Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-09

ish battery had been destroyed. TIE
British used hogsheads OF sugar and hogs
heads OF molasses to protect the batteries.
The American balls had gone throueh
spread the sticky mass broadcast until
the men in the batteries were hounderfrg.
slipping and sliding helplessly about
One thing the British did do. They
managed 10 destroy the Carolina,b but that
was all.
Although checked, the British were no.
content. Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham.
brother-in-law OF Wellington and one OF
England's great soldiers. had arrived AND
taken command. He planned to storm
the America works. and while stormins
them 10 send q force up the west side of
the river. capture the city and attack the
Americans In the rear. An excsllent plan.
but badly executed. January he led the
stormng party. while Col. Thornton made
the advance on the western side.
The battle OF New Orleans lasted only
twenty-five minutes. In those twenty-tiNe
minutes regiment after regiment OF Brit
ish troops went into the jaws OF death
and the jaws closed down upon them. A.
they neared the American lines the men
behind the breastworks moved them
down: calamity the British closed the
gaps In their ranks. gallantly they KEPT
rain OF bullets that came upon them. and
AT last they turned and fed. Then an
other and another column advanced. but
only TO add to the slaughter. Packenham
fell.
Gen. Gibbs fell. Generals. colonies.
ma jors and captains fell until there were
few officers left to command the men
OF 6.oo men sent into action 200 were
killed. 1.400 wounded and 500 taken pris-
oners. And the Americans lost only eight
killed and thirteen wounded.
There was only one blot on the wonder
ful victory. The force sent to oppose
Thornton fed a the first fire Had Thorn
ton been earlier and his force been larger
he might have reached New Orleans.
The British were permitted to retreat %
their ships without interference. Jack
sons force was too small to risk an en-
gagement except under conditions OF his
own selection. He had done enough.
With miitiamen he had defeated the COR
auerors OF Napoleon. He held New o.
leans under martial law until he got Sffi
cial notification Of the signing OF the
treaty of Ghent-the treaty that was
signed long before the battle OF New Or
leans was fought
The messenger from Washington sent TO
advise him of the treaty signing broke
all records on the trip. making the thirty
day journey in nineteen days, and then
delivered paper OF no importance. hav-
ing in his haste picked up the wrong
packet in departing. Because Jackson put
a judge in jail who. chatting under the
harshness OF martial law issued a writ Of
habeas corpus which the general ignored.
the hero OF New Orleans was arrested
month after his victory and fined $1,O0O.
Court orders were trivial TO the irasci-
BILE soldier. So too. we're other THINGS
when in the Seminole war he went into
Spanish territory i'm Florida. took pos
session temporarily and hanged Arbuthnot
and Armister as British spies. One or
them. no doubt. was guilty, the other
not. but Jackson saw the hand of Eng
land in everything done to aid or COM
fort the renegade Indians.
Jackson might be harsh and might err
grievousy at times. but to the people he
was glorious figure. In the presidential
campaign of 1924 he unquestionably was
entitled to the presidency. but by a COM
bnation between Clay and John Quincy
Adams Congress selected Adams when
the issue was left to Congress to de-
eide.