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to secure the just promotion of Sergeant Swailes: it is only needful that the proper commanding general should understand that he may discharge the sergeant for promotion; and it is equally clear, that there is no regulation apparent of the War Department in the way of such discharge. There is nothing in the world to prevent it, but a sort of ill-defined notion, that, when the law speaks of a man, a soldier, or a person, they cannot possibly include a man of African descent. I wonder Scipio Africanus is not struck out of the list of Roman heroes, on account of his cognomen. Mr. Stanton will readily see the way to clear up all difficulties, so soon as he perceives what the point of the case is. It would appear that Secretary Stanton, upon considering the case, agreed with the Governor; for Sergeant Stephen A. Swailes was commissioned second lieutenant of the Fifty-fourth Regiment, March 11, 1864, and subsequently was commissioned first lieutenant, April 28, 1865; and was discha