ards, should be esteemed legal. For the execution Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be of contracts made before that day, in states whose ascertained the number of cubical inches contained legal weights and measures have been different from in the bushel of the U. States, and the dimensions those which shall be prescribed by congress, a table and forms of vessels of equal capacity to such bushof equivalents, between the new and old weights el, and to the half, fourth, eight, 32d and 64th part and measures must be formed, or in this class of thereof, to which the common measures of length cases, comparatively few, and which will every day may be conveniently applied, to ascertain such cabecome fewer, the old ones may continue to be used pacity. without inconvenience. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be There does not, however, appear to the commit-ascertained the weights of rain water, at any tempetee, to be any objection to the employment of the rature which they may deem it most advisable to models of weight and measure, (as soon as the stand-use, which would be contained in the bushel of the ards shall have been established) in all the cases in U. States. which the government is a party, either in sales or purchases, or the collection of duties. In old contracts, the same provision must apply to the govern-in ment as to any other party.

Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be ascertained the number of cubical inches contained the wine gallon of the U. States, and the dimensions and forms of vessels of equal capacity to such The committee are sensible how large a part of gallon, and to the 4th, 8th, and 16th part thereof, to their report consists rather in objections to the plans which the common measures of length may be conof others than in the recommendation and develop-veniently applied, to ascertain such capacity. ment of their own. They propose, indeed, that Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be little should be done; that standards conformed to ascertained the weight of rain water, at any tempethose in most common use among us, should be ac-rature they may deem it expedient to employ, which curately made, and carefully preserved, at the seat would be contained in the wine gallon of the United of government; that correct models should be plac-States. ed in the different districts of the country, and that the proportions and relations between these should be ascertained.

Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be ascertained the number of cubical inches of distilled water, at any temperature they may deem it most The committee have directed their chairman to advisable to use, the weight of which shall be equal move the resolutions which will be necessary to car-to the pound of the United States. ry into effect the proposals contained in their report.

Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That the president shall be authorised to appoint a commission of

Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be ascertained the proportion between the pound of the United States, and the grain employed for weighing medicines and the precious metals.

Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be persons, for the pur-prepared a number of the models of the yard, bushel, pose of carrying into effect the following resolu-wine gallon, and pound, not exceeding of each, of the form and material which may be most convenient for distribution and comparison among the states.

tions:

Resolved, That the commission so appointed shall cause to be traced on a rod of whatever metal they shall deem best adapted to the purpose, the yard measure which is in most common use throughout the U. States.

Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be made, of whatever material and shape they shall deem best adapted to the purpose, a vessel, whose capacity shall be the same as that of the bushel, in most common use throughout the United States. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be made, of whatever material and form they shall deem best adapted to the purpose, a vessel, whose capacity shall be the same as that of the wine gallon in most common use in the U. States.

Generals Jackson and Scott.

We were a long time in doubt whether the following correspondence ought to be Registered or not. It is personal and ex-parte, and will necessarily lead to a counter statement. But, on the whole, believing that most of our readers will be desirous of seeing and preserving these papers, we have concluded to gratify that desire, at some small sacrifice of opinion; for this paper cannot become a depository of the conflicts of individuals, no matter how high their standing may be.

We have only one remark to make on this corResolved, That the commission shall cause to be made, of whatever metal they shall deem most ad-respondence: the practice of writing anonymous visable, a pound avoirdupois, of the weight of that letters is among the meanest of all things, and we which is in most common use throughout the United sincerely regret that general Jackson did not throw that which he received, unread, or at least unheedStates. Resolved, That the commission shall cause expe-ed into the fire. The "Columbian" undertakes to riments to be made under their direction, to ascer- say, but not by authority, that gov. Clinton is not lain, with the utmost exactness which the state of the author of the anonymous letter-and we really We should indeed, be sorry science permits, the proportion which the yard hope that he is not. measure of the United States, bears to the length to see such a retailing of private conversation fixed of a pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time, at upon any one pretending to the character of a genED. REGISTER. the level of the sea, and at the place and tempera- tleman. ture at which they shall deem it most advisable that the experiment shall be made.

Resolved, That the commission shall ascertain the proportion which this yard bears to an arc of the the terrestrial meridian, intercepted between the equator and the north pole, according to the most accurate measurements, which have been made of degrees of a meridional circle, and the best established computations of such arc,

Correspondence between major general Jackson and brevet major general Scott, on the subject of an order bearing date the 22d April, 1817; published by the former to the troops of his division, and printed about the same time, in most of the public papers.

