STATE OF NEW YORK, Niagara County, ss:
Charles F. Harding, James H. King, Joshua H. Smith, William Seaman, William Kennedy, William Wells, John Leonard, Sylvanus Staring, and John Haggarty, being sworn, severally depose and say that they have heard the foregoing affidavit of Gilman Appleby read; that they were on the Caroline at the time she was boarded as stated in said affidavit, and that all the facts sworn to by said Appleby as occurring after the said Caroline was so boarded as aforesaid are correct and true.
[Subscribed and sworn to before a commissioner, etc.]
Mr. Poinsett to General Scott.
DEPARTMENT OF WAR, January 5, 1838.
Brevet Major-General WINFIELD SCOTT,
Washington City.
SIR: You will repair without delay to the Canada frontier of the United States and assume the military command there.
Herewith you will receive duplicate letters to the governors of the States of New York and Vermont, requesting them to call into the service of the United States such a militia force as you may deem necessary for the defense of that frontier of the United States.
This power has been confided to you in the full persuasion that you will use it discreetly and extend the call only so far as circumstances may seem to require.
It is important that the troops called into the service should be, if possible, exempt from that state of excitement which the late violation of our territory has created, and you will therefore impress upon the governors of these border States the propriety of selecting troops from a portion of the State distant from the theater of action.