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actual confinement; and even then he was ienosnin.
?hsy escorted bYd fte Of soldiers bevon,i the sfy
.ahHs, ana there dismissed with the modest com.
j.; VI te General ltdthc should not return NTH
-, t'ets MUGS ofHeeiy until official intelligence Of
,no pe",g was received or until the enemy had left
saIno 0 Sa, coast. Thus, in the language Of the
srno wi when II was thought tho military
io,ce MI smelly to di5handcd it,wos not tbouobt
SAFE ilr helpless old man to take rr in The General
reJ'icnes N which his ielloyy.elcns ,xerc inJniS
| my ahd, ne might have added, an old man who bore
a most envabe reputation for cxcmnlorv pn,;,v And
lnteIrry OF character. r' f"' ~
i, for The contempt of court, in thus refusing obs.
uence 10 me trr and in impriSoning its judg, 10 ma
pe resort 10 uHertor process for enforcinp obsd;.
ehee' i!!e General was arragned before the court.
Mh u, without the intervention of a Jury, but accord
III! 70 law and the universal usage of ali courts in ca.
which the General paid.
In publication made by Judge Hall at the time.
no says he asked Genral Jack son whether he should
Ioih any military corps, and he told him not 10 do co.
ii the Judges personal appearance had not been ma.
erlay altered for the worse four wears afterwards
when the writer formed a slight personal aconaint.
ancc with him. the General might well have thought
ne could 90 better without than with the aid of such
man; lie says he returned to the city four weeks
iore ms arrest was cordially received nv the Gene.
fa, ana mi then almost constantly visited by the
HeneIai most intimate friends, without hearing any
Complaint oil uiiscondnct against himself Hedenlss
tlnt ne was present at any consultation or that he
was advised with about the declaring of martial law,
or mat on his way from the CITY, he ever did or said
any hng To discourage the iroOps from advancing 10
ITS ad In none Of these PARTICULARS has he ever been
conrndleed by any proof, though he earnestly chal.
lengei ITS production He does not deny that he NAV
,l's approval of the declaration Of mar
i1 lw though he does recoilect having done co.
0n does most so'enuly protest that he did not nor
could he or any sane have anticipated or approv.
ed marital law such as the general had enforced
winch went 10 the abolition of all rights and placed
the lives o tn whole community in the p,wer of
military chic, and to he kept M six weeks after The
General Inns Il Ind written to the Secretary Of War
that the eaemy's last exerons had been made in
that quarter, Mt any rate for the present season.
paper %ho 6aSsfo e"9T n The sdo. Of The
AMI Judge Lewis were left unpunished %bs. Ms..
HAL .ouaIler and Dick were bunsl,ed far il il M
part OF my purpose to arraign the motives OF General
JhcNso; pat conaadlng all he did to ave besn in pur.
sunnce OF his notions ofthe public good moan "a ,r.
tnirn the opinions OF certain Of his y,ndcaiors via
justify his conduct as rghtful or allowable precedent
in this country p''|'u'A'
But having said what have, and i, con'd no,
'Vc been less IN vndcaiion of the memory of Judpe
ti'iI would he bat srani Justice towards CenersI
Jackson H. before lsnvnv this part of the subject
Wee 70 content myself with barely saying that he
pl me ~, II was the most fortunate incident in
the varied life nj this favored child Of f,r,une ,ba, he
was summoned before judicial irl,-nal 10 .xna,a
ms itne aIanSt the nntlon for his gross violations
OF It's fundamental and mos, sacred law He was
most iJrtin1e IN the opportunity i, aft rded him Of
welding the only suitable or acceptable atonement 10
insecurity, by acting throughout in m,nner most
appropriately becoming an American citizen. He
WIS ueby fortunate IN that incident AZ his trial which
Afforded him the occasion for presenting one of ths
Su5ttmest moral specaceS ercr exhibited in this or
any otfer country, when, as it were with his own
arm, he sustained lettering Justice on her shaken
seat, while she inflicted her sentence on himself II
IS great injustice to this fine action to compare IT, as
/ has been done, with Corolanus forbearing to wreak
MS vengeance on his own country. Il deserves com.