On the 21st of Feb. 1818, the war department 2d. Supposing the regulation to be valid without issued in orders, a regulation in these words-"All such sanction, it was asked, whether a publication in publications relative to transactions between offi- a pamphlet form, like a publication in manuscript, cers, of a private and personal nature, are prohibit- might not be considered a casus omissus, and, thereed. Any newspaper or handbill, of such a charac-fore, innocent?

ter, will be cause for the arrest of an officer, and 3d. If it were decided, that both those modes of the foundation of charge against him. It is made publication were prohibited, general Scott desired the duty of all officers, having the power, to arrest that it might be particularly observed, that the reand prefer evidence for charge on such publication, gulation was, in the hands of general Jackson, at and whenever such charge is preferred, one speci- once an instrument of offence and defence. fication of which, will be the violation of this regulation, the proper authority will bring the officer to a trial before a general court martial."

It seems, nevertheless, that the regulation is not, to be recalled, and that general Jackson will not be selected as the pivot on which to try the question Up to this moment, general Scott has not violat- whether, a manuscript publication be a violation of ed this regulation, either in its letter or spirit. In the regulation or not. As the weaker party, in the deed, he had no inclination to obtrude on the pub-controversy, both before the government and the hic, his difference with general Jackson, until the country, general Scott has no disposition to come latter had, particularly during his recent tour be- to trial on the other point touching the pamphlet; tween Nashville and New York, widely circulated although the principles governing the two cases apgarbled* manuscript copies of the correspondence, pear to be precisely the same. It is enough that and caused allusions to be made to it in certain pub- he admits, that "Laws are made for the weak, and lic papers, in a similar spirit of malevolence and not for the strong," without wishing the public misrepresentation. should have before it, at the same time, and at his expense, two living and concurrent illustrations of the truths contained in that apothegm.

These facts having come to the knowledge of general Scott, he, on the 22d ultimo, called the attention of the secretary of war, to the above regula- General Scott, therefore, has no mode left him to tion; not for the purpose of invoking the aid of the counteract the machinations he complains of, or to government, but to ask permission to defend him-vindicate his character, except by shielding himself self, by a fair publication in a pamphlet form, as that mode seemed to stand precisely on the same ground with a publication in manuscript; neither being expressly prohibited.

under the precedent set by his opponent, in respect to the form of publication; and in this form the public shall have the entire correspondence.

But here, again, general Scott labors under a The secretary said, in reply, that the department great disadvantage, in comparison with his oppowas not in possession of evidence to the fact of the nent. He has not a numerous staff to copy, to cerviolation of its regulation, and even if such evidence tify, and circulate the correspondence. He in the were furnished, that would rather be a reason for discharge of the laborious duty confided to him, enforcing the penalty against the guilty, than a mo- happens, at this moment, not to have an aid-detive for relaxation in respect to the other party. camp with him. His occupations do not permit Without deciding in his own mind, whether this him to cry his papers through the principal cities of could or would be done, in respect to general Jack- the Union, nor can he have recourse to any person son, general Scott on the 8th inst. furnished the se- about him for the convenient frank to relieve his cretary with the most unequivocal evidence of the pocket from the charge of postage. Laboring ungarbled publication before asserted-leaving it to der these disadvantages, under fatigue and indispohim, as the conservator of the discipline of the ar-sition, he makes this appeal to the public, and begs my, to say, whether this regulation was violated or not, and to act or acquiesce as he might think proper. But feeling at the same time, that whatever might be the result of his controversy with general Jackson, a vindication of his character before the public, was a preliminary step of the the first necessity, general Scott in the same letter, submitted for the consideration of the proper authority, the following points.

that the few friends to whom he may have it in his power to send copies, will give them the widest circulation.-Some other persons will be furnished in due time.

Richmond, (Va.) March 18th, 1819.

Origin of the Correspondence.

