Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-07-29

Of the forces h assembled to organize ard
on foot expedition TO operate the g1 coast
dTTirng at the theatre Of action you shall deem 10 be
ticabs. IL is not proposed 10 control your operations by
definite and positive Instructions but you left to prose-
circumstances shall dictate The work is before you, and
the provided be provided for accomplishing it,
committed 10 yOu in the full confidence that will
them TO the best advantage.
"The objects which It is desirable to obtain have been
indicated and il hoped that will have the requisite
fOce 10 accomplish them.
"O this must be the Judge when preparations are
made, and the time fol action has arrived"
1t is hard to conceive Of language more clear or
more definite. The purpose for which General Scott
is sent is to stake command of the forces in Mexico,
and consequently to have the control OF all military
movements In that quarter. He is to make the move
ment upon Vera Cruz, If he 81 shall deem IL practical
be-" He is controlled by anv specific orders, but
all is left TO his judgment. Means, force, time,
Ipropriety-a are left to him. as officer in
command. He is not ordered to reduce the force of
General TayOr-nor yet, has been asserted, dbSO-
tuiey directed TO upon Vera Cruz All IS lett
to his discretion. If, in the exercise of that
discretion he erred, and it be no crime IN hun,
certainly cast blame upon the administration.
Immediately after receiving tins direction, ON
the 18th of November, Scott addressed Gen.
Taylor, from New York. before he had arrived " at
the theatre of action in which, after speaking OF his
movement on the Gulf upon which he had then decd-
ed he goes to speak of his disposition of troops,
in the following terms
But my dear General shall be obliged to take from
you Of the gallant officers and regulars and vol
un,eer whom you have 50 long and molly commanded
am af aid that shall, by imperious necessiy-'he ap-
pIoach Of yellow fever the gulf cOas-reduce You iCr
time to stand the defensive This will be inhntely
painful you and for that distressing TO me- But
ey upon your patriotism to submit to the temporary acT-
fee with cheerulnes. No better sfod 10 do so
Recent victories place you that high emInence, aud
aer myself that any benefit that may result to me
personally from the unequal division Of the troops audedto
will lessen the pain of your consequent inactivity
Accordingly he did take such force as he considered
necessary,-and as, in full view of Gen. TaylOr's
position, and that of the enemy, he considered in the
exercise of his wide discretion, could be safely trans
ferred from the Rio Grandc to the Gulf In sddltion
therefore, 10 the propositions heretofore stated, we
have the following made out by this correspondence
lst That Gen. Scott went to Mexico to take COM
mand of all the forces there assembled.
I'd. That he was not ordered to make the descent
upon the Gulf coast unless " in view of all the CIR
cumstances," upon drriring at the theatre Of action,
he should deem it practicable"
Sd. He not directed to weaken the force of
Gen. Taylor nor, by implication, authorized to do
SO, unless, in his Discretion he should consider 1t per-
fecty safe to do so.
4th. That without waiting to reach the seat of war,
and determining there the practcabillty of the
ment, he resolved upon it at New York, two days
after his orders issued and from that point adj
vised Gen. Taylor of the necessity there of taking
his troops.
9th. That in the exercise of his discretion alone,
Gen. Scott Withdrew the troops of Gen. Taylor, and
produced the of things upon the Rio Grande of
which the federal leaders and papers complain
1t is not purpose to censure Gen. Scott Tor this
act Whether it right wrong shall not
undertake to determine. He had broad discretion !;
IL he erred, it he abused his trust
ne has right to a hearing before condemnation A
simple statement of the facts necessary for that
other purpose had In view, and which we think
we have accomplished, of acquittng the administra
tlon of all blame in the premises. We have shown
that the PRESIDENT did not control or direct the reduc
ton of Gen. Taylors army, farther than to confde
the propriety of dividing the force to the discretion of
Gen. Scott and certainly thatRether he nor Gen.
Scott made that division with he of sacri
fcing that army to the Mexican forces.
A democratic meeting" was recently called in N.
York. assemble in the Park to nominate General Tay
IoI. 1t was failure Not than twenty-five merce-
naries present.-Chapman's Sentinel
Thus Chapman stigmatzes every Democrat who goes
for Gen. Taylor as a "nercenary" Will he tell US how
many ''mercenaes" there were, including French and
Daniel at the Democratic Taylor meeting in Mount Ster-
ling-how many 'mercenares' there in the large
Democratic Taylor meeting in Harrsburg-and how ma
ny mercenaries there in the two large Democratic
Taylor meetings in New Jersey !-LOuisviLe Journal
The assertion in the first sentence is false. This
is in character, however. 1t is impossh1 for the
Louisville Journal contain editorial paragraph
which is not marked by at least one falsehood.
As to the questions of the Journal, which follow Its
false assertion. We cannot tell show many MERGE.
ndrieS there were at the Mount Sterling Taylor meet
ing; but we think the Journal names two of them,
French and Daniel. The first told, by Ken
tuckans who know him, is broken down party hack,
who does not possess any considerable degree of the
confidence of the party which he processes himself
attached and the second is the person who murdered
his brother-in-law in Courtroom about year since
the horrld particulars of which we published at the
/ time. He somehow escaped the gallOws, as many
murderers conirive to do; but cannot think that
c his standing man or as politician was improved
by his Infamous crime even in a State where OF
e the Wing nominees for high Offices have committed
similar violations of the law of God and man.
Neither can we tell show many" mercenares there
at the Taylor meeting at Harrisburg: but when
e we know, as we do that they were the same men
ii who but short time ago the professed staunct
and unyeldng friends Of Gen. Cass, and who, at one
i time apparently willing to risk every thing il
the shape of party integrity under the pretext of re-
warding him for his services to the country both ii
the field aud in civil lie,-we but regard the
: sudden change in their personal relations, affecting
# Cass and Taylor being prompted much by
hope of immediate profit to themselves as by any 9th
t err consideration. Under the circumstances they
cannot be governed by principles of honesty and del
!, ity. That is evident.
The meeting in New Jersey understand to hav,
,f been like that in New York. failure. 1t is not