, 1864-08-12

Confessions OF Ex-Mnjor Gen. But1i.
We tind tile following letter from Gen. Don
Carlos Buell. to friend in the PHiAde'p 'phia

We find tie following letter from Gen. Don
Carlos Buell. to friend in the Phiade tphid
d9e:
BEpFoRp STRINGS, Pa. July IN, 1851
DEAR s1E:-Tle public have seen no otti-
1cial announcement Of the fact-though It is
no doubt BY this time yeEy generally known
that have resigned my commission In tho
sEmy. have several times since been a.
sn1ed that my personal friends, and mauy
who without the claim OF personal acqua1n-
tance, have taken m interest In my official
career, feel that some explanation Of the cir
to them. Accepting this claim npon me,
have already ans Wered some Of m, friends In
substance as do you now.
It is perhaps unnecessary to enter into an
exposition Of the circumstances oi nv super
seizure in Tennessee, IN the fail Of 1852, since
the particulars, though not without certain
yal1e, involve interests Of my owa, With
which 1t is not my wish to weary vou. As
far as facts are concerned, it will su:nce for
the present to say, that after the adjourn
ment, about the let Of May, 1868, Oft "Com-
mission" which investigated my camplsgn,
my correspondence With the Department Wns
confined to q monthly report made to the
Adjutant General that WIS waiting the a.
tion of the War Department on the proceed
fDgs Of that Commission; that about the
first y eek in April last I was offered com.
maEd under Gen Sherman, my junior, which
declined; that month later was again
offered command under Gen Candy, also my
Junior, which I declined; that ABOUT three
weeks later received notification that Was
atHi ntIstieu ~. u us tanh ao hta]oi osns.a
ea,,+ =, -. a,.ta,'a+,or eao ~ 1,1na1 tt
s+,tnn4 co!e-e maror4ort - ~ 1as az
Army.
,nv conran n 4h;e 1attar If II aran rastad ~
~ othar s-rannd -. thar, .ts-n,i,et;as, w ~
ocnniesce IN anr me ,s1re Tint xynnid de0rnde
ne: Int had hieher matIye }han that. I
believed that the 6nl,cr md means viii
which de war was bei1g prosecuted were
1iscreditable to tbe nation, and stain upon
ciyilization: md that they won|d not only
iii to restore tie Union. if Indeed they hsi
not aiready rendered its restoration imnossf.
bie INT tHat fbrIr ten1sencT as to snbye,t
the institutions nnder which The rountrv
nine6s: snd to snch < Enrk confd ny 1erd
13nT hnnd. - VIVIAN o>11 w. Ae''N
Vhi1e tberc may ho,o h,a,, ,oo-a ~ 1as. of
personal ambition mixed no in tfe move.
n,tnt of secesrion-as there mnst rnneraliv
be In The management ofpolitical nffairs-yet
by an honest conyiction In tic minds Of
those who engaged in it that the control Of
the Goyefpment had rassed permanently into
the hands Of sectional party, which would
soon tramp1c on The political rights Of the
South. This apprehension was s6ured in bv
| not favor et ccssfou, aud who were so anxious
| torthe pr :aervation of tie Union that even
coerciSe measures, if tempered by justice
| and mercy, would not have estransed them.
UndsV these circumstances, the use Of mill
tary force to put down armed resistance was
NOT incompatible with restoration of the
| Union with Its former glo1ies and Infections,
| provided the means were employed in such =.
manner as to convince the people that their
constitutional rights would be respected.
| Such policy, therefore, in the use OF force,
| If force must be rceorted to. had the manifest
advantage of weakening the power Of the re-
bellion and Strengthening the power Of the
Gnyernnenf. indenende5tjy of the moral
force which dicnity md Justice always lend
| to AUTHORITY.
a policy which recognized these principles
vas Wisely declared By coneress IN the BE-
Sire fer tie preservation Of The Union. in
hich n,iie af connt1v md ali IN nv ,nterests IA
I as citizen entered. not less than from