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So much ado has been made a6oal his hnes 4
d. he following history of il may nol be unias
l.es,ing 10 oor readsfs Ilwill Be seen shasihe /
s. has once been n paid q he General The I
ompila,iSn 81 the facts was made b he editor
1: he Hartford coutans, from Niles RegiSier
1.-The baIlle 81 New Orleans was fought
e every one knows on The BIB Of JannaS
n, 1910, land ii j. j remarkable fact |
which perhaps every one does not remem+
Der, that a1tFealy nfpeace with Great Brl. Il
lain had already been signed Il Ghent. op
The 24lh Of December previcps,l On the
l9lh d January. Gen, Jackson wrote ~
The Secretary OF War that the enemy1s
last exeriions bad been made in that quat-
Ter. u any rase for The present season.
News Of peace arrived at New Orleans 4
On the 10Th Or February. The attack
and defence 81 New Orleans was long
past. and sdhe glitter Of arms Of which \
Tyler speaks was over.
The war being thus ended, number
Of French citizens afkoag the Louisiana
troons. Who we're detained after the batties
at an unhealthy post, became weary q
such needless hardship. and applied ~
MIR. Tousard, the French Consul, tog eeTt
,ificatesHof Flench citizenship, by which
fbev would be exempted from military
saryica. These The Consul could not rel
f,,se withcu. violating his official duty. n
Gen. jackson. however, was greatly ex-
peratea and charging the soldiers and tAs
consul with mniiny and desersion. orderdo
them 10 be removed forthwith to Baton
Rouge, $50 miles. from New Orleans,l--
These men had been among the brsyest ~
he soldiers al the battle Of the 9Th. atd
Mr. Toussrd, The consul. was fellow
ldier 81 Lafayette. and was McAndad
lie fighting for American libsriir s,s;sI Il
Al member Of the Los.;s'ane IT.. 4, Ana
named Louis Loualllier' wy 1
acsive ana energetic in suPpofs Z
Aar published about the lst o. Msf q
EyIa III II U u, al 4 &C lhs -nanaTS az
Iprisone by the General. Ga the sppli'
Il cation Or Louailler, Dominick A. Hall
District Judge of the United States Court
issued 4 wrillof .habeas corpus, requiring
Louailler to be brought before him, lol
1.-The purpose pf inquiring into the legality
Iof his imprisonment The Constitution
of. the United States. CART ], Sec. g.,
provides that ''ihe priviiege1of the wri
lofHabeas Corpus shall nsf 30 suspended
unless whenin The case Of rebellion d
invasion Or the public safety may require
it," Gen. Jackson, instead Of obeyins
the order of xthe Court, seized and i'm
prisoned the Judge.
THE district attorney, Mr.. Dick, ther
Fapplied 10 Judge Lewis, fora writ. Of ha
IDEAS corpus il favorof James Hall where
upon Gen. jackson imprisoaed Dick anc
i issued an order TO axaest Judge Letcis r.
| All this was ii March, 1915, nearly twc
months after the battle of New Orleans
4 and when the whole country wasresound
ing with shouts Of joy and Thanksgiving
for the return d peace. On being als
charged, Judge Hall, on the 9th o
March, 1915, summoned Gen. Jackson
to appear before him aud answer for |
contempt Of Court in-refusipg to obey til,
writ Of habeaa corpus and imprisoning thu
Judge. The General, feeling that mar
tial law, was nowfcome TO an end, obeye'
the mandate, but his conduc. in Cour
Twas CHARACTERISTIC. He interrupted th
) Judge seyeTartimes with remarks like III
following ~ Stale facts. sir, and con6n'
yourselfto Them i was then with thes
I brave fellows in arms, (alluding TO th
surrounding crowd you was not, sir
sc. sc. A full account Of the scene a
the trial may be found in Niles Registe
Of JuneI3, 1915. 10 which we refer III
cpriops) Judge Hall then sentence
him 10 pay s6ne Of $1,000, for which b
immediately gave The Marshal cheek.
The following will be found in the 9Th .youn
Or Niles Register, page 252:
III will Be recollected that Nhis fin
was Instantly paddy the citizens al larg,
who limited the subscriptions for that pu
pose 10 ONE DOLLAR each, that man
might have the honor-of. taking a part !
the contribution, and the business was
managed, that ibe Generals check Do th
: Bank was returned 10 himi by the Ma
shall without being presented"