Head Quarters, West-point, September 3, 1779
Dear Sir:
In answer to your letter of this date which I have this minute received. As you request my concurrence to the step you propose, I do not find myself at liberty to give it, because it appears to me to be premature and unnecessary. From the time your report was dispatched to Congress, there is no reason to suppose delay. I am firmly persuaded the event will shew you they cannot possibly intend you injustice. I should be sorry you would suffer your sensibility to betray you into an error which on reflexion you would condemn.
I am, etc.1
1 The draft is in the writing of James McHenry.