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THANKS TO JACKSON.
HOW GRATEFUL CITIZENS HONORED
THE HERO OF NEW ORLEANS.
aSH.
Crowning1 the Sturdy General and Demo
crat With Ianrel In the Sight or the 3Iul
tltnde IIow the Crescent City Cele
brated Seventy-nine Years Ago.
T LACKS but
one of bein; four
score year3, on
Jan. 8, 1S04, since
Andrew Jackson
fought and won
the battle of New
Orleans a battle
that, all things
considered,
stands without
parallel in the an
nals of human
fighting. The cel
ebration of
than ksgiving
with which the
hero was received
by the people of New Orleans a few days
after the battle was characteristic of the
people and the times.
The story of the tight has often been
told. The fact, not known for some
weeks afterward, that the treaty of peace
was signed at Ghent a day and a fort
night before the battle does not detract
a jot from the fame of the sturdy soldier
who won along with his victor' over the
British the idolatry of his contempora
ries and a shrine in the hearts of Ameri
cans as long a.s the republic shall last.
Jackson did some hard fighting in
Florida just before he went to New Or
leans. Victory had been uniformly with
his arms, and his coming was eagerly
awaited at the Crescent City. As soon as
he arrived on Dec. 3, 18 11, he set about
putting the city in a state of defense.
On Dec. 23 he made the celebrated night
attack oh the first division of the British,
which had effected a landing some eight
miles down the river from the city. The
losses on both sides from this engage-,
ment were about 200 killed and wound
ed, equally divided. On New Year's day
there was another engagement, which re
sulted in defeat for the British. Then
both sides began to prepare for what
both thought was sure to bo a decisive
engagement as far as New Orleans was
concerned, littlo dreaming that neither
had any further cause to fight.
The British forces numbered 12,000
men. There were but 5,000 Americans,
and hardly half of them fired a shot
during the short, hot fight that began
with daybreak on that January morning
79 years ago. When the contest was
over, the loss in killed to the English
footed up 700, in wounded twice as
-iiany and in prisoners 500. The Ameri
cans lost but 8 killed and 13 wounded,
and but 25 minutes elapsed between the
firing of tN first and last shot3. (
It was not nrfi! Jan. 21 that Jackson i
with his arm- re-entered New Orleans, j
The conquering hosts were met in the
suburbs by an enthusiastic throng, in
cluding almost the entire population of
the city, of all ages and both sexes, and
"were greeted with the most extravagant
expressions of gratitude and delight.
Jan. 23 was set apart by the municipal
authorities as a day of thanksgiving.
To the preparations for the observance
of that day the utmost energies of all
were bent. Booming of cannon ushered
in the dawn of a typically bright sub
tropical winter morning. During the
previous day and night men and women
had been busily engaged in decorating
with evergreens the old Spanish cathe
dral in which the religious ceremonies
were to be held. In front of the cathe
dral in the center of the public square,
where the equestrian statue of Jackson
now stands, a temporary arch of triumph
had been erected. It was supported by
six Corinthian columns and festooned
with flowers and evergreens.
Beneath the arch stood two beautiful
little girbi holding in their hands a civic
crown of laurel. Near them were two
young women personating Liberty and
Justice. Ranged in two rows, extending
from the arch to the cathedral, were
young girls, the very flower of the Creole
beauty of that city, full of female loveli
ness, robed in white, veiled in blue gauze
and each bearing on her brow a silver
star. These pei-sonated the states and
territories of the Union that the hero of
the day had done so much to preserve from
the vandal hand of the British invader.
Each of these girls carried a basket of
flowers and a flag bearing the name of
tha state or territory she represented.
Behind each a lance upholding a shield,
short phrases, he passed on between the
rows of young women, who strewed the
cround before him with flowers as he
walked.
The Abbe du Bourg met the hero and
iris staff at the cathedral door. This
high priest was attired in all the splen
dor and majesty of his pontifical robes
and supported by a college of clergymen
in priestly garments, and the multitude
was hushed while the simple words of
the girl were amplified into a more
sonorous address of gratitude by the
lip3 of the cleric. Then the chief was
escorted to a conspicuous seat near the
altar of the cathedral, and the choir and
congregation chanted the "Te Deum
Laudamus." This closed the formal serv
ice, but it was long because of the press of
people, who 3-earned to see their "savior,
as they delighted to call him, at close
range, before that simple soldier could
make his way to hi3 quarters. The re
mainder of the da j was given up to jolli
fication, and at night there was a general
illumination, and the merrymaking last
ed till the dawn of the following morn
ing. But it must not be imagined that thera
wa.3 no other feeling than that of grati
tude toward the hero of New Orleans.
