The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-01

the same way wholly devoted TO the description OF hs
srec,pe authority and TO nothing else and in this art
ice where all the erectipe powers of the President are
carefully commemorative advisory power in regard to
of legislation being among them-in this art
ice not solitary word is said about the veto lhe
veto, then, is clearly no executive power; and General
Taylor in pledgng it away, he has done IN regard 10
three great fields of legislation. has pledged away be-
forehand for partisan purposes, part OF the peoples
public Legislative authority, organized in their cons-
tuition Is not this, in Mr. Claytons judgment, viola
ton and an abandonment of his constitutional duties
Did the trainers of the constitution put the veto power
into the hands of the President, order that military
chieftan might pa,cn it asoay to gain his election
Gen Gas. moment Countrys peril In 1874
should the multitude Of words be answered and should
man full of talk be justified F-Job
The last Savannah Republican (of the 25th October
contains the defence of Mr.. I. Butler King, OF Georgia,
of himself under the odum of the position which he has
been made to occupy before the public in consequence
of the harsh and opprobrous language which was used
by him. in his Paterson speech, in reference to the mill
tary character of Gen. Cass the crisis of the surrender
of Detroit by Gen Hull. We have examined that ques-
ton in previous number of paper after reference
to the MS records Of the Hull trial, in the office of the
Adutant General We have shown the utter fallacy of
all Mr. King reported have said in that extraordinary
speech We have carefully read the testimony of Gen.
Macarthur and the leading officers who testified on that
occasion. We have in addition to these means, pub
shed the letter of Gen Jesup of the 25th September last
in which this gallant and merorious officer most fully
agrees with all the contemporary and documentary est
mony of the PERIOD and accods to General (hen Coonel
Cass the highest award for his high military and emf
nently patriotic conduct in that trying emergency. No
one who has read that letter will forget its prompt and
cogen refutaton of the sanderous mruations on the
military character of Gen. Cass. That gentleman says
he reference to the misstaements OF Mr. Kings Pat
erson SPECIFY has been unfortunate in the random
statement of his facts, not to have stumbled upon
single truth His charges know TO be utterly unbound
ed, from beginning to end"
This is the language of officer who present at
the surrender-who had been associated with Col Cass
on the entire march from Dayton, in Ohio. to Detroit
who was present in the invasion of Canada-who was
the acting adutant general of Hus army-and who, in
that capacity detailed the force sent out under Colonies
Macarthur and Cass to open the communication with the
river Raisin That force, he states, was placed under
the command of Colonel Macarthur. 1t consisted of $50
men from each of the volunteer regiments OF Colonies
Macarthur and Cass, to which added afterwards
few dragoons-not to exceed 20 to 80 With this small
force it was attempted for the third time TO open COM
municaton in which Major Van Horne, and afterwards
Colonel Miller, had failed The first defeated. The
latter drove the enemy from the field after hardcon
tested action after which he compelled to return to
Detroit without opening the communication.
General Hull next ordered Colonel Macarthur to try to
effect the object by crcuous route through the forest
II was service of extreme hazard. Both Major Van
Horne and Colonel Miller had had larger force, consist
ing mainly of regulars and well supplied with the proper
material of war; Macarthur was suddenly ordered the
DUTY and compelled to march without provision, and with
very slender supply of ammunition. General Jesur,
with whom we have personally conversed on this topic,
with Mr. Kings reply in hands, says that he deemed
the service very inminentthat there almost dead
certainty that the detachment would be cut off, as the
forests were filled with hostile Indians supported along
the river border by parties of British sodiey At this
unctue Colonel Cass volunteered to go with the detach
ment from his regiment He said he was determined to
share the danger with his volunteers, who had followed
him through the campaign" He not" says Gen.
Jesup ga part of the detail; he joined as volunteer.
When understood that he desired to 60, objected to
two colonies going with small detachment; but the
service was considered by us all as mmneny perlous.
Colonel Cass claimed it right to share the dangers
with his men, and he permitted by the General not
ordered by me, to accompany them"-pide letter Of the
25h September
Appealed to in our interview this topic on Monday,
Gen. Jesup reafrms the original positions of his letter
He vindicates the military ador which led Col. Cass to
prefer danger in the field TO inactivity in the fort while
his men were exposed to peril He vndicates the brave
nv and good judgment of Col Macarthur, who command
ed the troops and arms the necessity he under of
acauescing in the surrender of his detachment after the
fort the town. and the Territory formally up
He could not he thinks control the necessities of his
position No man, the braves and most skiliu officer
of the day. could have avoided the acquiesceRce which,
however he gave slowly, retreatng at first to position
of defence and not submitting till affairs shown to
be hopeessy rretrie vabe In all these things Col Cass
was his counsellor and his second, but he not in
command
We repeat il, the country, the army, and the people,
and finally court martial composed of the highest Off
GERS have long settled these things 1t is too late 10
painsay or deny the facts Nor has there single new
fact been brought forward justify such denial gain
saving We are amazed that civilian like Mr.. Butler
Kng-a man who mere boy when the incl
dents occurred, living at the other end of the Union
without military knowledge mere novice in the
history of his countrya who has heretofore NAM
tanned the reputation of candor and fairness, should have
come forward with such barefaced accusations couch
ed too in such coarse and vtuperatve language But
orc,yod at ouch nt first what must think