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me Of no iouaer. Al these palen aro aek-
nowledg'd by ,he Department, in lAG same let
Itcr-JRnuary l3--Ihui recalls nc.
llwas thai budget OF papers lhat caused the
blow Of Power, 500 lorg suspended. 90 lail on q
devoted head. The three arrested officers, and
be who had endeavorcd TO enforce necessary
discipline against Them, ure al % BE- placed to-
gether before the same court; the innocent and
the guilty, the accuscr aud the accused, the
Judge and his prisoners, are dealt with alike
Most impartial iusiicel But there is dIscrimi-
nation with yengeancel While The parties are
ON lrial--il the appeucr is 70 be rricd al all,
which seems doubilul--iwo ure restored 10 their
corps--oue Of them with his brevet rauk-and
am deprived of my command There can
be but one step more in the same direction;
throw the rules and articles Of war into the fire
and leave all ranks in the army free to engage
in dcnuncalons and a general scramble for
precedence, authority, and Executive lavor.-
The proHuHciameHtO, on the part Of my lactous
juniors is most triumphant.
My recall-under the circumstances, a severe
punishment before irial--but to be followed by
a trial here, thar may run into the Aulmn and
on matters am but partially permIued 10 know
by the DEPARTMENT and my aecusers is, very
ingeniously, placed on two grounds: !. My
own request, meaning that Of June 4--quoted
above, and there was no other before the De-
} parIment-which had been previously--July
l2--acknowledged and rebukingly declined: e..
} The arrest of Brevet Major General w Worth, for
, writing to the Department, under the pretext
and form Of an appeal, I an open letter, to be
} sent through me, in which was grossly and
falsely accused of 'malice,' and 'conduct unbe-
coming an officer and gentleman in the mat
! ter Of the General Order No. 349, on the sub
ject Of putting letters, for the newspapers at
home.
On that second point, the letter, from the
Department of January IS, is more than ngen-
lous--it is elaborate, subtle, and prolound--a
professional dissertation, with the rare merit of
} teaching principles, until now, wholly unknown
TO military codes and treatises, and of course
to all mere soldiers, however great their expe-
rence in the field.
I have not in this place. time to do more than
hint al The fatal consequences Of the novel doc
trine in question. According to the Department,
any actious Junior may at his pleasure, in the
midst of the enemy-using "the preleXt and
form Of an appeal against his commander
insult and outrage him TO the grossesl extent,
though he be the General-in. Chief, and charged
with the conduct of the mostcritical operations;
and that commander may not arrest the incipient
mutineer until he shall have first laid down his
own authority and submitted himself to trial,
or wait at least until distant period Of leisure
for judicial examination Of the appeal and
this is precisely the case under consideration.
me, could not take time 10 learn of the expe-
rienced, that the General-in-Chief who once
submits to an outrage, from junior, mustIay his
account 10 suffer the Ike from all the vicious
under him--al least, down TO rank that may
be supposed without influence, in high quarters,
beyond the army. But this would not be the
whole mschiefto the public service. Even the
great mass Of the spirited, intelligent and we'll
affected, among his brothers in arms, would
soon reduce such commander to utter imbecility
bv holding him IN Just scorn and contempt for
his recreancy to himself and country. And
are discipline and efficiency Of no ralue in the
: field!
But it was not my request of June 4, nor re-
port No. 80 [of July 25 so largely quoted from
above; nor yet the appeal of one prOnuaciado
that has, at length brought down upon me this
visitation, so clearly predicted That appeal,
no doubt, had its meritS-considerlng il came
from an erralic broIher--a deserler from the
other eXtreme--who having just made his peace,
with The true taih, was bound 10 signalize apos-
tacy by acceptable denuncialions of one, for
whom, up to Vera Cruz, he had proiessed and
not without cause the highest obligations. 1t
was there he learned, from me that | was DOOM
ed at Washington, and straighlway the apostate
begun TO Seek through u quarrel, the means of
turning than knowledge to his own benefit. No.
There was recently still another element, as
socialed in the work--kept, as far as practical
bic, out of The letter of recall in the influence
proceeding from tho other arrested General
who is qune willing that it should generally be
understood and who shall eainsay his signih
cant acquioScence! that all rewards and pun
shments, in this Army were from the first, to
follow his recommendations. This, The more
powerful of the prOnuaciadoS against No. 349,
well knew at the time, as | soon knew, that he
was Justly obnoxious--not only to the anmad-
versions of that order, but 10 other censures Of
yet much graver character. ... .
In respect to this General, the letter Of recall
observes, parentheically, but with an accumen,
worthy Of more than "a hasty" notice, that
some of my specifications of his misconduct
are hardly consistent with "your [myl official
reports and commentators"
Seemingly, this is most just rebuke. But
waiting for the trials, will here briefly staIe
that unfortunately, followed that Generals
own reports, written and oral, that my conf
dence, lent him, in advance, had been but very
slightly shaken as early as the first week in Oc-
tober; that up TO that time, from our entrance in
to this city, had been, at the desk, shut out
from personal intercourse with my brother Of
fcers, and that it was not till after that confne-
ment. that facts, conduct and motives began to
pour in upon me.
A word as to the 4th Article Of War, can
ItrnlY say that. In This and other commnnica.