Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-19
ADMONITORY.


ADMONTTORY.
The annexed very singular article appeared in
the official paper on Monday night. 1t being evil
IDENTIFY significant Of the feelings of the Admnstra-
ton in regard to the conduct Of the campaign
against Mexico we conceive il due to our readers
to lay it before them:
PROM THE UNION.
FRoM THE Army AND NAvr.-The last mails bring no
very late intelligence from the army the Rio Grande. The
last dispatches from General Taylor that the army will
he the advance for Monterey by 1he LIST of September
e hfesf-perhaps several days earlier. The country be-
gins 10 De impatient for action The heroes of the 9Th
9th of May such energies on those memorable
SONS as could not but encourage the sangue expea
tons Of prompt and vigorous campaign, sod Rough
Ready has become the soubquet commanding gene
ra We hope that be will realize the character the end Of
the chapter The General who leads the army
mys country should be full of resourcess. self balanced
sefcened- of the highest en,fusiasmcapable
OF imparting to all his folowersbold well active
confident OF Misunderstanding every MEANS and employing
secondary substitutes according the in which
he be placed Such, hope, will prove be the
OF the brave commander and the gallant officers with
he is associated General Taylor understood
the means OF transportation in his handsmules well
wagons We hope to hear of his rapid marches and
his victorious progress
une rumor has lately prevailed for which learn there
sort Of foundation 1t came the shape of letter from
Maamoos, about the 18th of August and was published
few days ago in the Baltimore Sum- 1t states that on the
preceding night four hundred rancheros had broken into the
town and created confusion that the
ent OF the guerilla mode OF warfare, &c. The whole story
was untounded 1t idle quiz, perpetraed upon the
colonel Of volunteer force, which betrayed him into
ridiculous blunders.
The plan of the campaign has been conceived in decisive
srt and ought not 10 doubt that the success of the
suAs will correspond with the vigor of the design
Some little disappointment has been felt from the failure
two or three small naval operations in the Gulf And the loss
nj the 10 IF
account has been received from Captain Carpenter explain
the whole transaction Whether why he reposel conf
dence In the strange pilot whom he had captured and them
whether he betrayed by the treachey of his guide
whether the guide himself mistaken about the
what the particular circumstances which induced him
surrender his at Tuxpan and why he did strike for
some efficient place Of escape, if any practicable still
remains TO be explained by the captain himself whose
ter has stood fair and high in the of his country
The Mexican the Gulf is full of shoals sandbar
which calculated to impede the approach of
and the debakaon of troops and 10 call forth all the cir
cumspection of our naval officers
The events and prospects the of California
bright and cheering There to believe that before
this me the whole of that coast has been occupied by
squadron Monterey is certainly taken, and Guimas and
certain that the Yerba Buena Bay of San Francisco
was summoned by Captain Montgomery and believed
have been taken without resistance.
We met at the War Department, this evening" with cap
tain IN VOL Stevensons regiment He informs that the
troops were being paid off months in advance they
actually embarked, and that hoy certainly
the racine IN the course OF this week.
-Delphic as this article is in its phraseoogy-stu.
diously so, no Doubt is plainly admontory both
to our naval and military commanders in the South
Whether the INVITING of the Commodore for the
failure of two three small naval operations or
the honied objurgatons addressed to the General OF
the Army for disappointing "Me expectations Of a
prompt and rigorous campaign" be deserved al
fha hand af tba Gov
Judge; but we certainly think it untrue that the
country" has manifested any I" Impotence"
The country has seen General TAYLOR doing his
BEST making every exeriion, to prepare his forces
and means for the prosecution of the campaign into
Mexico; and it is aware Of the difficulties which he
had to overcome before he could, as prudent com.
mander venture to advance into an enemy's coun.
try. No, no; it is the Administration which is
impatient" not the country. Delay is inexcusa.
ble because il served to vindcate General ScoTT's
military judgment, in affirming, in May, that com
petent army could not be collected on the Rio
Grande before the 10th of August, nor organized
and prepared to advance on Mexico earlier than the
LIST Of September. "Hinc Me lachrymR.'
But it seems that I" the energies displayed in the
battles Of the 9th and 9th Of May" encouraged "the
most sanguine expectations of prompt and Uigor
ous campaign" A good reason, truly, that, because
General TAYLOR heriocally gained the two battles
which the enemy offered him in May, he was forth
with to march into Mexico when he was even SC
entirely unprovided with military facilities tina
he could not pursue the enemy across the river
unless he swan it, Yet, all unfinished as he
was, and unpreparcd he must push to Mexico
to fulfil the Unions expectations of prompt anc
vigorous campaign or be told that the country
is impatient Of delay" All, take care, brave ole
Rough and Ready" If the success of the
results do not correspond with the vigor of the
design" and the decisive spirit in which it ha.
been conceived" for you--if any reverses overtake
you in the almost impossible defles of the SaliIlc
mountains wo betide you "The sword Of Dano
cles Ito favorte figure of the official edtor) j.
suspended over your head" and you will find the
government paper and the Government itself both
ready and rough
Tax Hor WKArHEa OF SErrgMBER.-The Boston Daily
Advertiser OF "Wednesday says that from August 20 Sep
emer (eeven days the mercury every day above sc
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