Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-04
L0ggan's Grafton.
The Great Effort Of the Illinois Sen
otOr on tho Louisiana Question:
An interesting Page from Democrat
&c History.

| should like to give my Democratic
friends little taste of Democracy on
military usurpations, and [ will do it
right here. 1t is very we'll for US
Republicans, when we are talking
sometimes and denouncing Democrats,
to examine our own record. Now let US
examine the Democratic record of this
country as to military usurpation, and
see what it will prove. | will commence
with one Of the leading Democrats who
has lived in this country, Andrew
Jackson. Speaking of the battle of
New Orleans, when the forces were
under the command of General Jackson !.
we find this statement Of recorded
facts:
General Jackson was involved in
much trouble by the conduct Of many
civilians during the campaign who forgot
that dictatorship alone could save the
state, which the enemy, had they been
victorious, would probably have retained
in spite of the treaty OF Ghent, on the
ground that the treaty of 1903, by
which France had ceded Louisiana TO
us was void and of no effect, because
she had no claim to the territory she
had sold 4 Frenchman, NJ. Louial-
lier, a member Of the Legislature of
Louisiana, was conspicuous among the
generals enemies, and him the General
had arrested on March 2 Judge Hall,
Of the United States District Court,
granted Louialler's petition for At writ
of habeas corpus, and was himself
arrested and imprisoned and then ban
ished from the city On March 13
martial law was abrogated by Jackson $
order, and Hall returned Gen Jack
son was then arrested on charge of
contempt Of court and fined 3 1000.
He refused the offers that we're made
on all sides 10 pay the fine, and paid
it himself, protecting the court which
could not have stood moment
against his opposition. After his
retirement from public life some of his
friends requested Congress to refund
the amount of the fine. The petition
was successful after encountering
considerable opposition and the bill
refunding the money, principal and
interest, was passed in February 1914.
-Ne,o american Cyclopeelia, 0oL 9,
page 6e3
Over sixty years ago General Jack
son arrested member of the Louisiana
Legislature right in the city of New
Orleans about which this controversy
is to-day; he put the Judge Of the
United States Court in jail and ban
ished him from the city and declared
martial law, for which he was fined
$1,000. The same General Jackson
that same usurper as you would call
him now since your patriotism is bub-
bling our sof every pore,-~you elected
President Of the United States in
very few years after Ne had performed
this outrageous act. You Democrats
did that. This deed was done after
the British were gone, after they had
retired, a member of the Legislature
was arrested and taken out of that body
and the Judge of the United States
Court put in Jail by man whom you
elected President of the United STATES.
and for no act was he more eulogized
afterwards by the Democracy than for
this very act Of his. Without saying
whether it was right or wrong, I mere
ly give you the fact to show you what
you are to-day aud what you were yes
terday.
Now, / want to 60 little further
[ want to show you how patriotic and
devoted to the Constitution of the
United States our pure Democratic
friends have always been. There oc-
Cured little circumstance in 1857
that probably is worth relating, and I
will quote from the history of the
country in reference to it. There was
a slave, runaway slave, by the name
of Burns, found in Boston, Mass, in
May, 1854. Franklin Pierce, the Dem
ocratic President of the United States,
did what? The marines from the ma
w yard, the soldiers from Fort Inde-
pendence. and the militia Of Boston,
under the order of a Democratic Pres
ident of the United States, entered the