COL. MEADOWS REMARKS.
{"newspaper_name": "The Arkansas banner.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1988, "word_count": 352, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9789999723434448], "ccnet_perplexity": [767.7999877929688], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
Il has been deemed proper that the last bright emanation from mighty intellect, the last lesson of wisdom from the pen of pat riot, should form a part of the ceremonies by which we would do honor to his memory.

 And while we mingle our sorrow, in con dolence with the whole nation for the bereave- ment which has fallen upon Us in the death of Andrew Jackson, while assembled to pay our tribute of respect to his exalted worth and the glory of his name, let us also listen to the ennobling sentiments contained in his last public communication, and initiate if we can, their purity and excellence.

 Though bowed ddown by the weightof years, ndalmos paraIyzed by suffering and disease, the strength of his attachment to the princi- pies and spirit of political institutions for which he bled in youth and sought so ardendy to foster and advance throughout his life, was wholly unmpaired Nay, the flame seemed 10 burn if not with increased vigor, yet with fierce brlliancy, as he approached the grave. And in declining the Sarcophagus of an Elm peror as the narrow house of his expected rest he testified devotion to the simplicity of republican institutions, that even the grave could not extinguish.

 His tomb needs not, indeed, the meretri- cioQs aid of ancient art and long forgotten greatness, to keep alive the vcneration and affection of his counrymen. The splendor O. his achievements, his public services, his private worth, shall hallow the lowly spot chosen for his long rest, while the republic endures CT memory can recall his patriotic deeds

 He chose to sleep beside one whom in fife lie loved with deep and unmiXed dovo- ton, and from whom he would not be parted even ih death And there was he laid, as he requested, without pomp and without pa rade"

 The annals of our country, to whose pages he has added so much glory, will never more truly confirm all that has been said of his virtues and goodness than the letter which I shall now have the honor of reading to you