old mariners compass.— What was the result of the brilliant mark of genius to which I allude as connected with the Seminole campaign ? An immediate close of a war with a savage nation, wiiich a short time after cost our government years of hostility and millions of money to conquer. In fact, I was told myself by a military guide in Florida, that for weeks after the destruc tion of tho Seminole Towns, the Indians continued their flight—mm, women and children; and that he himself had seen lliem rushing into tho streams of Florida, not excepting the St. John’s itself, and swimming towards the extreme islands of the Pen insula, where they lived for months after in state of perfect panick. But if a single blow could silence a nation of it seizes tho best means.—His country was to be savages, why could not a single blow bring a nation protected as well from the maraudings of savage of slaves to a just appreciation of the laws of right nations as from the insolence of civilised, and he ■ and justice, or if not, to a due sense of respect for a set diligently about it But I must leave this fieldi nation of Freemen with whom they had treated. As of his action; should I stop to detail his achieve-1 may have been supposed, grants innumerable, and ments in it, I would detain you tho entire evening, j of years standing had been made of the territory of See the treasures for instance of the great cominer- 1 Floriday by the Spanish government to persons who cial mart of tho illimitable valley; not offered in! had failed to pay any attention to the claims arising barter for a disreputable peace, but heaped bale upon ! from them, but who now endeavored to assert them bale as a rampart against the enemy. See tho, by formal records. General Jackson appointed Gov- treachery of a commercial people; treacherous, be- j ernor of the new Territory, finding that the spirit of cause dealing with all nations they have enmity the treaty was shout to be frustrated by tho delay of against none, circumvented by the Immediate dc-1 tho Spanish Governor, whom he was required to clantion of martial law. See the very ermine of: relieve, did not hesitate for a second, but directed in the'judiciary, the most sacred of symbols with him as we have shewn, laid asido for a moment, that tho property and rights of the people over which it was called to preside might first be secured; and then again see him in his own person restore it in all its supremacy to its rightful power. His retirement from these glorious scenes, shew a given space of time to deliver up the public ar chives, or he should be forced to do so. Thus do we see what genius eon do in any immeigency— how much renown it brings to the possessor, and the incalculable benefit to the country to which it belongs. Wc can now begin to see with how much justice the people of the United States gloried in oven the peculiarities of genius. It has struggled an occasion to repay our noble chief with the high- hard when tho contest was hottest,—it has wastedj ost gift in their power. itself in exact proportion to the grandeur of the I will follow onr history no farther for marks of object; when tint is over, it seeks tho seclusion General Jackson’s genius, bat reserve his admirna- of its own bosom for rest—to the hallow of its own tretion as President of the United Styles for the domestic circle it flies for a renewal of its powers, second branch of onr subject, viz: “tint the deed* The spoils of victory have not been taken into ac-' of greatness serve as guides for all future genera- count for an instant by the hero. He leaves them lions, in the management of their political affairs.” to the many who can soar no farther into the ethe-1 But wc have asserted that genius alone, suited sion and drudgery of the Gum yard, and although he had adopted the only available means of making hia escape—tho study of tho law; soon found that if he were to influence the interests of his fellow man, it was to holy acts, and not by words; his lips, like Plato’s had not been tipped with honey,lint his strong arm could execute what his firmer will should actuate. But a few years, when wc take into con sideration his protracted life, Wore spent in the courts of law. From these he voluntarily retired, even although he had been rapidly promoted: tlic office of Judge of the Supreme Court of his State having been held by him. It would be scarcely then, an act of justice to look for tho proper improvement of General Jackson’s talents in the distinction which he gained as a skillful jurist or sound Judge. Besides, the career of a young politician—a favorite of the people—and withal a man not covetous in disposi tion, is too rapid—too independent, at least in a new coufitry, of the regular promotion of the courts, to allow the active mind time to acquire that stable lore, which alone gives to the talent of the counsellor its true pre-eminence. But while wc too often find, that with tho distinction which Lord Bacon draws be tween the “ expert” and “ learned man,” the descrip tion of mind to which we allude falls under the for mer catagory, “ men who can judge of particulars one by one, but who are unfit for the general coun cils, the plots, and the marshalling of affairs,” tho