Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-03-23
[From the State Journal

GEN. TAYLOR AND THE BLOODHOUNDS.
Should Gen. Taylor be candidate for the
Presidency. from what we have already seen
and heard, he will not escape the malevolence
of party prescriptions. Every thing will be
said against Gen. Taylor that the friends of the
present administration can conceive or invent
From the discussion of his character and acts
in the last Congress, down to that which took
place the last winter in our own Legislature,
ION resolution of thanks to that worthy old
man for the manner in which he had discharg-
ed his duties in the war against Mexico,) the
leading supporters of Mr.. Polk have evinced
the most determined hostility towards him
One of the Locofoco district electors in this
State, in the Senate. charged him with the
recommendation of procuring 'bloodhounds'
to hunt up and destroy the Indians in Florida.
The Washington correspondent of the Phila.
Ledger-a locotoco paper-makes the follow
ing statement in regard TO this letter. 1t places
the subject in clear light, and we are dispos-
ed to give it without further comment The
correspondent says; =. sla a-a =
Some anti Taylor men have OF late been
hunting public documents, to see whether old
Rough and Ready, in his correspondence with
the Departments, long before Gov. Marcy was
Secretary of State, did not commit some blum
ders. They have thus raked up the blood
hounds, once used with such terrific eff
feet against Mr.. Poinsett As the matter i S
on the point of being brought forward by 9th
erS, will state ii as IT is, and NTH the con
GLIDING clause of that unreserved letter of Gen.
Taylor, which mere partisans may be likely to
omit. My motto is, Fiat jrtstitia, ruat ce-
lnni
In the Washington Daily Globe Feb. 18Th,
1910, under the head of ..In Senate Feb 9Th
1910" communications from ]. r. Poinsett
Secretary of War. to Hon. T. IL Benton, Chair
man of the Committee on Military Affairs, TO
which We're referred the memorials on the sub
ject of employing bloodhounds in the Seminole
war.
HEADQUARTERS, ARMY OF THE South, I g
Forte Brooke, July 18th, 1889.
SRI have the honor to enclose you com
muncation, this moment received, on the sub
ject of procuring bloodhounds for the army in
Its operations against the hostiles in Florida
am decidedly in favor of the measure, and beg
leave again TO urge ii as the only means of rid
ding the country of the Indians, who are now
broken up into small parties that take shelter
in swamps and hammocks as the army pproa-
ches. making it impossible for us TO follow or
overtake them without the aid Of such auxil-
iaries.
Should this measure meet the appreciation
of the Department, and the necessary authority
be granted, will open correspondence on
the subject with Mr.. Everson, through Major
Hunt. Assistant Quarter Master at Savannah,
and will authorize him. lift can be done on
reasonable terms, to employ few dogs, with
persons who understand their management
1 irish it distinctly understood, that my OBJ
ject in employing dogs is only to ascertain aote1c
the Indians can be found, NOT TO WORRY THEM,
have The honor to be your obt serv't
(Signed) 2. TAYLOR,
BIT. b. Gen. U. s. A., Commanding.
To Gen. R. Jones, Washington, D. c.
You see mean to do old Rough and Ready
full justice BY italicising his humanity and
SCORING his charity. Still 1 should not be sur
prised if the Democrats made handle of this
letter during the next canvass. ''The blood
hounds" were in 1874 set on Mr. Van Buren,,
and will no doubt, by way of change be en-
played in the next canvass against the Wings.
OBSERVER.