The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-09-08

generally when they read OF campaign.
The soldier is considered as a sort of
heroic being, who rises superior to the
vulgar necessities of eating and drinking,
and the General is supposed to have
nothing TO but to doplace in the field, in a
certain manner, long lines of troops.
1t must be borne in mind that the left
bank OF the Rio Grande, though claimed
by Us. is virtually All enemy's country,
and that between it and the Nueces is a
desert Texas, being planting country.
and thinIy populated, cannot furnish any
thing for the army in the way of subsist-
ence. General Taylor NAV, in fact be
considered as already carrying on the.,war
five hundred miles in an encmy's country,
since New Orleans is his nearest point
from which to derive supplies. The diff
culties of subsisting his troops will in
crease in a geometrical ratio as he advan-
ces. At Matamoras, he is within thirty
miles Ola port Of debarkation. Suppose
him at Monterey, and we may estimate
the trouble he will have IN Transporting
his supplies 250 miles over what cannot
be called, in any just sense. road"
Equally appropriate to the moment are
therefectiors ofanother Southern paper
the EuiGw (Alabama) advertiser. We
know not lis politics; nor do we suppose
just and spirited sentiments so confined
10 a single side that the paper may not be
Democratic one. Speaking of General
Scots recent correspondence withthe War
Department, it say:
General Scott has rendered distin-
guished service TO his country in the tent
ed field. He bears upon him the scars of
wounds received in battle He has shed
his blood, and was ready to lay down his
life for his country. And in an unforlu-
nate moment, betrayed by the impulsiye
sensitiveness Of the generous soldier, he
wrote letter containing one or two i'm
prudent expressions, which have been
caught up the press, and the changes
rung upon them throughout the whole
country. The veteran soldier is made
the butt for the ridicule of those who
were listening to the lullaby of their nur-
ses when he was standing the shock of
embattled hosts. Newspaper 5ufoons,
libeIlous editors, and low partisan SANDER
ers espiJting their Slime and venom on
the hero of Chippewa and I4undy's Lane
And the people, shame on them. applaud
this dirty work of vilifcation. They
laugh at the low Jest, and reward the pol
irons with smiles instead of Kisses. We
detest the actors, and pity the spectators
who can lock, without scorn, upon this
disgraceful farce-this monstrous attempt
to make noble soldier ridiculous in the
ewes or his countrymen. We trust that
there is generous patriotism enough to
rebuke this foul ingratitude, and 10 teach
these Knockers that the illustrious services
of years are not TO be outweighed by the
venial indiscretions of hasty pen."
How stands. then, TIE fact? Clearly,
that with ali those efforts to which the
Administration has been urged by the OBJ
viuus fact that IL had roiuHfariiV stakcd
Itself against the referan and atie e0nI-
mqnder-in-chief, and must stan OF a faH
as to any excuse for It's conduct towards
him, according as it did or did not accom-
plish, at no matter what expense. a much
cartier Increment IN .Hcrico than he
pronounced dpossibte, the first of septem-
Der will still find our army on the banks
of the Rio Grande
Nor IS 1t, meantime. to be forgotten
that, even at the cost of giving serious
umbrage to two States that were foremost
in their zeal honora5ly TO rush to the aid
of General TAYLOR, the President has
been obliged to vindicate, in another great
point, the Judgment of General ScoTT.
The one thought that the militia already
called out for a short service could not
be used for this invasion: the other IN
sisted that the main movement itself
should be regulated, as to time, in subor-
dination to the the term of service of
these troops: and the War department
itself has dismissed the very troops in
question
Nor must we here omit 10 cite another
document, amusingly enough furnished
by the Union itself, lew DAYS since, to
prove. in confutation of the letter which
we had copied from the Baltimore
Argus, that General Taylor had little or
no resistance to expect, and looked upon
his triumphant advance to 1.-The halls OF
the Montezumas " with an eve the most
sanguine. That journal introduces and
vaunts as follows another letter:
"The Columbus Times, of Georgia.
gives long and interesting account from
Matamoras of the 3lst July, the very
date of this letter from Camargo. The
Georgia letter is written by Adjutant For
syth. of the Gorgia regiment. He de-
scribes the scene of the battles and his
arrival at Matamoras with such graphic
vivacity that, il we can find room for the
whole letter. we shall lay it before our
readers. We content ourselves. for the