ill be anxious to learn--How did the
impetuous spirit of the General, inflamed by his recent triumphs and
glories in the field, receive the condemnation of the law? What bursts
of passionate violence did he exhibit? What terrible explosion followed
the sentence of the court? Not a symptom or movement of the kind. He
seemed to awaken, as from a tempestuous dream, "the helm of reason
lost," and to fall into the character of a good citizen with dignity and
grace.

"On Jackson's coming out of the court-house, his friends
procured a hack, in which he entered, and they dragged it to
the Exchange coffee-house, where he made a speech, in the
conclusion of which he observed, that, 'during the invasion, he
had exerted every faculty in support of the constitution and
laws--on that day, he had been called on to submit to their
operation, under circumstances, which many persons might have
deemed sufficient to justify resistance. Considering obedience
to the laws, even when we think them unjustly applied, as the
first duty of the citizen, he did not hesitate to comply with
the sentence they had heard pronounced;' and he entreated the
people, to remember the example he had given them, of
respectful submission to the administration of justice."

We heartily wish that the scene had closed here, and the General had
appeared no more on _that stage_. But there was that within him which
forbade a quiet and unresisting resignation to his discomfiture and
humiliation.

"A few days after, he published, in the _Ami des Lois_, the
answer he had offered to the district court, preceded by an
exordium, in which he complained, that the court had refused to
hear it. He added, that the judge 'had indulged himself, on his
route to Bayou Sarah, in manifesting apprehensions as to the
fate of the country, equally disgraceful to himself, and
injurious to the interest and safety of the state,' and
concluded--'should Judge Hall deny this statement, the general
is prepared to prove it, fully and satisfactorily.'

"The gauntlet did not long remain on the ground, and the
following piece appeared in the _Louisiana Courier_:

"'It is stated in the introductory remarks of General Jackson,'
that 'on the judge's route to Bayou Sarah, he manifested
apprehensions as to the safety of the country, disgraceful to
himself, and