Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . idence ofthe liberality of the American soldiers, and show astriking difference in the troops of the two the British soldier was allured to acts of braveryand duty, by the promised pillage and plunder of theinhabitants, and the commission of crimes abhorrent inthe sight of earth and heaven, the American fought butfor his country; and, having repelled her assailants,instantly forgot all enmity, viewed his fallen foe as abrother, and hastened to assist him, even at the hazardof his own life. The gallantry of the British sol-diers, and no people co
Pictorial life of Andrew Jackson . idence ofthe liberality of the American soldiers, and show astriking difference in the troops of the two the British soldier was allured to acts of braveryand duty, by the promised pillage and plunder of theinhabitants, and the commission of crimes abhorrent inthe sight of earth and heaven, the American fought butfor his country; and, having repelled her assailants,instantly forgot all enmity, viewed his fallen foe as abrother, and hastened to assist him, even at the hazardof his own life. The gallantry of the British sol-diers, and no people could have displayed greater, hadbrought many of them even to the American ram-parts, where, shot down by their opponents, they werelying, badly wounded. When the firing had ceased,and the columns had retired, Jacksons troops, withgenerous benevolence, advanced over their lines toassist and bring in the wounded, who lay under andnear the walls; when, strange to tell, the enemy, froma ditch they occupied, opened a fire upon them, and. THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY. 347 though at a considerable distance, succeeded in ^vound-in«i several. It was enough for the Americans thatthey were doing an act which the benevolence of theirhearts approved; and, with charitable perseverance,they continued to administer to the wants of thesesuffering men, and to carry them within their lines,although in their efforts they were continually exposedto danger. Let the apologist for crime say whereforeM^ere acts thus unpardonable committed against menwho were administering to the wants, and relievingthe sufierings of the dying countrymen of those Mhothus repaid the most laudable humanity with wantonand useless cruelty. A communication was shortly after received fromMajor-General Lambert, on whom in consequence ofthe fall of Generals Packenham, Gibbs, and Keane,the command had devolved, acknowledging the kind-ness of the soldiers, and requesting permission to sendan unarmed party to bury the dead lying before h
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