Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-07-16

THE ADMINISTRATION AND GEN. SCoTT.-
Several of the more violent of the whig jour
nails, taking their cue from the New York
'' Courier and Enquirer" which processes to
have received special information on the sub
lect from its southern correspondents" are
charging tina: Mr. Trst has been sent to Mex
leo on mission interfering with the military
authority of Gen. Scott. They allege that
Mr. Trist has assumed for himself right TO
order an armistice, and otherwise to interfere
with, and even direct the operations of the ar
my, under General SCOTS command. They
express warm sympathy with Cen SCOTS
Indignation at thus finding himself, as they
allege, placed by the administration in the po-
sition of subordinate to clerk in the State
Departments" and they profess to see in this
alleged movement of the administration addi-
tional evidence of hostility on the part of the
government towards its commanding general
in the field The "Courier and Enquirer
indeed, goes so far as to assert that Mr. Trist
has not only been guilty of such interference
with Gen. SCOTS command, but that he has
shown ga letter either from the Department
Of State, or from the Department of War;
fully authorizing such course on his part.
Since the disappointment of the editor of
the g Courier and Enquirer in reference to
the object of his visit to Washington last win
ter, the motive of his virtuous Indignation a.
galnst the Government is so well known as
to render any charges against it quite HARM
less, so long as they are confined to his own
columns, though put forth in terms intended
10 create the impression that the material of
them may have been furnished to him, duly
exaggerated and dscolored, shy lrivate ad-
vices" from the scene of our military opera
tons The repetition Of these charges in
other journals, however, has led US to make
careful inquiry into the matter; and we now
state, positively, that all these accusations a.
gainst the administration, of giving Mr.. Inst
any authority to interfere in any form, or in
the slightest degree, with Gen. SCOTS military
command, are absolutely and totally without
foundation.
Having made these statements thus positive
ly, We deem it proper to suggest 10 those fed
eral journals which persist in charging upon
the administration an attempt to do injustice to
Gen. Scott in this matter, that the intercourse
and the relations between the government and
Gen. Scott are matter Of record. In due time
that record can be made to speak for itself =
Meantime, it will be no more than prudent for
those journals which now seek to put the ad-
hfiHlStidtiOl III Iuc "IonS do cS AlIioL oChCIoi
Scott. to remember the fate Of a similar i'll
Judged attempt by the protested friends of that
officer, which led to the publication, on their
call, of the we'll known correspondence be-
tween him and the War Department at pre-
vious period of the war. If the success OF
that experiment warrants, in the judgment oil
Gen. SCOTS friends, another call for the re-
cord, we undertake to say, On the part of the
administration, that such call, when made
in due season and by due authority, will he
cheerfully and a; once complied with. We
say this, not orly without the slightest feel
ing of unkinda sss towards General Scott. but,
on the contrary, with full sense of the dis
tinguished services which he has rendered te
his country in the field.
Washington Union, 18th inst'