The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-02-20
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this distance of time, to think what
must have been it's fate. The very
troops that we're then marching "a
tho attack had committed tho most at
rociods crnelties, only a few months
before, ,;at Bajajos and st. Sebastian
and here again they were TO be rcwar.
ded with beauty and booty. The do.
Tense seemed like forlorn hope, with
out q particle of confidence In its sue
cess--except what was inspired by the
courage, genius, and energy of their
great commander Bnthe was host
IN himself. They wisely determined
that they would d'throw the whole re-
sponsibility upon HIM; that lhey would
pnt-their fatS entirely in his hnnde,
and they did so. Members Of .he Leg
lslaturo, officers ofthe City Corporation.
and Judges Of tho Courts, camo and
laid their powers at his feet, and vol
UNFAIRLY agreed that they would sur
render and suspend their official func-
tions until the danger was over. The
whole population, with ono voice, be-
sought him that ae would mako tho
city part of his camp, and take the
absolute command upon himself of
every human being within its limits
He had right to do it, 1t was prop
er that he should do it, for this simple
and plain reason, that the city was in
o state of actual siege. 1t was no fc :
tion! His act bore no kind ofresemb =
lance to the wanton outrage of declar-
ing martial law,-which is no law at
all,--for the mere purpose of tramp
ling down the law of tho land at n
place whore there are no military op-
crations gong on. Great applause. I
Jackson executed the authority thus
bestowed upon him, not only moderate.
ly, but benignly. lie gathered, The
people around him and protected their
rights, to the whole extent that he was
able TO do so, consistently with their
own good and proper defense of the
place, as tenderDy as q father would
care for his children. But he didn't
allow himself TO be trifod with. And
that brings me to the only fact in his
whole life that has ever been criticised
with reference to this point. A gen.
tleman named Louallior, who had been
II member of the Legislature, became,
in the course of time, discon.entcd.
He was one Of General Jackson's SOL
dicrs-that'i is, he.had put himself un-
der his command as much as any other
volunteer in his army.
But he became restive, and
after q while, published on ad-
dress, and printed and circulated it
over the city, IN which no counselled
disobcdlence to the Generals orders.
That was simply mutiny, and the pun
lshmeDt OF mutiny was death. But
General Jackson only confined HIM, de-
clarlng at the time his intention to re.
loaso him tho very moment that he
could 40 so with safety. Thon came
Judge Hall, another of his volunteer
subordinates. He undertook to inter-
fere with discipline OF Gen. Jaekson's
camp, by issuing q liobeas corpus for
the body of tho mutineOr.E The Gen.
eral, III order to save all trouble, sent
The Judge four miles up the rIvor, with |
that he should remain out
5ido OF his picket lines until il should
be known that the enemy had retired |
from tho coast. When the great battle
had been won, whom the invader had |
been driven away, when the city was
saved with all IFS beauty and its booty, |
then Judge Hall returned; and us soon
MS he got back he commenced prose- |
cution against General Jackson for
what do you think Z? Contempt of
court?
Tho General thought that was very
absurd Nevertheless, although he
had victorious army at his back;
although he was surrounded by pop
nlaton that adored him as their great
deliverer, he bowed his head to the
Iawful authorities of the country, MS
lowly as the humblest man IN the ma
lion. lGroat applause. He not only
submitted to the legal process which
was issued against him, but he gavc
10 the Judge the assurance that tho
same arm which had defended the
city against foreign invader would
defend him from danger of popular
outbreak Applause. He appeared |
before the court and made n defense |
which was worthy of his character as
q lawyer, and perfectly consistent with
his high renown as statesman and
patriot. lle pleaded that he was not,
and could no. be, guilty of any con.
Iompt OF court, because that court had
Of its own accord rellnquished its. au-
-horlty during the seigo, and had no
lifted blm Of the fact. lie said that
even il his act was illegal, he had com.
nitted not contempt of court, but q
personal trespass against the Judgc,
aud IA this ho was willing to respond
IA personal action before court of
jurisdiction and an Impair
nal jury. He insisted that his adver-
'ary had no right to sit in judgement
lpon his own case, This defense was
'yerrpled by the Judge, and 1t was
'verruled in such manifest defiance of
reason and justice that tho Judge
would have been torn into pieces if
zen jackson had not redeemed his