The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-11-28
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MILITIA OF MAINE.
DIVISION Oapsas-FlrTH DIVISION
4UONDAM FULLBLOOD

DIVISION Oapnns--FlFTH DIVISION.
Head Quarters, .NssO- GIssesstef, Oet. III, 1920.
THE Major Geness, having carefully es.
aminsd The proceeding. OF Csur, Martial
whereo. Colonel jacob JOHNSON, of the third
Regiment. fret brigade, IS Presidenl-snd
ai;entiyely considered The sentence prononn.
eed on Capt. Solomon Nason, hereby APP
proves OF the samr.--Cspt. Nsson,is rursu-
ance Of said sentence, has 40 longer any com
mand IN the Fifth DIVISION, and Is rendered
incaPabie Of holding any military Office IN
the State for SIX years.
The Major General lament. thai any officer
20 devoid OF the honorable feeling, winch ev.
er should characterize the SOLDIER. should be-
found in CON msnd in the fifth Division.
Inc Major General trust. that the case of
Captain Mason ~ solitary and thai hereafter
no man will accept military Office uho has
not sufficient spirit t. perierm his duty.
The Court Martial whereo. Crlonel John.
son is President, IS dissolved.
The Major GcaeraI takes this occasion 10
express hi. high sali.facron, in The military
spirit, promptness and accuracy which he has
had the pleasure and honor 10 witness in The
laie reviews.
The officers and troops, will with Pride re-.
feet, that such has been their conduct ypd i'm
nroyement in al that can dignify The soldier,
that Our country may with confidence rely
on the Militia for tbs permanent defence of
those rights which are so dear To ireemen
Much however as there Is TO praise, IT will
not be expected tina, il will be said there is
fer fak bss
disciplined corps. Much is to be done to ar
i've a, the standard of discipline which would
epiitle the militia of the State TO rank With a
regular army.
But the Major General, with no small degree
of pride, expresses hi. conviction. from the sp-
Pearsncs OF he troops he has had the honor to
resiew, that imperfect a, he deem. our militia
LAWS, !, 10 not mpIacicabe TO make our Mil.
tia equal to the regular armies of Europe.
While be would not deprecia,e the merit of
any corps. he feels il an indispensable duty TO
point the attention Of the Division TO The CON-
pany commanded by Capisin Bradbury, of
the second Regiment, second Brigade, as de
cisive proof that with officers devoted TO the
object, our common m,ltis companies may
soon be brought 10 rival those companies rails
ed al large, which have hitherto been consider
ed as the elite Of our troops, aud even 10 vie
with regular irsoPs Of the line.
The Major General was happy 10 see many
other cospsn,es Of common militia in
the different Regiments experimenting the
high state Of dcpllne which designated
The ligh, troops and The company of Captain
Bradbury.
The Major General regret. that circums,an-
ces made 1t impracicabe for him 10 review
Cosnel Thomas Regiment in the First Brig
AIDE, as be iesls great confidence from what he
witnessed, in reviewing that corps two years
since, that 1t would not have been behind the
best Regiment in all the dutie. Of The soldier
accuracy in their movements, order in duty
aad subordination 10 military law and usage.
SAMUEL FEsSENDEN, Mgor Genera.
A true Copy-4nest, -
JOHN w. MELLEN, Aid dc. Camp.