Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-12-21
From the New York Weekly Tribune.
GEN. Jacks0n's Fine.

Great efforts for year past have been made
TO excite popular feeling and procure legislative
action against the sentence and execution OF
the law which in 1915 imposed upon General
JACKSON, after the battle of New Orleans, fine
Of s 900 for gross contempt oil Court IN re-
fusins obedience 10 writ and IN lmpEisonlng
Judge 10 prevent resort 10 Interior process Tor
enforcing obedience; and President Tyler has
lately urged the matter upon the attention oil
Congress We find the circumstances OF this
case detailed with grea, precision in pamph-
let entitled Martial Law, by Keniucklan,
from which extracts areeaade in the lnieiiIgen-
Ger; and as apprehend the knowledge which
most Of our readers possess upon The subject Is
but vague, we copy from 1t the following mar
raivc.
! The writer premises that there has been no
instance Of Martial Law in England for the last
/ hundred and fifty years, and none IN this coun-
try, not even during The Revolution, but that
given by Gen. Jackson in New-Orleans. In
the difference of habits, &c, between the two
classes of the population a, New-Orleans and
in the suspicion Of the loyalty of the French,
Gen. Jackson found ground for The proclama-
lion Of Martial Law, which, he enforced upon
the Members of The Legislature by keeping or
,hrusling ;hem out Of their Halls by an armed
force. All classes, however, did their duty IN
the field; the enemy was beaten back, the coun-
,ry was evacuated, and every thing was quiet
vet Gen Jackson sll maintained Martial
Law:
"On the 18Th January the enemy had re-
embarked his troops. On The 18th February
he was off Mobile, a distance Of so miles, and
never again approached nearer TO Orleans. IN
the 2Ofh, Mr.. LIVINGSTON returned from The
feet u,th information, derived from the Admiral
! of The treaty of the peace. 'On the 23d it wa:
confirmed from another quarter and nobody bu
General Jackson doubled its truth. genera
disconlen. at the unnecessary keeping up
martial law and the exaciion Of constant militia
= ~ duty from The citizens began to manifest 1t
self; but more particularly on the part Of som
two or three hundred domiciled, hnl unnatural
lied Frenchmen, who, though not compellabl
TO serve against nation then at amliy wit
France vet had volunteered their services, AM
! rendered such gallant and valuable aid in oh
l. tanning The great victory, as TO extort the spe
tial commentator of the General HIMSELF.
These men complained that they were unne
cessarly KEEP. in disagreeable encampmer
some miles below the city, and away from lhei
business and trades, upon which their familie
depended for support, whilst other Louisian
militia from distance, who had neither fam
: lies nor business there, were comf"r'aby qual
= tered IN the city. TO relieve themselves. the
i claimed and obtained exemption from mIi'ar
duty on account of their alienaee; but the Ger
eral Immediately issued an order ban'shing
who had or should oban such exemption
W Baton Rouge. $50 miles above The city.
oI ION The 3D. March there appeared IN an U
- leans newspaper temperate and SUFFICIENTLY d
- corous rcnonstrance against this order of ba'
- iShment: first, because Of The indignliy and u
jury inflicted ON men who deserved very di
ferenl requilal of their galIan,ry; second, b
cause il violated rights secured under the irea
with Frame; third, because il violated the
rgh, 10 protection as deuisons under The Co
ssiiuliuu Of he United States; fourth, becau