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C.-Statement of the cannon and carriages at the forts, &c.-Continued.

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Fort at New Bedford harbor, Mass.

Fort Griswold, Connecticut...

Fort Trumbull, Connecticut

Fort Wood, New York......

Fort Adams, Rhode Island

Fort Lafayette, New York.

Fort Hamilton, New York..

Fort Constitution, New Hampshire.

Fort Independence, Massachusetts..

Fort Preble, Maine

Fort Macon, North Carolina.

Fort Caswell, North Carolina

Fort Pulaski, Georgia......

Fort Morgan, Alabama....

Fort Jackson, Louisiana.
Fort Wood, Louisiana.......

Fort Pike, Louisiana.........

Fort St. Philip, Louisiana
Fort Barrancas, Florida

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SIEGE CARRIAGES.

C.-Statement of the cannon and carriages at the forts, &c.—Continued.

Names of forts.

BARBETTE CARRIAGES.

MORTAR BEDS.

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Castle Williams, New York
Fort Columbus, New York.
Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania.
Fort McHenry, Maryland
Fort Monroe, Virginia.
Fort Moultrie, South Carolina
Castle Pinckney, South Carolina
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Fort McRae, Florida

Fort Ontario, New York.
Battery Hudson, Staten island, N. Y.
Battery Morton, Staten island, N. Y.
South Battery, Governor's isl'd, N. Y.
Fort Pickins, Florida.

Fort Washington, Maryland..
Fort Gibson, Ellis island, N. York..
Fort Niagara, New York.

Fort at New Bedford harbor, Mass..

Fort Griswold, Connecticut.

Fort Trumbull, Connecticut..

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Fort Adams, Rhode Island.

Fort Lafayette, New York

Fort Hamilton, New York.

Fort Constitution, New Hampshire.

Fort Independence, Massachusetts..

Fort Preble, Maine.

Fort Macon, North Carolina..

Fort Caswell, North Carolina.

Fort Pulaski, Georgia

Fort Morgan, Alabama

Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

Fort Wood, Louisiana.
Fort Pike, Louisiana
Fort St. Philip, Louisiana.
Fort Barrancas, Florida...
Battery Bienvenue, Louisiana.

Tower Dupré, Louisiana ..........
Fort Schuyler, New York........
Fort Marion, Florida....

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H. K. CRAIG, Colonel of Ordnance.

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Report of General J. G. Totten.

WASHINGTON, November 1, 1851.

SIR: In obedience to your orders of April 17, I have the honor to present my views and opinions on the subject embraced in the first of the resolutions adopted by the House of Representatives on the 3d March last in relation to the permanent fortifications of the country.

I shall successively take up the points which you have made particular subjects of inquiry, though I foresee that I may need your indulgence for some time, using a rather broad license in connecting them with collateral topics. I hope, also, to have your indulgence for occasionally quoting from a report on national defence, made by a board of officers to the Secretary of War on the 10th of May, 1840. I have the less hesitation in thus quoting, since that report was written by myself, and its statements and opinions have been confirmed by all my subsequent meditation on the subject. As I shall, however, repeat herein a part only of what is therein set forth, and as that report goes into a pretty full discussion of the whole subject, and was concurred in by several experienced officers, whose countenance and support gives to it, indeed, all its authority, I would respectfully urge the whole report upon your attention. It is to be found in House Document No. 206, 1st session 26th Congress.

The remarks made by Mr. Secretary Poinsett, when laying the report before Congress, as given in the same document, seem to me worthy of full considera

tion.

I do not consider it necessary to urge the point that wars may again visit us, and wars moreover with powerful nations. All the questions of the Secretary assume this as possibility at least, as do the resolutions of Congress calling for this inquiry. How much soever a nation may love peace, and however well disposed to preserve it by moderation, justice, and impartiality, it is not less true now than it ever has been that the interests and honor of nations cannot always be made to run in parallel courses, and that jostling and interference are the more apt to occur where there is the closer proximity by position or by the relations of trade and business.

Within the last fifteen years four or five times has this country, owing to some question suddenly rising into importance, been surprised to find itself on the very verge of war with the most powerful nations of the earth. And the latent spirit, not to say belligerent aptitude, on either side, has not always been quite satisfied that the concessions made for peace have not purchased it at too high a price. The point of honor will always, when really touched, as it ever has done, keep with nations as with men the point of interest in subjection. And a hackneyed adage shows that it is ever deemed not less important with nations than with men that there should at all times be obvious preparation and readiness to defend both honor and interest. It is, therefore, notwithstanding certain theories of the day and public declarations that the age of strife and warfare has passed away, only reasonable and prudent to assume that a state of war may exist, and to inquire in what way a powerful enemy may wage it against us. He may do so

1. By attacking our commerce and navigation upon the ocean. As, however, no military preparation on the shores can avert this danger, and the means of meeting it must be purely naval, these means do not now fall under consid

eration; or,

2. By assailing some one or more important point or points of the coast with

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