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GEN. TWIGGS AND BUCHANAN. After President BUCHANAN had retired from office, Gen. Twiggs adressed him a letter, dated at East Pascagoula, March 30, the spirit of which nmay be inferred from this paragraph:;

GEN. TWIGGS AND BUCHANAN. After President BUCHANAN had retired from office, Gen. Twiggs adressed him a letter, dated at East Pascagoula, March 30, the spirit of which nmay be inferred from this paragraph:;
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"Your usurped right to dismiss me from the army might be acquiesed in; but you had no right to brand me as a traitor. This was personal, and I shall treat it as such, not through the papers, but in person. I shall, most assuredly, pay a visit to Lancaster, for the sole purpose of a personal interview with you. So, Sir, prepare yourself. I am well assured that public opinion will sanction any course I may take with you."

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