Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-13
A CAyEAT.


in the prosecution Of claims
would respectfully caution the public against the
aspersions thrown on Mayo a Moulton's book on
Pensions and Bounty Lands, by the above named iu-
dividuas, until can find the leisure to make d full
review of their recent publications the same sub
ject In the mean time submit the following state
ment
! have thoroughly examined Triplett's book, and
seen his but yesterday should judge that these in
dividuas have been in hot haste to get up and issue
their books iacted probably to their defective produc
nons, without taking adequate time TO mature them
by their own labors and save themselves from the
graceless and the ungratel policy Of traducing what
they found convenient to their hand to make short
work Of theirs-incited pro6a6y say, by the tempt
ing suppositon that Congress and the public were In
seeing that Mayo Moulon's book had received con-
siderable patronage from both those sources.
Except for their attacks upon the competency
Of Mayo 4 Moulton's book their publications would
be viewed BY me in no light than an nterfer-
ance unheard of among honorable booksellers and
publishers who are never known to attempt to super
sede one another in publications that any of them
have gotten up at great expense holding themselves
and excuses for doing In that light should have
permitted those individuals to enjoy all the benefits
they might derive from such speculations without
remark and leave them to the sure reprobaon Of the
public who must, in due season. form u proper est-
mate Of the usage Of honorable in regard to it,
But, however reluctantly, l am driven from that
course Of silent abiding, to repel at the asper-
sions that have been 80 wantonly thrown upon my
abors obviously by such artifices to win unnerited
public confidence In theirs not in direct terms but
undcrhandedly, by both Of these personages each in
his own way not to be mistaken BY any one, denoun-
cling all compilations heretofore made ON the subject
knowing that Mayo Moulton's is the only one that
has been made first by the senior editor in 1888 and
recently extended by the edition Of ls52-'53.
+. +. Q. Triplett says;
That the obscurity complained Of in reference to
huf haa
arisen from the udf OF systen, in the here
tofore made, think the present [hisl work will
demonstrate, of which will now proceed to give the
plan"
Now it turns out, upon examining his plan that IL
is but mutlation of the very system actually given
in tabular analysis in the preface to my compilation
Of 1888, which has been used in the Pension Office
ever since, and repeated in the introduction 10 the
late edition.
9. w. Bennett says
The object Of the publisher has been to furnish
work, giving in detail a the laws relative to pensions,
bounty lands pay, &c. with the official forms and in
structions, as well as the various decisions under
them and to accompany each with such instructions
as his experience has shown to be necessary to be
observed, and original forms, which have been pre-
pared so as to be easily understood and which COM
ply fully with tho rules Of the Office they exist
" In these respects, his work" says he, differs
from that of any other publication. Relative to the
portion Of the work respecting pay of the army, &C.
It Is simply necessary to state, that no tco,k con-
tanning such information has ecer been published"
The emphatic words above are adlscised by Mr.
Bennett to attract attention, and show that he is
before, that Mayo a Moultons book has every
thing he denies to all other publications. he
was in duty bound to know. In the first place
il only required the little trouble at his hands, turn
to the index, and look the enumeration and alb
stracts of the laws the various subjects with which
his long experience should have made him familiar,
to find that they all there, and many more than he
has in his book He would also find all the forms and
,f.f.z ..,1 y.asat
torneys General greatly exceeding what he has placed
in his book. And more particularly if he would turn
TO the item of "PAY THE ARMY AND NAVY" in the
last PART Of the Index, he would find in the supple
buar staiements of Army and Navy Pay through all
periods of time, from the revolution to the present
inclusive, which Trplet also says peculiar to his
book.
Having thus summarily rcpelled these disipeepu.
GUS imputatons, though obliquey made, shall be
excused IL carry the war into Africa BY paying my
respects to of their Ueritabs deficiencies as
samples merely, for the present. of great many
others hereafter TO be shown up, more at leisure.
Neither Mr.. Triplett's book nor Mr. Bennett's book
contains the important act providing pensions for
persons disabled in the revenue cutter service ap-
proved the 2sth April, 1sl4the first and only legis
ative notice in the way Of pensions, that has ever
been taken Of that useful auxiliary Of the navy
proper.
Also in regard to the Navy Pension act Of the II tn
August 1s4s, these compilers differ very widely in
u
in which they are both equally in the wrong. The
said Trplett only gives the second and third sections
Of the act; and the said Bennett gives n mutated
portion Of the st section only, while the whole act is
of equal importance TO widows in whose behalf they
mutate il, each in his own wsy.- They have, how
ever, both Of them, used (and abused the term D
gest" in the titles Of their books, perhaps because
they think there is charm in the term, that ,oorts
up into fictitious importance in public cstima-
tion superior 10 the law itself; and that whatever
does not that title In relation 10 such compa-
tons, is worthless. | have not been ambitious Of
such an alreneHt Of public opinion, although Mayo
Moulton's book, in reality contains digest OF
all those laws and like digest Of the opinions Of At
torneys General and Of the decisions OF the Depart
ments, on the subjects Of Pension and Bounty Land
Claims as may be seen by an inspection Of them, in
the form Of abstracts prefxcd 10 each ACT, OPINION,
and DEcIsIoS and are again repeated in the index,
from which n more copous digen OF the laws, opin-
IONS and decisions is there available 10 any who
will take the trouble 70 examine them, than what
those individuals boastfully profess to ax to each
law as "princples" Of action IN the execution of the
laws; where they to be taken upon trust com
plee often without date, reference authority, Gn
Trpets particularly by which corrections might be
the digest In Mayo 4 Moulton, where omissions or
inaccuracies be detected on the spot, IL any
found TO exist and thnt, J presume, IS digest
enough for all practical use IL II only called
But these are far from being the most dscreditable
features Of their productions They have brought 10
bear upon Mayo 4 Moulton's book, something like
taborSsdring machinery They have given the most
indubtable evidence Of having copied Mayo Moul-
ton far as suited their purposes; Bennett has
copied from Triplcts book being the latest pubiica-
tion-Tripett having first copied Mayo a Moulton's.
These evidences ara too numerous to go into now.
will barely mention class Of them, viz: A few
typographical errors that occurred in Mayo Moul-
tons book are repeated in Trpetts and in Benefits
with exactness that cannot fail 10 prove their orr
gin unless the freaks Of condolences have conspred
against them. Crcmmsfantiat ecidce far lees srong
has settled ne hash Of many man. The rest here
after.
In the meantime will take this occasion 10 say,
that Messrs Lucas Brothers, of Baltimore publish
crs, have stereotyped edition Of Mayo Monton at
press carefully revised aud extended which will be
ready for sale and delivery by them IN fulilment Of
existing orders, in few days; when il will appear,
hope, that u have not worked by steam, can
WELD the slcdgehammer and the fall occasion, 10
break down dissertations that thrust themselves in
the way Of ANALYSIS whose nfillible clue leads to
TRUTH through the most intricate .hdgyintts dark
sinuosities and mydfoatioHs, from Whatever causes
arising. X. MAYO.
WAsHINcTov, December 0, 1854.
s. Had Triplett and Bennett made original com
pilatons, and made no dsparagcments OF all other
publications on the subject, necessarily including