The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-05-09
ftrom tia National In,ellirencer.

" From tile National Inteligencer. stg
We have heard through different channels
that Mr.. c.: J. Ingerso, was about TO send 10
to press another volume of his recolections oi
The War of 1912, and we now learn that it will
,on he issued from the press of Messrs. Carey
&. Lea, Of Philadel phia. TO those gentlemen
we are indebted for the following extract from
its forthcoming pages, which is certainly ot
great interest in itself. and which, we may add,
opens chapter Of History entirely new TO us.
Mr.. Ingersol was, however himself Member
of Congress at the time, and had free access
to all sources Of information, public and private
of what was going on.
"During the occasional visits of our ENJOYS
and their suites 20 Paris, in the Summer OF 1914
proceeding their settlement at Ghent, for the
negotiations conducted there, a circumstance
made known from Paris to Washington through
one of the unofficial attendants of the le.
CATION, deserves to be mentioned. Scarcely
was Ferdinand the Seventh on the throne OF
Spain once more, before his ministers conceived
a design of disposscssing the United States OF
New Orleans. Midway English and Spanish
America, was considered the headquarters OF
the instructions and revolutions, exemplihed
and incucated by the former to the latter, OF
which the furnace at New Orleans, occupied
by Spanish forces, might be made the most con-
venipnt exlingusher. Whether the English
expedition to Louisiana had any connexlon with
that design, am not informed. former
French Charge d'Affairs in this county, direct.
ed TO prevent the marriage Of Jerome Bonaparte
here, Pichon, not succeeding in that undertak.
ing, incurred the displeasure of Napoleon, and
from that arrangement become gradually alien
ated, Till at last lie threw himself under The pro
lection of the Bourbons. BY his disclosure to
one of the attendants Of the Ghent mission, our
Government was given to understand that the
Spanish applied TO the French Bourbons tor CO,
operation in the project Of dispossesslng United
States of New Orleans. and establishing there
a ceni,e cf counteracton against all further
South American and Mexican revolutions
The French Government, however did not feel
strong enough TO espouse so expensive and pre-
carious a contest, and it was relinquished.
cannot assert that such Spanish design
was entertained in 1914 and am not aware
that Mr.. Madison's administration was advised
Of it by any Of his Ministers at the time in France
my information coming from another source.
But of the knowledge and assent OF that Admin
s,ration to another, as il had reason to believe,
Spanish design on Louisiana. am SO well as
sured as to append it to that first mentioned,
though it did not occur till shortly after the Pc
riod Of my narrative, in the autumn of 1916.
awhile Gen. Jackson was commander OF
the Southwestern military Division OF the
United States, with his head quarters near
Nashville, and Col. Jesup, stationed at Baton
Rouge with the first regiment and part OF some
others, in imn ediate military command OF New
Orleans and the shores Of the Gulf Of Mexico,
a respectable Catholic clergyman, Father An.
tome, and Col. Pierre, who commanded the 7tb
regiment of United States infantry at the battle
of New Orleans con6dentiallly informed Col.
Jcsu2 that Spanish attempt was on loot tor
the seizure of that city, by an army to be con.
vcycd from Cuba with that view.
The Spanish population Of louisiana, suppos-
ed to bc still attached to Spain, were sounded,
through some of them Father Antoine obtained
andcommunicated the information. With Gen.
Jackson's appreciation, and without President
Madson's disaprova, measures were therefore
taken by the American local commanders, mil.
itary and naval, in concert with Gov. Claiborne
of Louisiana, Gov. Holmes, Of the Mississippi
Territory, and Comm. Patterson who comman.
ded that naval station, TO counteract the threat.
encd Spanish invasion. by simultaneous seizure
of the island Of Cuba. While the militia were
to defend Louisiana from the Spanish invasion,
all The regular forces Of the army and navy that
could be collected, twenty five hundred Voiun-
,eers, under Gen. Kinds, from Mississippi, and
the same number from Louisiana, so rs 10 con-
stitute an army ten thousand strong, were to he
embarked for Havana, whenever there was
reason to believe that the Spanish army ofinva-
sion was coming from Cuba. Agents were
sent 10 Havana, who brought back precise &C.
counts of the state ofhe troops and fortiications
there, of which the accurate details were in
possession of the American officers. Their
condition was believed to be such as that they
must fall an easy prey to the force intended to
seize them. Should Spain invade Louisiana,
it was deemed constitutional and polite to re.
peI, BY simultaneous seizure of the place OF
Spanish armament and departure, as SciPio de.
Tended Rome by carrying the war into Africa.
President Madison was officially informed OF
the apprehended Spanish invasion, and inten.
oicd American counteraclion, and did not forbid
il. /, is said to have been bis opinion that the
Executive may lawfully repel invasion, when
imminent by coun:er.invasion, without an act
of Congress declaring war;"
I'VE doubt very much, we must say, wheth.
er any evidence can be produced of what Mr..
I. ntimates, ir, this last sentence, 10 have been
the supposed opinion Of Mr.. Madison. 1t was
not his practice TO assume power forbidden by
the Constitution.
From the Brownsville Flag, 18th ult.
INDIAN DEPREDATIONS.
indians, supposed about 100 made foray in
the vicinity Of Santa Rita District say IL miles