Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-10-23

Gen. Jackson, indulginEnis uesP
set aside, and CONTINUED Loua'''e' :" : I,
ment. Die his tyranny aud d'srFs ~.
-. ,,d ,f ~. .on.,;,S;on. end here? No:
Judge Hall was his nexi vlc'i"''
Judge Hall do, TO excus the pro'
gainst him? Did he.vloise the ru'es u "" . ' r.
law, as proclaimed by Jckson o" '"e
December 1914, Did he Jackson, charge him.
as he did Loualler, ",nh muo"y' 'Ae
mutiny, with being sp, or WIN '''es. a. ~
ducl?" No. Judge Hs did no more Una" IT.
was bound, by the law, by the solemn duties
Of his office, to do. HetssueG writ Of haoeas
corpus, directed to Corral Jackson, IN Inc
name Of the United s,a,escommanding him 10
bring The person Of Loualer before him. TO IN
qure into the legality his conhncment'-
VIVA, did Jackson do? I'd he obey The WRIT or
return respect ful answs 10 the Judge stating
the reasons why he did m obey the writ! DID
he inform him iha, thcrewas then any enemy
in front Of New Orleans that he was in APP
prehension of either rebcbn or invasion, and,
therefore, could not Menfey the writ! This
would have been too condcending for his high
migh,iness Blu, to cohmpt of the law and
the constitution, he addsersonal violence TO
the Jud re; he sends "a 81 Of armed men, and
takes him, in the night, i'm his house and ia
mily, and confines him. Iidge Hall, through
the agency OF Mr. Die k,he Attorney Of the
United States, applies tdudge Lewis, OF the
State Court, for a writ o beas corpus 10 bring
him, Judge Hall, beforsldge Lewis, TO in.
quire into the legality ofs confinement. In
sieadof obeying this writfeneral Jackson has
Mr.. Dick arrested and ,nhned, Tor having
made the application; snissued an order for
the arrest Of Judge Lewi'for having granted
the habeos corpus in favoif Judge Hall.
Here were, then, threesrests, and an order
for the fourth, under lhS ,thori,y, and by the
orders, Of General Jackb in the proceedings
relating to which, the rIgb and security OF the
several individuals wee o,ally disregarded,
and the authority and sarity OF the law and
constitution utterly ies bid and trampled up
on. And all :his was dor not only under the
circumstances before stu, but after the Lee
risia,ure of Louisiana Ka,on the 18th Of De-
cember, 1914, expresslyFsse d to suspend the
writ Of habeas corpus, Gouless on the ground
that i, was no, necessaf, If there had been
any necessity for establishg martial law, that
necessity had ceased "a 9.nger from the Bri
fish had also ceased. I'aaiNl laws ought to
have been re-e..-s.sshn the eff.s,. - 49,
odious. tyranny. Mr.. Lde,Iier was a me~ Ss."
of,Le Legislature. He had >sde the mos. ae.
tive exertions for the defence # the ei,y q,
New Orleans, aud the comfort, ., the army.
In demonstrating against the &C, IF despo,-
ism by which the troops were banned from
their homes, he did nothing that the Law i~..ld
not justify. For this he was nrown in,o Pri
son, brought, like a deserter or traitor, before
military tribunal, and there tried.
Our neighbour and countryman, Gen. Wash
ington, during the difficulties he had 10 content
with in our eight years war, never treated tn
civil, authority with the least contempt. H
never offered to suspend the great writ Of Ha
beas Corpus. Gen. Jsckson, in the year 1896
then member Of the House Of Representa-
tives, united with William B. Giles, Edwart
Livingston AMI Others and voted that Genera
Washington was not entitled to the thanks o
Congress for his past services as President O
the United States, ard that his successors i,
Office ought not TO make him their example,
Yet this is the man many are mad enough tc
wish TO place IN the chair w .shington once fill
ed-why make him President! His friends sa,
because he gained he battle Of New Orleans
They. admit, IT he had not gained that sngl,
battle, they would not have though, Of him a
President. There is no doubt he would hav
been as much execra'ed as he Is now lauded
il he had failed in that battle. Such is the eff
feet of military success, on a republican peopl
that large portion of them, as reward FOL
one successful battle, which may have been III,
effect OF either chance or the bravery of hi.
troops as Of the skill and bravery on the par
Of the commanding General, are willing t.
raise to the highest honor i'm our country z