Newspaper Page Text
THE TIMES,
I published every Wednesday morning-,
H THE GRANITE BUILDING,
Corner of Oglethorpe and Randolph streets, by
M. FORSYTH, ft M. JOHXSTOft,
proprietors.
Three Dollars per annum, payable
, invariably in u loanee, for new subscriptions
No paper will be discontinued while any arrearages
is due, unless at the option of the proprietor, and
four, dollars will in nil rases he exacted where
payment id uot made before the expiration of the
subscription year.
ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously inserted at
One Dollar per *fie h inched words,for the first
insertion,and fifty cents for every subsequent
coatiauance.
All Advertisements, sent to us without specify
ing the number of insertions desired, will be con
tinued until ordered out, and charged accordingly.
Legal Advertisements published at the usual
rates, and with strict attention to the requisitions
of the law.
Sheriff’s Sales under regular executions, must
bo advertised for thirty days; under mortgage
fi fas, sixty days before the day of sale.
Salks of Land and Negroes, by Executors, Ad
Hiiuistrators or Guaidiuns, for sixty days before
the day of sale.
Sales of personal properly (except negroes) forty
days.
Citations by Clerks of Courts of Ordinary, upon
application for letters of administration are to be
■published for thirty days.
Citations upon application for dismission, by
Executors, Administrators or Guardians, month
ly for SIX MONTHS.
Orders of Courts of Ordinary, (accompanied with
a copy of tha bond, or agreement) to make title
<te land, must be published three months.
Notices by Executors or Administrators or Guard
ians, of application to the Court of Ordinary for
leave to sell the Land or Negroes of an estate, ;
FOUR MONTHS.
Notices by Executors or administrators, to the
Debtors and Creditors >f an estate,for six \v kkks
O* Letter# to the proprietor* on business, must
be post paid, to entitle them to attention.
LAW NOTICES.
C. S. Rockwell,
ATTORNEY AT LA W;
Columbus, Ga.
Office on Broad Street,over Mr. LeGay's Jewel
-rv Store.
April 2, 1843, 1 I —ts
COi\E ft WILLIAMS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Columbus, Georgia.
in Hooper's Nev Building; I'".is!
aidti Broad street, near the market.
FRANCIS H CONE, )
CHARLES J. WILLIAMS. £
April 2, 1845. 14—ts.
Robert B. Lester
AT TO RN'EY AT LA W,
Tazewell Motion County Ga.
March 12 1815. 12— ly.
William Jlizcll,
ATTORNEY AT LAW;
Tazewell, Marjjn Count-,-, Ga.
March 5, 1945, 11 ly
James ill. Mitchell,
ATT OR N E Y A T L AW,
Residence —Lumpkin, Georgi a.
W r tI,T, devote hit attention hereafter, exeliisive
ly to his pro'essiou, and wjt| attend punctn
ally le alt holiness nt ll.ted lo Ills (Mt e, m any i.uu;i
ty iti the GlmUahoociiee or Sutilh-VVesteni Circuits.
Feb 5, 1815 U—lv
J S* iUilcricM,
ATrO RN E V A T LA W .
St.vrHsvii.le, Lee Cos Ga.
February 5, lo 15’ 6 —l y.
Willi i a . tut in,
SOLICITOR V\ L) ATTORNEY AT
LAW.
Office. n Girard, Alabama.
RBSPIiCTFOLLY lenders Ins profession and
services in the publi: generady ; he Dikes this
mettiol of apprising Iris patrons, tnat he makes no
collection- fo> le-s than ten per cent, on any smn
tint cxceedntg one l nmsand dollars, his reasons tor
Hus pnhli *atioo,is ‘o g v ■ general notice lo th is-- who
have already intrusted him with tneir buoness, witn*
i.ut speoiai contract ; that iiiey may withdraw tli
sa in o if ihey prefer, and ad future patrons if any, may
expect to be governed by this notice.
W.VI. B. MARTIN
January. 8 1845 2—ly
LAW NOTICE.
WiUi.tm B. Pryor
HAS Sttplod himself in iho Town of LaGr uige
Troup couniy, Georgia. and will practice
law in the counties of Troup, Meriwether,Cowe’a,
Campbell, Gar roll and lleaid, of Lie Coweta Cneuit
—and Ranis, Muscogee and Talbot of the Chatta
hoochee Circuit.
Den 18. 1644 51 —ly
Taylor & Gouoko,
A T T 0 R N E Y’S A T L A W;
Cuthbert, ( Randolph county.) Ga.
THE tinddraigacd having associa ed themselves
iu ihe praouco of bo Law, will give tin ir at
•tauiion l * any business confided to them in (he coun
ties of Itandopn, Early, Bak-’r, Le**, Sumter. Dooly
and Decatur m the Southwestern, and Stewart of the
Tio ie iee circus. Thev will aso ai eiul iho
courts in Bdibour and Henry c<hio'k*b hi A abaina
WILLIAM TAYLOR.
LEWIS A.GUaNcsKE.
“Noverwher 13 1844. 444—1 y.
Reese & Dciiciard,
A T TORNEVS A T LA W;
Crawford Ala.
enmr.s s. Rekk, )
B. r. DFMtIKD. )
Sept. 18, 18 U. 3—ly.
JG. 51. Platt,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albany, Raker County, Ga.
Jan 1.1845 I—if
Burks ft Sleplicusosa,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW;
TALBOTTON, GA.
lIMEJ M. BURKS, )
JAMES L. STEPHENSON )
Feb 28, 1814 9tf
COLQ.UITT & COOK,
ATTORNEY’S AT LAW;
LA GRANGE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the counties of Troup, Meiiwether,
Co.veia, Fayette, and Carroll.
