The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-01-08
BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.

DA LIZ Vt NEW NNIIAINO'
Today is the anniversary of the Bat
tle of New Orleans fought on the plains
of Chalmette below that city, in the year
1915, when General Andrew Jackson
with raw recruits met and vanquished
General Packenhan with his trained
veterans who outnumbered the Ameri-
cans three to one.
The name of Andrew Jackson was on
that day immortalized. He was sur
named "O1d Hickory"
Ii is only recently that Andrew jack
sons name was voted place in the Hall
of Fame This occurred i'll New York
and was announced by DR.. John H. Mac
Cracker, chairman of the Senate of the
New York University.
Andrew Jacksons name is the third
greatest after Washington and Jeffer-
son.
As is generally known, the Battle of
New Orleans was fought after the
treaty of peace had been signed at Client
and the rights and privileges commended
for by the Americans were conceded and
acknowledged.
In those days there was no transit by
fast steamship nor telegraph facilities
as now, and the news came slowly and
at intervals.
Ii would seem that in the Battle of
New Orleans there was involved a
greater issue than the rights of Ameri-
can sean1en. This is made plain in an
editorial article in the Taylor Trotwood
Magazine for December From the in
formation impaired in this article by
John Trotwood Moore IF Packenham
had taken New Orleans the British
would have claimed and held the whole
Louisiana purchase.
lin the treaty Of Client there was pro-
vided for the restoration of all terri
tory, places and possessions taken by
either nation from the other during the
war, with certain unimportant excep-
fions"
From the minutes of the conference
at Client, as kept BY Mr. Gallatin, the
British are represented as declaring in
exact words:
"We do not admit Bonaparte's con-
struction of the law Of nations. We can
not accept it in relation to any matter
before us.
AT that time none of the American
commissioners knew what the real
meaning of these words was It devel
oped afterwards that the British minis
try did not intend the treaty Of Client
TO apply to the Louisiana purchase at all.
AS explained by John Trotwood
Moore, referring to the British minis
try The whole corporation of them
from 1908 to 1915 Pitt, the Duke of
Portland, Grenvil1e Pereival, Lord Liv-
erpoI and Castlereagh, denied the right
of Napoleon TO sell Louisiana to us, and
they held therefore that we had no right |
TO that territory
In despatching Packenham's army to
New Orleans it was the intent of selling
and of holding this vast tract of land
embraced in the Louisiana purchase in
which is comprised the fairest section
of the United States.
And the fame of the hero of this, one
of the graetest events of this nation, is
now assigned not only to his victory
over Packenhan but his saving for this
Nation this vast territory which the
British felt sure they would secure and
hold
AS observed in the editorial All the
tangled web that the cunping of Eng
lish diplomacy could weave around our
unsuspecting commissioners at Client
was torn to pieces and soaked with Brit
ish blood in half an hour at New Or
leans by the never missing rifles, as said
General Jackson, by my Tennessee and
Kentucky pioneers. And that ended it.
If the British could throw dust in the
eyes of our commissioners, the British
soldiers could not stand the lead Of
Jackson's men
This new fact of history may be of IN
terest to many people, especially to those
who are close students and observers OF
history