SECT. III.

OF SUBORDINATION.

l. There cannot be a greater recommendation to any employment, than a dispostion devoted to obedience.

2. No authority can exist, where there is not a proper submission.

3. He cannot command whose consequences is violated.

4. The private and the public man must ever be distinguished.

5. No Officer can well be obeyed who is not well respected. [257]

6. The merit of all actions is ever to be given to him in command.

7. No inferior must affect an independance of his superior.

8. Obedience is ever recommended by zeal and attention.

9. Where there is zeal, there can seldom rest any imputation to a man’s disadvantage.

l0. Never consult with another in point of obedience.

ll. No inferior must alter what his susperior directs to be observed.

l2. Obedience suffers no reflection.

l3. Orders must be obeyed, though they may be remonstrated against in a proper way if time will admit.

l4. Ignorance of an order is no excuse.

l5. A subsequent order supersedes a former.

l6. The senior present is the man in immediate command.

l7. Command can never expire, while seniority exists.

l8. Every inferior must govern himself by the orders or example of him in command.

l9. Every inferior must be an assistant to his superior.

20. Every inferior must give immediate information to his superior, of whatever he hears or esteems is essential to the service.

2l. No report can be too satisfactory; where a report is made to an officer of a different corps, the signature must have the addition of rank and regiment annexed to it.

22. Never enter into any combination against him in command.

23. In all conspiracies, he is ever held to be a principal, who is of the greatest rank or consequence.

24. There is no danger so great as that of not acquitting yourself.