There va3 a faction in the Louisiana leg
islature in strong opposition to the gen
eral sentiment of adoration for the gen
eral, and its power was such that when
the officers and troops were thanked by
resolution for defending the city and
state the leader's name was omitted from
the list of those to whom gratitude was
expressed. Thi3 open slap in the face set
the people ablaze, and to add to the ex
citement a sheet was circulated at the in
stigation of a member of the legislature
wherein divers acts of the victor and his
prolongation of martial law were vehe
mently attacked. This stirred Jackson's
blood, and he ordered the arrest of the
legislator. Judge Hall of the United
States supreme court issued a writ of ha
beas corpus in the case, but the prisoner
was not released, and moie, the judge's
action was declared to be a violation of
martial law by Jackson, who promptly
expelled him from the city. There came
a time of course when martial law must
cease, and then the judge returned to
New Orleans and had his innings.
Before his bar the general was haled,
and promptly he obeyed. His entry
into the courtroom was not noticed at
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PLACED THE CROWN OX HIS HEAP.
on which wa3 inscribed the arms of the
state or territory represented, was stuck
in the ground. These lances were joined
by evergreen festoons.
When all was yeady, General Jackson,
accompanied by his staff, passed through
the gate of the gran d square, and, while
cannon roared and the populace cheered
and shouted, passed between the lines of
Planche'a New Orleans Creole battalion
to the raised floor of the arch. As he
advanced he bowed with a stately mo
tion, and the little girls placed the civic
crown upon his head. Then the most
beautiful of all the Creole maidens of
Now Orleans, a Miss Kerr, who had been
cnosen to personiry Louisiana, spoxo xxjx
her native state and city words of thanks
and congratulation to the victor of ew
LIFTED HTM TO THEIR SHOULDERS.
first, as he wore civilian's dress, but
when he was recognized there was a
mighty cheer. The judge trembled, but
Jackson smiled and said:
"Proceed with your sentence. There
is no danger here. There shall be none,
for the same hand that protected the
city from the invader will protect this
court."
Then the judge drew a long breath
and imposed a fine of $1,000 for con
tempt of court. With but a murmur
the military man drew out his check
book and wrote bis name at the bottom
of a slip of paper for that amount. The
crowd watched in silence for a moment,
and then broke loose in hisses for the
judge and cheers for the general. As
Jackson stepped into the street he was
lifted upon the shoulders of a dozen
men, who placed him in a carriage, and
releasing the horses dragged him to the
house of a friend, where he addressed
the multitude in temperate phrase, and
entreated them to show their apprecia
tion of the blessings of the peace he had
won for them by obeying the laws of
their country.
Shortly after this Jackson returned to
his estate in Tennessee, which he had
left to prosecute the war on the gulf
coast. There for some time he lived in
the log house that still stands near the
famous Hermitage built some years later
to please his wife. There in the woods
he was forced to begin anew the battle
of life, for he had suffered serious pecun
iary loss during the war by reason of
mismanagement of his estate, and was
forced to sell off the improved part of
his lands and set about to rescue fresh
acres from the wilderness. The victory
of New Orleans was commemorated by
a small medal, duplicates of which were
circulated freely through the country,
but the $1,000 which Jackson paid for
contempt of court was not refunded to
him for 30 years or more, and then by
Bpecial act of congress.
It was 13 years after the battle of New
Orleans, in 1828, that Jackson was elect
ed president of the United States. He
made a gallant fight for the high honor
in 182-1, and in fact then secured a larger
number of electoral and popular votes
than any other candidate, but the elect
oral votes of Henry Clay were turned
over to John Quincy Adams, who took
the seat that rightfully belonged to Jack
son. When the hero of New Orleans did
enter the White House, he made up for
lost time in the vigor with which he car
ried out his policy. He served two
terms, during which he strengthened his
hold upon his worshipers a weaker
term would not properly describe his ad
herents and deepened the lines that di
vided him from his opponents, and, as
during his military career, managed to
"keep things moving" every day.
Andrew Jackson was born in 1707 in
North Carolina and died at the Hermit
age in Tennessee in 1845.
L D. Marshall
The assayer who examined the aero
lite that fell on the farm of Lawrence
Freeman near Bath, S. D., on the after
noon of Aug. 29, 1692, reports that the
principal mineral it contains are gold,
silver, nickel and cobalt.
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