HERMITAGE. March d. 1916.
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DEAR SIR: Your letter OF the 18th IN.
slant, together with the copy Of the pro-
ceedines Of the National Institute, furnish.
ed me by their corresponding secretary.
on the presentation, by you, of tho sarco-
phagus for their acceptance, on condition
il shall be preserved, and in hoaor Of my
memory, have been received, and are now
before me.


Although laboring under great debility
and affiction, from severe attack from
which may not recover, raise my pen
and endeavor TO reply. The steadincss Of
my nerves may perhaps lead you to con-
clude my prostration OF strength is not so
great as here expressed. Strange as it
may appear, my nerves are as steady as
they were forty years gone by; whilst,from
debility and ailliction, am gasping for
breath.


have read the whole proceedings Of
the presentation, by you, of the sarcopha-
gus, and the resolutions passed by the
board of directors, so honorable To my
| fame, with sensations and feelings more
easily to be conjectured than by me ex-
pressed. The whole proceedings call for
my most grateful thanks, which are hereby
rendered to you, and through you to the
presiden. and directors of the National
Institute. But with the warmest sensa-
tions that can inspire grateful heart, |
mus, decline accepting the honor intended
TO be bestowed. cannot consent that my
mortal body shall be laid in repository
prepared lor an emperor or king. My
republican feelings and principles forbid
il, the simplicity Of our system Of goveln-
ment forbids it. Every monument erect
ed to perpetuate tho memory of our heroes
and statesmen, ought 10 bear evidence of
the economy and simplicity of our repub-
lican institutions, and the plainness OF our
republican citizens, who are the soyereigns
of our glorious Union, and whose virtue


is to perpetuate 1t. True virtue cannot


exist where pomp and parade are the go.


verning passions; it can only dwell with


the people--the great laboring and pro


ducing classes that form the bone and
sinew Of our confederacy.


TUT lneSe Ttdsuns L SuuuOt u'SoPt tHS


honor you and the president and directors
. Of the National Institute intended to be
stow. | cannot permit my remains TO b'
the first in these United States 10 be de
posted in sarcophagus made for an EN-
f peror or king again repeat, please &C


cept for YOURSELF and convey 10 the presi
dent and directors of the National Inst
tute, my most profound respects for III
4 honor you and they intended to besiow.
f have prepared humble depository for M


mortal body beside that where lies my be


loved wife, where, without any pomp o
: parade, have requested, when my Go
calls me to sleep with my fathers, TO b


laid; for both Of US there TO remain unit
= the last trumpet sounds 10 call the dea
to judgment, when we, hope, shall ris
! together, clothed with that heavenly bod
promised 10 all who believe in our glor
> GUS Redeemer, who died for us that W
: might live, and by whose atonement hop
. for blessed immortality.


| am, with great respect


Your friend and felow.c citizen,
ANDREW JACKSON.
! To Com j. D. ELLIOTT, U. s. Navy.