W alter T. Colquitt, Columbus, Ga.
Wm. C. O. Cook, La Grange.
April 23 34—ts
Ittelisu-d 11. Clark,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albany, Ga.
differences :
HolwCJias. S. Henry, 1
Hon ‘Levi 8. D’Lvon. and „ ,
Meiers. Charlton St Word, f Savannah.
M. Hall McAllijUer, Esq. j
Maj. C. P-.wer#Eifingham county;
Hun. Lott WarNn, Lee county.
Ilobert Lunday ,? I Albany, Ga.
Thotna, P. Smiihl f ”
Juno 4, 1845. A, 23—Istnov
’ f LAW,
.ATTORNEY AT LAW;
BAIfiBIUDOK, (DECATUR CO.) GA.
Will attend punctually the Superior Courts of the
eounues of Early, Baker, and Decatur of ilie South-
Western, and ol the county of Thomas of the South
ern Circuit. May 21, 1845 21 -if
. Iverson & Forsylli,
HAVE removed to office in “Times” building,
up stair,.
May 14,1845. 20—ts
FORSYTH & JOHNSTON, editors.]
MOODY & D(JMR,
Have a fme lot fGeorgia and Ten*
lICSSCC B AGON—AIso, a large lot of
good
feathers, Flour, ami Corn-meal,
all of which will be sold at the lowest prices FOR
CASH.
June, 4,1815. 2-1-tC
JOHN EVERETT,
MAS removed to Dillinwhnni’s corner, nearly
opposite his oh| stand, he will keep on
hand for sab , a good assortment ot
FANCY AND STAPLE
WBLWQWV*
May 28 1845. 22—if
SPRING & SUMMER
CLOTHING.
S. R. HAMII.TON,
(Next Door to J. Kivlin.)
HAS c MTimenccd receiving a large Stock of
-S,> ihg and Summer Clothing.
Hlue hlaf k and green chvh Frock an 1 Dress Coals;
DrapdVto, Frock and Dress Coats ;
Cr*ion do do do
White, brown and check Limn, Frock and Dress
Twedes Frock and k Coats ;
I’antaloons and Vests, of every variety and descrip
iion -f Goods.
•Shirt , D aweis, Handkerchiefs and Cravats.
Tie*. and Slocks, of every variety.
Silk and Colton Umbrellas.
Ha s aid Cap.-*, nnl • very other article of Gentle
men’s wear, suitable fir the season.
0, IS-l i 18—ts
HKW GOOD 1! HTHW GOO3>S ! !
/ H’’!!ll*. subscriber \< now receiving ai the old store ‘
M. former y Qccnpid hy M-.-srs. Stewart &
Fo in.r lint*, and more recently by Mewr* Hi 1, Daw.
•on & Cos, an entire new nd desirable assor inent o|
mm
FAMILY OUOCEUIES &C. UC.
which fee olf- rs to the public at prices to suit the
times. H. McKAY.
Dec. 4, 1844, 49—If
CENTRAL HOUSE.
CUT.eMBITS GA.
snbacr Ivor respectfully informs his friends
ii and the public, that lie has taken, and is now
putting in complete order ft r the reception of peim
neril hoarders and transient customers, the large
and c ‘in mubous house on the South east comer (>t
Hi old and Itandolph Streets, west side of Broad
street, inhere he would be happy to serve aU th<J
mav favor him with a call.
T.u rc are a<lj cent to ‘ho House extensive Staples,
for the convenience of traders, and puticular alien
tionwdl he paid .bat department.
His Table will always be supplied \vith Hie best
tbe market ufTirda ; un i no pains spared to give gen
•r-i’ sitisfaciion to visitors and boamers.
Bv pun :tualily and strict personal att**n'ion to th*-
comfort and convenience of all, and at moderate
■•hargffs, be hopes lo merit and receive a liberal sha t*
f pn*ronage.
He will te rivtdy to receive boarders or transient
viators by the first of Janu >rv.
GEO. W. DILLABD.
Dec IS. 1844. 51—ts
FO SI SALE OK KENT, ‘
- A COMFORTABLE REST
afepTm A DENCE in ih- upp. i- p:.r
° “'.no. j! ik iioxF.Y.
March 12, ln-15 11—if
UOUSE TO H^f’.NT.
rn^ail, I lire
.lwcllinc w>li
J- : .k g wAter, pari of the
niuhso & viiit^s,
HAVE just reeeivci PIANO FORTES
Irr.ni J. OHIOKEHING’S anil NUNN’S &
Cl a ARIv’S iManufacturies, (with and without (he
/Cohan Attachmei.t.) ami a largo assortment of
NEW MUSIC,
which they offer tor tale on reasonable terms*
May 21, 1815’. 21—if.
WATCHES, JEWELRY,
Silver Ware, military and Fancy
Goods.
f HE subscriber informs the Citizens of Coliwn-
S. bu**, and vicinity, that he has taken a store oti
Br >ad street, one door below Messrs. B. Wells &
Co’s. Sho*‘ Store, where lie has opened and offers
lor sale, a complete assortment of Watcher, Clocks,
Jewi lty S Iver and Plated Ware Fine Cutlery,
Musical Instruments, Perfumery, Military Goods,
ami a lot of fancy aiticl-s, t o numerous to mention.
All of which he offers a’ prices to suit iho times
He will also repair Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
&c. The public patronage is resprctlul'y solicited.
T. T. WII.MOT.
N. B. The above business will ho conducted hy
Mr. O. G. H. Dibble, who will make this his perma
nent resiJep.ee, ands duly authorised to act as my
agent. T. T. WILMOT.
