South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-08-27

| "a uiiltIH WHICH Hut6 DeeH or bHuy U1 TO-
CURED by Gen. Gaines, to serve not lest
than three months after their arrival a,
replaces Of rendezvous, unless sooner
discharged. Very respectfully, your o.
bedent servant, ~
.''s LEWIS CASS.
His Excellency N. CANNoN,,
Governor of Tennessee, &c.
81 So" 49,. N.:
WAR DEPARTMENT., July %, 1886.
SIR: Major General Gaines has ap
priced this Department thathe has made
a requisition upon your Excellency for a
regiment of mounted gun-men for the
service Of the 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 incon
velience or delay, in the event ,of the
confirmation ofGen. Gaines requ isition
by the President, disbursing officer will
be ordered 10 proceed to. the, State of
Tennessee with the necessary funds. We.
ry respectfully, your most obi servant,
C. A. HARRIS,
-, Acting Sec. Of War.
His Ezcellency N.iCANNoN. i
Governor. &c.
The above letters from the War De.
l Rfg' vas received il a1swssf lpsed to the
HERMITAGE, Aug. 6. 1886.
S1R:' Il have received your letters
of the 29th ult., and the 4th instant,
accompanied by the copies Of commu-
nications which were addressed to you
on the 4th Of May, and the 25th July,|
by the Secretary Of War, and also &C.
companied by your Proclamation Of
the 2Oth, founded on the requisition
made.by Gen. Gaines, bearing date
the Goth Of June last. The documents
referred to in the communication to
you of the 25th ult. from the WARD
par.ment, .have.not yetbeen received.
The obligations Of our treaty with
Mexico, as well as the general princi-
Piles which govern our, intercourse with
foreign Powers, require us to maintain
a strict neutrality in the contest which
now agitatesa portion Of that Republic.
So long as Mexico fulfilIs her duties to
us as they are defined by the treaty,
and violates none Of the rights which
are secured, by il TO our. citizens, any
act Oh the part Of the Government Of
the United States, which would tend
to foster, a spirit ofNIesissancs.'1o the
Government and laws, whatever, may
be their character or form, when ad-
minisaered within. her own limits and
jurisdiction, would be unauthorized
aud highly improPer. A .scrupulous
sense, Of these obligations has proven
ted me, thus far fram doing any thing
whieh Gan authorizs the suspicion tina.
odr Government is unmindful Of them,
and | hope to. be equally Cautions and
circumspect in all my future Conduct.
It 10 in reference TO these obligations
that the requisi,ion of Gen. Gaines in
the present instance must be consider
ed and uuless there is, a stfong ne
eessity for it, i. should not be sanction.
ed. SHOULD this necessity not bs man.
ifest, when i is vel! known that the
disposition TO befriend the Texans is a
common feeling with the, citizens Of
the Uniled States, il is obvious tina,
that requisi,iou may furnish a reason
ito Mexico for surprising that the Gov
ernment of the United States may bt
induced, by inadequate causes, 20 over
step the lines of the neutrality which
lii processes to maintain.
+ Before I left Washington, Genera
Gaines in,imated TO the Department Q
} War that some indications Of hos,ii
ties rom. the Indians on our Wesler
frontier had been made, and that, if
became necessary, he would make
!, call for the militia. He had also ia
formed the Department of his i'll health
and asked Tor furlough 20 enable hil
/, to visit the Whit Sulphur Springs.
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