The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-04-17
MUM, hey 81.


line of operations rendered illustrious by YOU
and your gallant army. Ny proposed theatre
is different You may imagine it, and wish
very much that it were prudent, at this dis
lance, to tell you all that expect to attempt
For hope TO execute have been admonished
that dispatches have been lost, and have no
special messenger at hand. Your Imagination
will be aided by the letters of the Secretary of
/ War conveyed by Mr. A rmstead, Major Ora
han, md Mr.. McLanc.
But, my dear general, Is5aH be ALLEGED to luke
jro1a gou most Of he gallant officers and men
(rega5ars and ro'tsnieers) ghoms you hare so long
rand so notify commanded. am afraid that /
shall, by impeyious necsssity--the approach of
yellow fever on the gulf coast-reduee you for
time, to stand on the dsfefls5re. This will be
Infinitely painful to you, and for ihDt reason
distressing to me. But rely upon your pat
notlsm to submit to the Temporary sacrifice
with .cheehulness. No man can better afford
/ 10 do 50. Recent victories place you on that
high eminence, and even fatter myself that
any benefit that may result to me, personally,
from the unequal division of troops alluded to,
will lessen the pain Of your consequent mac
tytv.
You will be aware Of the recent calls for
nine regiments Of new volunteers including
one OF Texas horse. The President may soon
ask for many more, and we are not without
hope that Congress may add ten or twelve to
the regular establishment. These by the spring,
say April, may, by the aid OF large bounties,
be in the feld-shouId Mexico not earlier pro-
pose terms of accommodation; and long be-
fore the spring, (March,) it is probable you
will be again in force to resume offensive ope-
ratons.
l am writing at late hour of the night, and
more than half sick of cold, may despatch
another note before embark; but from New
Orleans, Point Isabel, etc, you shall hear from
me officially and fully.
! II not possible for me to find time to
write from Washington, as l much desired. l
only received an intmation to hold myself in
preparation for Mexico, on the 18th Instant
Much has been done towards that end, and
more remains to be executed.
Your detailed report of the operations at
Monterey, and reply to the Secretary's des-
patch, by Lieutenant Armistead were both re-
ceived two days after was instructed to pro-
coed south.
In haste, remain, my dear general, yours,
faithfully, WINFIELD SCOTT.
Major General z. Taylor, United States army
commanding, &c &c. &c
1t is not to be supposed that brave and sem
sitive man, like General Taylor, could, under
: the circumstances, receive without profound
offence, such letter as this What, stripped
of its ornaments, was the proposition! You,
sir, have followed the enemy from Corpus
Christi to Les Muertos. You have fought him
against every odds, from where every ward of
the impenetrable chapparel concealed its foe
to where the bristling batteries of Monterey
poured leaden rain and iron hail upon the
dauntless column. You have braved the
dalnps and tevers of the Rio Grande and the
chils of Monterey! neither the nhospitable
and deadly climate, nor forests of lances, nor
storms of canister have sufficed to stav YOUR
victorious progress. Besides all this. YOU have
disciplined an army and familiarized them with
triumph and glory. You have driven the foe
before You, and you are now posted in the
midst Of his dominions. But, you have won
lau7els enough; the soldiers whom you have
tutored l must take away from you; the off,
GERS you have inspired with the fire of your
dauntless vaor, must leave YOU, that l, upon
other fields, may gather wreaths as bright as
your own! To such appeal as this, there
could be, from man of ordinary sensibility,
but one Kind Of reply. The public has not
seen it, but, if the hero of Monterey condes-
cend to respond to it, we have mistaken his
qualities, if he did not treat it as an attempt.
gross and UNIV atgantable, TO beguile him into
ratification OF what must be regarded as great
wrong TO him.
The length to which this article has been
already extended, renders it impossible for us
TO complete to-day our design of showing that,
throughout the whole correspondence, General
! Taylor demonstrated against the reduction of
his force, whose dreadful consequences we are
now apprehendlng-and that he cannot, with
/ justice, be answerable fol any OF them, what
ever they may be.
We shall pursue the subject at another time.