been condemned unheard.

"It appears that some of his party, at this period, entertained
the hope that Hall could be intimidated, and prevented from
proceeding further. A report was accordingly circulated, that a
mob would assemble in and about the court-house--that the
pirates of Barataria, to whom the judge had rendered himself
obnoxious before the war, by his zeal and strictness, in the
prosecution that had been instituted against several of their
ringleaders, would improve this opportunity of humbling him.
Accordingly, groups of them took their stands, in different
parts of the hall, and gave a shout when Jackson entered it. It
is due to him to state, that it did not appear that he had the
least intimation that a disturbance was intended, and his
influence was honestly exercised to prevent disorder."

When the General was called, "he addressed a few words to the court,
expressive of his intention not to avail himself of the faculty to
answer interrogatories." The District Attorney then addressed the court,
with firmness, but good temper. In conclusion he said,--

"That credulity itself could not admit the proposition, that
persuasive evidence that the war had ceased, and belief that
necessity required that violent measures should be persisted in
to prevent the exercise of the judicial power of the legitimate
tribunal, could exist, at the same time, in the defendant's
mind."

The defendant--General Jackson--resorted to a strange equivocation to
extricate himself.

"The general made a last effort to avert the judgment of the
court against him, by an asseveration, he had imprisoned
Dominick A. Hall, and _not the judge:_ his attention was drawn
to the affidavit of the marshal, in which he swore Jackson had
told him, 'I have _shopped the judge_.'"

We come, with unaffected gratification, to the final triumph of the law,
in this contest with military power.

"The court, desirous of manifesting moderation, in the
punishment of the defendant for the want of it, said that, in
consideration of the services the general had rendered to his
country, imprisonment should make no part of the sentence, and
condemned him to pay a fine of one thousand dollars and costs,
only."

We should indeed regret, if our history terminated these memorable
transactions here. Every reader w