‘Dec 11, 1844 50—'f
AN ACT
To alter and amend the seventh section of
the first Article of tlu Constitution of this
Slate.
SbCTioN 1. Be it enacted by she Senate and
House of Representatives of the Stale of Georgia, in
General Assembly nut , and it is hereby unacted by
the author ity of the some, that whenever this art shall
have passed in accordance wjttl the rt quirments of
the Constitution of this Slafe. the following shall be
adopted in lieu of the sail seventh section.—Each
county of this Slate shill have one R preventative,
and no county slull have more than two Represen
tatives. Thirty-seven counties having the greatest
pupu'a'ion, counting all frie white persons and
three-fifths of ih© people of color, shall have two
Representatives -and if any new county shall be
hereafter formed, said new county shall be entitled
to one Representative, and ts-e apportionment
shall he made hy the General Assembly at the ses
si nos which this section shall b<* adopted as on al
teration ol the Constitution, hy an act to he intro*
duced after the adoption thereof, and anew appor
tionment shall be made at the sessimi next after each
future enumeration of the inhabitants of this State,
made nude* the Cbnstiiution and laws thereof, but
at no other time.
[Signed.] CHARLES J. JENKINS.
Speaker of he House of Representatives.
CHAR LE S 1> O UGfl ERT V,
President of the Senate.
Assented t* December 27th 1843:
GEORGE W. CRAWFORD, Governor,
April 2, 1845. (S. R.) 13—6 m.
brougWt to
IN Georgia, on
the 24ifi of J imp, man, about 30
years of age, about 5 high, stout built,
si)s he belongs of Macon county,
Alabama; lie nJAb GEORGE Said
negro formerly bdttjlggd if Biackhum,
of this couniy. to come for
ward, and complyterWkof the law. and
take him away. Jailor
THE UNION OP THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OP THE STATES.
NEW MARBLE YARD.
TJIHE undersigned havihg commenced the above
JL business, under the firm of MADDEN, AD
AMS, & Cos. at Columbus, Ga. a few doors notth
of the Market House, on Broad street ; they will he
enabled to furnish all kinds of MARBLE WORK,
such as Monuments, \Tomb Slabs, Chimney pieces ,
Tablets, Haarth Stones. Table Tops, Facings of Firt-
Flar.es. and all kinds of Granite IVook.
801 l being PRACTICAL Mechanics, they will be
enabled to furnish all articles in their line, cheaper
than any other establishment in this part of the coun
try.
P. S. They will attend personally to the lettering
and carving department; and ail orders from the
country will be attenued to with the sumc despatch
as if ordered in person.
J. H. MADDEN,
I\ ADAMS,
Columbus, (Ja. Dec. 4, 1844. 49—ly
THE HAPPY FARMER.
Saw ye the farmer at bis plough
As you were ruling by?
Or wcur ed ’neath Ids noon-day toil,
VVIi n summer suns were high!
And ihought|that ins lot was hard ?
Amld.d you ttiank your God,
That you. and yours, were not condemn’d
Thus like a slave to pbid/
Come, see him at his harvost home,
When garden, field and tree,
Conspire, with flowing stores4o fill
llis barn, and g a nary.
His heaithM children gaily sport,
Amid t e new-mowu hay,
Or proudly aid. wiili vigonus arm,
ins task, us besl they may.
The dog partakes his master’s joy,
And guards ilie loaded wain.
The feathery people clap t/eir wings,
And lead their youngling train.
Perchance t io hoary grandsire’s cyo
The glowing scene surveys,
Ali i breathes a t> easing on Ins race
Or guides their evening pin iso.
The Harvest-Giver is their friend,
*1 he Maker of the soil,
And La tn, the Mother, gives them bread
And cheers their jiatmii toil.
Come, join them round their w n'ry hearth,
4 li if hear, felt pleasures see,
And you can better judge how blest
Tile farmu r’s life may be.
•From the N. O. Jeffersonian Republican.
JACKSON’S EEATH.
BY GEORGE \V. REEDER.
Farewell! we did not think that thou could’st die.
And we would scarce be I eve U now,
But for he tears that moisten every eye,
And clouds on every brave man’s brow !
Yes, in this b;oad land there’s many a breast
That heaves wuh grief tears may' nut talk
And Freedom, gazing on the glorious West,
Cries uut. pulse ot my heart, Farewell!
Farewell! the pale death hire so thee
Words from thine only master , C*or,
And now, thy shining sp rit fDat-lii Jn o.
Whil’st we be lew my grave’s green sod.
That flaj —thy flag—the banner of our onde,
Waves s;ul|y to the funeral bell,
And met) with pallid ips walk side by side,
And Nature seems to say — Fa.kevvell !
Farcwe'P sdrrow each proud bosom stirred,
Each freeman’s heart was suanowed o’< r;
The verv sun looked blac k the dav we he>rl
Those solemn words— *Hr is no more!”
Ye-*, on thy aged how Death’s seal was set,
When evening’s .olden .-hadows fell.
Savior ol O loan* Hero of GhaluieUt*—
To carlo, and life, ami all—Fa kkvveli. !
Farewell! each freeman’s heart.shall be an urn
To keep thine honor’d memory in,
And high ;n Freedom’s sane a reuser hum
To light the glories iJaou djd’st win.
Throughout all com ng time ihy name
Shall make eac h patriot’s b'*s *m swell,
Ard thy inpm rv live a'* long lives Fame—
Thy du*t a.one we bid— Fake well .
Fare veil! white-hair’d old soldier of the Cross,
Wrh life and death thy struggle’s o’er;
G nl’s l ve threw sunshine t n Die greatest loss
That our dear country ever bore.
