The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-25


This incident never denied till the present year
It cannot always be foreod that the stream which over
fowsits banks will produce rver yet it is clear
that it no overflow had taken place. river would have
cut through its former banks. 1t is so with men, Their
early acts always indicative of the future and it is
noprobabe that if Gen Cass had possessed the ar
dor and deep love OF country which induced him to
break his sword the disastrous event of Huls sur
render he would ever have his unaded and single
handed way to the proud position he occupies
| A writer in the Baltimore Patriot. of the 22d August,
repeats this denial the strength of letter from one
John Mcdonald, of Ross county, Ohio. This man says
he quartermaster in Col McArthur's regiment and
that he out with the detachment Of Cass and Nc
Arthur which marched from the fort on the 18th Au.
gust-two days prior to the surrender of Hun order
to open the communication with the river Rasn When
the Of the surrender reached this detachment on
their forced march back to relieve the fort even he ad
mits that it unexpected" But he is very careful
in making his bold and loose assertions as to this Incl
dent neither absolutely to affirm nor deny the precise
fact He says that the terms OF the surrender provide
that prvate property should be respected and
retained and he takes it for granted, SO years after
date, that both spuations rigidly observed To
show, apparently, how hgh-mnded the enemy were he
that emo search made for private property
and s,oords broken" 1t would have added con-
sideraby to the force of this declaration if anybody had
lever asserted that privae" property plundered on
that occasion, that hundred any plural number of
"swords" were broken. The truth was that none but
Casss in reality broke And this act, the patriotic
Quarteaser, who appears socitous to defend the
character of the enemy than the galany of one of his
officers, did not witness. Yet if he had witnessed the
noble Decd he might, with casustca exactitude, have
said, what Mr.. John L. Taylor, M. c., so boastingly
rumpets forth, that "no SWORDS were broken"
Now, the brave quartermaster did see or seeing
does not choose at this important Crisis to acknowledge
the act beg leave, in the following letter from VIII
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who did both the act and is proud to bear nit
ness of it. tits copied from the GAINESVILLE Aurora
EVANSVILLE, (Ohio,) June 10, 1913.
To the Editor of the aurora:
sls In the zsnesyie Courier Of this date noticed
rather stolen captal;" that was Cen McArihu and not
surrender Now it may be that Col Macarthur did break
his sword, for he was patriot and brave but if he
But did see Col break his sword at the pickes where
Gen. Brock-the British commander--met Colonies Nc
was standing within six feet of Col Csss at the time
and never will forget the indignation and modification he
These silly attempts deprive Gen. of his patriot
se pit shady in those dark days viii only have the effect 10
rally his standard all the soldiers of 1872 Col Ca.s
loved them all and did all he could promote their com
fort My voice and my vote are for Tnss and BI,1eT
We suboin the testimony OF another witness, taken
from the " Spirit of the Times" who present at
Huls trial. and who gives the report OF witnesses Of
this incident, thrty-six years ago:
nce the nomination of Cen Glass; tho papers all over
the country have given OF IFS having bro
ken his sword at Hu's surrender Some affirm that It
done stump in Detroit the surrender; others state
that he broke his others that II done
three miles from the city, by running into the ground
and Others that he did not break all Now II t.o
to know the truth OF the mstter we are
enabled the highest authority thar, at the
Tune HUI surrendered the entire northwe stern army Gen
Cass then Coone and Col McAhur, with $50 men under
their command about six miles from Detroit and,
on being notified that they together with their troops were
Included In tho surrender and that they required TO
deliver up their arms, Gen Ctss Indignantly broke his