The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-02-02

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per publications as an attempt to ex
rested the author. A United State
District Judge, promptly and fear
lessly, even in the miust of camp ant
almost in, sight of the recent battle
field, issued a habdes corpus directed
to the conqueror, commanding him t.
bring thesaccused into court to b
dealt with according to the Consti
j tuition and laws of the United States,
i The War Power was then thing
unknown to the Judiciary, and it wa
reserved for. Judges of later period
to proclaim that s'the legality of th,
military arrest of citizen depended
on the necessity for making it, ant
j that of this necessity the court coult
not judicially determine" ID
! jackson. disobeyed the writ, an6
forthwith arrested the Judge who is
sued it, as guilty of INSTRUMENTATION
and exciting mutiny within the limit
of the encampment. In the midst o
these acts of military rigor, officia
i information of the treaty of peace ar
rived. Before nightfall it was pub
| licly proclaimed; hostilitics were de
clared at an end, and martial law alb
l!rogated. New Orleans was no longer
camp; and a few days after this
Judge Hall ordered General jackson
into court, to show cause why an at
tachment should not issue against
him for contempt. He obeyed
promptly, appearing personally, and
by his counsel, Edward Livingstone
who offered as defense to prove the
! necessity for martial law and arrests
| But the Judge refused TO listen to any
argument of that character, and forth.
with ordered an attachment for the
body of Andrew Jackson, lately vic
tor at New Orleans, and commander
in-chief of the camp. Necessity had
known no law and now law refused
to know any necessity. Punctually
at the day and hour appointed he ap-
peared in conft himself, under arrest
A vast and excited iconcoursc of peo-
pie received him with loud shouting
and cheers. With a wave of the hand
he commanded silence, and with his
voice counseled obedience to law and
public authorities But the Judge in
alarm, ordered the court to stand adj
.journed.I mo, no." exclaimed the
Hero, sEthere is no danger here; there
shall be inone-the same arm that pro-
teeted from outrage this city, against
the Invaders of the country, will shield
and protect this court, or perish in
the effort" Brave words, nobly apo
ken, Andrew jackson : He was sold
Hickory still. U The hearing pro-
sceeded; he was found guilty, and the
court pronounced Judgment, that
Major General Andrew jackson do
pay a fine of one thousand dollars to
the United States" Leaving the
court room, he was seized by the pop
3ulace, plaeedsin carriage impressed
for the occasion, and the horses being
removed, was drawn through the
streets by the crowd, who hurrahed
for jackson and fiercely threatened
the j udge.o He again addressed them
commanding quiet, and declaring that
he submitted "most freely to the de-
icision which had just been pronounced
against him. " Himself persuaded
still that he had not exceeded his
rightful authority, which opinion he
entertained to the hour of his death,
he had nevertheless been adjudged by
"a judicial tribunal of his country, to
have broken, though from the purest
and most patriotic of motives, the
constitution and laws of the land
wherefore he promptly paid the pen
atty. Many of the grayer and more
solid sofithe citizens of New Orleans,
though filled with the profoundest
gratitude and admiration for the dis
tinguished talents, courage and ser
vices of Andrew Jackson, yet did not
approve of his violent proceedings
after immediate danger had passed
but "a number of the more enthusiastic
ladies of the city. raised the amount
of the fine and costs for him, which
coming to his knowledge, he refused
to accept, advising his fair friends TO
apply it to the relief of the widows
and orphans of those who had fallen
in the defense of their country Many
years afterwards, this fine, with inter-
est, was refunded, to his infinite sat-
isfaction, under an act of Congress,
passed the year before his death. Re-
ferring to the subject in anletter writ
ten at that time, he declared, and it
was the declaration of patriot, that
he would "be the last man on earth to
do any act. which would invalidate
the principle that the military should
always be subject to civil power"
AT he2Administration at Washing
TOM General sJackson's proceedings
were, reprimanded as " acts OF militia
~ oppositions to the. civil magistrate
that required Immediate attention, not
onlyin the vindication Of the just au-
thority of the laws, but to rescue his
own conduct from unmerited re-
proach - and he was advised that the |
President had learned with surprise
and sollcitude, that the power of the |
United States had been resisted, and |
the liberty of the press suspended by |
the exercise of military force and COM
mand." After this fashion in those
days, did Chief Magistrates of the old |
Federal Republic, address proud mil
taly commanders just returned from
the field of triumph, and covered with
glory and honor. 1t was reserved to
after times under the new Imperial
for a President to applaud
md sustain the heroes of butchery and
lefeat, in acts of eowardly and auda-
,lous military oppression and outrage
sgainst the judicial power against the
;itizens against the press. r. '''
Returning home in triumph soon
Ifter, these events, he remained for
iome time in comparative quiet and
Ieclusion ut the Hermitage, still re-
aiming his commission as a Major
General in the army. Politicians be-
Pin already to see, OIL, think that they
zee, in him the !" coming man, and
hey pognce upon him now as a fit
for the Presidency. But the +,
lour for this promotion has not ar
ived, and he demands with profane
mphasis to know whether they think [
i'm such a foop as to. believe him !
elf fit for President of the United [
,tates?ni 59i}2F1I ei iea '22l
His Florida campaign of 1918, was {
ruly Jacksonian. No other man l
fould have attempted; none other t
ould have executed it. The Admin ]
'tration were astounded, but finally c
esolyed to support him in it. His /
cts Were. violently assailed in the |-o
louise of Representatives, but that i
ody by a large majority justified and I
astained him throughout. 1t was a a