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Major Gen. Taos. s. JEsuP,
10 Washington City, D. Gilt.

Major Gen. Taos. s. JEsup, ; -.
- Washington City, D. CT DE- b
Washington. City, Sept. % ls4s. &.
Sir: ! have received your letter, dated
the Esd instant, calling my attention 70 GER
tain charges said to have been made BY the
Hon. Thomas Butler King against General
Cass in a speech lately delivered by him II
Paterson, New Jersey, in the following
words, viz: Gen. Cass is the hero Of Hulps
surrender. Ordered away by Gen, Hull
before the attack upon Detroit by the Brit
ish, Gen. Cass received no intelligence Of
the disaster TIL he was summoned by . sim
gle British officer, fourteen miles from De-
troit, to yield, and he did yield. With two
or three regiments Of men, Gen. Cass sur
rendered to q single British officer, fourteen
miles from any other enemy And in COM
with your request that should give
such information ss I possess in regard to
the situation of the detachment referred to
by Mr.. King, at the time Of Hull's capitu-
sand the position Of General Cass in
relation to il, and whether the General
was 10 any way guilty Of anything unbe-
coming q brave and gallant e~ficerJs i
have the honor to stats, in reply, that the
charges made BY M liking relate to the sur
Of q detachment sent BY order Of
General Hull, on the l4th Of August, 1912,
10 meet q convoy Of provisions, under the
command Of Captain Henry Brush Of Ohio.
supposed then to be on the route from the
river Rasin to the army at Detroit
As the acting adiutant general Of the
army, I detailed the detachment, and, BY,
the order Of General Hull, placed Col.
Macarthur, { mot Col Cass) in commend of
it. The General dirseted that the 4detsch.
|ment should consist Of one hundred and 6f-
ty men from Col. McArthur's, and the
same number from ColonefC ass' regiment,
and q few mounted men were directed "a
accompany il. Before the detachment
marched, q number Of volunteers joined il
from both regiments, 50 that the aggregate
force when It left the camp was about fouI
hundred men. Col. Cass was not spartof
the detsil-he Joined az O. volunteer
When Understood that he desired to 60,
I objected to two colonies going with 20
small q detachment; but the service was
considered BY US al as extremely perilous.
Colonel Cass claimed !. as d right to share
the dangers with his men, and he was per.
mitted BY the General, not ordered, to &C.
company theme / .ai3uf gli Gtui} .gs, Il.
On the 10th Of August General Hull
surrendered the fort and army, BY capitula.
tion, to the British forces under the com.
mand Of Maj. Gen. Brock, and included
Col McArthur's detachment in the capt..
|~ulasion. The Colonel had been ordered BY
express to return to Detroit, and he wsi
within three or four miles Of the fort when
he received intelligence Of the surrender,
He fell back about three miles % the rive,
Huron, where he received the articles Of
capitnlation. with.an order from Gen. Hull
to surrender, The Colonel was, ] believe,
bound in. good faith to surrender; bul
whether he was Or not, he was compelled
TO submit, for he had not q days Subsistence
nor Q dozen rounds, Of, ammunitions for his
command He was as gallant q soldier, and
- patriotic Q citizen, as the country could
boast; and he did all that was possible under
the circumstances; but whether the surren.
der Of the detachment was right or wrong,
he alone was responsible for It. Colonel
now GENERALLY Cass had no more, to dc
With it than the honorable gentleman who
makes the charge against him. ,
From the foregoing statement, you per.
ceive that there vas not even a single regi.
ment to surrender, nor was Col. Cass il
command At the time and on the ooaeasio.
referred to BY Nj. King. That gentlsnma,,
has been 30 unfortunate In the random