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is plan or independently of it) lying inside of the floating gate, are important adjuncts of the scheme, and would, with the heavy batteries of the forts, present a combination of force sufficient for the destruction of any hostile squadron." For more than thirty years Gen. Gaines urged his plans upon the attention of the Government at Washington, but without success. The distribution of the spoils of office was considered more important than the preservation of national safety and honored. Gen. Jackson assured Gen. Gaines of his approbation, and gave it as his opinion that "the reason why his system of defence, which he examined with attention, had been objected to by the officers in and about the War Department was, that it was decidedly superior to anything which he had ever seen proposed by any of them." It is obvious that the time is at hand when some plan for the defence of Southern harbors and fortifications against the contemplated engines of attack should be adopted.