Go meet him there—iheie in Hie better land,
VN he-e Zi'n*s living wate r’s swell ;
Anl l*ll the Fathei* of our glorious hand
WE S FI LL ARE FREE! Fahewjsll! Fare
wei.l !
Heiv Orleans , June 21, 1845.
* Wailiington.
FUNERAL SOLEMNITIES AT WASHINGTON.
MR. BANCROFT S ORATION.
Tlie men of the American revolution are
no more. That age of creative power has
passed away. The last surviving signer of
ihe Declaration of Independence has lone
since left the earth. Washington lies near
his own Potomac, surrounded hy his family
and his servants. Adams, the colossus of
independence, reposes in the modest grave
yard of his native region. Jederson sleeps
on.the heights ufhis own Munticello, whence
his eye overlooked his beloved Virg.ma.—
Madison, the last survivor of the men who
made our Constitution, lives only in our hearts,
lint who shall say that the heroes, in whom
ihe image of God shone most brightly, do not
J live forever I They were tilled wiih the
! vast conceptions which called America into
j being; they lived tor those conceptions ; and
their deeds praise them.
VVe are met to cominemorale the virtues
of one who shed hts blood tor our imlepen
| dence, took part in winning the territory and
, lorming the early institutions ot the West,
and was imbued with all the great ideas
which constitute the moral force of i ur conn
j try. On the spot where he gave his solemn
fealty to the people—here, where lie pledged
himself before the world to freedom, to the
constitution, and to the laws—we meet to
pay our tiibute to the memory of the last
great nail) ’, which gathers round itsebjall the
associations that form the glory of America.
South Carolina gave a birth-place to An
drew Jackson. On its remote frontier, far
up on the forest-clad hanks of tiro Catavvaba,
in a region where the settlers were jus, be
ginning to cluster, his eye first saw the light.
I here his infancy sported in the ancient for
ests & h s mind was nursed to freedom by their
influence. He was iho youngest son ol an
Irish emigrant, of Scottish origm, who, two
.years after the great war of Frederick of
| Prussia, fled to America for relief from indi
* gtmee and oppression. His birth was in
! 1767, at a lime when the people of our land
i were but a body of dependent colonists,
scarcely more than two millions in number,
Bcaitered along an immense coast, with no
army, or navy, or union—and exposed lo the
attemptsof Kngland to conttol America by
the aid of military force. His boyhood grew
up in the midst of the contest with Great
Britain. The first great political truth that
reached his heart, was that all men are free
and equal; the first great fact that beamed on
his understanding, was hts country’s inde
pendence.
The strife, as it increased, came near the
shades of his own upland residence. Asa
boy,of thirteen, he witnessed the scenes of
horror that accompany civil war ; and when
but a year older, with an elder brother, he
I shouldered bis inuskat, and went forth to
strike a blow for Iris country.
Joyous era lor America and for humanity !
But lor bitn the orphan boy lire events were
full of sgoriy and grief. His father was no
more. His oldest brother fella victim to the
war of the revolution; another (his compan.
COLUMBUS, GA. WEDNESDAY. JULY 16, 1846.
ion in arms) died of wounds received in their
joint captivity; his mother went down to the
gtave a victinrto grief and efforts to rescue
her sons ; and when peace ramo he was alone
in the world, with no kindred to cherish him
and little inheritance but his own untied
powers.
The nation which emancipated itself from
British rule organizes itself; the Confedera
tion gives way to (lie Constitution : the per
fecting of that Constitution—that grand event
of the thousand years of modern history—is
accomplished: America exisis as a people,
gains unity as a government, and takes its
place as a nation among the powers of the
earth.
The next great office to be performed by
America, is the taking possession of the wil
derness. The magnified l western valley
cried out to the civilization of popular pow
er, that it niust be occupied by cultivated
man.
Behold, then, our orphan hero, sternly earn
est, consecrated to humanity from childhood
by sorrow, having neither father, nor mother,
nor sister, nor surviving brother, so young
and yet solitary, and, therefore, bound the
more closely to collective man—behold
him elect for his lot to go forth and as
sist in layingthe foundations of society in u,e
great vailey of the Mississippi.
At the very time when Washington was
pledging his own and future generations to
the support of the popular institutions which
were to be the liight of the human race—
at the time when the institutions of the
Old World were roekiugto their centre, and
the mighty fabric that had come down from
the middle ages was falling in—the adventu
rous Jackson, in the radiant glory and bound
less hope and confident intrepidity of twenty
one, plunged into the Wilderness, crossed the
great mountain barrier that divides the west
ern waters from the Atlantic, lollowed the
paths of the early hunters and fugitives, and,
uot content with the nearer neighborhood to
h,s paient State, went still further and furth
er to the west, till lie found his home in the
most beautiful legion on lbe Cumberland.—
t here, from the first, Ire was recognized as
Ihe great pioneer; under his courage, the
coming emigrants were suretofind a shield.
The lovers of adventure began tu pour
themselves into the territory, whose delicious
climate and fertile soil invited the presence
of social man. The hunter with Iris rifle and
bis axe, attended by his wife and children;
the herdsman driving the lew catlle that were
to multiply as they browsed ; the cultivator
of the soil—all came to the inviting region.
W herever the bending mountains opened a
pass—wherever ihe buffaloes and the beasts
of the forest had made a trace, these sons ol
nature, children of humanity, in the highest
sentiment of personal freedom, came to oc
cupy the beautiful wilderness whose prairies
blossomed everywhere piofusely with wild
flowers—whose woods in spring put to shame
by their magnificence, the cultivated gardens
of man.
