The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-06-07

We could make no reprisals on Bri
commerce, nor could we even confront
enemy without marching to Canada, WI
contained nothing that we coveted.
But with the North, and especially "
New England, the case was different. T
section had, notwithstanding arbitrary Sc
ures and confscations, greatly prospered
neutral carriers, during the strife in Euro
and war which put an end to to her III
e. trality and exposed her shipping and co
merce to the mistress of the seas, did me-
injury to her than it was in our power to
the enemy. Besides, she was forced into
war against those whom she regarded
friends, and as the virtual ally of tho
whose political principles she held in al
horrence. That she regarded it as a W
made by and for party, and not for n
tIonal objects, there can be no doubt, al
1t Is equally certain that her sympathi,
were with the enemy. Her people woul
have been more or less than human had
been otherwise.
But, not to dwell on these almost fol
gotten portions of history, the war thu
lnaugurated was not prosecuted, t
use the language of Webster, long after
with a vigor at all corresponding t.
he lofty tones of the manifesto. On the
contrary, weakness and vacillation were III
characteristics from first to last Dis.
tracted counsels, inefficient commands, in.
adequate supplies, marked its whole course,
until, at the end of more than two years,
notwithstanding few brilliant exploits,
chiefly on the water, no decisive advantage
had been gained, no progress made toward
obtaining its avowed objects. When, in
the fall of 1914, an insignificant force en-
tered the Chesapeake, sailed up to Washing
ton, put the President and his cabinet to
Hight, and burned the public buildings; the
popular discomfort and indignation became
so great as imperatively to require that the
war should be brought to close. Com
mIssloners were accordingly despatched to
Europe, and England having from the first
had nothing to complain of, and regarding
the war with us as only little episode in
the grand drama she was then enacting,
came readily to terms. Tt is notable that
the treaty of peace then entered into, not
the infammatory harangues
which for years had fired the American
leart, about "Free trade and sailors rights, "
toes not SO much as allude to the griev-
'nces which the war was made to redress;
out England was left in unquestioned pos
esslon of all the powers which she had so
rrogantly asserted. Within few days
tter the signature of this treaty, and be>
ore it was known in this country, the fa-
nous battle of New Orleans was fought, in
'hich Gen. Jackson, with hastily impro>
lsed and inadequate force, gained one of
lie most signal and complete victories re- ,
'rded in the annals of warfare. 1t was
allied with rejoicing throughout the whole q
nd; for none, however opposed they I
light have been to the war, or to the spirit q
which it had been conducted, could with n
I'D the mede of praise from the man who
d shown such high soldierly qualities in n
at dark hour of our history, and in the s oe
lguage of Mr.. Jefferson, 'had filed the fo
'asure of his country's glory" The af-
'tions of the people were at once concen- -,
ted upon him; the jealousy of aspiring
lltlcians and men in place was directed ne
alnst him, and it soon appeared that his
sition before the public was threatening fo
those in power. So early as the first tn
m of Mr.. Monroe's administration,
eme was concocted to ruin him in the pa
nation of his countrymen, but the facts "
oecting it are obscured by doubt and fiv
Such as are known only :
10 to the knowledge of Gen. jackson N.L WI
ard the close of his administration, and !
led at once to rupture of all friendly
lions between him and Mr.. Calhoun, get
M he considered the prime mover in .,;iI
intrigue. Who befriended him and feli,
he was saved from the disgrace sought ing
fixed upon him are lilraw;oa ,,ottors bacl
5orb+ NJ -. han
"o"D' MI Auams' many years "
claimed that he had laid Gen. will
son under obligations such as no pub not
an had ever rested under to Another.
f this were SO, Gen, Jackson certainly r,
ot know it; for to the end of his life find
'ver spoke of MIR. Adams but in terms are
ingled reproach and contempt; and H. ~ -
aver may have been his faults and are o
nesses, he was surely not the man to A
Ince one who had been his friend in n but '
,5 u;.;., feel
e0noS' AiuoeA' 'ne your
lets, for which it was hoped to disgrace Ms
were those which most endeared him No
countrymen. He took the resnonsi- perhs
of doing what he thought the interest ~ T6 =
onor of the country required without great
|, or even against orders. He applied at ho
rmission IN march into Ero-;5o 80, anyth
ensacola, which was refused; stilI, he a,J III i
md did it. Again, he was ordered, the b,
he battle of New Orleans. To disband his wi
ny on the spot, and leave it to make IoL 'rl az
: as it best could, through tho broad You
70 of wilderness which lay between Dor
n aud their homes in Tennessee and VII
nv ua Aot,r, - - .,,.-,l,,s some
"iiu 'i,''- make
lVo tle se'tied country Suen con- ing ma
1us treatment of those in authority Aw
ave been CALLING in the extreme; and She
l,,t N. oo,,so;e,,s ,.oa,,oss % ,,,z. of wa,
'.-0 VI ." the hO
elded it, and growing sense of the be as /
+ favor of the man from whom it b
led, could have saved him from ami :,
sion and punishment. Nor did be