parlson with an example much worthier of adrnira.
on-wh the closing scene of the life of the wises,.
best greatest Of Greece il Of the world who
refused To violate the Laws of his country to his
own life iroru an unjust sentence Our American ex.
ample cannot fully stand the comnarison only be-
cause the sentence about to be inflicted in case
was most Just. There great difference Also to
be sure As 10 the penalties 10 he endured but the spr
/ u, the movnI spirit of the actions were the same
Let not be sad by the narrow minded who have no
seltcOnsclpusncss by which measure the motives
tn such actions, that this was but the acting of
ninr actor on public stage that pnltrv thousand
dollars was cheap prre paid by ambition. man
10 redeem his military aures from all tarnish in tho
eyes OF his c0unrymen. 1t is a fact not generally
/ known resting now perhaps in the knowledge Of
ie" hes les m Jacks m himself, that he attended
/ his trl1 anticipating months Imprisonment at the
least. pnrt Of his sentence. and with his mind full
| ~ made III to cheerful submission.
! IVY information from the late Gen. Adiar,
VIII, as commander OF the keniuc militia, bore a
! distinguished part in achieving the victory Of New
/ Orleans but whose personal relations towards Gen.
Jackson, al the time of communicating II, were any
thing bat those of friendship He sad thar, from pre-.
! ,ipus acqrart lance with Judge Hall. he believed he
would InllXlHiv and faaresslv discharge his duty
DIstrusttul of Gen. Jaclsou'r cmper more especial
" after the exercise of absolute power and
/ tn llAatbn natural to his situation, he was .er.
| ouSly aNprehensive that something would grow out
p the ila which, if not personally dlsgracefu to the
General, would be degrading to the country; no
therefore obtained n private interview for the pur.
pose Of schooling him into proper temper OF mind 10
meet his trlal lie found there was need for his
lecture The writer regrets he venture to de-
tai the Characteristic dialogue that ensued. The
substance, IN brief was about this understand you
are 70 be tried before Judge Hall tomorrow. Yes
Have yon thought Of the the thing is like 10
take! US | suppose the id rascal will fine me.
But General, nm npprchens;ve he will not be con.
tent v u that. Whatcanh he do He may send you
to pr.s .. Wsll d-n HIN, let hin. But ut i may DO
to PRISON and stay there? Yes, sill, will. But will
tn, troops permit that! Jackson rising from his
sat and emphasizing, with an upiIlted arm, answer.
ed BY Cd, sir, they sllnt prevent H.
General Adair thought it very fortunate that
Jurle Hall had made the punishment of pecunaTy
fine instead of Imprisonment, for he thought General
Jackson oyorraed his powers of scfcontrol; and, if
brought to the would not have been disposed TO
fulfil his yaunt. The writer has always thought diff
fsrenlly, and regretted that he was not imprisoned
from n most confident belief TINT he would have full
filled his promise to the letter and thereby afforded
still more adequate aonemeut for his violation oil inc
Constitution lie could not but have had most anx-
l'us msgjvngs IN his own mlnd that his outrageous
conduct towards lie Legislature, Judge Hall, and
Nr. EQUALIZER, had oversiepped the bounds Of even
his own notions ot dlfv, AMI coIl not but be appre-
hens Va n 10 the n1uncr in which that conduct was
u be- 'rVe1 by IhH sober-rnnded of his csuntry-
men. With such e.inIs about him, if he be any part
} of the man take him f-r, he must have been more
thrn wl ling II make any atonewent the constituted
authorizes nGht require, The anecdote Just related
will probably never reach the historian hut II Il
should he vii trans nj, 1t to pNserIry without any OF
the discriminating doubts of General Affair." and IN
that way also majority Of his countrymen would
now receive il; 1nl Will go farther with every en-
gh'ened pat,Ioi towards obtaining cordial forgive
ness for the caatipn of martial law, and his arbi-
rlry proceedings under it, than any thing he ever did,
not excepting his brilliant victory"
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