The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-06-27
The Documents.

oClClal hSotL hHu W. v MalOy 40 W H"N 4 '
in the New Orleans Bulletin. General Scott
after stating that he has as yet, (May 2lst0 re-
ceiyed no orders assigning him to the immedi-
ate command Of the army about to be raised
to conquer a peace within Mexico, and that he
has been necessarily occupied with preliminary
arrangements and giving the proper orders,
says, inter ala:
"In the midst Of these multitudinous and in
dispensable occupations | have learned from
you that muchimpatience Is already felt, per-
haps in high quarters, that | have not already
put myself en- route for the Rio Grande; and
now, with fourteen hours a day Of preliminary
work remaining on my hands for many days, |
find myself compelled to stop that nsce sary
work to guard myself against, perhaps, utter
condemnation in the quarters alluded to. am
TOO old a soldier, and have had too much sPe-
cial experience not to feel the infinite import
ance Of securing myself against danger Oil
will or pre-condcmnation) in my rear before
advancing upon the public enemy"
"My explicit meaning is, that do not desire
to place myself in the most %perilous Of all po-
sitions-G fire ppon my rear from Wastngton'
Gad He fire in front from The Mericans.
1t was distinctly admitted and laid down as
a basis in the interviews | had the honor to
hold with the President ind yourself on the
subject, that a special army of some thirty
thousand troops, regulars, and twelve months
volunteers, would be necessary for the march
against and the conquest Of a peace in Mexico.
| adhere to that opinion. 1t is foreseen, with
tolerable certainty, that we shall not have, in
many months, more than seven thousand I'll
quite SO many regulars, applicable to that ser
vice. The remaining numbers are to be made
up in volunteer horse and foot. | suppose oil
these, taken together, about 1900 have been
actually called for. There is yet good time,
think, to make the additions suggested in one
of the tables | had the honor to submit las
mighty
He further says that be understood that he
was not to be sent out to supersede Taylor
but that he was to command a large army.
which was to conquer a peace within Mexico
1--WE infer from this letter that Gen. Scott hat
been appointed to the command of the army
Of occupation or invosiOn) Mr.. Secretary
Marcy replies (May 25th0 terming Genera
SCI IT'S letter one Of an 'extraordinary charac
ter, and rejecting upon the motives and OBJ.
jects Of the President," &c, quoting with EN-
phasis the words, ill-will and pre-condemna
ton. He then goes on with a long tigmarol
of his stuff, evidently intended to provok
Scott to some folly, in which he succeeded
Seriously, we must say that Marcy's lotte
would have provoked any man to say "soup.
In reply TO this letter, Gen. Scott says, t'you
letter Of this date received at about 6P. M
sat down to take a hdsiy plate Of so1pH TIL
rest Of the Jurisprudence is elimination an
discrimination between q mad man and q foo
No, we are wrong-Scou's part Of it is sue
as we should expect from an old soldier, goa
) ed and stung by gad-aies and musquitoes,-
Polk and his understrappers have managed we
They have ruined our two best Generals, e
4 Gaines has been recalled to Washington ii
Q Scott has been ordered to stay at Washington
+ little would they, I" their party, care if III,
n could ruin the country, SO that the spoils
office were left for their distribution and bar
eipation. That Scott has crouched or upoI
gized to President Polk, is false, utterly fall
We give his ~ words, hasty and improper
they are, and leave our readers to Judge fro
d Me record-not from the Misrepresentation
u partizohs.
a. "Yon have taken.four days to reflect, and
" convict me, upon my letter to you Of thee
Id inst Mt, OF official, perhaps personal disresp
Ie, to the constitutional commander-in-chief
ed che army and navyof the United States.
ut II you have succeeded in Importing that
preston to the President, then, by the conc
- sion Of your letter, written in his behalf
ott placed under very high obligations to his m
III nnnimity-may | not add, 10 has kiiadness9
sct not placing me instantly in arrest, and bel
his a general court-martial. Imay then hope,
Wy fhe President saw no such intended disrespI
and | can assure you both that | feel too q
lgh a Difference to the constitution and laws Of
err couatry to offer or design an indignity to
nee chief magistrate.
The strongest passages in my condem
no. letter are, think, hypothetical. Inil, | sr
Of Of ''impatiencen-l'perha ia high quartt
on Of, aperhops utter condemnation, in the @
I'm tels alluded to,'' Of the ainfnfte importanc
sor- securing myself against danger (N.tofa or
zed dsynnotoa) in my rear" and Of that s.most
all, ilous Of all positions'' to any commander.
ita- fire upon [hisl rear from Washington, and
ado fire in front from the Mexicans." Aid /
the 20 spoke Of the necessity # SHE active,