And now that these unlettered fugitives,
educated only hy the spirit of freedom, des
t it me of dead loiter erudition, but sharing the
the living ideas of the age, had unde their
homes in the West—what would follow?
Would they degrade themselves to ignorance
and infidelity 1 Would they make the soli
tudes of the desert excuses for licentiousness?
Would the doctrines of Ireedoin lead them
lo live in unorganized society, destitute of
laws and fixed institutions?
At a time when European society wrs be
coming broken in pieces, scatiered,disunited
and resolved into its elements, a t cone ensued
in Tennessee, than which nothing more
beautifully grand is recorded in the annals of
the rare.
These adventurers in the wilderness long
ed to conic together in organized society
The overshadowing genius of their time in
spired them with good designs, and filled
them with the counsels ot wisdom. Dwellers
in the lorcst, freest of the free, Lourd in the
spirit, they came up by their tepreseirtatives,
on foot, on horseback, through the forest,
along the streams, by the buffalo traces, by
the Indian paths, by the blazed forest avenues,
to meet in convention among ihe mountains
at Knoxville, and frame lor themselves a
Constitution. Andrew Jackson was there,
the greatest man of them all—modest, bold,
determined, demanding nothing for himself
and shrinking from nothing that his heart ap
proved.
The convention came together on the 1 Ith
day of January, 1786, and finished its work
on the 6ih day of February. How had the
wisdom of the Old World vainly tasked it
sell to frame Constitmions, that could, at
at least, be the subject ol experiment; the
men of Tennessee, in less than twenty-five
days, perfected a fabric, which, in its essen
tial forms, was to last forever. They came
together, lull of faith and reverence, of love
to humanity, of confidence in truth. In the
simplicity of wisdom, they/ratned their Con
stitution, acting under higher influences than
they were concious of—
They wrought in sad sincerity,
Themselves Ironr Goo they could not free,*
They buiUhul belter than diey knew;
The conscious stones lo beauty grew.
lii the instrument which they framed,they
embodied their faith in God, and the immor
tal nature of man. They gave the right ol
suffrage to every freeman ; they vindicated
the sanctity of reason, by giving freedom
of speech and of the press ; they leverenced
the voice of God, as it speaks in the soul of
math hy asserting the indefeasible right of
man to worship the Infinite according tn his
conscience; they established the freedom
and equality of elections ; and they demand
ed from every future legislator a solemn oath
“never to consent to any act or thing what
ever that shall have a tendency to lessen the
rights of the people.”
These majestic lawgivers, wiser than Ihe
Solons.and Lvcurgses and Nutrias of tho
Old World—these prophetic founders of a
State, who embodied in their Constitution
the subl inost truths of humanity, acted with
out reference lo human praises.
They kept no special record ofthoir doings;
they took no pains to vaunt their deeds; and
when their work wag done, knew not that
they had finished one of Ihe sublimesl acts
ever performed among men. They left no
record, ae to whose agency was conspicuous,
wlmse eloquence swayed, whoso generous
will predominated ; n or should wo know,
hut for tradition, confirmed by what followed
among themselves.
Tho men of Tennessee were now a people,
and they were to send forth a man to stand
,fur them in the Congress of the United States
—That avenue to glory—that homo of elo
quence—the citadel of popular power ; and.
wiih one consent, they united in selecting tho
foremost man among their lawgivers—An
drew Jackson.
The love of the people of Tennessee
followed him to the Ameiican Congress;
and he had served but a single term, when
the State of Tenneseee made him one of its
representative* in the American Senate,
where he sat under ’.he auspices of Jeflet
son.
Thus, when he was scarcely more than
thirty, lie had guided the settlement of the
wilderness ; swayed the deliberation of a
people m establishing its fundamental laws;
acted as the representative of that people,
and again as the representative of his organ
ized Slate, disciplined to a knowledge of the
power of the people and the power of the
Stales ; the associate of republican states
men, the friend aud companion of Jetferson.
The men who framed the constitution of
ihe Unit and States, many of them, did not
know the innate life aud selt-preserving eu
ergy of their work. They feared that treo
dom could not endure, and* they planned a
strong government for its protection.
During his short career in Congress, Jack
son showed his quiet, deeply.seated, innate,
intuitive faith ill human freedom, aud in the
institutions of freedom. He was ever, by
his votes and opinions, found among those
who lia.l confidence in humanity ; and in the
great division of minds, this child of the
woodlands, this representative of forest life in
the West, was found modestly and firmly on
the side of freedom. It did not occur lo him
to doubt the ri. lit of man to the free de
velopment of bis powers ; it did not occur to
him to place a guardianship over the people ;
it did not occur to him to seek to give dura
bility to popular institutions by giving to
government a strength independent of popu
lur will.
From the first, he was attached to the
fundainented doctrines of popular power, and
of the policy that favors it ; and though his
reverence lor Washington surpassed ms re
verence for any human being, he voted
against the address from the House ol Re
presentative to Washington on.his tetire
ment, because its language appeared to sanc
tion the financial policy which he believed
hostile to lepublican treedom.
During his period of service in the Senate,
Jackson was elected major general by the
brigadiers and field officers of the militia of
Tennessee. .Resigning his place in the
Senate, lie was made judge of the supreme
court in law and equity; such was the con
fidence m his integrity of purpose, his clear
ness ofjudginent, and his vigor of will to
deal justly among the turbulent who crowded
into the new settlements of Tennessee.
