and for enforcing the use of such as correspond with these models. forms for all these, and dimensions whose correctness might be ascertained by the common measures The committee propose, that the standards shall of length. What these forms should be, it would be be deposited in the office of the secretary of state. proper to leave to the decision of the commission, These will be employed but rarely to verify the mo- although the strength of the cylinder, its general dels which may be issued under the authority of the use, and, according to the commission of the French government. The law which establishes the stand-institue, the greater exactness which may in prac tice be given to that figure, are strong reasons for employing it. ard, will determine the temperature at which it is to be used. The means which may be employed for the restoration of the standards, if they should be lost or impaired, are sufficiently analogous to some of those which may be used for securing the accurate execution of the models, as well as the weights and measures in common use, to make it convenient to consider the two subjects together. Indeed it must be an extravagant fondness for system which would lead us to deny that the models, if proper precautions be taken to secure their fidelity, will probably furnish a sufficiently correct, as well as an easy mean for the restoration of the standards if they should be lost. The careful observation of the proportions which the standards of measure bear to each other, and that of the relations which each of these holds to the dimensions of a quantity of pure water of a given temperature, which is equal to the weight of the standard pound, will sufficiently provide for the contingency of the loss of any number of these standards less than the whole. The committee propose, that these relations shall be ascertained and reported by the commission, whose appointment has been already suggested. If it be thought prudent to provide for the contingency of the loss, at the same time of all the standards and all the models, on which a just reliance may be placed, it may be done by ascertaining the relation between the standard measure of length and the pendulum, and an arc of the meridian. Which of these relations can be most safely relied on for the restoration of the standard, can be best determined when its loss shall occur. The designation of these relations by a commission may also facilitate a comparison with the measures of foreign countries. The committee do not, however, recommend the difficult and costly expedient of measuring a large arc of the meridian in this country; but the commission may ascertain the proportion between our standard and the great arc which has been measured by the the French mathematicians, or the quarter of a meridional circle inferred from it. They can do this, indeed, only by a comparison with the French measures in which the result of that operation has been stated. The length of a pendulum or rod, which shall vibrate seconds of meantime, is an object of more convenient comparison, and the commission may probably think it necessary to ascertain the relation between this and our standard of length by their own observation. The most accurate designation of the relation beween the standard of length and the pendulum on an arc of the meridian, cannot be expected to be of any direct service in promoting the accuracy of measir si common use. Considerable variation is less to be apprehended in the models of lineal measure an in any other. And the determination of the proportions between lineal measures and measures of capacity, and between both these, weights, may have some effect in enabling us to detect without too difficult a process the defects of measures of capacity and possibly of weights in common use. For this purpose it would perhaps be convenient to establish not merely the cubical contents of the common measures of capacity, but to fix determinate The designation of measures of capacity, the contents of which, if of rain water of a convement temperature, would be equal in weight to a pound, or, any part or multiple of it, would furnish a test which might sometimes be applied to common weights. But it will be easier to avoid considerable variation in the models of weight, than of cubic measure; and and the determination of the weight of rain water, of a convenient temperature, which ought to be contained in the several measures of capacity, furnishes a security of easy employment for the fairness of such measures. It will be necessary that models of weights and measures, exactly compared with their several standards, shall be deposited in the different states. To prevent unnecessary delay, it may be proper to allow the commission entrusted with the charge of preparing the models which are to be proposed as standards, to cause to be prepared, also, a number of models for distribution. The committee think that there should be sent to each state, to be distributed as may be directed by its legislature, a number of each of these models equal to the number of members to which the state is entitled in the house of represen. tatives of the United States; and that models of each standard should be deposited with the marshal of each state, and with every collector of customs throughout the United States. To enable the ge vernment to make this distribution, and to reserve the number of models which it may be proper that it should have at its disposition, the committee propose that of each model should be provided. The committee are not unaware of the difficulty in the accurate execution of models of measure. There are too many memorials of this, to allow them to doubt that it is in the province of the artist