The following is an excerpt from Paul T. Nolan's play for children "Justice for Andy Jackson" included in the book Louisiana Stories for Boys and Girls Edited by Marguerite Bondy Bougere.
DOMINIQUE: What! He is unclothed! This is a great disgrace.
MISS LOUISIANA: He is wearing his everyday clothes.
A CITIZEN: On the chairs, girls. Be ready with the wreaths. Everybody make way for the General.
ALL: Hurrah for General Jackson. Hurrah for Old Hickory. Hurrah for Andy Jackson. (Enter Jackson and John Reid. Jackson passes through the arch and the girls put wreaths on his head.)
JACKSON: Thank you, my friends, thank you. It does an old soldier's heart good to see that the friends he made in the war are still friends in peace.
DOMINIQUE: General, say the word and we pitch the judge and the bloody courthouse in the river.
ALL (shouting): Let us throw the judge in the river!
JACKSON (moving with Reid upstage until they reach the defendant's table. He tried to raise his hand to stop the shouting; then he stands on a chair): My friends, hear me, if you are my friends. Good people of New Orleans. My good friends, the Baratarians. We are not here for war. We shall hear what this court has to say.
DOMINIQUE: We shall hear. Then we throw the judge in the river.
ALL (shouting): In the river! In the river!
(batture refers to the land and people who live at their own risk just below and behind the levee.)