rule does not apply to Andrew Jackson. If he left tho courts oflaw—if he left tho Supreme bench— and still more, if be left his post at Washington as counsellor of the nation, it was not because he was wanting In tho necessary perseverance to perfect himself in cither line of duty, but because it was re vulsive to his tastes; and more satisfactory still, be cause the attractions of ah independent country life, and the endearments of a peculiarly interesting fam ily circle, had more charms for him, than tlic inces sant litigation of man with man, or the more dis tressing intrigue of politician with politician, lie who shall doubt tliis has but to behold him in the meridian of his glory, ruling tho most enlightened cabinets, swaying tho most excited Congresses, and setting aside tho most artful assumptions of the law, by his clear discernment, whenever they interfered with his principles of right and justice. It is in the career that General Jackson volunta rily assumed, that wc must test the degree of im provement to which ho brought his characteristic talent: the office of a citizen soldier—more important to his country than ever was the phalanx of a Cssur to Rome, or tho square of a Napoleon to France.— There is no doubt but that the depredations of the neighboring savages impressed upon him the impor tance of this character; and the appointment to the office of Major General of the State of Tennessee, forced upon him tho responsibility. At all events, the science, first of Indinn warfare, ami then of gen eral war, became his fort, and if success be the test of talent, he became pre-eminently distinguished. Nor was it merely in the drill and discipline of the camp tint be was signally successful, but in tho economy of Quartermaster and Commisaariate deportments, he established rule* and enforced performances, which at tho timo excited the surprise and admira tion of the whole country. In (met it is idle to dwell longer on a subject which has been only questioned by those who have accustomed themselves to regard nothing as intellectual—nothing as enlightened that does not belong to, or cminatc from tho halls of law. We have now cotno to the second and moat im portant part of out subject—the precedents set by General Jackson for the guidance of our own and all future generations—precedents that hare been all confirmed, either by the power of public opinion, or the acts of Congress, through his own unremitting vigilance; and 1 refer with triumph to the vote of the last Congress, which refunded him the petty sum wrested from him by barefaced perfidy, and for an act which alone remained to be hallowed by tho suffrage of a grateful poople. How little did those understand tho value of a Hero’s (time and example, who accused the veteran of tho Hermitage of undue self-love for urging the claim in point. When a military officer of the Republic has dared to place the arm of martial power above that of tho civil, the occasion can alone determine the necessity; and who, but the voice of the nation can determine the occasion T This was the urgent cause of hia solici tude ; and this, thanks to the outburst of applause which followed his triumph inCongress—anapplausc which ccaaod not to reverberate from every city, vil lage and hamlet, until it had reached from one ex tremity of the Union to the other, repaid him. I have dwelt more particularly on this fact, as it constitutes the brilliant point in his character of General of the Republic: and allow me fellow citi zens, to press upon yon the groat importance of this character; it is tho first great example set to his countrymen by the military hero of the first half century at least General Jackson, as I before hin ted, had been callod into the publicaervice aaa mere militiaman, and at the head of an army of volunteers, ordered to drop dotal the Mississippi. It soon ap peared that the object requiring the move had ceased to exist,andinorder todishondhia force,ho waa bro’t into contact with angular officer of the army.— Quickly did he perceive the wide difference which mast ever exist in the repablic, between those two branches of ite service] that while tho militia Gen eral could, at tho first aound of his trumpet call thou sands to hia standard, and of tho first energy of tho land, the rogidar General may be well satisfied, it, by low acts and measures, he could entrap even the mart degraded of the fartaer’s tone. This forcibly bio harmony of military maacuvre. How were these obstacles to be overcome, even where the forco acting should be entirely militia T One course alette. Organize the army movement so that cue head shall be alone recognized; that bead supreme in all things appertaining to the district and object of the cam paign. Should it be found unequal to the dutio* cf tho post, have it depoeod, and another substituted.