Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1843-02-14
From the Nashville Union.
IMPORTANT CORRECTION.

IMbO)kIANI CORRECIION'
The NattOns. IntelIigencer manfesis
great joy at the Opporlune appearance Of
a pamphl 9: entitled Letters Of a Ken.
1uckian on Martial Law, !" and lays before
the country two columns Of such extracts
therefFOm az are best calculated TO af.
feet public sentiment at Washington, now
thatA motion is pending in Congress TO
expunge from the record Of final decis-
ions, the imputation upon the character
Of Gen. Jackson, intended to be cast by
the decision of Judge Hall, at New Or
leans, in 1915. To give clue 10 the
matter, we clip few short sentences
from the extracts selected by the Intel
ligencer: a.
"He (Gen. JacksOn) proclaimed mar
tial law, and caused it TO be enforced
upon the members Of the Legislature,b by
either thrusling them out, or keeping
them out of their Legislative Halls, with
an armed force."
at may we'll be said, therefore, that
Orleans was saved, not by reason Of but
in despite OF Martial law; for so gross an
insult 10 themselves and their local au-
tholities, was well calculated 10 produce
dissatisfaction and disafectiOn."
"After the decisive defeat Of the eue.
nv, his evacuation of the country, and
the relntation by the people Of Louisiana
Ofthe calumny agaist them, It was due
10 them that there should have been an
immediate revocation Of martial law,eVen
though such a step, should have implied
a mapnanimOus concession that il never
had been needed. What was the mo-
tive for keeping it up afterwards, it left
10 conjecture, and even conjecture is at
Q loss 10 assign rational one. )"
"The writ Of habeas corpus was an
sweFsd by an order to file OF soldiers
TO arrest and imprisOn the Judge. Mr..
Dick, the United States Attorney, then
obtained from Judge Lewis ,'oi lhs Lou
iS:ana Court, 4 writ in behalf OF Judge
Hall; aud this was answered by an order
for the arrest and imprisonment Of both
Lewis and Dick"
HTt WAS not until the eleventh, and not
until the militia had been disbanded, that
Judge Hall was released from actual con-
fnemen.."
..In publication made BY Judge Hall
Ot the time, he says he asked Gen. Jack.
son whether he should join any military
csrps, and he told him not TO do So"
The extracts as reprinted at Washing.
ton, and from which the above paragraphs
are taken, have come under the observa.
. Iion of Gen. Jackson, from whom we
have the pleasure to acknowledge the
following for publication:
:. GEN, JACKsON's LETTER.
"NGtiOnGI InteIligeRcer-Ert from
Me jLctters cfG KentuckiGR on Martial
y tfaaff' LGw." ls2..# H..
SIR:-ThaVS just received from
friend the National Tntelligencer of the
18th December, containing slengthy pub.
lisatiUn under the above sGptiOn. The
statement in that publication, 80 far as il
regates myself, being = tissue Of false.
hoods and false c6lOring. have felt my.
self compelled 10 reply TO il, lest my 81
lence should be construed into an ac.
knOwlsdgement pfits truth. therefore
request thN you VIII give place 10 the
following statement in the Nashville Un
ion. srsi .5.sg ls7r ..r-. ~.
ylGt. 1t 10 positively unirpe that I either
thrust 1he members Of the legislature out
Of their LaN, or that kept them out by
charmed force. On The 26th Decem-
bey, ASIA, VIXEN the troops under my
command, were engaged with the enemy
and yes passing along the line 10 give
orders, Mr.. A, L. Duncan, one Of my vol.
untarS aids-deecAmp, came to me in great
haste, wilha message from the governor,
that the Legislature were about 10 sur.
render the city, and that be waited my
orders. replied, 81 cannot believe them
guilty ofso trsiterous an act; but say 10
Ihe Governor, examine strictly into the
matter, and, il i is true, blow them up.'
The governor shut them out. Not such
my yordeEs would have been, and in con.
versation with the governor afterwards, I
remarked 10 him that ] would have shut
them il, provided them Oll necessaries,
Uhd'lst them, ifSo disposed, leglslate at
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