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The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
mouth of the river. On the 15th January, eight days before the Convention of Louisiana met, and eleven days before the ordinance of secession was passed, Mr. Hatch, in a letter secured by Mr. Jones, and now on file in the Department, ordered Capt. Brush wood to bring his vessel up the river and anchor her opposite the city, for the purpose, afterwards avowed to Mr. Jones, of getting her into the possession of the State of Louisiana. Mr. Hatch, at the time he was engaged in this conspiracy against the United States, held a commission in its service, and did not hesitate to violate his official oath, and to prostitute the authority with which his Government had clothed him, to accomplish an act of the grossest infidelity. Capt. Brush wood, as events subsequently disclosed, was a party to the treachery. On his refusal to obey the order of the Department, Mr. Jones sent the following dispatch: New Orleans, Jan. 29, 1861. To Hon. John A. Dix, Secretary of the Treasury: Ca