Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-07-28

: attempted TO exercise judicial authority
. in my camp. then under martial law, the
! necessity for declaring said law being ad.
> mitted Was it consistent with the
f character OF an upright Judge, after put.
! ting me under the rules 10 show cause
: why an attachment should not issue a.
t ganst me, and, on my appearance with
I my defence, to refuse to hear me-parti-
! cularly as he was sitting in his own
cause, and from whose judgement there
was no appeal Lasty: was it not illeg.
2 al and unjust III him, after he had appro-
, we'd the declaration of martial law. on the
4, ground ST that necessity whose Office il is
20 make the law silent when this IS in
dispensable 10 save the republic was ii
! not. | say, dishopofabie in him to inst-
) tute proceedings against, and insult and
tine me, for defending the country by
the means he approved aud spplausled,
there being no otter offence really charg-
ed against me? Is there a man. not car
fied away by party feelings, who, hear
ing tie facts, will not pronounce it one
Of the most unjust and vipdictive deci-
sions ever pronounced by Judge?
But will not pursue the subject furth-
er? My thanks are due to the Lesisla
lures of New York. Ohio. and Michigan,
for their expressions calculated to induce
Congress to wipe from lay memory the
inlputation cast upon it by the act of this
ftyrannica aud Niildctive Judge. My
thanks are due: also. so that portion Of
! the Senate which has expressed wish to
| Il f,,r, 10,
contended for by those who amended the
original bill. am obliged to regard the
provision Of Mr.. Bayard, adopted by the
aisrity. as intended 10 insult my feel
ings What +! take from Congress mo-
ney instead of justice ?-When apply
TO Congress, it will be TO demand Justice,
not TO ask favor. Ahe patriotic States
o! New York, Ohio, and Michigan, did
not ask Congress to extend TO me a iav-
or. They wanted the stain upon my
character, Imposed upon it by Judge
| Hall, without good reason, wiped away.
With the smiles of providenc, and by
the aid Of my brave patriots in arms, af-
ter many days of toll and nights of
watchfulness, New Orleans was presery-
eth frem the hostile tread Of foreign foe,
and her amiabIe females protected from
insult and pollution. In the struggle. |
risked my health, my life, and, what is
dearer THAI either. my reputation; and,
| if the honorable Senetors from Louisiana,
( (Messrs. Conrad and Barrow believed
that ought to be fined and dIsgraced for
ii, leave them to enjoy all the satstac-
ton which so refined patriotism can
bring them.
4 am. very sincerely and truly. your
friend, ANDREW JACKSON.
F. p. BLAIR, Editor of the Globe.
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TIE Spread of Christianity IN the East.
Almost every fresh arrival from the O.
rental chimes. brings US some additional
proof that Christianity, and its concomi-
tant effects, is taking hold of the eastern
world. Many of the deep-rooted preju
dces which missionaries of the Bible
have all along been compelled to combat.
are either totally disappearing, or are fast
giving way berore the all subduring in
tfuence OF Christianity. Through
out the dominion of the Turks, the op-
pressions Of the Mahomedan church are
stoutly murmured against and in some
districts have been openly resisted. In
all the districts that Menemet Ali lays
claim to as his own. free scope has
( been given to missionaries, of all creeds
and sects, and liberal equality bestowed
by the Emperor himself, to ecclesiastics
of all nations. The power OF the .Ro
mish church IN Spain is suspended, and
in several parts of France, bulls, excom-
,nunications. and the pope's ecclesiastl-
cal denunciatlons are at very low ebb.
The results of .he determinations going
in India and in China, UNJUST as We are
compelled to admit them, nrast prove in
calculably advantageous to the cause n!
Christianity, and indeed, to whatever
/ section of the eastern world our atten-
ton is directed, we may discover Sc
c"et spring working against the powers
of menta! darkness, and in favor Of the
Christian religion and its effects.
The last report Of the British and
Foreign Bible Society, shows an unpre-
cedented increase of demlnd fer the
Scriptures in the East, and no better
proof than this is needed, that Christi
anity is destined ere long to occupy the
long Businesses of superstition and error
If so, political liberty will go with If,
for the ene is as natural consequence to
the other as the effect is of the cause.
Even the atheist will admit, that the
code Of neral and political Government
inculcated by the Bible. is far superior to
any extan.. that is not itself borrowed
from it,and the history of mankind attests
that they are happier under this system
than any other. The fundamental dec
trines of the Scriptures are those OF gen.
eral republican equality, making no dis
tnctions among persons, regarding all as
naturally equal in rights and duties; and
that the whole duties to be observed in
social intercourse, may be resolved into
, the golden rule, love to our neighbor
as to ourself. This system is destined
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