The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-26
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BY examination OF Secretary Gamer. ms le.'er 70
Alexander Cummings, Esq, will be PERI ,' na
CIVILIAN was charged with the execution Of The citv
OF New York, viz:-Coonel d. D. Tompkins, ASS ah'
Quarermaster General Major Eaton Commissary u si,o
sstence, and Major Thornton of Ordnance; all capable
enicen and prompt in the discharge of every duty re-
CURED OF the and under my performing the duties
assigned 10 Mr Cummings. The railroads TO Washington
cua not De used FOR the transportation Of troops or sup
pes owing to tho destruction OF bridges &c, by rebels
from baltimore. Hence they sent by the way OF
nne totomac and Chesapeake Bay ordered Colonel
IompKins to send two vessels to ply between Perry
vie and Annapolis for the purpose of transport
s ss troops ana supplies to the latter place as
soon as 1t could be done with safety Ar
rangements accordingly made with the rail.
ROAD companies and Gen Patterson sent troops TO Perry
vile to guard that place Therefore, appears to me,
in nowsc nterfered with any arrangements made by
Secretary Cameron with Mr. Cummings. On the contrary,
think all that he expected of the latter gentleman was
more than by the measures adopted under
orders. Why should Mr.. Cummings be employed when
We had stan officers TO perform the duties required Of
him2
In thus presenting my views in regard 10 my conduct
whilst in connection with the Union Defence Committee,
ana secretary Cameron, would not be understood to
complain OF being sent to my headquarters at Troy of
not being ordered into the eld TO battle against the trail
tors OF the Union The President having the power has
or course the right to Judge of the fitness Of officers for
command, whether for the field any other military po
son But think have Just cause TO complain Of being
reason than that made efforts and furnished
the federal capital In ordering and ammunition to
be issued to various Governors did more and for the
same reasons than what the President has done was
necessity demanded by the whole people OF the North
arising from the porlous state Of the country-a COM
munication with Washington being closed.
Therefore, is it just that should be confined at my
headquarters when the Union Defence Committee, with
whom associated, and who appreciated my conduct
In the most exalted terms received than the thanks
of the administration without any aiuson TO myself for
the forces that arrived OPPORTUNITY at the capital that
civilians should be appointed TO take rank me in the
army, and that should be refused u command although
named for one as am informed, by Lieutenant General
Scott?
To say the least OF IT, it is singular treatment to him
who wds OF the first to sound the tocsn of alarm and
the people North Of the border States the dan
gers which menaced them from the South, attested
in hundreds of responses to my published letters with the
declaration that the people ready and would furnish
any number of and Of money to preserve
the Union When the President elect was threatened by
Vrginans that he should not be inaugurated at Washing
ton the preservation Of the Union being paramount OBJ
joct with rendered my services to the extent Of my
power and ability to assist in placing him. legally and con
sttuonally in the Presidential chair and was at Wash
ington for that purpose on the 4th of March.
In conclusion permit me 10 ask ia such loyalty and de
voton TO country to be spurned by this Administrations
feel assured that the people Of the North will
ton such conduct, nor viii they abandon their best
and devoted friend Your friend, JOHN E. WOOL.