Sensible of what I owed to my country, I felt strongly the obligation of observing the utmost impartiality in selecting those officers who were to be retained.
I am aware that many officers of great merit, having the strongest claims on their country, have been reduced and others...
If the law imposed such restraint, it would in that case be void.
Having already suggested my impression that in filling offices newly created, to which on no principle whatever anyone c...
We see, on the contrary, that every corps of the Army and staff was to be reorganized, and most of them reduced in offic...
To discriminate between men of acknowledged merit, especially in a way to affect so sensibly and materially their feelin...
In transferring the officers from the old to the new corps the utmost care was taken to place them in the latter in the ...
As Colonel Gadsden held the office of Inspector-General, and as such was acknowledged by all to belong to the staff of t...
In executing this law I had no personal object to accomplish or feeling to gratify--no one to retain, no one to remove.
To do justice to the subject it is thought proper to show the actual state of the Army before the passage of the late ac...
Having cause to infer that the reasons which led to the construction which I gave to the act of the last session entitle...