— General Jackson entertained no sympathy, with thoao who apprehend danger to a republic from its military Generals. He held the strong aim of the majority of twenty millions of freemen too powerful for tho most daring military revolutionist Confident in this opinion, ho conducted the Creek campaign op en it—silencing dissentient Generals—displacing crafty or inefficient agents, and promotingto respon sible stations those only who were worthy the rank of republican officers. Hie success was complete. This is the second lesson taught by the hero of tho Creek war to the freemen of all time, that a republi can General should be clothed with plenipotentiary power while conducting a military operation. These successes of our hero were now spreading over tho Union, and when a free people have a great object to attain, they arc generally found to select the best agents for it It is only in the management of mi nor matters, and where the public attention is cot aroused, that intrigue stops in and elevates its vota ries. General Jackson was now called upon by tho Federal Government to assume a new military char- rctrr, that of Major General in the regnlar army ; a Major General who should not require a recruit ing Sergeant, with ribbon, drum and fife, to fill up Iiis ranks, or worse, the necessities of a disbanded militia corps; but under whom the proudest would be proud to serve. He entered at once upon active service, and only brought It to a close before tho entrenchments of New Orleans. These brilliant achivemcnts determine tho third and last lesson under his military head of precedents, that it is from among the most experienced militia Generals ef art- public, that the Government is to find its surest reli ance in timesof foreign invasion. General Jackson himself was so satisfied of this (act, that although ho had many of his own family roared to military life at. the Federal school at West Point, none were allow ed to remain in the army, but all obliged to seek promotion in the ranks of the militia. Thcso Gen eral officers know the people—ore from the people— by no possible means can they become the bantlings of Government against the interests of tho people. It may be a startling proposition this, bnt it is one that must become a fixed principle in the action cf government, or wc loose the invaluable results cf past experience. Butl fear me that 1 shall tiro you before I set clearly forth the many important examples left by our departed great man. Remember that he not only led onr armies bnt governed onr provinces, and executed the will of this great nation as its Chief Magistrate. Let mo beg yon to bear with mn until I extract from this last field of his labors, a few examples that must be handed down forever for tho rule of all enlarged and enlightened republican com munities. General Jackson, before ho bod been el evated to the Presidency of the United States, bad neither enjoyed the advantages of foreign missions, or distinguished himself as a Federal politician; bnt ho had seen enough to know that there was a wide difference between a great people, and a great na tion : that while the one meant “the greatest hap piness of the many,” tho other meant “ the greatest wealth of the few.” He studied to comprehend clearly the causes of this difference, and why it waa that the inevitable tendency of power had ever been from the one to the other: the rights of the many concentrating in the hands of the few. The causa he found to consist in the operations of government constitutional power could he made, actually to usurp control over a real power. Who were thn instruments of this enormity; and what the object l General Jackson had been long enough in Congre.'.i in his youth to know to whom the first charge should be laid: the professional politician; a class increas ing daily in the republic; a class living beyond tho range of their par dim, and forced necessarily upon the sea of adventure. Who became of consequent*! interested copartners of this class I Hie mercan tile aDd manufacturing capitalists of the whole coun try. And why 1 Because government laid taxes on the people th* people despised taxes, and rather than meet them, would allow of any substitute; hence tariffs. Bat tariffs would soon surcharge tho Treasury. Of no importance; Government coaid build roads and canals for the convenience of com merce and manufacture. But this would require tco much outlay; it would be equally alarming to tha people. Of no importance still; Government could issue bills of credit, and thus even make money— We were a young people, and knew nothing as yet, of the power of government. General Jackson pander ed well over these simple propositions, drawn from history, his own experience, and the daily progress of our Federal legislation. He knew that tho con fiding people of a republic too, were not calculated to stem this current; that their representatives became too often the dopes of the organized plans of the in terested agents of capitalists, and that tha only poasi- blehope lay in the august power of the Presidential veto. He put no confidence In the hackneyed opin- ion that republican governments are weak. Ho knew them stvbecanee their executives were too often so. He examined the administrations of tho two last residents; they were hath cabinet men, UlWfwto—ed to mntml, and anaqual to intrigue.— It would not be at aU surprising then, iff in visw -of impressed upon him tto high obligation of improve- these peculiar tenet*. General Jacks* should has* raeattatliesitof war inqpored open th* »ilitiaman;i been pfosenl to Jearpthat he ksdbeea ■pmfcrttsdto