Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-07-04

I, ooil.d mon. The foot volunteers, AID
ID nv water ,ranspo cation, (belleved 10
he impossible with the horse,) may, prob
ablv. reach all the points for commencing
lonsrations a week or two earlier bn'
lifbo,se be a necessary eemontto success,
land two-,hirds, il no! three-iour'hs, OF
l,he MEXICAN army are understood to BE-
in the sadde.) what utility would there oe
| in forcing The foot much ahead oil the
morse? This ought to be matter o! ar
rangement, left to the commander OF tue
specal army, as Information may open
upon him in his progress 10 the Mex'ca"
frontier, near the heads OF columns, or
within easy corresponding distance with
mos, of them. The particular question
here then recurs: Can the horse regl'
iment from Kentucky, (he most distant
from Mexico) or that from Tennessee (say
10 DAYS nearer) reach the Rio Grande (oyI
Hand be il remembered) much before me
day list Of September) before mentioned {!
II have learned personally from the zeal
Gus and intelligent Adju'ant General Dua-
lley) Of Kentucky. that that most distant
horse regiment cannot be assembled (say)I
at Frankfort, on the bowling.green, eur
Iier than the latter part OF June.
Thence i; will probably be obliged to-
march pia Memphis, Fulton, on the Red
river, San Antonio de Bexar, &C., line oil
some 1900 miles. The routes OF the Ten
nessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi horse
will be respectively, say 400, 600 and
700 miles shorter, but even the middle or
Tennessee horse regiment, cannot, allow
ing not day for instruction at It's rendez-
vous, or on the route, reach the Rio
Grande before according 10 all computa-
tons we can make here) the middle Of
August.
think, considering we cannot hope to
have more than 500 regular cavalry on
the lower Rio Grande, no commander
would be willing to enter Mexico without
both the Kentucky and Tennessee regi-
ments of horse, and all that have been
called from points nearer to the field oil
expected operations. may now state
fact which seems to be conclusive as to the
period best for taking up lines Of opera
lions from and beyond the lower Rio
Grande.
All the information that can be obtained |
here, represents that the rainy season, on
and south Of the Rio Grande, begins about
June, and terminates about the Isl OF Sep
TENDER, that during that season the hoof
ofthe horse and the d ule becomes soften
ed Though shod) and diseased SO as 10 dis
able the animal for travel and work. A
gain.-itis at. ihe end .ofatha rainy season
and for some weeks later, that in the nor-l
thern provinces Of Mexico, men and horses
would have the best chance 10 Obtain
drinking waler;ihe horses the best gra-
zlng, and the commissaries the best bee
and mutton for men.
But another reason has been mentioned
why should leave the preliminary work
10 be done here, and abandon the twelve.
months volunteers 10 find their way as
they may 10 the Mexican frontier, viz:
the number Of patriotic Louisianiars who
have poured, and are pouring in upon Bre
vet Brigadea General Taylor, at Point
Isabel or opposite to Ma;amoras.
Those meritorious volunteers can, un-
der the circumstances, have legally en-
gagged Tor three months only. They could
have had no knowledge Of the volunteer
act Of May l3, 1916, without which no
enrol ment for more than three months
would be binding upon them. After tina;
term, without formal reenrolment, under
the recent act, for the longer period, not
an officer or man could be legally held
10 service or tried for any offence what
ever. They evidently FASTENED to the
scene oil danger TO succor our little army
there; to save il from what they no doubt
deemed probable surrender or destruction
MANY Of the Louisianians may be ready
to become twelve months volunteers, and
10 be organized legally as such. AS
.hree-monlhs men, they could hardly, even
in the absence Of hostile forces, march 10
Monterey, before becoming entitled 20 no
doubt an honorable discharge, Before
the lime. for that discharge, it may GER
tainly be well-il numbers Of them do not
volunteer under the recent act--lo send
the quotas Of foot, called for from the
lower Mississippi, to aid General Taylor
in defending his positions, and perhaps
taking new ones on the other side OF the
Rio Grsnde: But for the conquest Of a
peace, by regular, incessant, and forwa I'd
movements, The basis Of our calculations
here Gas TO numbers) must be altogether
extravagant, f much larger army, in.
Guiding that IN position, and one very
differently composed, lin horse and foot
be not necessary. 1t was 10 command
such larger army that understood myself
as likely TO be sent to the Mexican from.
tier, as it is always unjust to junior
General who has done well, and is sup
noSed IN ha doinu well IN sunareeda him