Thus, in the short period of nine years,
Andrew Jackson was signalized by as many
evidences of public esteem as could fall to the
lot of man. The pioneer of the wilderness,
the defender of its stations, he was their law
giver, the sole representative of the State in
the Senate, the highest in military command,
the highest injudicial office. He seemed to
be recognised as the first in love of liberty,
the first in the science of legislation, in judg
ment, and integrity.
Fond of private life, he would have resign
ed the judicial office ; but the whole country
demanded his service. ,‘Nature,” they cried,
“never designed that your potters of thought
and independence ufmind should be lost in
retirement.” But after a fetv years, reliev
ing himself from the caves of the bench, he
gave himself to the activity and the indepen
dent life of a husbandman. He carried into
retirement the lame of natural intelligence,
and was cherished as “a prompt, frank and
ardent soul.” His vigor of chaiacter consti
tuted him first among all wiih whom lie asso
ciated. A private man as he was, his name
was familiarly spoken round every hearth
stone in Tennessee. Men loved to discuss
his qualities. All discerned his power; and
when the vehemence and impetuosity nf his
nature were observed upon, there were not
wanting those who saw, beneath Ihe blazing
tires of his genius, the solidity of his judg
ment.
His hospitable roof sheltered the emigrant
and the pioneer; and, as they made their way
to their new homes, they filled the mountain
sides and the valleys with ins praise.
Connecting himself, for a season, with a
mail of business Jackson soon J,scerned the
misconduct ol his a.-socia'e. It marked his
character, that he insisted, himself,on paying
every obligation that had been contracted ;
and, rather than endure the vassalage of debt,
lie instantly parted with the rich domain
which hie early enterprise had acquired—
with his own mansion—ywith the fields which
he himself had tamed to the ploughshare—
with the forest whose trees were as familiar
to him as his friends—and chose rather to
dwell, for a time, in a rude log cabin, in the
pride of independence and integrity.
On all great occasions, Jackson’s influence
was deferred to. When Jellerson had ac
quired for the country the whole of Louis
iana, and there seemed some hesitancy on
the part oi Spain to acknowledge our posses
sion, the services of Jackson were solicited
by the national administration, and were not
called into full exercise, only from the peace
ful termination of the incidents that occasion
ed the summons.
In the long series of aggressions on the
fieedom of the seas, and the rights of the
American flag, Jackson was on the side of
his country, and the new maritime code of
republicanism. In his inland home, where
the roar ot the breakers was never heard,
and the mariner was never seen, he resented
the continued aggressions on our commerce
and on our sailors.
When the continuance of wrong compelled
the nation to resort lo arms, Jackson, led by
Ihe instinctive knowledge of his own great
ness, yei with a modesty that would have
honored the most sensitive delicacy of nature,
confessed his willingness to be employed on
the Canada frontier ; and it is a fact that he
aspired to the command to which Winchester
was appointed. We may ask, what would
have been the result, if the command of the
northwestern army had, at the opening of the
war, been entrusted to a man who, in action,
was ever so fortunate, that bis vehement will
seemed to have made destiny capitulate to
his designs.
The path of glory led him in another di
rection. On the declaration of war, twenty
five hundred volunteers had risen at his word
to follow his standard; but, by countermand
ing orders from the seal of government, the
movement was without effect.
Anew and great danger hung over the
West. The Indian tribes were to make one
last effort to restore it to its solitude, and re
cover it for savage life. The brave, relent
less Shawnees—who, from time immemorial,
had strolled from the waters of the Ohio to
the rivers of Alabama—were animated by
Tccumseh and his brother the Prophet, who
spoke to them as with the voice of the Great
Spirit,ar.d roused the Creek nation to desper
ate massacres. Who had not heard of their
terrible deeds, when their ruthless cruelty
spared neither sex nor age ? When the in
fant and its mother, the planter and his fami
ly, who had fled for refuge lo tho fortress,
the gairison that capitulated—all were slain,
and not a vestige of defence was left in the
country ? The cry of the West demanded
Jackson for its defender; and though hia
arni was then fractured by a ball, and hung
in a sling, he placed himself at the head of
[VOL. V.—NO 29.
the Volunteers of Tennessee, and resolved to
terminate forever the hereditary struggle.
Who cart tell the horrors of that campaign?
Who can paint rightly the obstacles which
Jackson overcame—mountains, the scarcity
of untenanted forests, winter, the failure ot
supplies from tho settlements, the insubor
dination of troops, mutiny, menaces of deser
tion ? Who can measure the Wonderful
power over men by which his personal prow
ess and attractive energy, drew them in mid
winter from their homes, across the moun
tains and morasses, and through trackless
deserts ? Who can describe the porsonal
heroism of Jackson, never sparing himself,
beyond any of his men ; encountering inil
ami faiigue, eharmg every labor of tho camp
and of the inarch, foremost in every danger :
giving up his liorso lo the invalid soldier,
while he himself waded through the swamps
on foot ? None equalled him in power of en
durance; & the private soldiers, as they found
him passing them on the march, exclaimed,
“he is as tough as the hickory.” “Ves,”
they cried to one another, “there goes Old
Hickory.”
Who can narrate the terrible events nf Ote
double batiles ot Kmuckfaw, or the glorious
victory of Tuhopeka, wliere the anger of the
general against the faltering was more ap
palling than the war-whoop and the rifle of
the savage ? Wno can rightly 6ee the field
of Enotochopco, where the general, as he
attempted to draw the sword to cut down a
flying colonel who was leading a regiment
from the field, broke again the arm which
was but newly knit together : and quietly
replacing it in the sling, with bis commanding
voice arrested the flight of ihe troops, and
himself led them hack to victory !
