A history of Louisiana (1904) (14761504534)

Identifier: historyoflouisia03fortuoft (find matches)
Title: A history of Louisiana
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fortier, Alcée, 1856-1914
Subjects: Louisiana -- History
Publisher: New York : Goupil & co. of Paris, Manzi, Joyant & co., successors
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ntain the dignity of his court andto resist despotic power, but he should have remitted thefine which he had imposed on the hero of New Orleans.9The latter, on leaving the court-house, was taken to theExchange Coffee-house in a carriage drawn by hisfriends. There he made a speech that almost makes usforget his arbitrary acts. He said that during the in-vasion he had exerted every faculty in support of theConstitution and laws. On that day he had been calledon to submit to their operation, under circumstanceswhich many persons might have deemed sufficient to jus-tify resistance. Considering obedience to the laws, evenwhen we think them unjustly applied, as the first dutyof a citizen, he did not hesitate to comply with the sen-tence they had heard pronounced, and he entreated thepeople, says Judge Martin, to remember the examplehe had given them, of respectful submission to the ad-ministration of justice. We prefer to see General Jack-son on the ground which he had defended so well from
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1815) RESOLUTIONS 161 December 23,1814, to January 19,1815. On the historiclines, between Macarty and Chalmette, on March 16,he passed in review some of the men who shared his glory,and he listened to a patriotic address presented to himby Major Plauches battalion of volunteers. His com-panions in arms thanked him once more for his distin-guished services to the State and to the country, andBeales battalion did likewise. President Madison, on March 13, requested Jacksonto express to his troops his great satisfaction with theirconduct, and added: To our newly adopted fellow-citizens of Louisiana you will giveassurance of his (the Presidents) great sensibility to the decidedand honorable proof which they have given of their attachmentand devotion to the Union, and of the manly support of therights of their country. The following resolutions were adopted unanimously: Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of theUnited States of America, in Congress assembled: That Congresse

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