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Show NOT~S. NoteD-page $49. Address of major gene.·al Jackson, on the 8th of January, to the troops on the right bank of the river. "While, by the blessing of heaven, one of the most brilliant vic. tories was obtained by the troops under my immediate command, JJO words can express the mortific. .a tion I felt, at witnessing the scene exhibited on the opposite bank. I will spare your feelings and my own, nor enter into detail on the subject. To all who reflect, it must be a source of eternal regret, that a few moments' exertion of that courage you certainly possess, was alone want~ ing, to have rendered your success more complete than that of your fellow-citizens in this camp. To what cause was the abandonment of your lines owing P To fear P No! You are the countrymen, the friends, the brothers of those who have secured to themselves, by their courage, the gratitude of their country; who have been profligal of their Ulood in its defence, and who are strangers to any other fear than disgrace-to disaffection to our glorious cause. No, my countrymen, your general does justice to the pure senlimenb by which you are inspired. How then could brave men, firm in the cause in which they were enroll~d~ neglect their first duty, and abanrlon the post committed to their care ? The want of discipline, the want of order, a total disregard to obedience, .and a spirit of insubonlination, not less destructive than cow.ardice itself, arC': the causes which led to this di saster, and they ,-nust be eradicated, or I must cease to command. I desire to be distinctly understood, that every breach of orders, all want o( discipline, every inattention of duty, will be seriously and p•·omptly punished; that the attentive officers, and good sol<.liers, may not be ;nentioned in the disgrace and danger, which the negligence of a f!!w may produce. Soldiers! you want only the will, in order to emulate the glory of your fellow-ei>izens on this bank of the river-you have the same motives for action; the same interest, the same country to protect; and you have an additional interest, from past events, to wipe off reproach, and show that you will not be inferior, in the day of trial, to any of your countrymen. But remember! without obedience, without order, without discipline, all your efforts are vain. The brave man, inattentive to NOTES. 405' his duty, is worth little more to his counb·y than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger. Private opinions, as to the competency of officers, must not be indulged, and still less e>pressed; it is impossible that the measures of those who command should satisfy all who are bound to obey; and one of the most dangerous faults in a soldier, is a disposition to criticise and blame the orders and characters of his superiors. Soldiers! I know that many of you have tlone your duty; and I trust, in future, I shall have no reason to make any exception. Officers! I have the fullest confidence, that you will enforce obedience to your commands; but, above all, that by subordination in your different grades, you will set an example to your men; and that, hereaftt>r, the army of the right will yield to none, in the essen· tial qualities wldchcharacteriw good s6ltliers ;-that they will earn their share of those honours and rewards, which their coun ~ try will prepa~·e for it.; deliverers. ANDHE:W JACKSON, Jflajor GeueraJ com.manding. Note E-page S70. .9dd'l"tiS dtlivered to major general Jlndrew Jackson, by the recerend fF. Dubourg, aduri.nistrator apostolic of the diocese of Louisiana. G!!.J<ERAL,-'Vhile the stat~ of Louisiana, in the joyful transport& of he_: gratitude, hails you as her deliverer, and the assertor 'of her menaced liberties-while grateful America, so lately wrapped up in anxious suspense, on the·fate of this important city, is re-echoing from shore to shore your splendid achievements, and preparing to inscribe your name on her immortal rolls, among those of her Washingtons-while history, poetry, and the monumental arts, will vie in consigning to the admiration of the...latcst posterity, a triumph perhaps unparalleled in their records-while thus raised, by universal acclamation, to the very piilnacle of fame, how easy had it been for you, general, to forget the Prime Mover of your wonderful successe~, and to assume to yourself n praise, which must essentially return to that exalted source, whence every mel'it is derived. But, better acquainted with tho |