Delaware Patriot & American Watchman

We are as pleased as we have been with the various toasts,
sentiments, addresses, odes, &c. which were delivered
on the late anniversary of the Battle of New
Orleans; we have seen nothing which exceeds in
feeling and simplicity, the beautiful reply of the
Catholic clergyman of New Orleans. The reverend
father wrote an answer to a letter of thanks,
for permission to use the Cathedral Church in that
city, on the 8th January, as follows:

New Orleans, December 18th, 1827.

Gentlemen: I have received the letter which
the Committee have done me the honor to write,
thanking me for my assent to the co-operation in
the arrangement which you may think necessary
for the reception of General Andrew Jackson in
the cathedral Church in this city. I bless Heaven,
my Fellow-citizens, that my days have been prolonged to the present time, when I may cherish
the hope of seeing before the close of my long career, the HERO OF THE 8TH OF JANUARY, 1815!
him, who preserved a numerous population, of which
the three fourths have been born within the time
that I have been among them, the minister of God.
It is by this brave and generous man; that my
spiritual children, the good inhabitants of this city
have been preserved from the ravages which would
have followed the event of the capture of the city
by the insulting British army; it is to him, that
Louisiana, which I love and where I have lived for
more than fifty years, owes the preservation of the
wise institutions under which we have the happiness to live. ANDREW JACKSON!!!-the
love of your Fellow-citizens will recompense you
in this world for the great services you have rendered to Louisiana,-to the whole union; and in
a better life a just beneficent God, will reward you
with his choicest benedictions. I have the honor
to be, gentlemen, with the greatest consideration
your most obedient servant,

F. ANTONIO DE SADELLA.

To the General Committee of the Friends of
General Jackson in New Orleans.