that the great impediment to uniform measures will be found. They believe, however, that all the prac tical advantages of uniformity may be obtained by a degree of skill and attention, which it is not unreasonable to expect. The committee do not deem it necessary to propose any penal provision for enforcing the use of the standards which may be established by congress. The constant interference which such provisions would imply, with the minutest and most frequent transactions of society, might be justified by the words, but unless they shall be found indispensable, would ill comport with the general spirit and character of the constitution. It was right that there should be a provision for uniform standards of me? sures and of weights, as of coins, throughout the U. States. The only authority capable of establishing these was the general government. But the power of enforcing the use of measures and weights, which shall conform to these standards, may be most conveniently and effectually exercised by the state authorities. The laws of many, and perhaps most of the states are adequate to this purpose, without much amendment. But, to admit of amendments where they may be necessary, it may be well, if congress shall approve the standards proposed, that it should determine on a more distant day than would otherwise be proper, after which no other weights and measures than such as conform to these stand " ards, should he esteemed legal. For the execution Resolved, hat the commission shall cause to be of contracts made before that day, in states whose ascertained the number of cubical inches contained legal weights and measures have been different from in the bushel of the U. States, and the dimensions those which shall be prescribed by congress, a table and forms of vessels of equal capacity to such bushof equivalents, between the new and old weights el, and to the half, fourth, eight, 32d and 64th part and measures must be formed, or in this class of thereof, to which the common measures of length cases, comparatively few, and which will every day may be conveniently applied, to ascertain such cabecome fewer, the old ones may continue to be used pacity. without inconvenience. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be There does not, however, appear to the commit- ascertained the weights of rain water, at any tempetee, to be any objection to the employment of the rature which they may deem it most advisable to models of weight and measure, (as soon as the stand-use, which would be contained in the bushel of the ards shall have been established) in all the cases in U. States. which the government is a party, either in sales or Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be purchases, or the collection of duties. In old con- ascertained the number of cubical inches contained tracts, the same provision must apply to the govern-in the wine gallon of the U. States, and the dimenment as to any other party. sions and forms of vessels of equal capacity to such gallon, and to the 4th, 8th, and 16th part thereof, to which the common measures of length may be conveniently applied, to ascertain such capacity. The committee are sensible how large a part of their report consists rather in objections to the plans of others than in the recommendation and develop. ment of their own. They propose, indeed, that Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be little should be done; that standards conformed to ascertained the weight of rain water, at any tempethose in most common use among us, should be ac-rature they may deem it expedient to employ, which curately made, and carefully preserved, at the seat would be contained in the wine gallon of the United of government; that correct models should be plac-States. ed in the different districts of the country, and that the proportions and relations between these should be ascertained. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be ascertained the number of cubical inches of distilled water, at any temperature they may deem it most The committee have directed their chairman to advisable to use, the weight of which shall be equal move the resolutions which will be necessary to car-to the pound of the United States. ry into effect the proposals contained in their report. Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That the president shall be authorised to appoint a commission of persons, for the purpose of carrying into effect the following resolu the U. States. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be ascertained the proportion between the pound of the United States, and the grain employed for weighing medicines and the precious metals. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be prepared a number of the models of the yard, bushel, wine gallon, and pound, not exceeding of each, of the form and material which may be most convenient for distribution and comparison among the states. Generals Jackson and Scott. