ded an official notice of this event to the governor of
the state of Tennessee.

"On the arrival of the clerk at head quarters, Jackson asked
him whether it was his intention to issue the writ: he replied
it was his bounden duty to do so, and he most assuredly would.
He was threatened with an arrest, but persisted in his
asseveration that he would obey the judge's order. He had
handed Louallier's petition to Jackson, and, before he retired,
demanded the return of it; this was peremptorily refused, and
the paper was withheld. It appears the date of the _fifth_ of
March had been originally on this document, and that being
Sunday, Hall changed it to that of the following day, the
_sixth_. The idea had been cherished, that this alteration
might support an additional article, in the charges against
Hall. It is not extraordinary, that those who imagined that, as
Louallier might be tried for a _libel_, in a court martial,
Hall might for _forgery_. Thus one inconsistency almost
universally leads to another.

"Duplessis, the marshal of the United States, had volunteered
his services, as an aid to Jackson; a little after midnight he
visited head quarters. The imprisonment of Hall, and the
accounts from Washington, had brought a great concourse of
people near the general; who, elated by the success of the
evening, met the marshal at the door, and announced to him, _he
had shopped the judge_. Perceiving that Duplessis did not show
his exultation, he inquired whether he would serve Hall's writ.
The marshal replied, he had ever done his duty, which obliged
him to execute all writs directed to him by the court, whose
ministerial officer he was; and, looking sternly at the person
who addressed him, added, he would execute the court's writ _on
any man_. A copy of the proclamation of martial law, that lay
on the table, was pointed to him, and Jackson said, he _also_
would do his duty.

"A large concourse of people had been drawn to the Exchange
coffee-house, during the night, by the passing events, which
were not there, as at head quarters, a subject of exultation
and gratulation. The circumstances were not unlike those of the
year 1806, which Livingston describes as 'so new in the history
of our country, that they will not easily gain belief, at