Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-02-16

that opinion from the unsupported statements q
the Adams Convention, and the history of event
as detailed by Col. Livingston Think YOU tho,
would bc any doubt as TO the conclusion to which
your judgments would be brought: Honorab,.
as freely admit the individual members of IN,
convention 70 have been-inhubitable rs was the;.
claim TO talents-& respectable was their weigh,
Oh character,-surely not they will cla;,
the prerogatvc OF commanding credence in tho.
uhcorroborated dicta, touching matters of whcj
they profess no personal knowledge, when opposed
10 tne deliberate affrmations of an individual a,
nnquestionea veracty, Respondent talents, and Tho
most chivaric honor. Remember, too that ,his
individual, for his patriotism and bravery. hal
been placed near the person Of the commandng
officer, and was himself an actor i'm the seIf s,e
scenes which he so gloriously describes-an ind
viduai, whose interests and feelings were inf;
nateiy associated and identified with that neorla
over whom Gen. jackson is accused of hayinr,,.''
rannicoliy proclaimed the regulations of mai,
law, ana deprived, by the strong arm of violence
OF the privileges of the writ of ha5eas coypus -
And this people, SO far from regardinp hin, &c .
Military Cheitain," who, in The wantonncss of
power, mad imprisoned the citizen, and trai,,plees
upon their civil rights s,il hail him as the prescr
yer OF their city, the defender of their ssboo,v
ana The honored and successful champion of ,b.;r
beauty feel for him noble ,rrattnde
Which no calumny can ever elace 20 ter;tv viii
nave some difficulty in solving the riddle. of a
brave and patriotic individual, pIedsing the las, d,
ar OF ms private fortune, and periling his person In;
the battle held, to save wealthy and ponnjo,,,
cry from being plundered and sacked, its citizen
put to the sword, and its 'sbeauty'' defiled -,,h
had prevented rich and fertile country from he
ing invaded and oyerrun by an army of ncrrano
ries, and who aided by handful of his bravo hr,
undiscipined countrymen, had driven from ber
sno,eS an enemy VINO had Wanted their nvinci.
oiity,-how, say, such man as this ever came
10 De accused OF being an enemy TO his coun,r,,
ana vio!ator OF her laws and Constitution s -
complex problem which posterity may find some
G wna' Ginicu't OF solution. But the propriety of
Ten. Us. conduct in the defence of New Orleans
rests not upon the evidence of this or that ind;
vlduai All the facts connected with II are sniff.
ciehuy notorious, but it is no less notorious that
Sfeat ana extraordinary pains have been taken TO
uistort and miSrepresent every circumstance con
nected with this important transaction No ,c+
mas been lett unessaycd which malice could in
vent, or envy conceive, to obscure and bIackon
MS lame, and blight those laurcls which hard
earned victory had placed upon his, brov Rrt
among the eye witnesses of Gen Us. transact;on-
'noSe VINO became soldiers under martial law
citizen soldiers, who with musket and bavonet
s'ood Dehind breast-work of cotton instead of the
counting house desk ,-men whose lives l;hor,i,
ana fortunes, hung upon the issue of the approach
ing conict,-o'nong these, tnhdt is the unrers1ii,,
preuGiing opinion? Their continued and ,,nshS
Ken attachment TO his person and fortunes tbe;r
uhoounded gratitude for his great and peculiar
services, and the strong feeling and patriotic s;r,
so conspicuousy evinced in their late invitation IN
become the guest OF the State upon the anniyessa
OF their delverance, respond to tho interroratory
IN language which cannot be mistaken They
proclaim in loud and emphatic terms that amooSc
his distant countrymen (when they might escone
oetecuon) maiignity and SANDER have been busv
win his reputation and that those 1rho 1,,o, b;,
oeSf are acILhng to tr-tsSt him farthest Whilst
zen: .. was acung as Judge in the Supreme Court
oil ms native State, with proper officers attend;n-
10 execute the sanctions OF the law and surrouni9
en- and sustained by virtuous and patriotic people
ulsposeu 10 acknowledge and obey its precepts, no
hurihur OF dscontent,-no whisper of reproaei,
was ever heard touching his official conduct Rnt
great was the change when he was converte5
from Judge into General, when he had er-
changed the peaceful shades of Tennessee for d.
lamp OF the ieaguered city,-when he found him,
sell at the head OF few meagre but brave o.
determined battallions of hastily collected badl,
armed and undiSciPlincd militia, with here ana
there regular, who looked as If he had mietai,a
ms way and struggled into the encampment bv
accident,) opposed to thousands Of lanreI,d -
querors from the field of Waterloo led b,, liz.
Chief who had looked Frances Emperor iin e.
race without covering under his eagle gaze :
ana sustained by powerful naval force. Ietus
hol however - get before our story" Gen. .ps
sentiments OF suspicion and mistrust must bavs
been highly and justly exerted even beG,re 10
[eached orleans, having been informed nv Gov
Cfalborne that the country was said IN he 6IJad
WIN spies and traitors, -'' there is in this civ a
greater spirit OF disatction than / had anticna+
Cd" my greatest difficulty is with The Enrdrc.
an renchmen, who, after giving their adheeio,
10 Louis the 18Th, have through the Frencb c.
sui, claimed exemption from the drafts as Francb
subjects" Gen. j. was farther informed nv Coz,
Siatoorne, that after consulting legal advisers
ne haa tGen al uoOs himself to Danish sus,,ecf
es anha0't0t, by ordering him TO depnrf Gco,, a.
otdte an J0Tty-e7ght hours" Gen j. found h;rnsoIF
WIN hue more than body guard, in the midst of a
PoPuious city, large number of whose inbobi,onts
spoke ting language of a foreign country. profcqsc9
allegiance TO an European Monarch. were f,In;
mar WIN all the ingenious and complex machine.
o. lhtestne plots and intrigues, and had learned
20 iooN unbianched at the shedding of human
oioou. these things had produced their na,,,r,i
and alarming effect upon those who yyer. e;,LsI
Of neart' and hrm of purpose, before he arrived
III rev orleans. He found them filled r,;,h
aafm ana anxiety, and almost sinkino under r.
weight Of helpless despOndencv His arr;,,.I
served IN great degree, TO calm their anx;etv g.
lessen tneir Tears end reanimnte their e;ni,;nc.
hopes ana courage. The inhabitants were dividsi
INTO nut two parties. The line of der,or..,;'
was as distinctly drawn as the crcumvalIa,;S,
an ehcafhpnent. One party was headed bv tbose
European OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Lewis TIC
= VII, oil whom Governor Claiborne sneal,s =
VINO were monarchists in principle bitter cncn,;se
W '"e IePHolican institutions of the COUNTRY ;e,l
onsol the continually increasing numbers az -;
huence VI the American inhabitants and ,c;JJ.
~ a' tne general 6efief, las well as that of CO,
- " uct1Oe' Up p7e Guy, to those benevolent
Oeneiaciors who had restored their Inn, b,;,
hlng--theIr bourbon Idol--to the throne -
rance The ether party was the revere If ,I,i,
IN every particular, and headed by thar much H.,
lured individual, whose conduct and rcn,,,aGa,,
nave been reviied by the Adams Conventioa ,vi,b
such unspaIing severity-such bitter maIedirfions
= hey were patient OF control, obseryant of dqcin
~ gO'u' Pauiouc and cnterprisug and end,riroe
OF toll and Vi danger, 10 degree which ,rt,.;s
but the native spirif of frocio,. -, 4iOtii.io