The daily union., 1846-08-29
THE UNION.
CITY OF wAsHINGToN
SATURDAY NIGHT, AUG. %, 1876.
THE STATE OF THE wAR-wHIG MIS-
nEnn nan Al. A rrInAI on I.n

| Inc loiowlng Oflet account OF conFersaiph
Of General Taylor in relation TO the prospects of the
war with Mexico, as given in letter from Msta-
moras under date Of July 3lst, has been extensively
published in the papers hostile 70 the administration,
and has been made the matter of an attack upon the
government in regard to the conduct Of the war,
which is absurdly unjust sad i-founded. The let
ter says Of Gen. Taylor
I" lie seemed 10 have no secrets talked Of his
plans and prospects said we should all go
| ahead very soon he moving the regulars
TO Camargoj the volunteers should follow should
90 himself in two days; wanted 10 end the
war sPeedily spoke Of the lnadequaey Of the trans
portaton TO his force said should whip the enc
my everywhere met him the difficulty was, he
was afraid we couldn't find him thought II he could
get to San Luis Potos, he could end the didn't
know whether he could go so far he had yet to
explore the country, and learn ITS eapability for
feeding army; that an army could only march
| certain distance from the water commune ltion af
| fordIng It supplies thought that Vera Cruz and
Tsmpieo the points OF attack and that the only
prospect Of terminating the war without the com
pulsory process Of whipping the Mexieans was
| through the mediation Of France or England"
The National Intsligsnesr is reduced to such
desperate straits find material for It's attacks upon
the administration as to assert, in the frat place,
without the least shadow Of proof or plausibity,
that zoe assumed, or endorsed as true, the state
ments and views contained in this letter, because
We published the letter itself as an item Of news.
In the next place, the lntelligencer, in the same
spirit and for the same reason, sees ht TO peryer
the meaning Of the letter in its editorial com
menL And, in the third place, in its meaning
80 perverted, that journal processes find reason
for believing that "the lst Of September will still
hnd our army on the banks Of the Rio Grande.
10 confirmation Of this opinion, the Integencer
quotes conjecture contained in another letter from
the Of operations to the effect that General
Taylor will move on "from Camargo to Monterey
between the lst and 10Th OF September" This
opinion also the lntelligencsr makes US endorse for
the same conclusive reason-thst we gave it as an
item of published intelligence from the army.
This manGuVrng Of the whig organ, If it have
any meaning or purpose, must be designed to pro-
duce the impression that the administration
has failed to use proper exertions to press
on the prosecution Of the war with prompt.
tude and yigor. And from whom, or from
what, in the name Of all that is preposterous,
does this charge Of want of vgor in the
conduct OF the proceed Why, from the very
ournal, which from the moment that the Mexicans
| crossed the Rio Grande to attack our little army,
signazed, or least stgmatized itself by its ear
nest effort to paralyze and to discourage the en,hu-
sasm ofthe volunteers, who at the.eal Of the coun-
try were rushing to the scene Of action This Jour
nal it is, now, which-with the crime and the bunder
Of its first start in the matter OF the fresh in the
public memory-assumes to censure the govern
ment for want Of vgor in pressing on its hostile
| operations
And this censure, be it observed, is urged and
insisted without an attempt to submit one parti-
Gle Of proof in support Of it. Wha, (that the ad-
mnisuation could do) has been left undone in the
prosecution Of hostites' What aid to the move
ments OF the army, which the administration could
give, has been withheld We do not deem II ne
cessary to discuss the correspondence which took
place between Gen. Scott and the War Department
We prefer that that correspondence should be left
to speak for itself. But it must not be forgotten
that General Scott over his own signature, express
ed the opinion that his continuance at Washington
beyond the time suggested by the administration for
his departure TO the Rio Grande, would enable him
most effectualy to aid the operations by which the
army was to be concentrated and prepared to ad-
vOnce upon Mexico General Scott has remained at
Washington, and has, doubt not, given all posi-
bic aid in the performance Of his official duties, TO
the preparations for the prosecution of the war.
And with what effect have these preparations been
urged oni II was calculated by the Commanding
General, in the correspondence referred to- if we re-
member rightly that the army might be concentrated
the Rio Grand. abo, the first Of September; and the
first Of October, we recolect the matter, was the
81 aa,,J IL r. al. slr..
the army into Mexico. The fact turns out some
what otherwise. The first of September has not
| come yet. Our army has been assembled in large
force on the Rio Grande for month. We have OBJ
tained and now hold military possession of large
part of the province Of Tamaulpas We are mas
ters Of the Rio Grande for two hundred miles from
its mouth, and we have been using the undisputed
navigation Of that river for tceeks, to establish mill
tary depots and basis of farther operations into the
interior--and all this before the day suggested
for the concentration of our army upon its banksl
Meantime the indispensable work of discipline
has been steadily going on till the "voluneer' has
become almost regular in his capacity for SER
vice. And now, the showing Of the Inelligencer it.
SELF the 10Th Of September is named the latest day
for the commencement Of the march to Monterey,
which had been set down by General Scott a, like
y to take place about the first of October. We are
forced into this comparison Of that which has been
done by our army, with that which was calculated
to be accomplished by them, only by the aggressive
and ill.judged remarks Of the Inelligencer. For
ourselves, choose to make no issue upon the
subject with the gallant and distinguished officer re-
ferred to, in regard to whose professional opinions
and judgment we would at all times express, as we
sincerely entertain, high respect
But even if so much had not not been accom-
plished-even if the administration instead Of act
ing with the utmost vigor, had failed to press on
Its hostile operations with success, it is not the
National Intelgencer, its kindred whg Jour
nails who have now the right to call the adminisra-
ton to account for such a cause. Il does not
lie with them to cens,re The tardne" of movements
/ - II