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I shall a., stnou. Cir. 70 Justification ftiVs
order before you, or to notice the weakness
and absurdties of your tnsel rhetoric: itGnay
be quite conclusive with yourself, and have
no disposition 10 attempt convinciaa
your ingenuity is not as profound az
imagined it. To my government, whenever
it NAV please. hold myself liable to answer,
and 70 nrodnce The reasons which promptaui
me 10 the course I took and to the inferno d
ding pimns and spies Of the War Department. /:
who are in the parb Of gentlemen, hold n 6
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labor under on NV account: with which Va
have INV permission TO number Yourself. For
what have said offer no apoloov: Won have
deserved il ali. and more. were Il necessary =
saw more. will barely remark in conclusion.
that # ann feel yourself agrieved at what is here
said gny Communication from YOU will reach
me safely at this Mace.
Verv respectfully,
Your obi serv't.
fS;oned> ANDREW JACKSON.sAs
Rrevei major General w. Scott. United Stafess
Armv. New York.
Tbe abovo Con Scot, did not answer for six
months. and then cave his reason for declining
to 6ght Gen. Jackson. From that letter we
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observation-disclosures vii, shn,S ,ha, i ;s nv wish 10
renlv To Won d;sr.--;---.-,y
II regret that cannot accept the challenge
you offer me. Perhaps may be restrained
from wishing to level pistol at the breast OF
a fellow being, in private combat, by sense
Of religion; but lest this motive should excite
the ridicuIe Of gentlemen Of liberal habits OF
thinking and acting, beg leave to add that
decline the honor OF your invitation from pat
riotic scruples. My ambition Is not that OF
Erostratus. should think 1t would be easy
for you to console yourself under this refusal,
by the application of few epithets, as coward
&c. to the object Of your resentment, and here
promise 10 leave you until the next war, to per-
suade yourself Of their truth" .
By the above extracts it will be
General Scott refused to fight General gackx
not by sense Of religion, for fear . TIN
should excite the ridicule Of gentlemel y
eral habits of thinking and acdng,' buS
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of April, 1919, having heard that1 ncco1
him of being the author of the le{Aek y
Jackson, published the followi h
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