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be We were a long time in doubt whether the folmade, of whatever material and shape they shall lowing correspondence ought to be REGISTERED OF deem best adapted to the purpose, a vessel, whose not. It is personal and ex-parte, and will necessarily capacity shall be the same as that of the bushel, lead to a counter statement. But, on the whole, in most common use throughout the United States.believing that most of our readers will be desirous Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be made, of whatever material and form they shall deem best adapted to the purpose, a vessel, whose capacity shall be the same as that of the wine gallon in most common use in the U. States. of seeing and preserving these papers, we have concluded to gratify that desire, at some small sacrifice of opinion; for this paper cannot become a depository of the conflicts of individuals, no matter how high their standing may be. Resolved, That the commission shall cause to be We have only one remark to make on this cormade, of whatever metal they shall deem most ad-respondence: the practice of writing anonymous visable, a pound avoirdupois, of the weight of that letters is among the meanest of all things, and we which is in most common use throughout the United sincerely regret that general Jackson did not throw that which he received, unread, or at least unheedStates. Resolved, That the commission shall cause expe-ed into the fire. The "Columbian" undertakes to riments to be made under their direction, to ascer- say, but not by authority, that gov. Clinton is not tain, with the utmost exactness which the state of the author of the anonymous letter-and we really We should indeed, be sorry science permits, the proportion which the yard hope that he is not. measure of the United States, bears to the length to see such a retailing of private conversation fixed of a pendulum, vibrating seconds of mean time, at upon any one pretending to the character of a genthe level of the sea, and at the place and tempera-tleman. ED. REGISTER. ture at which they shall deem it most advisable that the experiment shall be made. Resolved, That the commission shall ascertain the proportion which this yard bears to an arc of the the terrestrial meridian, intercepted between the equator and the north pole, according to the most accurate measurements, which have been made of degrees of a meridional circle, and the best established computations of such are. Correspondence between major general Jackson and brevet major general Scott, on the subject of an order bearing date the 22d April, 1817; fublished by the former to the troops of his division, and printed about the same time, in most of the public papers. TO THE PUBLIC. This correspondence is offered in manuscript, under the following circumstances. On the 21st of Feb. 1818, the war department| issued in orders, a regulation in these words "All publications relative to transactions between officers, of a private and personal nature, are prohibited. Any newspaper or handbill, of such a character, will be cause for the arrest of an officer, and the foundation of charge against him. It is made the duty of all officers, having the power, to arrest and prefer evidence for charge on such publication, and whenever such charge is preferred, one specification of which, will be the violation of this regulation, the proper authority will bring the officer to a trial before a general court martial." Up to this moment, general Scott has not violated this regulation, either in its letter or spirit. In deed, he had no inclination to obtrude on the public, his difference with general Jackson, until the latter had, particularly during his recent tour between Nashville and New York, widely circulated garbled* manuscript copies of the correspondence, and caused allusions to be made to it in certain pubfic papers, in a similar spirit of malevolence and misrepresentation. These facts having come to the knowledge of general Scott, he, on the 22d ultimo, called the attention of the secretary of war, to the above regulation; not for the purpose of invoking the aid of the government, but to ask permission to defend himself, by a fair publication in a pamphlet form, as that mode seemed to stand precisely on the same ground with a publication in manuscript; neither being expressly prohibited. The secretary said, in reply, that the department was not in possession of evidence to the fact of the violation of its regulation, and even if such evidence were furnished, that would rather be a reason for enforcing the penalty against the guilty, than a motive for relaxation in respect to the other party. Without deciding in his own mind, whether this could or would be done, in respect to general Jackson, general Scott on the 8th inst. furnished the secretary with the most unequivocal evidence of the garbled publication before asserted-leaving it to him, as the conservator of the discipline of the army, to say, whether this regulation was violated or not, and to act or acquiesce as he might think proper. But feeling at the same time, that whatever might be the result of his controversy with general Jackson, a vindication of his character before the public, was a preliminary step of the the first necessity, general Scott in the same letter, submitted for the consideration of the proper authority, the following points. 1st. Seeing that the regulation in question had not received the sanction of congress, to which body the right is given "to make rules for the government, and regulation of the land and naval forces," (1st section 8th article constitution) and according to the practice in such cases, general Scott suggested, that, perhaps it might be recalled. *Extract of a letter dated at New York, March 2d 1819, written by a gentleman of honor and intelligence. "General Jackson, during his late visit to this place, was at some trouble to cause to be widely distributed, his correspondence with you-He left with a gentleman (late a lieutenant colonel in the army) a copy, say of the anonymous letter, his letter to you, your reply, and his rejoinder, all certified by his aid de-camp." The reader will perceive that the fourth letter of the series was omitted. General Scott has other evidence of unfairness practised at other places. 2d. Supposing the regulation to be valid without such sanction, it was asked, whether a publication in a pamphlet form, like a publication in manuscript, might not be considered a casus omissus, and, therefore, innocent? 