In six short monilts of vehement action,
the most terrible Indian war in our annals
was brought to a close; the prophets were
silenced; the consecrated region of the
Creek nation reduced. Through scenes ol
blood, the avenging hiro sought only the path
to peace. Thus Alabama, a part of his own
Tennessee, and the highway to the Floridas,
were his gifts to the Union. These were his
trophies.
Genius as extraordinary as military events
can call forth, was suinmoued into action in
this rapid, efficient, and most fortunately con
dueled war.
Time would fail were Ito track our hero
down the watercourses of Alabama to the
neighborhood of Pensacola. How he longed
to plant the eagle of hia country on its bat
tlements !
Time would fail, and words be wanting,
were I to dwell on the magical influence ol
hia appearance in New Orleans, fits pre
sence dissipated giootn and dispelled alarm ;
at once he changed the aspect of despair into
a confidence of security and a hope of acquir
ing glory. Every man knows the taleot the
heroic, sudden, and yet deliberate daring
which led him, on the night of the twenty
third of December, to precipitate hia little
army on his foes, in the thick darkness, be
fore they grew familiar with their encamp
ment, scattering dismay through veteran
regiments of England, and defeating them,
and arresting their progress hy a far interior
force.
Who shall recount the counsels of pru
dence, the kindling words of eloquence, that
gushed from his lips to cheer his soldiers, his
skirmishes and battles, till that eventful
morning when the day at Bunker's Hill had
had its fulfilment in the glorious battle of
New Oilcans, and Ar”;i.cau Independence
stood before the wc.itf in the majesty ol victo
rious power.
These were great deeds for the nation ;
for himself he did a greater. Had not Jackson
been renowned for the vehement impetuosity
of his passions, for hia defiance of other’s
authority, and the unbending vigor of his
self-will 7 Behold the savior of Louisiana,
all garlanded with victory, viewing around
him the city lie had preserved, the maidens
and children whom iiis heroism had protected
stand in the presence of a petty judge, who
gratifies his wounded vanity by an abuse of
his judicial power. Every breast in the
crowded audience heaves with indignation.
He, the passionate, the impetuous—lie whose
power was to be humbled, whose honor ques
tioned, whose hurels tarnished, alone stood
sublimely serene ; and when the craven
judge trembled, and faltered, and dared not
proceed, himself, the arraigned one, bade
him take courage, aud stood by the law even
in the moment when the law was made the
instrument of insult and wrong on himselt—
at the moment of his most perfect claim to
the highest civic honors.
His country, when it grew tn hold many
more millions, the generation that then was
coming in, has risen up to do huinage to
the noble heroism of that hour. Woman,
whose feeling is alwavs right, did honor
from the first to the purity of Ins heroism.
The people of Louisiana to the latest hour,
will cherish his name as their greatest bene
factor.
The culture of Jackson’s mind had been
much promoted by his services and associa
tions in the war. His discipline of himself
as the chief in command, his intimate rela
lions with men like Livingston, the wonder
ful deeds in which he Imre a part, all matured
his judgment and mellowed his character.
Peace came with its delights ; once more
the country rushed forward in the develop
ment of its powers ; once more the arts of
industry healed liie wounds that war had
inflicted ; and, Irom commerce and agricul
ture and manufaciures, wealth gushed abun
dantly under the free activity ol unrestrained
enterprise.
And Jackson returned to his own fields
and hisown pursuits, to cherish his plantation,
to care lor hts servants, to look after his stud,
to enjoy the affection ol the most kind and
dovoted wile, whom be respected with the
gentlest deference, and loved with an almost
miraculous tenderness.
And there he stood, like one of the mightiest
forest trees of his own West, vigorous and
colossal, sending its summit to the skier, and
growing on ila native soil in wild and inimit
able magnificence, careless of beholders.
From all parts of the country he received
appeals to his political ambition, and the se
vere modesty of his well balanced mind
turned them all aside. He was happy in his
farur, happy in seclusion, happy in liib family,
iiappy within himself.
Uut the passions of the southern Indians
were not allayed by the peace with Great
Britain ; and foreign emissaries were still
among them, to inflame and direct their ma
lignity. Jacksun was called forth by his
country to restrain the cruelty ot the treach
erous and unsparing Scminoles. it was in
the train of the events of this war that he
placed the American eagle on St. Mark’s and
above the ancient towers of St Augustine.
His deeds in that war, of themselves, form a
monument to human power, in the celerity of
his genius, to the creative fertility ol his
resources, his intuitive sagacity. As Spain,
in his judgment, had committed aggression,
he would have emancipated her islands ; of
the Havana, he caused the reconnoissence to’
be made; and, with an army of five thousand
men, he stood ready to guaranty her'redemp
tion from colonial thraldom.
But when peace was restored, and his olEca
was accomplished, jiis physical strength sunk
under the pestilential influence of the climate,
and, fast yielding to disease, he was borne in
a litter across the swamps of Florida towards
his home. It was Jackson’s character that
he never solicited aid from any one ; but he
never forgot those who rendered him service
in the hour of need. At a time when alt
around him believed him near his end, his
wife hastened to his side ; and, by her
tenderness and nursing care, her patient
assiduity, and the soothing influence of
devoted love, withheld him from the grave;
He would have remained quietly at home
i.i repose, but that he was privately informed
his good name was to be attainted by some
intended Congressional proceedings; he came
therefore, into the presence of the people's
representatives at Washington, only to vin
dicate his name; and, when that was achiev
ed, he was once more communing with his
own thoughts among the groves of the Her
mitage.
li was not his own ambition which brought
him again to the pub| c view. The affection
Ol I'eneessee compelled him lo resume a seat
on the floor of the American Senate, and, af
teryears of the intensest political slrile, An.
drew Jackson was elected President us the
U. States.
Far from advancing his own pretension*
he alwai s kept them back, and had for years
repressed the Solicitations of his friends to
become a candidate. Me felt sensibly that
he was devoid of scientific culture, and little
familiar with let’ers ; and he never obtruded
his opinions, or preferred claims to place.—
But, whenever bis opinion Was demanded,
he was always ready to pronounce it ; and
whenever lug country invoked his services,
he did not shrink even from tlfe station whieh
had been filled hy tho most cultivated men
our nation had produced.
