Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-06-05

The following views relative to the re.
cent battles in Mexico, from the New York
Courier, are Just and true, and so admira.
bly, expressed as to be worthy of being
written with the point of diamond:
The BATTLE OF CERRo GoRDo.-We were
made accidentally 10 say. yesterday, that this
seems 10 be the most brilliant affair OF the war.
Not so. General Scott accomplished all that
Napoleon or Wellington could have accomplished
under similar circumstances and so at Vera Cruz.
But those affairs cannot be compared to Buena
Vista. That was, altogether, very different
ton which very rarely occurs in whole centuries
of war. Monterey. Vera Cruz, and Cerro Cor.
do, are Of the same class OF battles-where the
victors did all that men could accomplished
that circumstances would, permit But Buena
Vista is another Marathon; it is sui generis-it
stands alone among the many wonderful defences
which history records; and in all human prob
ability, centuries may elapse without an oppor>
tunlly offering for such another signal triumph
We look in vain for any thing OF the kind in the
battles OF the revolution or the war Of 1912;
and even European history offers nothing supe.
ror, If there be any thing to equal it.
But, says correspondent, General Scott, had
he been there. would have accomplished The same
great work. Not so in our Judgment. Gen,
Scott would nobly have done his duty; but nei.
Their he nor General TAYLOR. could have made
that defence without the prestige of the gallant
achievements Of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma
and Monterey. There lay the secret OF TAv.
LoR's success. He possesses the extraordinary
po'oer, so seldom besto,ced upon man, of inspi.
ring his army Nth the conviction that ,viere he
is, DEFEAT is IMPOSSIBLE! The French were
nvincible when Napoleon was in the field, until
after his Russian campaign. 1t was only neces.
sary to know the "Litle Corporal" was in the
fight, to set the men to calculating at ,olsat hour
The victory would be won! And so it was a.
Buena Vista The veteran and gallant WooI.
did all that SCOTT or any man could have done in
the early part Of the day; and yet, when TAYLOR
came on the field his troops were actually DIV.
ing way 10 the overwhelming number of the Toe,
The mere presence Of Gen. TAYLOR, however,
turned The current OF events, and gave us victory
instead OF defeat. The Little CORPORAL" was
on the ground, and his soldiers thong hit no more
OF retreat.
Such is the history Of Busna Vista; and all
who read it understandingly, must concede that
even TAYLOR would not have won that glorious
held but for his previous victories. No other
General could have saved our army on the occa.
sion; and he saved it and crowned the country
with glory, by reason Of what he had previously
accomplished.
We repeat, therefore, that this success at Bue.
ma Vista, is mainly attributable the fact of his
possessing the extraordinary quality Of impressing
his men with confidence of success which adj.
mts OF no defeat, and which has so rarely been
possessed by man; and we intend no dsrespect
10 others when we say. that he is the only man
living who could have won the balle--wbicb is
certainly without any parallel in modern history.
and which in all human probability will stand
isolated and alone on the page ofhistory for centu
ries to come. Next to it 10 history Of The pressn,
war, stand the glorious battles Of Sacramento and
Resaca de la Palma. As we have said hsfo,s
Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo. and Moptersv 1 wsr.
noble victories, in which those in command wou
all the glory il was possible TO achieve: and ,hat
they did not win more, was no fault Of tbeirs hu,
simply lack Of opportunity. "Opport"ni, ~
was the watch word Of Decatur, aud sverv ~,
der we'll knows how rarely il occurs. ~ T sU,'
Tor and to DonPhan It has been awarded. by by,
even Col, Doniphan's glorious affair sink, i nv,
comparable lnsignifcanco when compared with