The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-07-31

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Atlantic cities. You could not. therefore, bot
know that my course as to sendm. ships in bal
last from the North would be regulated by tn,
Quartermaster General. reply. While wait
ing for this Information and IN order tu prev cn
delay, and be sure not 10 deserve the imputalIui
YOU now cast upon me. issued the order of III,
18th December, to which YOU refer knowin. thai
it could be modified and cnuf'rmed At the cNigvn
cics of the service according To the answer whicl
should receive from General ,lr>up. Ills rrpl,
l. dated the eth OF December, anI N II he SAYS
Transportation can BE- py3rDii hsy' for al
the troops hdtmlg BE- tisprg from ihsarD,g pHi,i
he command OF t,,psr0t Taylor and tnr all the
ordnance, stores, asl other supplies, which may
be drawn either from this depot CHE BrazoS) ol
from New Orleans. The puhil tran, ports
mean tho>e owned hy the United Siatcs-that
can be spared for the contemplated operation. il
is estimated will carry three Thousand men with
all their supplies. le,sris can b. chartered 80,
f5rorable tcImS for an oG6toHd! transportation,
Nat may b. r,3HiroL' THIS letter WAS submitted
t" aud read hl You, as appears from your endorse.
mtut thereon.
After referring To some other matters in the
letter, yns conclude voGr endorsement a. follows
" recommend that Breyct MajSr cuvral Gesups
suggestion be adopted TIN, fact shows that
I the letter received your particular attention
When this letter (which YOU knew was forwarded
7 10 the Department. WAS here received shaving
that your apprshendcd difficulty IN obtaining sul
tCieut tran, portatlon at the south was unouuded
and that it could be provided IN ,hat quarter in
great abundance on favorable tvrms--my order
vi the 18th December. far and only 20 lar -
It related 10 sendng out vessels m ballast. was
eountermauied IL Is strange indeed that, after
YOU we're made acquainted With the object Of ms
inquiries and Gen Je.ups letter IN reply to them,
YOU should have looked Tor transport vessels in
ballast from the Atlantic cities, and still more
strange that their non arrival should be the proof
YOU RELY on TO convict me IT having neglected nv
duty in this instance IT, in truth. Won DELAYED
the expedition nearly two months for these trans.
porte, am blamele,s the responsibility j. in
another quarter Il cannot b. SAID that TIN, state
ment as tn tie efficiency of transports TO b. Oh
tanned nj the south had an implied reference to
Uhat had ordered from ne Atlantic cities for
nv order was then unknown 20 yuurse,f an he
Qar'crmas.er General You first received \
copy Of 1t several DAYS after the date of Gen
jcSup- letter to me. and 1t vnUr endorsement
thereon. see yonr letter to me Of the 18th
January. Resisted n YOU were by head
winds" enyoved in frichtful mothers. and or.
pressed with complicated and perpi-xug duties
IN arrangn: sui preparing the expedition against
Vera Cruz some temporary bewildermtnt NAV
be- excused: hut to charge the War Department
with your own misapprehen>IUus and mistakes, !,
iueNcu>able
My reply to vour accusations forces me TO ex.
pose some If your mi.>tatemepts 1T fact You
alcEe that the expedition. Tor the want Of the
" ter vessels wa' delayed from the 18Th or
JduurrY tn the 9TH of March You certainly
mean to be understood, that IN the 18Th of Jauu-
AIRY your troops were ready To embark, and were
delayed for want of these transports But this
was not so and | an indebted to YOU for most
abundant proof to establish YOUR naccurscy The
great body If your Troops Tor the expedition was
drawn fr~n Gen. Tayl command At Monterrey
and in the interior OF Mckee" and no part Of ,hcm
had reached either the Brazos or Tampico-,he
points Of embarcation--on the 18th Of January
In your letter Of the 9Th Of that month to Gene.
raj Brooke at New Orleans. YOU said. have
SOW TO state that it j. probable the troops have
called for from Gen. laylofs immediate command
10 embark here (the Brazosl and at Tampico, will
not reach those points TIL late IN the present
month, tJnnuarv) say about the 25'h." In 4
letter TO me Of the 2S,h Of January. Won remark
that Gen. Butler responded to Your call fnr the
troops with the utmost promputude, aud that
Gen. Worth made an admirable movement The
head nf his division arrived with HIM at the
mouth of the Rio Grande the dav before vester.
day cath january When the remainder came
up, is not stated yet one Of your "uakrd his.
torcal facts places the whole command at the
points Of embarca,lon waiting FIR the ten YES.
sels' at least nine days before the actual arrival
Of any par; Of them. But ifthev had been there.
why should they have been detained Tor these
vasssl. ! 10 tho -ouro letter Iit,rr uus t~u
DAYS after the arrival Of the hcado II the first di
VISION and probably before the other troops had
come up-you say that " the quirierma.ter gene /
raj Breyet Major General Jesup at New Or .
leans hnd, has taken all proper measures with
judgment and prompttude to provide every thing
depending on his department for the despatch .
and success of my expedition II more was
wanted. cumulative proof nigh, be drawn from
tie same sOurce-your own correspondence to
show not only that this charge agans, me has No
IN truth, bu, that y on can have no
apology for having preferred it.
After showing how unfortunate you have been
in your specific charges, ! may with proprieiy
meet those OF general and sweeping character
With less particular detail of proof to show
heir ground.-,ness.
Though the ten vessels" were not. for the verv
sufficient reasons have assigned, sent out IN bal.
act from the Atlantic cities; vet very large
number were sent thence with stores. supplies,
md troops, tn co-opsrate in the expedition.
Concluded merit Trck