The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-08-04

REQUEST Lnal lNlNluA4klDll UA AAAAa f0llaAcuAAtA
be furnished without delay.
"Another point on which the department
disires information is, what amount Of
means of transportation for such an expedi-
ton can be furnished at New Orleans, No
bile, and in that quarter.
"The expense of procuring transports
from the Atlantic cities will be exorbitant.
Freight is very high, and most of the good
vessels are engaged for the ordinary pur-
pose ofcommerce."
1t is important TO bear in mind that you
saw this letter on your first arrival at New
Orleans. In writing to me from that place,
December 81, you observe: 81 have seen
your letter lint hands of Lieutenant Col
onel Hunt) to the Quartermaster General
dated the llth." You could not mistake
. its object, because it was clearly expressed,
l asked distinctly what means of transpOr-
tation for the expedition can be furnished at
: New Orleans. &c. and referred to the ex-
pnese and difficulty of procuring transports
from the Atlantic cities, You could not,
therefore, bat know that my couIse as to
sending ships in ballast from the North
would be regulated by the Quar.ermaster
; Generals reply. While waiting for this in
formation, aud in order to prevent delay,
and be sure not to deserve The imputation
you now cast upon me, issued the order of
the 10Th, December, to which you REFER
! knowing that it could be modified and con-
formed to the exigencies of the service, ac.
cordins to the answer | shQule receive from
/ General desqp, His reply is dated the eth
OF December, and in it he says:
/ Transportation cor be pr0yide2 ere for all
] tie troops that mag be 3ra,cn from, tie army
lal4er command Of Geaeral Taylor. and for
all the ordance stores, and other supplies,
which may be drawn from this depot (the
Brazos )or from New Orleans. The pub
( lie transports--I mean these owned by the
United States--thatcan be spared for the
contemplated Operations, it is estimated,
viii carry three thousand men with all
their supplies. FesseIs ca~ De chartered on
! tqyoroJ terms for any dddajonoi traaspor
tat on thqt may be required" This letter
was submitted to and read by you, as ap-
pears from your endorsement thereon.
After referring to some other matters in
the letter, You conclude your endorsement
lis follows:
81 recommend that Breyet Major Cen
eral Jesup's suggestions to you be adopted" F"
! This fact shows that the letter received
your particular attention. When this letter
(Which you knew was forwarded to the de-
partment )was here notwithstanding that
your apprchended difficulty in Obtaining
sufficient transportation at the South was un-
founded, and that it could be provided in
that quarter i'll great abundance on favora-
bic terms--my order of the 10Th Deem
Der, so far, and only so far as it related to
sending out vessels in ballast. was counter
manded. It's strange, indeed, that after
! YOU were made acquainted with the object
of my inquiries and General Jesup's letter
in reply to them, you should have looked
for transport vessels in ballast from the At
lantic cities, and still more strange that
I their non-arrvaI should be the proof you re-
y on to convict me of having neglected my
duty in this instance. If, the truth, YOU
delayed the expedition nearly two months
for these transports, am blameless; the re-
sponsibility is in another quarter. 1t can
not be said that this statement as to the
sufficiency of transports to be obtained at
the South had an implied reference to what
! | had ordered from the Atlantic Cities for
my order was then unknown to yourself and
| the Quartermaster General. You first re-
ceiyed copy of it several days after the
! date of Gen. Jesup's letter to me, and Of
your endorsement thereon see your letter
/ to NE Of the 18th January. Resisted as
YOU were by "head Winds" envoIvgd in
''frightful northers," and oppressed with
complicated and perplexlng duties in arran-
and preparing the expedition against Vera
Cruz some temporary bewilderment may
be excused; but to charging the War De-
partment with your own missapprehensions
and mistakes, is nexcqsable.
My reply TO your accusations forces me to
expose some of your misstatenents of facts
You alege that the expedition, for the want
of the '.ten vessles," was delayed from the
18Th Of Iauua,y to the 9th of March. You
certainly mean to be understood, that on
the 18th OF January your troops were ready
to embark, and were delayed for want OF
these transports But this was not SO; a.d
| am indebted to you for most abundant
proof to establish your inaccuracy. The
great body Of your troops for the expedition
was drawn from Gen. Taylor's command at
Monterey 9nd in the Interior of Mexico. and
no part of them had reached either the
Brazos or Tampico-the points of embar-
cation---on the 10Th of January. In your
letter of the 10Th of that month to General
Brooke, at New Orleans, you said; ! have
now to state that it is probable the troops
| have called for from General Taylor's i'm
mediate command 10 embark herc( the Bra
zos )and at Iampico, will not reach thu Sc
points till late in the present month, January
J say about the 25lh." In ID letter to me
Of lhe 2Gtl of January, you remarked that
general Butler responded to your call of
the troops with the utpost prompttude,
and that General Worth made an aAmira-
bic movement. "The head of his division
arrived with him at the mouth of the Rio
Grande the day before yesterday, u 24.h Of
Iauqary. When the remainder came up,
is not stated; yet one Of your "naked his
torca facts" at least nine days before the
actual arrival Of any part Of them. But Ii
they had been there, why should they have
been detained from these vessels? In the
same lctter-written but two days after the
arrival Of the bead Of the first division, and
probably before the other troops had come
up--yon say that "the quartermastcr gen
eral, Brevet Major General Jesup, at New
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