The Arkansas advocate., 1837-02-17
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 t ,non fhe officer and soldier in the service o1 the Tinted States, requiring respect to spperor' @heti- s dpa CT not will not ba denied my right to speak asa citizen holding myself always ameaaole as aucn fr ffa abrse. Unlike the Bgt BriEader General Lo ass,ned command whist In the ser vice did nv duty-unlike the Governor oi 8fkaa- - 1gbilst in the separate command of Ba8tallon never attempted b usarp authority not gwen ey the Ia Iacrannlike the crouc1ine euprts wao eYaded pun shment under the thick PaHopy ofthe Bfeyet a2aAtle Tdemanded an Investigation and passed the cfaelDle 1ntarniqbed--and now unlike my titled advefsares and calamnators, will and9agof to tell nota5as oat inc truth This Is due not only to myself, but more to tbe iptellipeft and gaaGt oicars and mea, Who
 la1lsn ton uon te unto that devised at home, and the ser vile instru nent beyond the borders, that executed, be mad scheme to degrade the character ot the state a the expense of one who aspred to no higher honors than the command ofa Battalion--and only that when no other gentleman would De candidate
 The Battalion which elected to command was called into the service of the United States by Mai Gen Gaines under an act Of Congress of May g. 1886. The organization was completed at v aso- ington, on the Ist of September, Is58, ana on tsa lffh if arrived at Fort aEsnn, and became laeefpo- rated with the command there, under It. Col Yose, 3d T. s, Infantry. At Washington, some of the vol unteer officers urged the Governor organize them at once into regiment with fall number Of field olh cers which he positively refused and produced his specific instructions from the Secretary at War on the subject of organization Ihese lastfuetioas re- qured regiment to consist of tago Dattalions each Battalion of five companies, and eaeh company oi - fus sprivates with proper number c oacefs Each regiment to be commended by Colonel, and eac1 Battalion by It. Colonel, or MaJor c had but
 
 1afn The Governor hastated sometime whether he would be iustifable even in organizing battalion, and smoke of sending or to Iowson as lndepend- ent companies. But eventually battalion Was or eanzed. On march to ToWson another company joined os and after arrival there, on the 2d ot October another; making in all seoeR companies and about four btnayed men, Atthis time, although be- vond the limits of tho state, l1 te sefUlcc oi t4e C. Sides and under the immediate command ot an otl- cer of the regular army, received a paper from ID T. Witter ,, which he said by order of the Gov ernor and that be- Witter, was Adjt General ot the militia directing me to metamorphose my battalion into a reqment by electing Colonel and AaJor-- This order refused to ooey. principally for three reasons:--kirst, that would whilst h the United States service obey ordertrom the Goyernor be- cause by the Constitutions of Arkansas aid of the U States as well as other laws he expressly prohibt- ed from exercising any authority III such cases:-Se- con6lv that VI liter not known to me to be AdJt General-And thirdly, that we lacked h1aee coAa19- ljes and nearly three 5alared nlen oi having force sufficient for regiment. Ntters order was not Tn any manner pub sted to my command Captains of companies were called together and informed of the cxisfenee of Mir. Witter's mandate and also of my determination to publish it to the battalion or to obey t. ihe provisions oi the law and the isGfuc- tons of the Secretary norganlSatlon were dseussed also the several procamations of the Governor, S5c See appendix :, which will clearly show that both the Governor and Byt l3rigadier General Arbuckla are palpaby wrong, and my own position eerfect'- After I had made known my detefmlnaton that all election should not be held under Writers erder, B majority of tue captains concluded to hold anelection for Colonel It. Colonel aad q Nalor ii thelr re- speetive companies and submit the same 10 the su- peror authority for sanction, without reference to said order. Three of these captains under tas ln- formal and unauthorized election, were made iield officers one of whom is an honest man, but was lln- posed upon by Howell and kaYanaugh, and has no doubt often since regretted his agency in the aFalf The fourth was poor stupid cate,paW that nomnaliy