Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1837-02-07

your troups. | regretted the scarcity Of our resources in
such supplies, and apprehendrd a scarcity bordering on
starvation, for a few days. Fortunately $4,000 rations
have arrived. at Fort Mitchell, (and about 81, 1000 here
which yesterday were not expected earlier than the 22d
perhaps the 23d Instant and am confident that, when
HIRE, we both: by calculation, did not expcc, any thing
from n. Orleans before the 2lst or 22d: am rejniced as
much on your account as my own, that we both have all
abundant supply Of rations Tor the present; and We know
that loO, GuO more will SOON follow"
General, in haste, | have not intended 10 say any
thing 10 injure you. | have shown in strong terms tile
construction had a right to place upon your acts and
letters. Tins, | know, may appear harsh. Butt on the
other hand, allow me 10 say, that l have the greatest,
and an undEninlshed confidence in your honor, your in
t~eligeHce, gaIantry, and capacity for war. You use The
word friendship. | have cherished for you for more than
twenty-five years u warm and sincere affection, which
| would not part with on any consideration. 1t has.becn
a little shaken since | saw you, but one expression OF
your letter goes far to recall it. | think you have not
been attentive 10 my plans and instructions. In this |
certainly believe that you have erred, and also in your
failure 10 report fully TO me Throwing for a moment
seniority aside, | ask ii CT your ancient connection with
me to be more careful in those particulars in future. |,
will give me sincere delight 10 put down this war with
you, and To- give you all The fame which ! know you are
SO capable oi winning
The letters between General Jesup and myself were
duly, f:"m time to time, enclosed BY me 10 the Adjulant
General for the information of Government. In wri-
tirg Ia the latter on the 2lst of June, | enclosed Gen.
Jesup's letter 10 me of The 10Th, and the above reply, OF
tie sdihS ooe oHe o"N W NS "J"'""N
"Wilh respect 10 this distinguished officer General
JesuP] l have every motive in The world, public and pHi.
vale, 10 aclin perfect harmony. All my encient afec.
ton Tor him is last returning. | hope it will be entirely
restored in a day or two; thutis, as soon as | shall learn
that he confirms himself to my plans and instruction. -
Having subsequently received General Jesup's repor,
dated the 2Uth, giving his operations and motives from
the 18th TO that date, with several other official letters,
lin evidence;) having, as | passed down the country the
evening Of TIE 22d, met and conrerscd with him on the
slhjeci, %confding in the facts and motives alleged by
him on the several occasions, and being absolutely jig.
norsnl lEen, and long afterwards. of his letters 10 Mr..
Secretary Cass, and, above all, of The daslardly attack
through Mr.. Editor Blaii, in the since notorious letter
of The 10Th, the Court may imagine how, with my 1evi-
wing feelings Of kindness, | was led to write the vo.
luntary apology for General Jesup's conduct, dated the
32d oil June, and addressed to the A djutant. General
In this letter | requested that such of my reports as
had animadveTled on General Jesup might be returned
10 me, on the ground that, as zoe uere again friends, no
trace might remain on record to show that zee had c1er
been otkcracise. He had met and rode some miles with
ME that evening. AS he entered my room ! finished
the letter, handed it 10 him to read, before 1 had read it
nyself) and it was instantly recorded by an aid de. camp
10 my letter book. | did net tell him aou the morning
of the 24lh,' as he writes to Mr.. Blair, September Bird,
that | ''would ask to withdraw the letters, &c. The
request, and my reasons fer it, he had seen lie night be.