foes. An elegant address, drawn up and delivered by Mr. Grundy, welcomed his return. Having received this further display of public confidence, the more grateful because from those who were his acquaintances, neighbours and friends, he returned home, to enjoy that repose, to which, for eighteen months, he had been a stranger.

Thus did General Jackson put an end to the second war with Great Britain, and return to his home. Taking into consideration the comparative strength of the two armies, and the comparative loss, there is no battle on the pages of history which will compare with that of New Orleans. It was this battle that crowned the military career of Andrew Jackson! It was this battle that gave him a fame and reputation imperishable in all future time. And now that his

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name and his acts have become the property of his country, the voice of emulation and discord is hushed for ever-that full justice will be done him, which in his life may have been partially withheld. His conduct as a soldier on the field of New Orleans, entitles him to a place in no way inferior to the best general of the age. The memory of that battle will be perpetual; together with Yorktown, and Monmouth, and Bunker Hill-Waterloo, Austerlitz, and Jena-Marathon and Thermopyla, it will go down to the latest posterity.

"To Jackson's fame, the honour of two successful wars may be added. Few, indeed, have had the same duties to perform in the service of their country-and none have discharged them with more personal credit to themselves and to the nation. He has never had the charge of cowardice imputed to him, in the times of the highest political excitement-he has never been charged with an ambition which was irreconcileable with the best interests of his country. Like the immortal Washington, when he had finished the work of doing battle for the republic, he retired to the scenes of private and domestic life, until called on by the people to act in a more exalted sphere. It has never been imputed to him, that any other motive impelled him than an honest and patriotic desire to serve the sacred cause of freedom-to maintain and perpetuate those principles of government which had their origin in the dawn of the revolution. Honest, patriotic, brave he was ever ready to draw the sword from the scabbard when duty called him, and as willing to return it when the day of duty was done. The fame

of the soldier, which in his case was exalted, was never used for purposes of personal aggrandizement, or popular promotion. Generous to a fault, courteous and agreeable, he gained with the soldiery an influence, which, with an evil mind, he could have converted to the lasting injury of his country. He shared with them their wants and privations-was a friend-their companion-in a word, their regard and affection for him was unbounded."*

HE war-drum was destined soon again to summon General Jackson to the fields of Florida. He was only allowed a short season for repose. He arrived at Nashville on the 15th of May, 1815. Some time

previous to his arrival he received a message from

Washington, asking him to proceed to that place, and lend his aid in the organization of a peace establishment in the army. His immediate compliance was impossible, on account of indispensable duties devolving upon him in the district under his command. It was necessary for him to return " to his own fields and his own pursuits, to cherish his plantation, to care for his servants, to enjoy the affection of the most kind and devoted wife, whom he 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 skies, and growing on its native soil in wild and inimitable magnificence, careless of beholders. From all parts of the country he received appeals to his political ambition, and the severe modesty of his well-balanced mind turned them all aside. He was happy in his farm, happy in seclusion, happy in his family, happy within himself."*

But his country still required his services. The government decided that ten thousand men should constitute the peace establishment; and the whole country was divided into two military departments,— the north and the south. Major-General Jackson was appointed commander-in-chief of the southern division. He accepted the command and established his head quarters at Nashville, where he received many tokens of the gratitude and respect of his fellow-citizens. The legislature of Tennessee voted him the

*Bancroft's Eulogy.