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The Case of the Battalion Stated, With an Exposition of the Grounds Upon Which Chas; Lee Jones, Esq.: Expected to Have Had the Command of the ... of Columbia, and Two to Be Raised in M
Excerpt from The Case of the Battalion Stated, With an Exposition of the Grounds Upon Which Chas; Lee Jones, Esq.: Expected to Have Had the Command of the Battalion (Consisting of Three Companies Raised by Himself in the District of Columbia, and Two to Be Raised in Maryland, ) Conferred Upon Him, as of Right and Justice Due Both to Him and to the Officers and Men Who
The correspondence and the corroborative documents, contained in these sheets, are printed for the single purpose of communicating to those persons who may take any interest in the reputation or affairs of my son, or myself, more exact information than could be conveyed in any other way, of the circumstances of a recent transaction of which the principal features are of extensive notoriety. It has already attracted a large share of public attention and curiosity; and has elicited a diffusive feeling in the community, which gives cheering assurance of the number, (he weight, and the influence of the men who yet remain fearless, ingenuous, and enlightened enough to disenthral their moral sense of party-biasses, and to think right and speak out, when unconscientious power would dominate over evident and known justice to a fellow citizen.
My peculiar relations to the transaction, and to the parties, necessarily called me to the duty of vindicating the reputation of my son, and the rights of more than two hundred of his fellow-citizens and comrades, who had volunteered under his banner, against indignity and insult, added to positive injustice, from hands armed with powers and wielding influences far more potent of evil, when operating for evil intents, than of good, when under the wisest and most benevolent direction. Conscious, as I was, of being myself the real mark aimed at by the archers, yet, had 1 alone been exposed to their shafts, I should have continued in my accustomed silence and contempt of the animosity which has occasionally been manifested towards me by men in power; but never manifested with so much of low-minded spite and mean artifice, as in the rare occasions when pride of place and poverty of soul have been found strangely contrasted in the same person. But neither neutrality nor inactivity was compatible with such impulses as I have been accustomed to obey, when the shafts, of which I was to be made the butt, were contrived to pass on to their destined mark, through the sides of one designed to be wounded more on my account than his own; and whose slightest wound must prove deeper and more painful to me, than the deepest that the utmost malice of any earthly power could inflict directly and exclusively on myself.
For the readier comprehension of the conclusions justly deducible from the more material and indisputable of the facts and circumstances detailed in the annexed documents, I will now preface their introduction with a summary, indicating (he points of view from which the violated rights of individuals on the one side, and the ignoble spite and vulgar insolence of power on the other, appear most conspicuous. My son had presented, in November last, proposals for raising a volunteer battalion to serve in Mexico during the war. These proposals had been, several times in the succeeding four months, renewed and brought under the Presidents consideration, with some difference in form, and under some changes of circumstances.
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The correspondence and the corroborative documents, contained in these sheets, are printed for the single purpose of communicating to those persons who may take any interest in the reputation or affairs of my son, or myself, more exact information than could be conveyed in any other way, of the circumstances of a recent transaction of which the principal features are of extensive notoriety. It has already attracted a large share of public attention and curiosity; and has elicited a diffusive feeling in the community, which gives cheering assurance of the number, (he weight, and the influence of the men who yet remain fearless, ingenuous, and enlightened enough to disenthral their moral sense of party-biasses, and to think right and speak out, when unconscientious power would dominate over evident and known justice to a fellow citizen.
My peculiar relations to the transaction, and to the parties, necessarily called me to the duty of vindicating the reputation of my son, and the rights of more than two hundred of his fellow-citizens and comrades, who had volunteered under his banner, against indignity and insult, added to positive injustice, from hands armed with powers and wielding influences far more potent of evil, when operating for evil intents, than of good, when under the wisest and most benevolent direction. Conscious, as I was, of being myself the real mark aimed at by the archers, yet, had 1 alone been exposed to their shafts, I should have continued in my accustomed silence and contempt of the animosity which has occasionally been manifested towards me by men in power; but never manifested with so much of low-minded spite and mean artifice, as in the rare occasions when pride of place and poverty of soul have been found strangely contrasted in the same person. But neither neutrality nor inactivity was compatible with such impulses as I have been accustomed to obey, when the shafts, of which I was to be made the butt, were contrived to pass on to their destined mark, through the sides of one designed to be wounded more on my account than his own; and whose slightest wound must prove deeper and more painful to me, than the deepest that the utmost malice of any earthly power could inflict directly and exclusively on myself.
For the readier comprehension of the conclusions justly deducible from the more material and indisputable of the facts and circumstances detailed in the annexed documents, I will now preface their introduction with a summary, indicating (he points of view from which the violated rights of individuals on the one side, and the ignoble spite and vulgar insolence of power on the other, appear most conspicuous. My son had presented, in November last, proposals for raising a volunteer battalion to serve in Mexico during the war. These proposals had been, several times in the succeeding four months, renewed and brought under the Presidents consideration, with some difference in form, and under some changes of circumstances.
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36 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2013
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