Democratic banner., 1848-02-21
SRrom TIE New Orleans P;sayR.E'
CHARGEs EGAfNsT GEN. sf0TF.

Investigated and definitely decided.
Though cognizaBt Of most OF the speeifesss'
tions against Scott we did idt tiiGkiieptopeiz
er to refer particularly TO. then. uAtl .theyo
were properly brought before the Court t9ar
be held at Perote; butA-correspondent Of
the Epening N~niioaekr vie :see@srto+be
well informed or many points, has develop, ;
ed some Of the charges and Complaints
which have been made In Westinghouse
gainst the course of the Commander-in-
Chief and We stShoimprppristy inqrotisg
thercfron1. al .;r-I i. ".fc1 F-szvIrJnkGS
After referring to, manYvea,es Of wsstssIc
fol extravaganza in procuring supplies, and :
Of c~ontemptuous disregard Of the difectlons :
and arrangements of the Secretary Of Wax,
the correspondents Of the National pFo-
s., -4., tim .ss;+ 4 .ro I'd
On the arrival Of the army iaPsebls,A6s
same course of ~extravagant e~xpenditufe
was pursued the General-iD- Chief was'alS1
gain surrounded by the mSrmidobs Of Ssatas
Anna; he eagerly courted the acq,aintsscs :
Of the nonarchical party; visited the bish.,i
op Of that diocsse, who was always one q
the leading m%onarchists; and studiousy1
kept aloof from all communication wthttep
great republican party, which comprises AL
least three-fourtlis Of the population. ;Thed
monarchists sgain became his confiGentist.
advisers, and through them he opened q cez-
respondence with Santa Annals particular
Mi. Voss, Of indemnity memory
from which source he drew all his informa1
ton, until Santa Anna sent him Garcis,a
Spanish interpreter, whos underline pretext
Of having been banished from Mexico, a..
an American citizen, came to Puebla, feign-,
ing to have been robbed On the road. In
fourteen hours after his arrival in Puebia,'
he was taken into ihe family of the Gener.'
al-in. Chief, as an interpreter. It's well
known that this SpaDisrd, Garcia, had new
er claimed to be an American citizen, and
we are induced to believe that he had no
other title to citizenship than what sTcss
from his having married a csst.of mistress
of a late Minister to Mexico; be this a. 1t
may, he regularly furnished his friend, San
ia Anna, in CIPHER, with all the information.
he could gather in the family Of the Cen
eral-in-chief. "4
The political action of the General-in.
Chief was concentrated upon one single OBJ
iect: "to q a peace" His COUNSEL
Tors persuaded him that Santa Anna was
.~omnipotsnt in the country, and that through
his influence alone would that desirable OBJ
ject be attained. He refused TO avail HIM
self Of other and more correct channels OF
information offered to be opened to him,
which would have been the leaders Of the
great republican party, from which source
alone, positively useful information could
have been derived. They would have in.
formed him frankly that no propositions fog
peace could or void be entertained until
that host of cowardly v~agabon6s called the
army of Mexico, was destroyed. They
would have seid to him, "We know fhst
Santa Anna and the army are desirous 10
make peace on any terms. They are sup
ported in that object by the church and the
|aristocrscy, not from patriotic or humane
views; but the sole object Of retaining in
their hands the feins Of government, which
will inevitably escape their grasp, when
they are without bayonets to sustain their
despotism. We, the organs Of the republic
can party. have the power to prevent any
peace being made, and are determined to
exercise that power until the military pow.
er Of our country is annihilatsd, and the
government thereby restored to the people
When that is effected, anu the people en-
|abled to speak through the representatives.
of their will, then gratitude will dispose
them to cede to your government, our bene-
factors, even more than it has asked at" our
hands. Again: if you entertain q hope o.
expectation of patching up q peace With
Santa Anna and his satellites, we tell you,
in all candor, that your hopes are fsllacious.
There will be no peace! We, the 'sovef-
eign people, must be delivered from our
oppressors, and placed in the enjoJ ment Vt
a republican government, before we viii Or
can consent to make a peace. Out Of the
evils of our wo, we, the people, must and
will extract the blessings Of liberty" The
power Of the republican party TO carry oat
this purpose, would have been fully and
satisfactorily demonstrated to the General
in-chief, whilst in the city Of Puebla, if he
had not, with scorn and contempt refused
to hold any communication with, or derive
any information from, the person recon-
msnded to him by the Secretary Of War;
and il he had acted upon that information,
which would cheerfully have been given
10 him, he would have been saved from the
|ignomy Of having made an armistice before
the cates of Mexico. which. in its disAs-