Auto-Biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro

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Excerpt from Auto-Biography of Maj. Lawrence Taliaferro: Written in 1864Fell with it. The organization of the Columbia Fur Com pany by Tilto'n Co., produced a ¿ood of vituperation of the Agent, and of the views and acts of this Company in their commercial views and citizenship. Old British traders declared that the agent was licensing foreigners to trade for this new concern, that trading posts were se cretly or clandestinely established for them, that forts were called by various names and traders forced to build in square stockades. All this, and more, was said than it is prudent to record. Junior officers of the army were appealed to at Prairie du Chien, feasted on fat things, with wine on the lees, until it was asserted by I. R., of John Jacob Astor's company, that any American officer could be bought up for less than a quarter cask of wine. Charges were preferred against the agent, the Government supposing where there was so much smoke there surely must be some fire. These charges, numerous as they were, were promptly met, and the designing knaves most sig nally defeated. Previous to these interested assaults, Gen. Cass was appealed to, to use his in¿uence to have the agent removed or sent to some other station. The reply was: Major Taliaferro has powerful friends at the head of the Government who have great confidence in his incor ruptible integrity, and full faith in all his acts.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.