3d. If it were decided, that both those modes of publication were prohibited, general Scott desired that it might be particularly observed, that the regulation was, in the hands of general Jackson, at once an instrument of offence and defence. It seems, nevertheless, that the regulation is not to be recalled, and that general Jackson will not be selected as the pivot on which to try the question, whether, a manuscript publication be a violation of the regulation or not. As the weaker party, in the controversy, both before the government and the country, general Scott has no disposition to come to trial on the other point touching the pamphlet; although the principles governing the two cases appear to be precisely the same. It is enough that he admits, that "Laws are made for the weak, and not for the strong," without wishing the public should have before it, at the same time, and at his expense, two living and concurrent illustrations of the truths contained in that apothegm. General Scott, therefore, has no mode left him to counteract the machinations he complains of, or to vindicate his character, except by shielding himself under the precedent set by his opponent, in respect to the form of publication; and in this form the public shall have the entire correspondence. But here, again, general Scott labors under a great disadvantage, in comparison with his oppo nent. He has not a numerous staff to copy, to certify, and circulate the correspondence. He in the discharge of the laborious duty confided to him, happens, at this moment, not to have an aid-decamp with him. His occupations do not permit him to cry his papers through the principal cities of the Union, nor can he have recourse to any person about him for the convenient frank to relieve his pocket from the charge of postage. Laboring un der these disadvantages, under fatigue and indisposition, he makes this appeal to the public, and begs that the few friends to whom he may have it in his power to send copies, will give them the widest circulation.-Some other persons will be furnished in due time. Richmond, (Va.) March 18th, 1819. Origin of the Correspondence. General Scott first saw, at his quarters, in New York, about the last of May, 1817, the celebrated order. He read it in haste, and does not recollect to have made any particular remark on it at that time. About the 9th of June following, gen. Scott went to dine at a private house, where he met a highly respectable family and company, and among the guests, the governor elect, of the state. By this time, the order had been printed in all the city papers, and was, as will be remembered, the leading topic every where. It soon became the subject of conversation (before dinner) between the governor and gen. Scott, who were seated near each other. The governor thought the order mutinous, and ge neral Scott felt himself called upon, by the turn of conversation, if not expressly invited (which is his belief) to state, professionally, what were the principles involved in the question raised by gen. Jackson with the war department or president. His opinion and his illustrations, or in other words, what was said by him, at the time and on two other occasions (the one before, the other after the 14th of August) will be found in substance, and almost literally, in the second letter of the series. This conversation was, no doubt, partially overheard by one or two other guests, though conducted in the ordinary tone, and not obtruded on the company. The other conversation prior to the 14th of August (the date of the anonymous letter) was with three gentlemen, whose characters and pursuits, make it quite impossible to suspect either of them, of being general Jackson's anonymous correspondent LETTER I. General Jackson to General Scott part either in general or local politics. He held no correspondence with the executive departments of the goverment, except on professional matters, and none with the president; and can almost say with certainty, that he never once had a conversation with a resident of New York, on the politics of the state, except with one or two friends of the army, the particular admirers of Mr. Clinton. They have placed spies upon Brown here &c. &c. -Generals Brown and Scott were, and are, on terms of friendship and intimacy. He has read this corresHead quarters, division of the south, pondence (in January, 1818) and frankly acknowNashville, Sept. 8, 1817. ledged that gen. Jackson had sent him a copy of the SIR-With that candour due the character you anonymous letter to put him on his guard against have sustained as a soldier and a man of honour, general Scott. The latter jestingly remarked to and with the frankness of the latter, I address you. general Brown, that if a spy had been placed on him, Enclosed is a copy of an anonymous letter, post the president was the person; for at the time the marked New York, 14th August, 1817, together anonymous letter was writen, the two were making with a publication, taken from the Columbian, which a tour around the northwest frontier together, and accompanied the letter I have not permitted myself on terms of much mutual respect and good will.for a moment to believe that the conduct ascribed General Scott has reason to believe moreover, that to you is correct. Candour, however, induces me to gen. Brown is well pleased with Mr. Monroe, as prelay them before you, that you may have it in your sident, and the latter with gen. Brown, as the com. power to say how far they be incorrectectly stated. mander of the army. ' his is to the honor of both, If my order has been the subject of your animad- for gen. Brown is known to be a decided Clintonian. versions, it is believed you will at once admit it, and the extent to which you may have gone. