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red by Gen Gaines. 10 serve not lass than
three months after their arrival at the pla
ces Of rendezvous, unless sooner dischar.
ged.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS.
His Excellency N CANNON.
Governor Of Tennessee, &c.
WAR DEPARTMENT, July 25, 1886.
SIR: Major General Gaines has appri
zed this Department that he has made a
requisillon upon your ExceIency for "a
regiment of mounted gun.men for the ser
vice ofthe United States.
Copies of the dispatches received from
General Gaines have been transmitted to
the President of the United States, who
will issue such orders upon them as he
may think the circumstances require.
Meantime have the honor to inform you
that, in order to prevent any inconve.
nience or delay, in the event Of the con
6rmation of Gen. Gaines'a re9nisition by
the President, dsbursing officer will be
ordered TO proceed 10 the Stale of Tennes
see with the necessary funds.
Very respectfully,
Your most ebedlent servant,
G. A. HARRIS,
Acting Sec. of War.
His Exceilency N. CANNON,
Governor, &c.
The above letters from the War, De-
partment having been enclosed TO the Pres
ident by the Governor, the following was
received in answers
HERMITAGE, Aug. 6, 1886.
SIR: have received your letters OF the
29th ult. and the 4th instant, accompanied
by the copies OF Communications which
were addressed to you on.tho 9TH of May,
anG the 25th July, by the Secretary Of
War, and aisO accompanied by your Proc
lamation OF the 20lh, founded on the re-.
QUESTION made by Gen. Gaines, bearing
date the 20th OF June last. The dccu-
mehts referred to in the communication
to you Of the 25th uIt. from the War
Department, have not yet been receiv
ed.
The obligations Of our treaty with Mex
ico, as we'll as the general princi pies
which govern our intercourse with Jor
eign Powers, require us to maintain a
strict neutrality in The contest which now
agilates portion of that Republic. So
long as Mexico fulfis her duties to US as
they are defined by the treaty, and VIC.
lates none of the rights which are secured
by it to our citizens, any act on the part
Of the Government of the United States,
which would tend 10 foster a spirit of re.
sistance to the Government and laws,
whatever may be their character or form,
when administered within her own limits
and jurisdiction, would be Unauthorized
and highly improper. A scrupulous sense
OF these obligations has prevented me
thus far from doing any thing which can
authorize the suspicion that our Govern.
ment is unmindful to them, and hope to
be equally cautious and circumspect in
all my future conduct. 1t is ia reference
to these obligations that the requisitlon
of Gen. Gaines IN the present instance
must be considered and unless there is q
strong necessity for it, it should not be
sanctioned. Should this necessity not be
manifest, when it is well known that the
disposition TO befriend the Texans is a
common feeling with the citizens Of the
United States it is obvious that that requi
sition may furnish a reason TO Mexico for
supposing that the Government of the u
nl!ed States may be induced, by made
quale causes, 10 overstep the lines OF the
neutrality which it tproleSsed to MAINTAIN,
Before left Washington, Gen. Games
animated to the Department of War that
some indications ofhostiliiies from the In
dams on our Western lrohtler had been
made, and that, lift became necessary, he
would make call for the militia. lie
had also informed the Department Of his
Ill health, and asked for lurIough to ena-
bIe him to visitthe White Sulpher Springs
l directed the Secretary of war to grant
him the furlough, and to inform him ol
the appointment which had been made Of
the 10000 militia under the recent volun
teer act; and if the emergency should a.
rise which would make it necessary to IN
crease the force under his command, thai
a thousand volunteers in Arkansas, and
another in Missouri, raised agrecabIy to
thisact, would be enrolled aud held ready
for the service. This force, aided by the
portions of the Dragon regiments that
would be stationed 10 that quarter, and
those of the regular army already there,