James Monroe actually said...

We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in officers and men, and tha...

In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.

If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.

As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of the Army, it is not p...