Southern telegraph., 1836-09-06

WIN u, we are satisfied, will be appreciated
ny the public. When we shall have obtain.
ed the necessary documents, VIC shall pro.
OaLiy take more extended view Of the
transaction .-NaShrUe Banner.
GEN. JACKsoN'S LETTER.
HERMITAGE, AUG. 5, 1886
SIR have received your letter of the
29lh ult. and the 4th inst. nccomponiod Inv
Tho copies of COMMUNICATIONS which werc
addressed to you on the All of Nav and 25lb
July 10y the Secretary of War. and also nc.
comPan!ed by YOUR proclamation of the con.
founded on the requisiiun made Lv Gen
uaIncs, hearing date the 2S.h Juro last
Inc documents referred to in the commnni.
cation to you of the 25,h uh., from the war
Department, have not yet been received
Inc obligations of our treaty with Mexico.
us wen as the general principles which 90
'orh our intercourse with foreign powers.
required us to maintain a strict neutrolitv
IN the contest which now agitatcs por;;nn
OF that republic. So long as Mexico fuIf,s
her duties to Us as they are defined by the
treaty, aud violates none of the rights vhirh
are secured by it to our citizens, anv act on
the part of the government of the TJnitcd
states which would tend to foster spirit ofI
resistance to her government and laws
Whatever may be their character or form.
when administered within her own limits
ana jurisdiction, would be unauthorized and
Gshiy improper. A scrupulous sense of
these obligations has prevented me thus far
from DONG any thing which can authorize
'nc suspicion that our government is un-
mindful OF them, and hope to be equally
cautious and clrcumspect in all nv future
conduct. 1t is in reference to these oblica.
tions that the requisition of Gen. Gaines in
The present instance must be considered
and unless there is a stronger necessity Gor
H. II should not be sanctioned. Should this
necessity moi be manifest. when it is we'll
known that the disposition to befriend the !
exams Is common feeling with the citi-
lens OF the United States, it is obvious that !
,,equlsltlon may furnish reason to Mexico !
or supPoslng that the government of the
United States may be induced, by made.
iuate causes, to overs'cp the lines of the
neutrality which it processes to maintain.
Before l left Washington, Gen. Gaines
minated to the Department of War that
ONE indications of hostiIiios from the In
'ans on our western frontier had been '
made, and that, if it became necessary, he n
hould make e call for the militia. He had b.
$50 informed The department of his health. IA
nd asked for furlough to enable him to al
IsIt the White Sulphur Springs. directed fo
le Secretary of War to grant him the Grr- dc
'ugh, and to inform him of the apportiop-
lent which had been made of the 10000 &C
llllila under the recent volunteer act. and th
Inc emergency should rise which would
lake 1t necessary TO increase the force I'M
er his command, that a thousand voIun.
'ers IN Arkansas, and another in Missouri,
used agreeably to this act, would be en-.
'lIed and held ready for The sorpieo.
f"s torce, aided by the portions of the
ragoon Regiment that would be stationed ue
mat quarter, and those of the REGULAR 70 =
my already there, were deemed anplv ,ol
lllcient for the protection of the frontier &c le'
ear the Indians referred to. There are ~
reasons set forth in the requisition which W. W.
e general has since made unon YOU. to VI
s'liy the belief that the force above emu sc
Grated will be insufficient, and | cannot. Gu
eretore, sanction it at the present time su
q sanction that requisition, for the reasons ,ro
men accompany it, would warrant the be. i0'
81 that 1t was done to aid Texas, and NOT
'm a desire to prevent an Infringement of al al
Y territorial or national rights, we
deeply regret that tile Tennessee vo- Cd
u'eers, whose prowess and patriotism are Ioe
Spayed so promptly on all occasions that le' '
- lva.eh t'e peace or safety of their beloved @ 90
'un'IS " nave Doon called out on this occa- "a var
!" "''nou' proper Consideration. Tbcv 'ne nc
u, 'or the present, only be nnIs,rvod ;n,o W
Q service and discharged. If there ,1.o aro
nds appropriated out of which tbcv can
paid, an order to this effect viii h. +"
ven. "'i oe N
The ten thousand volunteers o,,ho,;- 4, wit
der the late act Of Congress are intended De,
one years service, and must Le em of /
yea TO meet all necessary calls for tho tior
ence OF our frontier borders. should tLo fro
aslon arise for greater number on tbo in
sleTn frontier, the call will be made on on cali
y Aen'ucky, Indiana and Illinois. There viot
however, no information to Justify the an. if 1
henslon OF hostilities to any &c lions ~. thre
rom lne western Indians. Shonld J trus
esslty arise, the volunteer brioade G,oru with
c.ae,; e.;nessee WIN be ordered to tho west. far
l;.o' aOu'ier' as soon as their services can heSit
ilsPcnsed with where they are now EN-. @ cam
,,a,,1 ~ e proa
would barely add further, thu ll.e AM sary
y gwen you oy the order Of the 4th or rs III