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 752 Docinnents to make congress repeal the law while he to save appearances is making such violent demonstrations of his intention to inforce it. Whether there be any truth in this conjecture or not is not material to our course. I take it for granted that you will concentrate a large force in Charles- ton to meet this emergency. Permit me again with much humility to suggest that that concentration be effected silently and without parade. We have already done enough to alarm the more timid of our friends and to afford apparent grounds of justification for the mad councils of the President. At the same time care should be taken to have the force strong enough to annihilate instantaneously the first show of resistance to our laws, and give to treason as well as tyranny so signal and severe a re- buke that they will not recover from it soon. I shall await with impatience your commands wh. will reach me through the Augusta Post office. In the meantime with the deepest in- terest in the success of all your measures and the highest respect and esteem for yourself I remain Your excellency's obedient servant James H. H.miiond. XVI. Robert Y. Hayne to Francis W. Pickens. Columbia 21" Dec' 1832 Sir I enclose you a Commission as my Aid-de Camp.' Full instructions will be hereafter forwarded. In the meantime you will be charged with the duty of raising, inspecting, and granting Commissions to Volunteer Companies, for which purpose General Orders are enclosed, and blank Commissions furnished. Report to me at the earliest day, with full in- formation directed to Charleston. Respectfully Your Obt Servt Rob! Y. Hayne. P. S. You will take the Oath Yourself and suggest that it is also to be taken by the Officers of the Volunteers to be raised before any superior officer. Addressed : " Public Service "Francis W. Pickens Esq., Edgefield C H., S. C." Robert Y. Hayne to Francis AV. Pickens. - Charleston, 26th December, 1S1 Confidential. Sir, 1 forwarded to you, a few days since, your Commission as Aid-de- Camp, with a brief statement of some of the duties which would be im- posed upon you. I propose now to enter into further explanations. I 'Twenty-eight aides were appointed this day. Niles, XLIII. 31S. 2 From a printed confidential circular.