But on Sunday, the 8th of June, the end came.
In accordance with a pledge which he had given his wife years before,
he had become a communicant of the Presbyterian church; and his last
words to the friends about his bedside were messages of Christian
cheer. After two days the body was laid to rest in the Hermitage
garden, beside the grave of the companion whose loss he had never
ceased to mourn with all the feeling of which his great nature was
capable. The authorities at the national capital ordered public honors
to be paid to the ex-President, and gatherings in all parts of the
country listened with much show of feeling to appropriate eulogies.
"General Jackson," said Daniel Webster to Thurlow Weed in 1837, "is an
honest and upright man. He does what he thinks is right, and does it
with all his might. He has a violent temper, which leads him often to
hasty conclusions. It also causes him to view as personal to himself
the public acts of other men. For this reason there is great
difference between Jackson angry and Jackson in good humor.
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