Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-20
THE PRESIDENT AND GEN. TAYLOR.
The National Intelgencer, Of the 3Oth ult.

The National Inteligencer, Of the 3Oth ult.
says:
We are among those who have been slow 10
believe, though it has been frequently charged,
that animosity was cherished by the Administra.
ton towards General Taylor, because we could
not conceive any motives even Of party policy,
for such hostility against citizen who has un.
questionaby rendered distinguished service to his
in the public esteem. But it cannot be doubted,
considering the regency of the fact of the publ.
cation Of the letter Of Gen. Taylor, that the ''gen
eral ORDER published in our columns to day, has
direct reference 10 that officer.
How many hundreds Of unofficial letters from
officers Of the army Of every grade up to that of
Gen. Taylor, have been published all over the
country within the last year, without calling forth
any rebuke from the Executive! So far from it,
have not many such letters been published, with.
out lisp OF disapprebaion, in the newspaper in
this city which is the recognised organ Of tho
Government published not only without any
expression OF dissatisfaction, but, on the contra
ry, with high commentators? As late as in that
paper OF yesterday morning we find precisely
such letter from IAN officer of Gen, Wool's
command" We do not say that the regulation
which has thus been walked up from sleep OF
more than twenty years--whch had in fact been
dsused so long as to become obsolete--may not
be in itself, as general rule, proper one. But
we do say that it has not been heretofore consid.
cred as an order 10 be strictly observed; in proof
OF which many instances can be remembered. in
which it has not been regarded, nor has the depar.
ture from it been visited with any reproof, much
less with such public rebuke as that conveyed
in the revival and republication, obviously with
that intent, of the regulation of 1925.
The effect, besides, of the promulgation of the
order at the present particular moment, is that of
e1 post facto legislation; a proceeding directly
against the spirit Of liberty, and so recognised by
the organic law of the Republic.
The following is the order to which the Intelli.
gencer refers:
WAR DEPARTMENT.,
Washington, Jan. 90, 1847.
The President of the United States directs that
paragraph $50 OF the general regulations of the
army established on the LIST OF March, 1925, and
not included among those published January rs.
1871, be now republished, and that its obser.
vance, as a part Of the general regulations be-
strictly enjoined upon the army.
| By order Of the President:
WIN. L. MARCY, Sec. of War,
The following is the paragraph of the general re-.
gulations for the army established on the Is, of
March. 1885, referred to above:
$3.50. Private letters or reports, relative to
military marches and operations, are Geonen.iv
mischlevous in design. and are always disgrace.
full to the army. They are, therefore. siric,Iv
forbidden; and any officer found guilty. Of making
such report for publication, without special ner'
mission, or of placing the writing beyond his con- con.
troll so that it finds its way to the press, within
one month after the campaign to which il relates
shall be dismissed from the service" By orde,.
i w. g. FREEMAN. Asst Adj't. GsnI.