The national whig., 1847-06-12
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In the Union OF the 9Th instant, an article
copied from the Boston Posi- which Is sophls
,ical defence Of the Secretary oil war IN ms
conduct towards General Taylor. We appen
some extracts.
s..aere again, as before, the Administration
disolayed the tenderest possible anxiety To-
General Taylor" that is VIM. l.. Marcy did
for he has been suffered 10 have nearly his OWL
way in the war arrangements. "fhe tenderes'
possible anxiety" God deliver US all from sueli
tender anxieles as these!
The writer proceeds
.In reply TO these suggestions, Tor they wer
such only, General Taylor consented 70 The d.
yersioa OF 1000 Of his troops to serve under
Gen. Scott. All thai Gen. Taylor subsequent
ly did. including even the glorious battle Of Bus-
ma Tista, he did upon his own responsibility
Not, il is true, in violation oi any positive or
ders from The Wa, Department. but certainly
in The face OF doubts expressed by the Secre
lary, and which then seemed, AT this distance.
eminenlly just and reasonable" Here il IS
admitted that the glory Of that battle, because
all the responsibility implies all The glory,
which, as has been well said, was the key OF
the whole campa,gn--belongs 10 Gen. Taylor.
This is precious confession coming as il does
from one OF the organs Of WIN. l.. Marcy
one Of the recipit MS of his War Office pap
and, therefore, one Of the abettors and eulosists
OF that stupendously great War Secretary
Let us hear how he deals in wholesale eulogy
of him, which is nothing better Than whole
sale sycophancy.
"From the very commencement oil this wal
10 the present day, the name o VIM. L. Marcy
occupies a proud sminence, and will occupy
. il in the pages of history, whatever party may
resort 10 tarnish il. He has shown himself
cool and sagacious statesman, who is as fa'
seeing in council as. he has, during another
crisis proved himself brave in The feld.0 This
shameful panegyric ia uttered in the face Of
facts that prove how low in sycophancy, the
man must have sunk that wrote it. II is given
to the world and goes before il, although il is
well known lha, when the Secretary of War
had al command, and might have called into
the field more than ten thousand rol,mteeTs 10
succor Gen. Taylor, be did not call out one
thousand, one battalion, one company. There
remained Of volunteers, who had not been called
OUT, more than twenty thousand, and knowing,
as appears from his official letters, the critical
position Of Gen Taylor, berefl by the loss OF
all his regulars and the reduction to.a very
small force of volunteers, compared with ths
army known 10 be at San Luis Potosi, ne did
SHY of sustaining him by an accession oil even
one thousand volunteers. He could as easily
have furnished him with two or three thous
and in addition, as he could have written, O,
caused TO be written Two sheets of lefor pap r
II he did not foresee this Ge cessiiY, having
The archives Of The War Department and the
secrets OF the Cabinet in his knowledge, how
did he by such conduct merit The tile of s.cool
and sagacIous statesmen - and if he did fore
see il, BY what alrocious corruption must he
have been aclnaled? In whatever light we
view it, we are entitled wholly 10 deny the
correctness of The Boston Posts eulogy-if he
did not see, situated as he was, he was imbe
Gle! If he did torsee and cody disregarded,
he was corrupt. Tnele is no alternative
On one or the other ol these horns Of The d.
lena he hangs.
Il is only power, patronage, and sycophancy
that can enable him to continue in the War
Department. He is cashiered in the opinions
of the vast majority Of his counuymen oi' both
parties, and is an incubus on the party to which
he processes 10 belong.
"That is in the affIir Of taking away all his reg
ulars from him.