The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-01-14

:. sA1sai hCu d. wi sHOHIoe tnen secretary
OF War at Washington. Col. Learned
was received by him as gentleman and
treated as such. Mr. Monroe expressed
great anxiety that Col. Learned should
receive an appointment in the voluntee,
corps. Mr. Monroe said, as soon as the
volunteer bill had passed, lie would attend
10 his appointment. Il scanned by Mon
roe's conversation, that. from the best in
formation that he could obtain, Col L.
had not had justice done him by the
4 Court. Mr. Monroe requested Col. L. to
} TO return home without delay, and report
I TO Gen. King, and he would do every
thing in his power to accommodate hin,
with a new appointment
1 understand that government was per.
iectly satisfied with the conduct of Col.
Learned while in service.
4 The above was the conversation that
passed between MIR. Monroe and Col.
Learned as near as can recolIect.
LEVI HUBBARD.
i Paris May2O, 1915.
Allied, 2Slh May. 1915.
i Dear Sir-Yours of the 25th is lust
received, and in answer TO your inquiry
can state, that | was present at your tri-
| al before Court Martial upon certain
charges of which the public are possess
ed. Notwithstanding the profound re-
spect which entertain for several of the
members Of that Court, | have no hesita-
ton in declaring my deliberate opinion,
that you was innocent Of every charge
exhibited against you, and that upon the
most nnlavorable construction Of the evil
dence against yon, you ought to have been
acquitted. This was expected by those
who heard the trial, as well your enemies
as your friends of both political parties.
can stale with great satisfaction, that,
while at Washington | heard that your
accounts with the war office were deem
ed exceedingly correct and fair and from
the conversation which | had with the
Secretary at War. &c. am satisfied thai,
you was considered as entitled to relief,
and that you would be reinsta,ed in a
commission of equal grade with that of
which you had been deprived. Indeed
do know, that you had the assurance Of
the Secretary $50 far as was in his power
that you should be appointed Col. OF
the volunteers to be raised by an ac,
which had been reported and was passing
its several stages, and had not the news of
peace arrived until week after it did, |
have no doubt the appointment would
have been made.
AS | understand that you wish TO use
this state of facts to defend yourself to
your friends against the nlalgni,y OF your
enemies in certain cases am constrained
on the whole to consen, tina, you give it
such publicity as shall answer the purpose
intended.
! Any further communications on this or
any other subject will be promptly attend
ed to by your friend and very humble
servant,
JOHN HOLMES.
! Col. ]. D. LEARNED.
In pursuance of the arrangements men
toned in the foregoing letters. l left
| Washington under orders from MIR Mon
roe, then acting Secretary of War, to re.
pair to Boston TO meet General King and
: Gen. Miller, and to unite with them in
organi ing the Northern Army, conlem.
!, plated BY The Bill then before Congress
! and in which had been assured of the
command of Regiment. On u,v way /,
t Boston | met the news of peace in, New
York. proceeded TO Boston, me, Gen
King there, who was in the city Of Wash
~, e l.l,,
! made, to attest to the fact, and is now
alive. But pence put an end to further
t military operations, and thus defeated the
e favorable intentions of the Government
towards me.
f Let it now be remembered, that wher
, / was commissioned into the Army O
the United States, was but few week:
e over 81 years Of age, and not % whe,
a this affair happened. That was imme
: diately invested with the command of tina
!. district, containing Ten military post:
j strung out upon line of sea coast o
: nearly four hundred miles. and line o
e frontier OF two hundred miles more, par
0 of which was lined with tribes OF Indians
o That in This whole command there wa
# not an officer of the Ordnance, Quarter
i Master General, or Inspector General
departments and all these complicated
:, duties devolved upon me. was chasget
) besides, with the appointment of all thu
J. officers of my Regiment, and with tn
superintendent of the recruiting service
in my district, and with but single fiel'
d officer to aid me; with military posts DIES
d titute of force, and many of them wi,hou
!. any munitions of war for their defence
!, while the credi, of the Government wa
e SO low, that scarcely an article could b
I'll purchased for the Army upon its credit
Y that her currency, Treasury Notes, wer
: at discount of from Is to 25 per cent
Il thatmy head quarters were in the hot be-
d of the opposition to the war, the yer,
J. cradle of the Hartford Convention tina
v more than one hundred thousand dollar
J. of the public money had, from time /
]. time, been placed in my hands and dis
e bursed in the public service-when al
r this is considered, is there an honest min
i in tho Uorl1 which co,, bol;avo th.t if