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, General W. Scott, United States' Army. Anonymous letter addressed to maj. general Andrew Jackson, post marked, "New York, August 14" and received the 3d Sept. 1818 (enclosed in the foregoing.) The eastern federalists, &c.-Here we discover the hand of a master. Never was gudgeon seized with more avidity! "A word to the wise is enough." The bait was swallowed, and gen. Jackson has put his character for wisdom beyond all controversy. "De Witt Clinton our next president," has since been, it is said, his standing toast. But let us recal to mind some of the political events of that day. Mr. Clinton has just been elected governor, and an election was then going on in Pennsylvania, from "Your late order has been the subject of much which, he was supposed to entertain hopes of the private and some public remark. The war office most favorable results. Had his friends succeeded gentry and their adherents, pensioners and expect-in electing gen. Hiester, republican Tennessee and ants, have all been busy; but no one (of sufficient general Jackson would have constituted a handsome mark for your notice) more than major gen. Scott, addition to the nucleus of opposition. It is imposwho I am credibly informed, goes so far as to call the sible, therefore, not to perceive that a Clintonian order in question, an act of mutiny. In his district must have been the anonymous writer. Gen Scott he is the organ of government insinuations, and the repeats, that he has been but a passive observer of supposed author of the paper enclosed-which, how-those events-not that he had not all the rights of ever (the better to cover him) was not published until he had left this city for the lakes. Be on your guard, as they have placed spies upon Brown here -so it is probable you are not without them. The eastern federalists having now all become good republicans, and pledged to the support of the president, as he to them, government can now do well without the aid of Tennessee, &c. &c. A word to the wise is enough. The enclosed is taken from the Columbian, a paper of much circulation in this state, New York.” Certified and (signed) J. M. Glassell, aid-de-camp. NOTES.-[on the above.] any other citizen, in regard to such questions, but because, a respect for himself (under his relation with the president, as commander and commanded) induced him to wave those rights. The following article was enclosed in the foregoing letters: General Jackson's doctrines of obedience.-Queries to the editor of, and other learned casuists. 1. Suppose the government of the United States give orders to a general officer, or delicately signify their wishes and intentions, to remove from a certain command, one of the general's proteges and favorites? These orders, or intentions of governWar office gentry, &c. If the writer meant to class ment, are not pleasing to either the chief, or his gen. Scott among them, he was totally mistaken.- subordinate. They, therefore, employ their joint The acting secretary of war, between the summer of faculties of manoeuvring to frustrate the object of 1816, and December, 1817, was the chief clerk of government.-By artifices, evasions, and pretended the department-a very worthy and highly respect- misapprehensions of meaning, they have so far preable private gentleman, but previously unknown as a public character, and therefore, in the opinion of gen. Scott (as was frequently expresssed by him at the time) an unfit person to preside over the army, or to represent it, before the congress or the country. It is due this gentleman to add, that whilst in the department, he conducted himself with great modesty and propriety: gen. Scott, had nothing to expect or to ask from the department, except what the law and his rank entitled him to. In this district he is the organ, &c. This it utterly false. Gen. Scott has never, since the war, taken vailed as to hold a command in defiance of government itself, for nearly a year. Does not this case prove, that government, when restricted, according to the dictatorial system of gen. Jackson, may not only be tricked and insulted, but absolutely nullified? What redress would an interested court martial afford? 2. Suppose that through the same general, posi tive orders were given, by government, for another officer to supersede his protege and favorite in the command of his usurped place. Suppose these positive orders, as they were not susceptible of quibble or subterfuge, be pocketed, | for redress. Now in the case under consideration, laid aside, delayed, and not executed, for more there existed no such higher authority-The war months than it would be necessary to employ days or hours; would this case prove the utility of government relying for the execution of its orders solely on the integrity of a commander? Perhaps it may be alleged, that such cases are purely imaginary, let facts which have occurred in less than a year be examined, and it will then be known whether they vary in any respect, from the cases as above stated. A. QUERIST. "Certified and signed, J. M. Glassell, aid de camp," LETTER II. Gen. Scott to gen. Jackson. SIR-I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th ultimo, together with the two papers therein enclosed. I am not the author of the miserable and unmeaning article copied from the "Columbian," and (not being a reader of that gazette) should probably never have heard of it, but for the copy you have sent me. And whilst on the subject of writing and publishing, it may save time to say, at once, that with the exception of the substance of two articles which appeared in "The