The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-25

son. his arm yet In a siiag. and his strength waated by bad dict, ana great labor and exposure, rode into New or- leans. The Legislature of Louisiana, a State now two years old, was in session in tho city. So suspicious was Gov ernor Claiborne Of the good faith of the body, that upon his representation. General Jackson assumed absolute command, put the city under martial law, which he confessed later was a | stretch of authority. and posted a reg iment about the State house to to pre- vent an apprehended surrender of the city by the Legislators.
 Troops in the city or immediately { available were few. The emmy on ships wer known to be sailing for the entrance to the waters at or near the city. jeekEen's small naval force, five suabeats, under Lieutenant Jones was on December t4, deleatcd on Lake Sershe, trying to arrest the ships of tas enemy approaehins from that qua%s tesr Coffee and Carroll with i've thous. and i've hundred Tenneseeeans were on the way two taeusand kentuekians were on the way without arms. Car Fell Was aoatihR down the river and Coffee vas recruiting his strength lost In the Pensacola expedition, one hum dred and fifty miles up the river. Jack son had Fort St. Phillip on the river below manned and successfully defend- cd as at Fort Bowyer. He was all day every day in the saddle laying off his lines and building breast works The enemy on December 23 landed and oc- cupied the Villere plantation on the river only nine miles below the city. Coffee and his men had just ridden one hundred and fifty miles in two days. Jackson the moment he heard the news ordered that the enemy should not sleep" December 23; at night the battle of New Orleans began Jackson did not intend the trained British soldiers to work up to his position by parallels of Notifications He surprised the force at viIleres the very night of the day of its arrival and won his fight Every night his Ten nesseeahs fined their rifles by squads. hid in the woods, into the British camp The British could not sleep. He plant ed a battery across the river on their flank and threw shells into their agika- ted ranks every night. Packenham had never seen the like of such fighting and could not meet it
 Another battle was fought on Janu- ary l, 1915. The Tennesseeans won When the morning of January s, dawn ed Jackson was found mounted riding along his lines, encouraging his men, The enemy was worn by ceaseless dis turbance of the American rifemen picking off day and night, their vii < dettes, and sentinels and firing into their messes at meals and into their bivouacs while the men slept There was not a cotton bale on the line of Jackson's Notifications but logs, fence rails, timber of various kinds, covered with mud well protected the men His armed men were mostly Tennessee ri- flemen without bayonets.
 Jacksons victory at the Horse Shoe had resulted in the treaty of Ghent. unknown to him until the defeated British withdrew from the land. But the treaty of Ghent left the United States in humiliation. Nothing of the principle for which war had been be- gun was admitted by the treaty. The treaty was q confession of drawn bat tle
 Jackson's series of victories. one at Pensacola, one at Mobile and the three at New Orleans, terminating with the engagement of January 8, resulted in the end which the treaty failed to ac- compnsh. Great Britain. never, after Jacksons Gulf campaign, cast a covet- ous eye upon New Orleans, or dictated conditions for the navigation of tho Mississippi, nor presumed to assert tho nigh seas. America became really i'm dependent in Jackson's victories. AnR~ ious as was Great Britain to occupy Texas at all times. from 1886 to I846. she refrained only because of the douotful character of her enterprise Jackson's Gulf campaign secured American possession of the Louisiana purchase not safe until January 8, 1915.