The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-04-24

effect all over her countenance, and both oil
her hands were taken smooth off. / hainl
wound her up since; for, with the pluck she's
got, there's no knowin' what she might do, ell
she had chance. She's ,cithomt exception the
best game Ieuer seed.
On the 26th of April, when Taylor called
out new force, in anticipation of the battles
which afterwards ensued, he wrote to the War
Department to ':gire the necessary ORDERS to
the staff" for supplies, transportatons, &C.
Did Marcy or the President give these orders
This letter shows they did not They went on
ordering Volunteers, by thousands, to the Rio
Grande, without having prepared the means OF
Transporting or taking care of them. When
Marcy got the letter of September LIST, what
did he do! He assumed that this letter was a
complaint against the Quarter Master General
| (esup) and forthwith dispatches it to Jesup,
as an impeachmens of him.! He might as well
| have assumed that charge against Armstrong
in 1914, was charge against General Jackson!
But this stoo remarkable transaction to pass
over. Here is the close of Marcy's letter:
"Thc ayowed object of Gen. Taylor in pre-
senting these complaints, or rather accusations
against the Quarermaster's Department., is to
make them matter of record. am extreme
ly unwilling, and presume you cannot be
less SO than myself, that they should there re-
main, without explanation or investigation.
81 am fully aware of the great difficulties
unavoidable in the management of the Quar-
tefmaster's Department on the sud- I. occur
renee of uwar, when he countr pt pre-
pared FOR such an emergency. Cen. Taylor
must be presumed to be as we'll acquainted
with all the circumstances Of embarrassment
attending the Quartermaster's Department as
any other person, and yet his arraignment of
it is not qualified by any alusion to them. The
inference is, that, all proper allowances made,
he considers that the management Of the affairs
of the Quartermaster's Department has been
such as to deserve cenoure. Such appears to
me to be his meaning, and such, / apprehend,
will be the general impression resulting from
the perusal Of his letter. If this censure is
really deserved, it is proper that those obnox-
ious to it should be ascertained, and dealt with
as their conduct deserves; but if, on the con-
trary, it shall be found that the officers of the
Quartermaster's Department have done their
duty in proper and efficient manner, as
trust will be the case, steps must be taken to
remove the erroneous impression, and vindi-
cate their official conduct.
Very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
w. L. MARCY, Secretary of War.
Major Gen THos, S. JEsUP, Quartermaster Cen
era, U. s. Army
B. The copy has been furnished to the
Quartermaster General by the AdjutantEen-
eral.n
This is what we call one of the most unex-
amped instances of assumption ever recorded.
He has the daring to say that General Taylor
presented "complaints" or rather accusations
against the Quartermaster's Department. Now,
if the reader examines the letter, he will see
that the ''complaints and accusations" are
against the War Department. Taylor says,
apprized you that he had called out an increas-
ed force; and that he trusted the "War De-
partment would give the necessary ORDERS" &c.
Jesup, Quartermaster General, had gone to
New Orleans, and there received the Secreta-
ry's extraordinary letter. He felt, of course,
nggrieved, and replied in very plain terms
We give the first part of his letter, without the
details:
'NEw ORLEANS, December S, 1885,
Sir: When received your letter of the 2lst
on the subject of Major General
Taylor's complaints, was apprehensive that
neglect or omissions had occurred on the part
Of some one or more of the subordinate off,
GERS of the department, by which his opera
lions had been seriously embarrassed; but
nave looked into the whole matter, and am
bound in justice to say that no class of officers,
lot even General Taylor and the most distin-
yuished men around him, have better or more
aithfully performed their duty; and if any
hing has been wanting which they could have
supplied, it has been because the proper orders
we're not given, or timely acquisitions made. a
SIN conducting wat, it is the duty of the @
government to designate the object to be ac- a
omplished; it is then the duty of the General t
Who conducts the operations to call for the 4
neans required to accomplish that object. If il
% fails to do 50, he is himself responsible for 1
II the consequences Of his omission" n
These are correct principles, and they hit a
nc case exactly. Il is the equity OF THE Gov a