In a conference I
have just had with Gen. Taliaferro, commanding the troops here, he desires me
to say, that nothing but the extreme pressure of his public duties has prevented
his communicating to you officially, before this time, his high appreciation of
the liberal, public spirited and patriotic conduct of your company in
connection with the excitement and other troubles in which our community and
State have been involved. He will take care that ultimately, and in a proper
manner, the important services rendered us by your company shall be
acknowledged by the commonwealth of Virginia.
I may here add, that
the General declared unhesitatingly, that our arrangements in respect to
preventing a mixed horde of strangers coming here over the road, had done more
than all the military display in securing quiet and good order on the day of
John Brown's execution, and in this I fully concur.
In reference to the
executions to come off on Friday next, we desire your company to pursue the same
plan and policy that worked so efficiently on the former occasion, with this
single additional suggestion, that it is scarcely necessary to carry out the
arrangement so stringently as at that time, yet we consider it highly
unadvisable for strangers to crowd in here in great numbers, at the coming
executions. They will encounter still a very strict surveilance. We cheerfully
leave this whole matter to the sound discretion of yourself and the intelligent
officers of your company.
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