Emulating this illustrious example, derived from high authority, let us not worship false gods in the hour of our extremity.

Potent as may be our means of attack and defence, proud as we may be of our prowess and valour, and animated with a consciousness of the rectitude of our cause, we must look to the Source of all power for that assistance which commands success.

Jackson's nativity was amid the happy hills, the pleasant shades, and refreshing gales of the Palmetto State--that state which he regarded with filial love, but whose truant spirit he was compelled to rebuke, when in after years she manifested a rebel disposition towards the government which in justice and wisdom he administered.

He cherished that state. With touching sensibility he remembered the play-grounds of his early days; and when in the stern reality of mature life, he was called, by the responsibility of his political position, to correct the errors and defections of her statesmen, he did so as one honouring his parentage, but resolved to execute his high commission.

Nursed in the lap of a mother who fled from the oppression of a foreign land to seek refuge in this, he imbibed those sentiments of patriotism which prompted him, when a stripling, to battle against a sovereign who arrogated to himself the name of the Lord's anointed.

That mother offered up her whole family, except her last-born son, upon the altar of her country; and, like Abraham, she would have sacrificed him too, had not her hand been stayed by an invisible Power.

That same spirit which animated the mothers of New England, prior to the contest of Lexington, actuated her to resist foreign aggression, although at the expense of domestic immolation,-and as son after son shouldered his musket, and departed to participate in the danger and glory of the great struggle for republican liberty, that mother forgot the natural yearnings for her offspring, in her deep-seated love for the land of her adoption. She knew not, at that early period, the reward that was in store for her favoured and favourite child. Her imagination had not pictured a new empire springing into existence, which would rival the Colossus of the Old World-one that would humble his strength, and dry up the sources of his power-and she could not see in the youthful Carolinian the successful general or the popular president of a new republic, predestinated to revolutionize the workings of the social system. But if it is permitted to those called hence, to witness, from their lofty sphere, the changes and chances of this life, to partake of our joys and sorrows, with what maternal exultation must she have pursued his brilliant career, and gazed with fondness upon its happy termination.

Education, profound or polite, was not to be acquired during the stirring scenes of the Revolutionary war. The schoolmaster was there, but his superiority was superseded by a higher authority. Even the sanctity of the "Meeting House," where the Rev. Mr. Humphries instructed Jackson in the dead languages, was invaded, and the pedagogue and his pupils were placed upon an equality in preparing for the common defence. Books were turned into wadding. The ferule was supplanted by the sword, and the fool's-cap by the helmet. The hunting-shirt took the place of the roundabout, and the rifle and the powder-horn that of the satchel. The juvenile ramparts thrown up at mid-day were deserted, and protection was sought for in the forts and block-houses of the early pioneers.

In the midst of all this excitement, Jackson acquired the rudiments of an education, which, riveted upon his strong faculties, enabled him to surmount difficulties in his subsequent acquisitions of knowledge, which were illustrated in the military and intellectual achievements of his maturer years.

His mother died when, with Christian zeal, she was in the fulfilment of an errand of mercy to the prison-ships at Charleston.

Isolated, stript of the endearments of home and consanguinity, and in the possession of a trifling patrimony, he entered upon those studies that were to fit him for the world's criticisms and the world's charity.

Waxhaw had no more charms for him; the last link that connected him with that spot was broken. Beneath the broad elm in the rural church-yard, was deposited the mortal remains of her to whom he looked for advice and consolation. The old thatched roof, which protected him in infancy, was only associated with death and desolation. The spring, at his father's door, where he allayed his thirst ofter the pastime of a summer day, had no longer refreshment for him. His companions were all gone-they had been sacrificed to the vengeance of a ruthless tyranny. But he goes, leaving the scenes of his youth and his early associations, and enters upon the study of the law.

Notwithstanding the perplexities incident to this pursuit, and greatly aggravated by an imperfect education, he triumphed here, as in the field of battle; and his indomitable courage and love of adventure prompted him to explore a scene of future action, suited to the bravery and independence of his character.

Boon and his companions had been monarchs of all they surveyed. They had contended for supremacy upon the dark and bloody ground, where many a battle was lost and won with an intrepidity that commanded, as it deserved, the admiration of succeeding generations.

Wild and uncivilized as was this territory at the period now re

ferred to, the Anglo-Saxon blood could not be restrained within its limits, but bursting the bounds of semi-civilized society, sought a more extensive field upon which to develope its love of forest life, its excitements and toils.

Tennessee opened a new area for the youthful ardour of the country. Rich in valleys and plains, teeming with the rare verdure of an untilled soil, and interspersed with barren hills which yield no products

"But man and stcel, the soldier and his sword;"

many a young man wandered there, to test the strength of his constitution, and to carve his way to glory and to fame

Thence went Andrew Jackson.

The incursions and the depredations of the savages soon afforded him an opportunity to display those military qualities, which subsequently raised him to posts of the highest distinction. His bravery excited fear from his enemies, and commanded their admiration. The red warrior who fired the cabin and scalped the unprotected mother and children, received his recompense in the deadly aim of our hero's fire-arms-confidence was excited in the ability of the white man to hold at bay, and finally subdue this formidable antagonist, and although the crack of the rifle, and the yell of the Indian, yet assailed the ear of the people, they assembled in solemn council, to form a constitution for their mutual government and safety.

