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tons and feelings more easily to be conJec- tured than by me expressed. The whole proceedings call for my most grateful thanks which are hereby rendered to you, and through you to the president and directors of the National Institute. But with the warmest sensations that can inspire a grateful heart, l must decline accepting the honor intended to be bestowed. l cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for all emperor or a king. My republican feelings and principles forbid it.; the simplicity of our system of government forbids it. Every monument erected 10 per patuate the memory of our heroes and states men ought to bear evidence of the economy and simplicity of our republican institutions, and the plainness of our republican citizens, who are the soyereigns of our glorious Union, and whose virtue it is to perpetuate it. True virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions; it can only dwell with the people-the great laboring and pro- ducing classes that form the bone and sinew of our confederacy.

 For these reasons, cannot accept the honor you and the president and directors Ol tue N dllOHhl llSulult luLGuUGtt iO uGSlON. cannot permit my remains to be the first in these United States to be deposited in a sar- eophagus made for an emperor or king. l again repeat, please accept for yourself, and convey to the president and directors of the National Institute, my tprofound respects for the honor you and they intended 10 be- stew. have prepared an humble repository for my mortal body beside that wherein lies my beloved wife, where, without pomp or parade, have requested, when my God calls me to sleep with my fathers, to be laid; for both of Us there to remain until the last trum, pet sounds to call the dead 10 judgment, when We, hope, shall rise together, clothed with that heavenly body promised to all who believe in our glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we might live, and by who's. atonement l hopefor a blessed immortali ty

 am, with great respect,

 I our friend and fellow-citizen,

 ANDREW JACKSON To Com ]. D. ELLIOTT,

 United States Navy.