The State guard., 1848-04-25
From the Savannah Georgian. The Scott and Trist Cerrespon.
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 The impression produced by the cores. pondence Ia portion of which we have giv- en in our columns) has been precisely the reverse ofwhat was anticipated and hoped for by the Wings in Congress who de. manded its publication. So far from re- flecting the slightest shadow upon tho character of Mir. Polk, it has been but another added to the long list of triumphs which have shed peculiar lustre upon his administration. MT. Polk has certainly been conqueror at every step has taken in his presidential career, Then his foes have supposed that had cuaght him in the same-w yn the confidence of the moment, thd lave as. sauted him with the greatest boldness and heaped upon him the loudest abuse the issue the explanation--the eclaireise. meat has invariably justified it's acts, turn. ed the current of popular disapproval in an opposite direction, left his detractors dumb, abashed before the world and giv. en still stronger confirmation of the fact, which is now becom ing universally ad- mitted, that in prudence, sgacity, dignity, purity, general efficiency and success, tho present administration stands equal to afy and unsurpassed by none that have here- tofore controlled the destinies of the na. tion. as
 The publication of this correspondence was preceded by the most violent denunci. ations of the course of the President to- wards Gen. Scott in Congress and out of Congress, by Whig Representatives in Washington, and by the Whig Press throughout the land. The cry of persecu- ton was raised against the administration in favor of the General. Every one of course was perfectly aware that it was raised because the latter chanced to be prominent Whig, frequently spoken of as candidate for the presidency; that it was the yelping of the party pack, let loose to smell up any act in the course of the administration which could subject it | to popular odium the same furious sounds had been heard before and the public were not wholly unprepal ed to learn that the blood- hounds had fallen as of old upon the wrong scent, and to use vulger expression were "barking up the wrong tree" The systematic effort fthe Whig party, during the whole course of the war, has been to make politicial capital out of the laurels which have been won by tho Whig Generals of the army; and to sue. ceed more effectually in their purpose they have labored to array the General against the President to use the fame of the former as weapon of attack upon tho latter, to turn popular sympathy and af. lection for the one into popular indignation and hatred for ,he other, to make it appear that all the glory of the war belongs to Taylor and to Scott, while all the blunders of the war have been committed by the President, who has taken every occasion to display his jealousy toward illustrious heroes of the Army. They have invaria. ply failed and signally failed in their eff. forts.-lhe result has shown that they have injured the Generals far more than the President. They have caused tho former, in more instances than one, to re- gret the rashness and folly of their self constituted champions, and to ,exclaim ''save me from my friends" and they have left the latter where they found him, in posotion of unshaken propriety, of calm dignity, of distinguished ability, rendered only the more conspicuous and admira- bly, by calmoreous abuse and vindictive aspersions.
 The "Scott and Trist correspondence" has shown strange errors both in the off, cer and the commissioner. The latter did not follow up the instructions given to him by the Secretary of State, which eve. ry one must admit clear and unobjectiona. ble in every particular, and providing for any contingency of difficulty which might arise in the course ofnegotiation. "Gen- eral Scott's error" in the language of tho Union twas in taking fire at the imagina. ry slight which he supposed himself to have sustained-in the unreasonable jealousy which he conceived-and in the violence of the first language which he employed towards the commissioner, and his course on the delivery of the despatch. es, which it is difficult to regard in any OtIicT lSHt tldu dS uiSOuCuicuCc Ot UT. ders." And this the great development of the correspondence. It has placed Gen. eral Scott in most unfortunate position before the country, one profoundly to be deplored by his real admirers. It has turned his weak side to the public eye, and exposed imperfections which might have been concealed but for the efforts of his friends. Their envenomed shaft was directed at the bosom of Mr. Polk; it now quivers in the heart of Gen. Scott.
 The Administration have acted, not on- ly with dignity and endurance towards General Scott, but with degree ofchari- ty and forbearance which cannot fail to make deep impression on the public mind. What friend of General Scouts, even among the warmest of his adInirepA can say more in his justification, than is to be found in one of the closing paann graphs of that masterly communicati
 M. Buchanan to Mr. Trist, under
 June IA, lS47, in reference to the
 remarkable letter of General Scott