General Scott first saw, at his quarters, in New York, about the last of May, 1817, the celebrated order. He read it in haste, and does not recollect to have made any particular remark on it at that time,

1st. Seeing that the regulation in question had not received the sanction of congress, to which body the right is given "to make rules for the govern About the 9th of June following, gen. Scott went ment, and regulation of the land and naval forces," to dine at a private house, where he met a highly (1st section 8th article constitution) and according respectable family and company, and among the to the practice in such cases, general Scott suggest-guests, the governor elect, of the state. By this time, ed, that, perhaps it might be recalled. the order had been printed in all the city papers, and was, as will be remembered, the leading topic *Extract of a letter dated at New York, March 2d every where. It soon became the subject of con1819, written by a gentleman of honor and intel-versation (before dinner) between the governor ligence. and gen. Scott, who were seated near each other. The governor thought the order mutinous, and general Scott felt himself called upon, by the turn of conversation, if not expressly invited (which is his be lief) to state, professionally, what were the principles involved in the question raised by gen. Jackson with the war department or president,

"General Jackson, during his late visit to this place, was at some trouble to cause to be widely distributed, his correspondence with you-He left with a gentleman (late a lieutenant colonel in the army) a copy, say of the anonymous letter, his letter to you, your reply, and his rejoinder, all certified by his aid de-camp." The reader will perceive that the fourth letter of the series was omitted. General Scott has other evidence of unfairness practised at other places.

His opinion and his illustrations, or in other words, what was said by him, at the time and on two other occasions (the one before, the other after the 14th of August) will be found in substance, and almost

literally, in the second letter of the series. This part either in general or local politics. He held conversation was, no doubt, partially overheard by no correspondence with the executive departments one or two other guests, though conducted in the of the goverment, except on professional matters, and ordinary tone, and not obtruded on the company. none with the president; and can almost say with The other conversation prior to the 14th of Augustcertainty, that he never once had a conversation with (the date of the anonymous letter) was with three a resident of New York, on the politics of the gentlemen, whose characters and pursuits, make it state, except with one or two friends of the army, quite impossible to suspect either of them, of being the particular admirers of Mr. Clinton. general Jackson's anonymous correspondent

LETTER I.

General Jackson to General Scott

Head quarters, division of the south, Nashville, Sept. 8, 1817. SIR-With that candour due the character you have sustained as a soldier and a man of honour, and with the frankness of the latter, I address you. Enclosed is a copy of an anonymous letter, post marked New York, 14th August, 1817, together with a publication, taken from the Columbian, which accompanied the letter I have not permitted myself for a moment to believe that the conduct ascribed to you is correct. Candour, however, induces me to lay them before you, that you may have it in your power to say how far they be incorrectectly stated. If my order has been the subject of your animadversions, it is believed you will at once admit it, and the extent to which you may have gone.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, (Signed)

General W. Scott,

ANDREW JACKSON.

United States' Army. Anonymous letter addressed to maj. general Andrew Jackson, post marked, "New York, August 14" and received the 3d Sept. 1818 (enclosed in the foregoing.)

"Your late order has been the subject of much private and some public remark. The war office gentry and their adherents, pensioners and expect. ants, have all been busy: but no one (of sufficient mark for your notice) more than major gen. Scott, who I am credibly informed, goes so far as to call the order in question, an act of mutiny. In his district he is the organ of government insinuations, and the supposed author of the paper enclosed-which, however (the better to cover him) was not published un6l be had left this city for the lakes. Be on your guard, as they have placed spies upon Brown here -so it is probable you are not without them. The eastern federalists having now all become good republicans, and pledged to the support of the president, as he to them, government can now do well without the aid of Tennessee, &c. &c. A word to the wise is enough. The enclosed is taken from the Columbian, a paper of much circulation in this state, New York." Certified and (signed) J. M. Glassell, aid-de-camp.

NOTES.-[on the above.]

They have placed spies upon Brown here &c. &c. -Generals Brown and Scott were, and are, on terins of friendship and intimacy. He has read this corres pondence (in January, 1818) and frankly acknowledged that gen. Jackson had sent him a copy of the anonymous letter to put him on his guard against general Scott. The latter jestingly remarked to general Brown, that if a spy had been placed on him, the president was the person; for at the time the anonymous letter was writen, the two were making a tour around the northwest frontier together, and on terms of much mutual respect and good will.— General Scott has reason to believe moreover, that gen. Brown is well pleased with Mr. Monroe, as president, and the latter with gen. Brown, as the commander of the army. Ihis is to the honor of both, for gen. Brown is known to be a decided Clintonian.

