The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-10

Several OF the more violent of the wing journals tax ing
their cue from the New York Courier and Enquirer,
which Processes to have received special information
on the subject from its southern correspondents"
charging that Mr.. Tris has been sent to Mexico
mission interfering with the military authority of Gen.
Scott. They allege that Mr. Trist has assumed for
himself right to order armistce and otherwise
to interfere with, and direct the operations of
the army, under General SCOTS command They
express warm sympathy with Gen. SCOTS indig-
nation at thus finding himself, they allege placed
by the administration in the position of "a subordinate
clerk in the State Department. and they profess to
in this alleged movement of the administration additional
evidence of hostility the part Of the government
wards its commanding general in the field The "Cour-
ier and Enquirer indeed goes far as to assert that
Mr. Trst 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 from the
Department of War;" fully authorizing such course on
his part
Since the disappointment of the editor of the "Courer
and Enqnirer in reference the object of his visit to
Washington last winter the motive of his vrtuous in
dgnation against the government is well known as
to render any charges against it quite harmless. so
long as they are confined to his own columns
though put forth in terms intended to create the
impression that the material of them may have been
furnished to him, duly exaggerated and discoored by
private advces" from the scene of military operations
The repetition OF these charges in other journals, how
ever, has led 10 make careful inquiry into the matters
and state, positively, that all these accusations
against the administration, of giving Mr. Tris any
thorty to interfere any form, the slightest degree
with Gen. SCOTS military command are absolutely and
totally without foundation.
Having made these statements thus positively we
deem proper to suggest to those federal oun ais which
persist in charging upon the administration an attempt to
do injustice to Gen. Scott in this matter that the inter-
course and the relations between the government and
General Scott matter Of record. In due time that
record can be made to speak for itself Meantime,
it will be more than prudent for those journals
which now seek to put the administration in the,
wrong against General Scott, remember the fate of
similar iudged attempt by the professed friends of that
officer which led to the publication on their CALL of the
well-known correspondence between him and the War
Department at previous period of the If the sue
cess OF that experiment warrants, in the judgment of
Gen. SCOTS friends, another call for the record we un
dertake to say the part of the administration that
such call, when made in due season and by due au-
thority, will be cheerully and at once complied with
We say this, not only without the slightest feeling of un-
kindness towards Gen, Scott, but, on the contrary with
full of the distinguished services which he has
rendered to his country in the field