Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-08-25
LEWIS CASS.
His EAcellency, n. CANNON,
Governor of Tennessee.


Governor of Tennessee.
WAR DEPARTMENT. July 25. 1886.
SiR-Malor General Gaines has appr
sed this department that he has made a
requlslton upon your Excelency for re
siment Of mounted gun men for the ser,
vice of the United States.
Copies of the dispatches received from
General Games 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 10 prevent any inconveni
ence or delay, in the event OF the conlir-
mation Of Gen Gaines requisition by the
President, IA dsbursing officer will be or
dered to proceed to the State Of Tennes
see with the necessary funds. Very res
pectlully your most ont servant,
{. A. HARRIS, Acting Sec. OF War
His Excellency n. Cannon, Governor.
The above letters from the War Bepar-
tnent having been enclosed to the Presi
dent by tho Governor, the following was
received in answer:
HERMITAGE, Aug. 6, 1886.
SIR: have received your letters of the
goth uIt, and the 4th inst, accompanied by
copies of communications which were ad-
dressed TO you on the 4th of May, and the
25th July, by the Secretary of War, and
also accompanied by your Proclamation
Of the Goth, founded on the requisitiou
made by Gen'l Gaines, bearing Gate the
Goth of June last. The documents refer
! red 10 in the communication to you of the
25th ult. from the War department have
not yet been received.
i he obligations OF our treaty with Mex
leo, as well as the general principles
which govern, our intercourse with foreign
Powers, require US TO maintain a strict
neutrality in the contest which now agi
tates portion of that Republic So long
as Mexico fufils her duties to US as they
are defined by the treaty, and violates
none OF the rights which are secured by 1t
TO our citizens, any act on the part of the
Government Of the United States, which
would tend to foster a spirit Of resistance
to ihe Government and laws, whatever
may be their character or form, when ad
minlstered within her own limits and iuris
dlction, would be unauthorized and highly
improper. scrupulous sense ofethese
Obligations has prevented me thus far from
doing any thing which can authorize the
suspicion that our Government is unmind
iul OF them, and hope TO be equally eau
tlous and circumspect in all my future
conduct. IL is 10 reference to these obi
cations that the requisition of Gen. Gaines
IN the present Instance must be consider.
ed and unless there is a strong necessity
for it. it should not be sanctioned Should
this necessity not be mnDilest, when it is
well known that the disposition to beiriend
the Texans is a common feeling with the
citizens OF the United States, it is obvious
that that requisItlon may furnish reason
to Mexico for supposlng that the govern.
ment of the United States may be induced
by inadequate causes to uverstep the lines
OF tho neutrality which it processes TO main
tain.
Before left Washington, Gen. Gaines
lntlmated to the Department Of War that
some indications Of hostllItes from the In.
dlans on our Western frontier had been
made, and that if il became necessaru he
would make a call for the militia. ne had
also informed the Department Of his i'll
health, and asked for iurlough to enable