Letter from Gen. Jackson to the Rev. Abbe Dubourg:

Reverend Sir; The signal interposition of Heaven, in giving success to our arms against the enemy, who so lately landed on our shores; an enemy as powerful as inveterate in his hatred; while it must excite in every bosom attached to the happy government under which we live, emotions of the liveliest gratitude, requires at the same time some external manifestation of those feelings.

Permit me, therefore, to entreat, that you will cause the service of public thanksgiving to be performed in the cathedral, in token of the great assistance we have received from the Ruler of all events, and of our humble sense of it.

With the greatest respect,
Andrew Jackson
HQ. 7th Mil. Dist. 1/19/1815