The eastern federalists, &c.-Here we discover the hand of a master. Never was gudgeon seized with more avidity! "A word to the wise is enough." The bait was swallowed, and gen. Jackson has put his character for wisdom beyond all controversy. "De Witt Clinton our next president," has since been, it is said, his standing toast. But let us recal to mind some of the political events of that day. Mr. Clinton has just been elected governor, and an election was then going on in Pennsylvania, from which, he was supposed to entertain hopes of the most favorable results. Had his friends succeeded in electing gen. Hiester, republican Tennessee and general Jackson would have constituted a handsome addition to the nucleus of opposition. It is impossible, therefore, not to perceive that a Clintonian must have been the anonymous writer. Gen Scott repeats, that he has been but a passive observer of those events-not that he had not all the rights of any other citizen, in regard to such questions, but because, a respect for himself (under his relation with the president, as commander and commanded) induced him to wave those rights.

The following article was enclosed in the foregoing letters:

Genera! Jackson's doctrines of obedience.-Queries to the editor of, and other learned casuists. 1. Suppose the government of the United States give orders to a general officer, or delicately signify their wishes and intentions, to remove from a certain command, one of the general's proteges and favorites? These orders, or intentions of governWar office gentry, &c. Ifthe writer meant to class ment, are not pleasing to either the chief, or his gen. Scott among them, he was totally mistaken.- subordinate. They, therefore, employ their joint The acting secretary of war, between the summer of faculties of manoeuvring to frustrate the object of 1816, and December, 1817, was the chief clerk of government.-By artifices, evasions, and pretended the department-a very worthy and highly respect misapprehensions of meaning, they have so far preable private gentleman, but previously unknown as availed as to hold a command in defiance of governpublic character, and therefore, in the opinion of ment itself, for nearly a year. gen. Scott (as was frequently expresssed by him at the time) an unfit person to preside over the army, or to represent it, before the congress or the country. It is due this gentleman to add, that whilst in the department, he conducted himself with great modesty and propriety: gen. Scott, had nothing to expect or to ask from the department, except what the law and his rank entitled him to.

In this district he is the organ, &c. This it utterly Lale. Gen. Scott has never, since the war, taken!

Does not this case prove, that government, when restricted, according to the dictatorial system of gen. Jackson, may not only be tricked and insulted, but absolutely nullified? What redress would an interested court martial afford?

2. Suppose that through the same general, pos.tive orders were given, by government, for another officer to supersede his protege and favorite in the command of his usurped place.

Suppose these positive orders, as they were not

susceptible of quibble or subterfuge, be pocketed, | for redress. Now in the case under consideration, laid aside, delayed, and not executed, for more there existed no such higher authority-The war months than it would be necessary to employ days or department, or in other words, the president being hours; would this case prove the utility of govern- the common superior (A.) and the General of diment relying for the execution of its orders solely on vision, the intermediate commander (B.) A prithe integrity of a commander? Perhaps it may be vate and respectful remonstrance, therefore, appears alleged, that such cases are purely imaginary, let to have been the only mode of redress which circumfacts which have occurred in less than a year be ex-stances admitted of. An appeal to the army or the amined, and it will then be known whether they vary public, before or after such remonstrance, seems to in any respect, from the cases as above stated. have been a greater irregularity than the measure A. QUERIST. complained of; to reprobate that measure publicly,

"Certified and signed, J. M. Glassell, aid de camp." as the division order does, was to mount still higher

LETTER II.

Gen. Scott to gen. Jackson.

Head quarters, 1st and 3d military departments,

New York, Oct. 4th, 1817.

SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th ultimo, together with the two papers therem enclosed.

I am not the author of the miserable and unmeaning article copied from the "Columbian," and (not being a reader of that gazette) should probably never have heard of it, but for the copy you have sent me. And whilst on the subject of writing and publishing, it may save time to say, at once, that with the exception of the substance of two articles which appeared in "The Enquirer" last fall, and a journal kept whilst a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, I have not writ. ten, nor caused any other to write a single line for any gazette whatever, since the commencement of the late war.

in the scale of indecorum, but when the order goes so far as to prohibit to all officers in the division, an obedience to the commands of the president of the United States, unless received through division head quarters, it appears to me, that nothing but mutiny and defiance, can be understood or intended.

