Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

Marshal, make my respects to Lieu
tenant Mitchell at Orleans, and re-
quest him to order that no one shall
mention the United States to the pris-
oner while he is on board ship. You
will receive your written orders from
the officer on duty here this evening.
The court is adjourned without day.
have always supposed that Colonel
Morgan himself took the proceedings
of the court to Washington City, ana
explained them TO Mr.. Jefferson. Ger
tain it is that the president approved
them, certain, that is, If l may belleve
the men who say they have seen his
signature.
The plan then adopted was SUD-
stantially the same which was neces
sarily followed ever after. Perhaps
it was suggested by the necessity OF
sending him by water from Fort
Adams and Orleans. The secretary or
the navy was requested to put Nolan
on board a government vessel bound
on q long cruise, and to direct That ne
should be only so far confined there
as to make ii certain that he never
saw or heard of the country. We had
few long cruises then, and the navy
was very much out of favor; and as
almost all of this story is traditional,
as have explained, l do not know GER
tainly what his first cruise was. But
the commander to whom he was IN
trusted-perhaps it was Tingey or
Shaw, though l think it was one or
the younger men-we are all oiu
| enough now-regulated the etiquette
| and the precautions of the affair, and
according to his scheme they were
carried out, suppose, till Nolan died.
When was second officer of the In
trepid some thirty years after, L saw
| the original paper Of instructions. L
have been sorry ever since that 1 did
not copy the whole of it. 1t ran, how
ever. much in this way:
washington" with the date, which
must have been late in 1900.
"Sir-You will receive from Lieu
| tenant Neale the person of Philip No
IAN, late a lieutenant in the United
| States army.
"This person on his trial by court
martial expressed with an oath the
wish that he might never hear of the
United States again.
1.-THE court sentenced him to have
his wish fulfilled.
"For the present, the execution Of
the order is intrusted by the president
of this department.
"You will take the prisoner on board
your ship, /and keep him there with
such precautions as shall prevent his
escape.
"You will provide him with such
quarters, ratiOns, and clothing as
would be proper for an officer of hi;
late rank, If he were a passenger or
your vessel on the business of his gov
eminent.
1.-THE gentlemen on board will make
any arrangements agreeable to them
selves regarding his society. He is t.
be exposed to no indignity of any kint
nor is he ever unnecessarily to be re
minded that he is prisoner.
"But under no circumstances Is h
ever to hear of his country or to Sc
any information regarding it; and yo'
will especially caution all the officer
under your command to take care that
in the various indulgences which ma.
be granted, this rule, in which his pun
ishment is involved, shall not b
broken.
'"It is the intention of the govern
ment that he shall never again Sc
the country which he has disownet
Before the end of your cruise you vii
receive orders which will give effec
to this intention.
Respectfully yours,
"W. SOUTHARD,
''for the Secretary of the Navy.
CTO BE CONTINUED)