For the Daily Times

MR. J. R. Dunglison- :- Please allow me again to correct your very ‘liberal’ remarks preceding my letter in the Times of the 25th inst. My ‘senseless’ communication, written some months ago contained no bitter abuse of no religious denomination. It was in reply to an article in the Times lamenting the great hardship of the Crown Prince of England being obliged to marry one of six pretty Dutch girls, and I only endeavored to show you that it was a great hardship after all. I should think any reasonable man on this side of Utah would be satisfied with the choice of six pretty girls, even if they were Dutch as your article seemed to call them rather contemptuously.

I consider myself in no difficulty at all as long as facts and the truth can be used in defence. But that you do not seem inclined to allow, if you can prevent it by appealing to prejudices which you can be excited against me strongly enough to override every other consideration. We shall sue whether your opinion of your countrymen be more correct than my own.

And now a word to ‘stripes” The was of the Revolution was a just and brave resistance of Geo. III and his tory government. It was so considered by a large, very large portion of the British people themselves. My father, then a very young man belonged to that liberal party and suffered a persecution of fa year’s imprisonment and three times in the pillory for what he spoke and published in the cause of the revolted colonies. Few honor the character of Washington more than I do, and i every American citizen had given as much as I have towards the Monument and Mount Vernon Funds, the one would have been paid for and the other completed long ago. The British Orders in Council were issued in retaliation for Napoleon Bonaparte’s Berlin and Milan decrees, which bore equally as hard upon American commerce; and I believe it can be shown that they were repealed before the first shot was fired in the War of 1812, at all events they are not mentioned in the treaty of Ghent. Neither was the right of search conceded in that treaty, and if the British have only just given it up, the War of 1812 has been rather slow in producing the desired result. That ships should be taken on both sides might naturally have been expected. I presume the Chesapeake did not expect such smart fighting when she sailed with so much confidence to meet the Shannon. If sloops and fishing smacks were in danger, why did not the American vessels of war protect them? and as the British were so badly beaten and so entirely conquered, why did not Mr. Madison insist upon Cockburne being given up and punished as chicken thieves ought to be punished? The sacking of elites and the destruction of public and private property has ever been part of the horrors of war, and if we ever declare war against a powerful nation again, we must expect that they will do us all the mischief they can. The Americans inflicted all the injury on the English that they were able to inflict, and if the American army could have landed and taken London and held it long enough, they would not have treated the King’s palaces or the Houses of Parliament with much respect, and al forts, defences and munition of war they would have been justified in destroying. Please to pl ac this letter on “record” also, and oblige

Your, respectfully,

Thomas Jackson