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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Autograph letter signed ("Andrew Jackson") TO LOUISIANA GOVERNOR ALEXANDER MOUTON, Hermitage, 5 June 1843. 2 pages, 4to, 250 x 205mm. (9 3/4 x 8 in.), several tiny holes at fold intersections (not affecting text), text affected by severe show-through, matted, glazed and framed. [With:] Autograph free frank ("Free Andrew Jackson") on integral address leaf addressed in Jackson's hand to "His Excellency A. Mouton Governor of Louisiana New Orleans," soiled, worn.
JACKSON IS ABSOLVED IN AN OLD QUARREL OVER "AN UNJUST, ILLEGAL, AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL DECREE"
Jackson responds with enthusiasm to the news that the Louisiana Legislature has passed a resolution to refund to him a fine of $1000 imposed in 1815 by Judge Dominick A. Hall. Jackson had defied a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Louis Louillier, who had been arrested by Jackson's order for spreading sedition among his troops. "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of...the Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana at its last Session on the Subject of the fine...Through you Sir...I beg leave to make a tender to the Legislature] of my grateful acknowledgements for this act of Justice in wiping from my memory the past imputations cast upon it by this unjust, illegal, and unconstitutional decree of a vindictive, tyranical [sic] Judge -- Sitting in his own cause -- altering the record for sinister purposes & condemning me unheard -- refusing to hear my defence when in open court, altho it had been made under his own rule, to appear and show cause why an attachment for contempt should not issue against me -- thus, depriving me of my constitutional right gurranteed [sic] to every american citizen by our federal constitution. For this act of Justice to me, and the country in whose Service I then was, I tender to them through you my grateful acknowledgements..."
JACKSON IS ABSOLVED IN AN OLD QUARREL OVER "AN UNJUST, ILLEGAL, AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL DECREE"
Jackson responds with enthusiasm to the news that the Louisiana Legislature has passed a resolution to refund to him a fine of $1000 imposed in 1815 by Judge Dominick A. Hall. Jackson had defied a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Louis Louillier, who had been arrested by Jackson's order for spreading sedition among his troops. "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of...the Resolutions of the Legislature of Louisiana at its last Session on the Subject of the fine...Through you Sir...I beg leave to make a tender to the Legislature] of my grateful acknowledgements for this act of Justice in wiping from my memory the past imputations cast upon it by this unjust, illegal, and unconstitutional decree of a vindictive, tyranical [sic] Judge -- Sitting in his own cause -- altering the record for sinister purposes & condemning me unheard -- refusing to hear my defence when in open court, altho it had been made under his own rule, to appear and show cause why an attachment for contempt should not issue against me -- thus, depriving me of my constitutional right gurranteed [sic] to every american citizen by our federal constitution. For this act of Justice to me, and the country in whose Service I then was, I tender to them through you my grateful acknowledgements..."