Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-10-12

= notorious TOT tnC NCitSfNl Va
r.rves, as any man in America who suf
tered others to gather all the l'ur"ss on
I'VE frontiers, though he had the after Ut a
.a;.tinguished command in that quarter;
.ao. counsel of his discretion, and forbore
al fnrther attack.
lie lavished no other abuse upon HIN,
before the Gems. dep r'ure for Europe
About the 1C,h of July, 1915, he seiled--the
snAll was broken, and '' Richard was him
ss,f again" For. on the goth OF that month,
,he .filrovd. in commenting on the brilliant
h,ttle OF Bridgewater, states, thrt Zen.
Scott, whom every one represents as act
INC like mailman, rather than general,
,Ger sacrificing his gallant troops, is c0U-
sred 7yitk glory, for conduct, lforJ which
IN any oher m ltary service, he would
have been, at least, sem 70 coventry.
These miserable attacks he kept up from
time to time. for several m nths.-Ihis
however, by way Of depression us re-
turn TO comm -ntsry upon the text
General Pikc-Duane insinuates, that
G. neral Scott may have dsliked him be-
cause ne was " the friend of Pike and VIII
kinson."-Does he mean alsn to ms ruate,
that Scott was the enemy Of the lancnted
PIKE ,-Where is the evidence of this base
ralunny! Scott was never intro luced to
tl,,t C1tanl OllsGtt tUt'l Nc SNW Hia e-N
Ration Rouge in 1871, where mutual civii-
ties passed between them. He never Saw
him afterw ards. except at Washington in
1872. Who was it tina, proposed at Fort
y}eoree. in 1913, to erect a monument to
psrpetuate his glorye 1t was Gen. Scott
s me accident prevented the offirers from
carving their wishes into execution. AS
co General Wilkinson, who it is supposed
IS afterwards alluded 10 by Duane, when
ne SAYS, Chat " the country will not be
deprived of materials for Judging Of that
gentleman, and of other public characters,
IN form more authentic, substantial and
durable, than the flectng publications of
daily paper, ")--As to this distant meracc
of Wiikinson's vengeance, the friends OF
Scott defy it-Wilkiuson is of course best
ouainted with his own case-Yet let him
weigh that case we'll But when the ct
tack is made, it is time enough TO make the
defonce.,
Has Mr.. Duane the temerity TO assert.
that I" he never said so much about that
gentleman lScottl or concerning him in his
ABSENCE. as he has said tn him ia herson 2"
What did he ever dare to teH Srott that
ne ought to be sent 40 coUentry :" That
the " Court of Enquiry. held upon Gene
raj Ripley, after repeated solicitations on
his part. was abruptly stfed, as he ID.
was) informed through the iitrigueS of
General Scott ?" DID he ever dare to tell
him that the system ofhUffng was begun
by General Scott"-that he "never was
distinguished for knowledge of discipline,
except N the drawing room that in fact
he is at this moment (Nov. 8, 1815,) igno-
rant of the first principles of mil tary sci
ence, and between vain Sc shallow head,
WILL probably, never be otherwise"
that he comes from Virginia, & the foun
tain OF ihozuer and Promotion being there,
the sun can Inc no where else ?" We aD-
peal to any man who knows Scott and
knows Duane it he believes i. to be hoS-
si6'e. Duane 81 would sooner have Ript the
forked Lightning But this solitary
assertion bears upon its face the real cha
racter of tie assertions of the Aurora.
The Aurora, not contented with this ge
neral declaration, proceeds to state the
particulars of the Z" last conversation with"
General S:ott-This calls for view Of
the zghoie ground.
Duane perhaps remembers that it was
IN the close Of 1873, he had his first inter
view with General Scott, At toe lodgings
OF General Armstrong, then Secretary of
WaF-and that what passed between them
was so unIrlportant as not to require no.
tice. Ia January. 1914, second interview
took place 1t one OF the oliaes connected
with the Head Quarters of his depart
nent. They we're all in the same house,
and several in the same room. Scott
was then On his return to the lineS-On
this oecss on, Col Duane, Chen Adjutant
9 the military distr.ct,) accosted him, and
some half dozen common place words pas
sed between them. 1t was not then that
che Colonel was in the mood to Tclinquish
,lhe army, or to- announce tlose high flown
sentiments, which he has trumpeted forth
10 this passage of the Aurora.
TT Albany, during the months Of Feb
ruaFy ard March 1914, Scott had to wait
the instructions of the War Department
when circular reached him from that
Department. requesting his opinion on Ger
tain systems of discipline for the inf nt,y
of the army. Colonel Duane's Hand Book
had been previously escribed--General
Scott did not admire it, and wrote an ex-
position of the futity and absurdity, which
he supposed to characterize It. The
Colonel best knows whether he ever
saw General SCOTS letter.--But this
fact is certain. that while the whole
country was ringing with the name of Scott,
the Aurora observed guarded silence a.
bout h achievements during the celebra~
ted campaign of 1914 AS soon as he was
IN situation to travel, he was ordered to
Washington, where lie saw the Colonel
skuIkiry about the Ware Office, but nothing
worthy of notice pass, between them. 1t
was not during this period, tn n, That cato
the Censor denounced the "protIgatc
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