Excerpt from A Statement of Facts: Presented by Captain Scallan, of the United States Army, to the Public
Resolved to deiay it, in order to hold myse’f subject to further scrutiny, and wrote tothe Colonel to that eflect, as well as to request, that if a doubt remain cd on his mind, that he would refer to certain per sons named, (some of the highest authority in the nation or, if possible, to induce Stinson to come on hene, for which purpose I promised to pav all his expenses, and to guarantee his personal safety. As the letter to the Colonel Contained an elabo rate account of the affair, and a copy of the infa mous letter, in which it originated. I sent a copy of it to Colonel Gibson, Commissary General of Subsistence at Washington, to be exhibited by him, at the War Department. Thisi flid with con fidence, as the records of that Department and the personal knowledge of some of its members could at once stamp the lie on the foolish tale. I also made references to many of my fiends, and wished the whole to be published in a pamphlet at Washington, and from thence disseminated but at the instance of some gentlemen at Baton Rouge, a’sh’ort offic1ai comment from the War Department was judged best, and for that purpose application was made by major Whartenby. The answer and views of the organ of that department, on the contemptible slander, is herewith numbered 3.
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