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termination of the campaign which il relates shall be
dismissed rom the service" BY Older; -
W. G.. FREEMAN, Is
Assistant Adiutant Geneul.

! NOW what had reproduced the order Unquestionaby
he appearance of General Taylor's letter in the New
! York Express Now that was a letter written by Gen
Taylor 10 frend-a private etternoi intended for pub
LEGATION. For It's publication all knew that Gen Taylor
was in nowise responsible He (NIr Az argued that its
publication act OF ndiscreton He thought that
i had done great injustice 10 General Taylor. Nothing
could justify the unauthorized publication the world Of
ihe thoughts communicated BY officer TO another
Ter the seal OF private friendship But he thought that
honorable gentleman would hesitate before they con-
denned General TAYLOR for that publication There was
nothing in il for which he could be Justly censured But
he (Mr A) knew that General Taylor would not
ton the publication Yet the order to which he had
called the attention Of the House. directly intended
TO General Taylor for that He may pub
llsh any letter or dispatches until month after the
| campaign Who them could tell when il would be in
The power OF the general or any officer OF the army to
communicate any intelligence Was it in the power of
prescence TO calculate when the present campaign
would termnate' In to the call, the President
would send TO Congress what he thought the public in
terest might require to be published and General
Taylor must be sent--he could not utter one word in
his own defence He could not have any dispatches sent
TO Congress, or any the files OF the department pub
! lishel in his vindcaon and defence He had means
OF counteractng the injurious effects OF the publication Of
er pdrte statements or selections from his correspon-
dence made by hostile administration. He (Nlr. A.
| had voted for the introduction of the resolution.
He voted for it IN order that the gentleman who be-
lieved that General Taylor had done his duty, and
his whole duty, should not be suspected in the slightest
degree of endeavoring to shield him from any inquiry,
hswever searching and INSCRIPTIONS His conduct, he
! (Nlr Al had doubt, would in all respects stand the
scrutiny of time He did not believe that anythng-that
any examination, however partial and disngenuous,
could inure that officer When the one month after
generals mouth should be unsealed, there would be a
verdict rendered by the people of the country which
would set at naught all contrvances TO cloud his reputa
ton, and njure his character. The order which he had
Just read, peculiar in one other respect They had
seen the official organ occasionally publishing private
dispatches from the army 1t had discovered scrupes
in the publication when suitable for its purposes of com
muncatons from the army, interdicted as mis-
chevous design, and always disgraceful to the army
But change had come DER the spirit of its dream and
the correspondence from the army denounced and for
bid1en because it imagined thatits continuance might
interfere with the project of lieutenant general
nesty urged on Congress ny the executive but Which
be voted down again unless executive influence should
prove too strong for that House, of which indeed, he
ANAL Of e resolutions The Of the
resolution had induced him to think that only the
spondence of Gen Taylor called for but he had been
informed that the dispatches of the War Department
included Well, unless that were plainly stated they
should not not get those dispatches He therefore de
sired, and he hoped that the mover of the resolution.
with his usual rankness and that of proprety
which had always characterized his in that House.
would so modify his resolution to leave doubt on
that point 1t was well known that the minority in that
House could not be INDUCED in any call on the executive
departments He appealed then to the of justice
of gentlemen the opposite side He desired to extend
this call He desired to know more in relation TO the
secret history OF the origin and progress OF the war lie
desired particularly to know something of the interview
which the secret agent of the President OF the United
States mad nad win santa Anna al havana tie desired
to amendment to the resolution calling for the
instructions given to that agent Some light might be
thrown in that way the two millions appropriation
bill proposed at the las session of Congress- and also on
the three million appropriation bill to be taken up on
Monday next for consideration He should also like to
know the nature OF the instructions given to Mr.. Sldell
then minister commssioner-or whatever name he
might delight into Mexico, but who could not get him
self acknowledged, last December. He would send his
amendment to the chair, in order that might be read,
before he proceeded further:
| That he of United
qnested 10 inform this House if amy, officer or agent
direction Havana advise, procure, in amy way
| to promote the return Of Santa Anna to Mexico; or
iered with the President any officer Of the gov
eminent upon the subject of said return Of santa Anna
and if so, who the officer agent, what his
instructions, and when was he sent such mission who
was the person that visited Washington city, and thus
ment and what was decided upon at such conference
Also that he inform the House by what means, and through
what channel Santa Anna was informed that an order WAS
issued the commander OF our naval forces in the Gull OF
Mexico directing said commander not TO obsuct Santa
Anna's Mexico and that he also transmit to this
House copies of any letters communications papers Of
any KIND IN The Executive Department OF the government
il any way relating to the subject OF Santa Annas return to
Resolped That the President of the United satcs be
quested to inform this House whether the United States
have any diplomatic agent to the government of Mexico if
United States have such an agent who he a. what duties
he has performed since the with Mexico, what com
pensaon he has received and what his present rate OF
compensation
The information sought in that amendment very
anXiously desired by the people. II known that a
secret agent of Mr. Polk had had an interview with Santa
Anna at Havana. The friends of the administration had
said that Mr. Polk could not have prevented the return
of Santa Anna The gentleman from Virginia MIR.
BAYLY had said that Santa Anna had returned in
trail armed vesselin British national vessel was not
the fact The return was accomplished in British
steamboat chartered for the purpose. But were the
heard that neutral power could send armed vessel
with officers and soldiers to nation at war with the
United States.
Mr. BAYLY. VIII the gentleman be good enough to
say who advance that idea
Mr. ASIiNIUN understood the gentlema, from Vir-
GINA to say, in the first place. that the blockade could not
be enforced prevent the return OF Santa Anna mas
much he had returned in the armed vessel OF neutral
power.
ANfr BAYLY then said that the position viii CHI he had
taken in reference to that this-and if the gentle
man from Massachusetts wonld look to his reported
speech he would that IT there so sated-that
neutral national armed vessels not excluded by
blockade and that was impossible to prevent Santa An
mas return IN disguise in OF those armed vessels
i Mr. ASHMUN. In disguise He had idea that
the gentleman in disguise twas the first time that
he (Mr Al had heard that Santa Anna went home
disguised that the United States officers did not know
who he was Why, the public prints had announced to
them that the blockade
Mr.. BAYLY, The gentleman again misunderstands
me- did not say he disguised but alluded to the
fact that, he could have gone disguised impos
sble to keep him out.
Mr.. ASHMUN All Indeed Why, he might have
swum over But he did not go in disguise, and where
then the application of the principles 1t did not APP
ply to the case IN hand On the contrary the President
had given orders TO Commodore Conner to admit Santa
Anna and therefore all the arguments OF the gentleman
based on supposittous fell to the ground IL
family did sound strongly enough to hear the admnisra
ton accuse General Taylor OF laundering Would il
have been possible he mir A \ aatpd for tho Mevican