There is another view of this subject, which must have escaped you, as I am pursuaded there is not a man in America less disposed to shift responsibility from himself to a weaker part than yourself. Suppose the war department, by order of the president, sends instructions direct to the commanding officers, perhaps a captain, at Natchitoches (a post within your division) to attack the body of Spanish royalists nearest to that frontier; if the captain obeys, you arrest him; but if, in compliance with your prohibition, he sets the commands of the president at naught, he would find himself in a direct conflict with the highest military authority under the constitution, and thus would have to maintain against that "fearful odds," the dangerous position laid down in your order. Surely this consequence could not have been foreseen by you, when you penned that order.*

Conversing with some two or three private gentlemen, about as many times on the subject of the division order, dated at Nashville, April 22d, 1817; it is true that I gave it as my opinion, that that paper, was, as it respected the future, mutinous in its character and tendency, and, as it respected the past, a I must pray you to believe, sir, that I have exreprimand of the commander in chief, the president pressed my opinion on this great question, without of the United States; for although the latter be not the least hostility to yourself, personally, and withexpressly named, it is a principle well understood, out any view of making my court in another quarthat the war department, without at least his sup-ter, as is insinuated by your anonymous corresponposed sanction, cannot give a valid command to an en-dent. I have nothing to fear or hope from either sign.

party. It is not likely that the executive will be offended, at the opinion, that it has committed an irregularity in the transmission of one of its orders; and, as to yourself, although I cheerfully admit that you are my superior, I deny that you are my commanding officer, within the meaning of the 6th arti

I have thus, sir, frankly answered the queries ad dressed to me, and which were suggested to you by the letter of your anonymous correspondent; but on a question so important as that which you have raised with the war department, or in other words with the president of the United States, and in which, I find myself incidentally involved, I must *Let it here be remembered, that this illustrative take leave to illustrate my meaning a little; in doing statement was strictly in reply: gn. Jackson had said, which, I shall employ almost the precise language "if my order had been the subject of your animadverwhich was used on the occasions above alluded to. sions, it is believed that you will at once admit it, Take any three officers-Let A be the common and the extent to which you have gone." General superior, B the immediate commander, and C the Scott, however, omitted one remark made by him, common junior, A wishes to make an order which on all the occasions alluded to: Speaking of the orshall affect C. The good of the service, etiquette der, he said, "nevertheless, as this indiscretion on and country, require, no doubt, that the order the part of Gen. Jackson, no doubt, proceeded from should pass through B; or, if expedition and the dis- that vehemence and impetuosity of character to persed situation of the parties make it necessary to which we owe one of the most splendid victories, send the order dicect to C (of which necessity A is not only of the country, but of the age, he (gen. the judge) the good of the service etiquette, and Scott) hoped, that the one might be tolerated on ac country require, with as little doubt that A notify count of the other." This was omitted for opposite, B thereof, as soon as practicable. Such notice, of but obvious reasons, both by himself and the anonyitself, has always been held sufficient, under the cir- mous writer. Gen. Scott can confidently appeal to, cumstances last stated. But we will suppose that perhaps, more than a thousand persons, in Europe A sends the order direct to C, and neglects to noti-and America, in proof of the pride and enthusiasm tify B thereof, and such appears to be the precise with which he has uniformly spoken of the defence case alluded to in the order before cited. Has B of New Orleans; and, he agrees to be held infamous, no redress against this irregularity? He may un-if two respectable witnesses will aver, that he was questionably remonstrate with A, in a respectful ever heard, prior to the 22d December, 1817, to manner, and if remonstrance fails, and there be a speak of gen. Jackson in other terms than those, of higher military authority than A, B may appeal to it | admiration.

cle of the rules and articles of war. Even if I be-ger set up a claim to that character. Are you iglonged to your division, I should not hesitate to re-norant, sir, that had my order, at which your refined peat to you all that I have said, at any time, on your judgment is so extremely touched, been made the subject, if a proper occasion offered; and what is subject of enquiry, you might, from your standing, more, I should expect your appobation, as in my not your character, been constituted one of my humble judgment, refutation is impossible. judges? How very proper then was it, thus situated, As you do not doubt the imputations contained and without a knowledge of any of the attendant in the anonymous letter, a copy of which you enclos-circumstances, for you to have pre-judged the ed me, I shall not degrade myself by any further no-whole matter. This at different times, and in the circle of your friends you could do; and yet had I

tice of it.

