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JAMES DENNY TO WORTHINGTON

Circleville November 5th 1812

Dr. Sir

I take the liberty of requesting your in ,erest with the President on behalf of the Volunteers who were surrendered prisoners of war by General Hull -- Your personal lmowledge of their situation generally will render it un- necessary for me to say much about their wants; but only to remind you of them as in the hurry and bustle of the multiplicity of business which surrounds you on the first opening of this important Session of Congress you may have forgot the condition of these poor fellows -- The last pay Col McArthurs Regt received was at Dayton, which was principally laid out for summer Clothing and other necessaries before they marched -leaving but little for to do the remainder of the Campaign -- They have returned naked and pennyless, and ranh of them sickly, and destitute of homes and many necessaries which they stand in need of -- since their return, they have held themselves ready to obey the call of their country, which they hoped would have been given to act against the In- dians -- ever faithful and true to the country the volinteers to defend the [illeg. ] at the delay of the government in fact paying them the arrears which are due them - Many of these are Mechanics whose business could only be carried on in that season which they have spent in the services from which they are now discharged in an inclement season without money or clothes -- Although their services were wasted in disgrace to their Country, they have not been the culpable cause of the misfortune; and ought not to suffer the effects which the withholding from them their scanty earnings will create - They are told that the Secretary of War have decided that they are to be con- cidered prisoners of war, and that they are to be discharged from the day they reached their respective homes -- this seems to be a paradox -- I cannot trace it to any official source of information -- Will you be so kind as to communi- cate the Presidents opinion on this subject to me

As far as I can learn the Madison ticket prevails here -- if the division of the Madison interest should not prove fatal to the election -- the danger is, we have been divided -- I am Respectfully Sir yours

James Denny

Genl Worthington