Tuesday 5 PM

 

Dear Major.

                        I have just received your notes of the 29^th & 30^th. I have been loafing here all day, uncertain what will turn up, when—but decided what to do—on—the Governors return. I look upon his sending those Officers back as an insult to me and I shall not rejoin the Regiment unless & until they are removed & things restored to just exactly the state in which they were when I left the camp last Saturday. In my opinion he is afraid to take the responsibility of removing them for fear of the vote of our "Irish fellow citizens". and much prefer [torn] have us & others suffer the evil consequences of their continuing with the regiment to taking the responsibility of cancelling their commissions, but he has got to determine between these services

 

            I learn this after [torn] does not accept the [torn] rout is just [faded and torn] / [torn]ded. I need not tell you how indignant your friends are. they would not have suffered you to have been [?] & laughed without remonstrances that would have reached the ears of the Gentlemen in power. Political conciliation seems to be the governing principle. It would seem that the Regiment was a constituency and that the Pawtucket district required one representative and the Irish another. I have seen [?] to day I do not think he will return—because I have told him I think send him before the Examining board—and the others not being mustered can easily be disposed of by the Governor so the [torn] says

                                   

In haste

Yours truly

NWBrown

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