I have just shown the article from "The Colum-been arraigned, and you detailed as one of my bian" to some military gentlemen of this place, judges, with the designs of an assassin lurking unfrom whom I learn, that it was probably intend-der a fair exterior, you would have approached the ed to be applied to a case which has recently oc- holy sanctuary of justice. Is conduct like this concurred at West Point. The writer is supposed genial with that high sense of dignity which should to proceed upon a report (which is neverthe-be seated in a soldier's bosom? Is it due from a less believed to be erroneous) that brigadier gene-brother officer to assail in the dark the reputation ral Swift had orders from the war department, more of another, and stab him at a moment when he canthan twelve months since, to remove captain Par- not expect it? I might insult an honorable man by tridge from the military academy, and that he sup-questions such as these, but shall not expect that pressed those orders, &c.-The author is believed they will harrow up one who must be dead to all to be a young man of the army, and was, at the time those feelings which are the characteristic of a genof publication, in this city; but not under my com- tleman. mand, and with whom I never had the smallest intimacy; I forbear to mention his name, because it is only by conjecture.

I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed)

W. SCOTT.

To major gen. Andrew Jackson, &c. &c.

LETTER II.

General Jackson to Gen. Scott.

Head quarters, division, of the south.
Nashville, December 3d, 1817.

In terms polite as I was capable of noting, I asked you if my informant had stated truly-if you were the author of the publication and remarks charged against you, and to what extent; a reference to your letter, without any comment of mine, will inform how far you have pursued a similar course; how little of the gentleman, and how much of the hectoring bully you have manifested. If nothing else would, the epaulets which grace your shoulders, should have dictated to you a difSI-I have been absent from this place a consi-ferent course, and have admonished you, that howderable time, rendering the last friendly office I ever small may have been your respect for another could, to a particular friend, whose eyes I closed on-respect for yourself should have taught you the the 20th ultimo. Owing to this, your letter of the necessity of replying, at least mildly, to the enqui 4th of October was not received until the first inst.ries I suggested; and more especially should you Upon the receipt of the anonymous communica- have done this, when your own convictions must tion made me from New York, I hastened to lay it have fixed you as guilty of the abominable crime of before you; that course was suggested to me, by the detraction-of slandering, and behind his back, a respect I felt for you as a man and a soldier and brother officer. But not content with answering that you might have it in your power to answer to what was proposed, your overweening vanity has how far you had been guilty of so base and inexcu- led you to make an offering of your advice.* Besable conduct. Independent of the services you lieve me, sir, it is not in my power to render you had rendered your country, the circumstance of my thanks: I think too highly of myself to suppose your wearing the badge and insignia of a soldier, that I stand at all in need of your admonitions, and led me to the conclusion, that I was addressing a too lightly of you to appreciate them as useful. For gentleman. With these feelings you were written good advice I am always thankful; but never fail to to, and had an idea been for a moment entertained, spurn it, when I know it to flow from an incompetent that you could have descended from the high and or corrupt source; the breast where base and guilty dignified character of a major general of the United passions dwell is not the place to look for virtue, or States, and used language so opprobrious and inso-any thing that leads to virtue. My notions, sir, are lent as you have done, rest assured, I should have not those now taught in modern schools, and in fashiviewed you as rather too contemptible to have held onal high life; they were imbibed in ancient days, any converse with you on the subject. If you have and hitherto have, and yet bear me to the conclulived in the world thus long in the entire ignorancesion, that he who can wantonly outrage the feelings of the obligations and duties which honor impose, of another-who, without cause, can extend injury you are indeed past the time of learning; and surely where none is done, is capable of any crime, howhe must be ignorant of them, who seems so little ever detestable in its nature, and will not fail to comto understand their influence. mit it, whenever it may be imposed by necessity.

Pray, sir, does your recollection serve, in what I shall not stoop, sir, to a justification of my order school of philosophy you were taught: that to a let-before you, or to notice the weakness and absurditer enquiring into the nature of a supposed injury, ties of yourtinsel rhetorick: it may be quite concluand clothed in language decorous and unexception- sive with yourself, and I have no disposition to atable, an answer should be given, couched in pom-tempt convincing you, that your ingenuity is not as pous insolence and bullying expression? I had profound as you have imagined it. To my governhoped that what was charged upon you by my ment, whenever it may please, I hold myself liable anonymous correspondent was unfounded; I had to answer, and to produce the reasons which hoped so, from a belief that general Scott was a sol- prompted me to the course I took; and to the interdier and a gentleman; but when I see those state-meddling pimps and spies of th war department, ments doubly confirmed by his own words, it be

comesa matter of enquiry, how far a man of honor- *When, where? General Scott is unconscious of able feelings can reconcile them to himself, or lon- the fact.