The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-09
j. b. JONES.
RoLLEsToN, near Norfolk, Va, I

February 4th, 1861
ny De"r Sr:-For many months | have been
cohnned to the bed side Of sickness and SUFFERING
nursing with one hand and ATTENDING To nnmaroT9s
pressing domestic duties with the other; not visit
ing Norfolk once in three months; SEEING but few
IlehdS at my house, and these from nv own imme-
GIsie % nelghoorhood; receiving my mail even not
daily, or regularly, and not caring to be opuressad
with Its disgusting and distressing details of ruin
ana OF the destruction of my beloved country. in
WORD have been perfectly retired and inactive re-
garGing every public concern. Named here as a
cahuldate Tor our State Convention, | have not
moved an inch from my door to meet an assembIaoe
or 10 see voter And yet, public and private ac-
counts have me recruiting raid armies to take
= ashington, and am actually assured that Gen.
scott has alleged as reason for raising standinr
army around the Capitol, that am writing and
speaking and acting rebellion The Black Re-
puohcans and the Lieut.. General are disturbed in
Gov. Wise.
This would be ridiculous, simply, if the motive of
the slander was not the basest and most DANCER
ouS the safety of the country was not at hazard
ana private reputation was not falsely assailed. .
In my Nor'olK Speech in my late letter to Virginia
everywhere, and at all times, have disclamed all
raids, and pledged myself to await the sovereign
orders, first ofmy own State, and failing in HAVING
them, OF some other State. Still my public speeches
ana letters are made the preteXt for raising mana
eng forces. This is base in motive for Gen Scott
can hardly be atrighted at a single Door civilian
VINO never set squadron in the field and is now at
nome alone, and IN utter distress from sickness in
ms family, and from the dangers which he fears
GENERAL Scott Is rushing the nation into Fear is
not the motive of this slander-it is worse-it is
treason. a preteXt-sOme pretext is needed To
concentrate the army to establish military dasno+
ism. Scott is but MARITIME and q eommissarv bnt
his vanity, in his old age stands up like hin bonHs
and wlthers of an old horse, from which the muscles
nave fallen away; and the I'd Lieutenant-GeneraI
aSPres to rival the lst Lieutenant. General in he
ing can0nlZed as the second saviour of his country
lie bad better take care, or tcW take the field and
take the feathers off his peacock pride. Now, Won
are perfectly welcome to put this in print to dis
pei the apprehensons of all the grannies in the
North, or to put to shame those who would malipn
py SANDER, one who never engaged in secret war
put VINO would claim our Capitol and our flag as
belonging to those who have kept the covenants of
the constitution, and not to those who have broken
them; and who will fight Gen. Scott himself to de-
lend them both. have opposed secession and ad.
vocated lighting IN the Union, against those who
nave deD0un ced the Constitution as a covenant
with h-H. L have endeavored to preserve ms
ConiederacY against all newly constructed ones
and especially against the plots of Black Republi
cans to form Northern Confederacy with Canada
under the protection of Great Britain. lam on
posed, and ever have been opposed to dissolyinp
this Union, and giving its Capitol and everythinS
up TO the demon of destruction. But | have no
authority, and no means of attempting to preserve
either from the military despotism which is in the
very act OF Inauguration before the Inauguration
OF Lincoln. 1t anything could make me join a raid,
1t would be Gen.Scott's demonstration at Washing,
ton. " " 6
see slip as to your idea of a Cotton Bank M
need to tear about copyright. My wi1 is still very
Ill. Yours, truly,
j. b. JONES. Esq, Henry A. WIsp