Behold, then, the uni- ttered Iran of the
West, the nursling of the wilds, the farmer of
the Hermitage, lit ie versed in books, uncon
nected by science with the tradition of the
past, raised hy the will of the people
to the highest pinnacle of honor, to the
central post in the civdazation of Repub
lican freedom, to ihe station where all the na
tions of the earth would watch his actions—
wliere hia words would vibrato through the
civilized world, and his spirit he the moving
star to guide the nations. What policy will
he pursue! What wisdom will be bring
with linn from the forest? What rules of duty
will he evolve from the oracles of hia own
mind ?
The man of the West came aa the inspir
ed prophet of the West; lie came as one tree
from the bonds of hereditary or established
custom ; he came with no superior but con
science, no oracle but his native judgment;
and, true lo bis origin and hia education—
true to the conditions aud circumstances of
his advancement, he valued right more than
usage; he reverted from the pressure of es
tablished interests to the energy of first
principles.
We tread on ashes, where tho fire is not
extinguished ; yet not to dwell on his career
as President, were to leave out of view the
grandest illustrations of his magnanimity.
The legislation of the United Stales had
followed the precedents of the legislation of
European monarchies ; it was the office of
Jackson to lift the country out of the Eu
ropean forms of legislation, and to open to it
a career resting on American sentiment and
American freedom. Me would have freedom
every where—freedom under (lie restraint*
of right; freedom of industry, of commerce,
of mind, of universal action: freedom, uu.
shackled by restrictive privileges, unrestraiu.
ed by the thraldom of monopolies.
The unity of his mind and his consistency
were without parallel. With natural dialec
tics he developed the political doctrines that
suited every emergency, with a precision and
a harmony that no theorist could hope to
equal. On every subject in politics—l speak
but a fact—lie was thoroughly and profound
ly and immovably radical; and wunid sit for
hours, and in a continued flow of remark make
the appliration of his principles to every
question that could arise in legislation, or in
the interpretation us the constitution.
His expression of himself was so clear,
that his influence pervaded not our land only
but all America and all mankind. They sty
that, in the physical world, the magnetic
fluid is so diffused, that its vibrations aredi*-
cernable simultaneously in every part of the
globe. So is it with the elemen sos freedom.
And as Jackson developed its doctrines from
their source in the mind of humanity, the
popular sympathy was moved and agitated
throughout tha world, till his name grew
every where to be the symbol of popular
power.
Himself the witness of the ruthlesstiess of
savage life, he planned the removal of the
Indian tribes beyond the limits of the organ*
izedStates; and it is the result of his deter
mined policy (hat the region east of the Mis
sissippi has been transferred to the exclusive
possession of cultivated man.
A pupil of the wilderness, his heart was
with the pioneers of American life tewords
the setting sun. No American statesman
has ever embraced within his affections a
scheme so liberal for the immigrants as that of
Jackson. He longed to secure to them, not
pre-emption rights onlv, but mote than pre
emption rights. He loDged to invite labor to
take possession n f the unoccupied fields with
out money and without price ; with no obli
gation except the perpetual devotion of itself
hy allegeiance to its country. Under the
beneficient influence of his o, ininns, the sons
of misfortune, the children of adventure,find
their way to the uncultivated West, Thera
in some wilderness glade, or in the thick for
est of the fertile plain, or where the prairies
most sparkle with flowers, they, like the wild
bee which sets them the example of industry,
may choose their home, mark the extent
of their possessions by driving stakes or blaz
ing trees, slit Iter their log cabin with boughs
and turf, and teach the virgin soil to yield It
self to the ploughshare. Theirs shall be the
soil, theirs tlie beautiful farms which they
teach to be productive. Cooue, children ot
sorrow ! you on whom the Old World frowns;
crowd fearlessly to the forests; plant your ‘
homes in confidence, for the country watches
over you ; your children grow around you as
hostages, and the wilderness, at your bidding
surrenders its grandeur of useless luxuriance
to the beauty and loveliness of culture. Yet
beautiful and lovely as is this scene, it still hy
far falls short of the ideal which lived in the
affection* of Jackson. His heart was ever
with the pioneer ; his policy ever favored tha
diffusion of independent freeholds throughout
the laboring classes of our land.
It would be a sin against the occasion were
I to omit to commemorate the deep devoted
ness of Jackson to ihe cause and to the rights
of labor. It was for the welfare of ‘.he labor,
ing classes that he doffed all the storma of
political hostility. He longed lo secure to
labor the fruits of its own industry; and ha
unceasingly opposed every system which
tended to lessen their reward, or which ex*
posed them to be defrauded of their dues.—
The laborers may bend over his grave with
affectionate sorrow ; lor never in the tide of
time, did a statesman exist more heartily re
resolved to protect them in their rights and
to advance theirbappiness. For their bene
fit, he opposed partial legislation ; for th*ir
benefit, he resisted all artificial methods of
controlling labor, and subjecting it to capital.
It was for thetr benefit that he hived freedom
in all its forms—freedom of the individual in
personal independence, freedom of tha Slate*
,ss asperate sovereignties. He never would
listen to counsels wbicb tended to th* ceu-