To that covention Jackson was elected a delegate; and he there exhibited the same skill and discernment in laying the foundations of a state, that he exhibited in other grave enterprises, civil and military. Stout hearts and strong minds were present at that convocation; and among them, pre-eminent in judgment and debate, was the subject of this eulogy. They modelled a constitution, republican and conservative in its character, and were admitted into

"The immortal league of love that binds

Our fair broad empire, state with state."

Talents of the high order manifested by him were not permitted to slumber in the seclusion of obscurity. Honoured with the approbation of a constituency whom he prized and loved, he was sent by acclamation to represent the people of the new-born state in the Congress of the Union. Thence he was transmitted to that august body, the Senate of the United States, there to be associated with some of the founders and fathers of the republic, in maturing a system of laws in conformity to the great fundamental instrument of our national creation.

Although he was neither "the cunning artificer, nor the eloquent orator," he was gifted by Heaven with those masculine powers of mind which rendered him a valuable adjunct to the senators by whom he was surrounded. The principal measure to which he devoted his attention, during his legislative career, was the repeal of the alien law, that odious enactment so repugnant to the spirit of our inimitable institutions.

Anxious for that retirement so often sought for, and seldom attained by the eminent and the good, he abandoned the stage of political collision, before the expiration of his constitutional term, and took up his abode on the sunny banks of the Cumberland river. Like the noble old Roman, he was not permitted to repose long under his own vine and fig-tree, until popular sentiment called him to the exercise of the highest judicial functions of the state.

Distrustful of his legal attainments, and his ability to spread the broad platform on which was to rest the jurisprudence of Tennessee in all future time, he accepted and exercised the duties of his high vocation only for a limited period.

Clear and discriminating, he looked more to the essence than to the bodily form of the subject. Justice, equity, a sense of right, prevailed over mere legal technicality; and when his decree was made, it was as unalterable as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. More-when the ministerial authority was set at defiance by the turbulent spirits of the day, he was the first to inculcate, by his presence and courage, unconditional submission to the laws. In this he illustrates the force and beauty of our political system.

When the whole popular momentum is brought to bear, by the exigency of a single writ, upon an insubordinate member of society, the bench, the workshop, and the pulpit may be impressed into the civil police, to restore order, or compel a compliance with the judgments of the constitutional courts of the country. The offended or defeated party may appeal to Cæsar, but he must respect the edicts of the lesser tribunal. Upon this is dependent the proper administration of justice to all classes of the community.

Jackson found many, during his brief judicial career, who regarded animal force as paramount to legal obligation, and he checked the revolutionary spirit by a ready and resolute compliance, on his own part, with the requisitions of the proper office, enjoined to execute the mandates of the law.

Once more in retirement, surrounded by ardent friends and generous neighbours, and in the enjoyment of that recreation necessary for the restoration of a debilitated constitution, the judge was merged in the farmer, and he so continued until his country called him to the protection of our southern frontier, from the attacks of a bloody and relentless adversary.

With alacrity he obeyed the call. To his standard flocked hun

dreds of his countrymen, eager as himself for the fight. The close of the campaign showed that the valour attributed to each was not counterfeit or misplaced.

To the Creek war we may refer with pride and satisfaction, as rivalling in glory the achievements of the youthful Corsican upon the plains of Italy.

Encompassed everywhere with the apprehension of disease, and the reality of famine, victory succeeded victory, until the machinations of Tecumseh, the divinations of his brother the Prophet, and the "savage" diplomacy of Great Britain, were overwhelmed by the bravery of the commander and his men.

The battle of Talushatchee, under the direction of the unsubdued and unconquerable Coffee, was a prelude to the rout at Talladega. But at Talladega, astounded, scattered, dismayed, these heretofore invincible warriors fled before the valiant men under Jackson's command, until night intervened and arrested the pursuit.

This battle, the first successful blow at Creek sovereignty on the soil of Alabama, animated the hopes and raised the languishing spirits of the gallant Tennesseeans. They fought as men never fought before-mutiny was absorbed in discipline, and love of home in love of country. Admonished by the advice of WASHINGTON to Braddock, on the shores of our own Monongahela, they encountered deep ravines and a clandestine foe, with an energy that confounded, surprised, and put to rout their enemies.

From Emuckfaw to Tohopeka, their march was a succession of brilliant achievements; and extermination would have been the fate of these infatuated tribes, had they not sued for quarter and despatched the calumet of peace to their intrepid conqueror.

After this last great contest with the Creeks, Jackson addressed his soldiers in the following words, that blaze and burn with the patriotic feelings of the nation's champion.

"You have entitled yourselves to the gratitude of your general and your country. You have opened your way to the Tallapoosa, and destroyed a confederacy of the enemy, ferocious by nature, and grown insolent from impunity. The fiends will no longer murder our women and children, or disturb the quiet of our borders. Their midnight flambeaux will no longer illumine their councilhouse, or shine upon the victim of their infernal orgies. In their places, a new generation will arise the weapons of warfare will be exchanged for the utensils of husbandry; and the wilderness, which now withers in sterility, and mourns the desolation which overspreads her, will blossom as the rose, and become the nursery of the arts. It is lamentable that the path of peace should lead through blood, and over the bodies of the slain; but to inflict partial evils that good may come, is a dispensation of Divine Providence."