Enquirer" last fall, and a journal kept whilst a prisoner in the hands of the enemy, I have not writ. ten, nor caused any other to write a single line for any gazette whatever, since the commencement of the late war. department, or in other words, the president being the common superior (A.) and the General of division, the intermediate commander (B.) A private and respectful remonstrance, therefore, appears to have been the only mode of redress which circumstances admitted of. An appeal to the army or the public, before or after such remonstrance, seems to have been a greater irregularity than the measure complained of; to reprobate that measure publicly, as the division order does, was to mount still higher in the scale of indecorum, but when the order goes so far as to prohibit to all officers in the division, an obedience to the commands of the president of the United States, unless received through division head quarters, it appears to me, that nothing but mutiny and defiance, can be understood or intended. There is another view of this subject, which must have escaped you, as I am pursuaded there is not a man in America less disposed to shift responsibility from himself to a weaker part than yourself. Suppose the war department, by order of the president, sends instructions direct to the commanding officers, perhaps a captain, at Natchitoches (a post within your division) to attack the body of Spanish royalists nearest to that frontier; if the captain obeys, you arrest him; but if, in compliance with your prohibition, he sets the commands of the president at naught, he would find himself in a direct conflict with the highest military authority under the constitution, and thus would have to maintain against that "fearful odds," the dangerous position laid down in your order. Surely this consequence could not have been foreseen by you, when you penned that order.* Conversing with some two or three private gentlemen, about as many times on the subject of the division order, dated at Nashville, April 22d, 1817; it is true that I gave it as my opinion, that that paper, was, as it respected the future, mutinous in its character and tendency, and, as it respected the past, a I must pray you to believe, sir, that I have exreprimand of the commander in chief, the president pressed my opinion on this great question, without of the United States; for although the latter be not the least hostility to yourself, personally, and withexpressly named, it is a principle well understood, out any view of making my court in another quarthat the war department, without at least his sup-ter, as is insinuated by your anonymous corresponposed sanction, cannot give a valid command to an en-dent. I have nothing to fear or hope from either sign. party. It is not likely that the executive will be offended, at the opinion, that it has committed an irregularity in the transmission of one of its orders; and, as to yourself, although I cheerfully admit that you are my superior, I deny that you are my commanding officer, within the meaning of the 6th arti I have thus, sir, frankly answered the queries ad dressed to me, and which were suggested to you by the letter of your anonymous correspondent; but on a question so important as that which you have raised with the war department, or in other words with the president of the United States, and in which, I find myself incidentally involved, I must *Let it here be remembered, that this illustrative take leave to illustrate my meaning a little; in doing statement was strictly in reply: gen. Jackson had said, which, I shall employ almost the precise language "if my order had been the subject of your animadverwhich was used on the occasions above alluded to. sions, it is believed that you will at once admit it, Take any three officers-Let A be the common and the extent to which you have gone." General superior, B the immediate commander, and C the Scott, however, omitted one remark made by him, common-junior. A wishes to make an order which on all the occasions alluded to: Speaking of the orshail affect C. The good of the service, etiquette der, he said, "nevertheless, as this indiscretion on and country, require, no doubt, that the order the part of Gen. Jackson, no doubt, proceeded from should pass through D; or, if expedition and the dis- that vehemence and impetuosity of character to persed situation of the parties make it necessary to which we owe one of the most splendid victories, send the order dicect to C (of which necessity A is not only of the country, but of the age, he (gen. the judge) the good of the service etiquette, and Scott) hoped, that the one might be tolerated on ac country require, with as little doubt that A notify count of the other." This was omitted for opposite, B thereof, as soon as practicable. Such notice, of but obvious reasons, both by himself and the anonyitself, has always been held sufficient, under the cir-mous writer. Gen. Scott can confidently appeal to, cumstances last stated. But we will suppose that perhaps, more than a thousand persons, in Europe A sends the order direct to C, and neglects to noti-and America, in proof of the pride and enthusiasm ely B thereof, and such appears to be the precise with which he has uniformly spoken of the defence case alluded to in the order before cited. Has B of New Orleans; and, he agrees to be held infamous, no redress against this irregularity? He may un-if two respectable witnesses will ayer, that he was questionably remonstrate with A, in a respectful ever heard, prior to the 22d December, 1817, to manner, and if remonstrance fails, and there be a speak of gen. Jackson in other terms than those of higher military authority than A, B may appeal to admiration. |