Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-21

asonsbnen, tnat some
orators, gabbes and bar room politicians try
ing To impress the country with the opinion that Gen. lay
o wants ell the qualifications necessary to make good Pre-
sldent Sir the contrary the fact he IS iree and has al
ways been from the school of intrigue and political manage
men Possessing strong, intelligent discriminating mind
cultivated by regular of sudous habits and unne
industry the whole built upon and sustained not upon plat
form Of principles prescribed by other men by poess repu
taton, flowing from integrity of purpose honesty Of heart and
love OF country These Gen. Iaylors qualifications
they are above all price.
have thus in a very cursory and hasy manner, thrown
together my thoughts and personal feelings about Gen. lay
or they heasay evidences of his character but are
drawn from my personal knowledge of the man.
Most respectfully, sir, your obedlent servant
THOS. S. WINGATE.
Hon. r. P. LETcHEn, Er- Goreraor of Kentucky.
As an appropriate appendage to the above inter-
esting narrative, we insert from the New York
Courier and Enquirer the subjoned article on the
great battle of Buena Tista, which presents some
interesting views on that crownng glory of the
illusrious old Chiefs military exploits:
THE BATTLE OF BuxsA VIsTA-The Democratic Review
unquestionab entitled the notorey Of being the first
boldly and recklessy to deny to General TAYLOR the
credit the battle of Buena Vista and if the evidence
required of the utter hoPeessness Of the Locooco cause
would be apparent this act Of desperation That "hose
whom the gods wish destroy they first make mad
Latin adage older than Christianity ITSELF and doubtless
based upon intimate knowledge Of human nature. In all
ages reckless and unprncped men, in the spirit of dcpera-
tion commit OF madness and apparent insanity which
produce the very results which they dpecae and but for which
there might have been hope least Of avertng their i'm
pending fate. Hence the declaration uem Deus DC. Of the
ancens and is but illustration Of this trait in the cha
racer desperately reckless and unprncped partisan
that find attempt made to withhold from Gen. TAYLOR
the richly honors Of tie battle Of Buena Vista
So far such peposerous assault upon the claim OF the
old Hero to the nations gratitude can affect the public mnd
is beneath contempt If the Democratic Review to
charge 10 morrow that WASHINGTON in way instru
mental in achieving Independence the declaration would
be its declaration that Gen. TAYLOR did not win
the battle Of Buena Vista and, what is more, the decla
would have quite much weight with the people Of
the United States will the other History tells that the
fiends of JErEasoS his day, did hesitate asa the
character and the fame of WAsHIsGros but the people pro
tec,ed both In ike those who profess be the fol-
lowers of JFrsrsos assa character and the fame
OF ZACHARY TAYLOR but in the early days Of the epub
lie, the people viii project both from the reckless and unpTn
ciped assaults Of interested parsans If the Father Of his
Country, in his day could not escape the assaults Of unscru
pulous denagogues why should ZACHARY TAYLOR expect
that their DEFENDANTS will permit him pass unscahed II
natural that they should assai modest virtue and sterling
patriotism hat "he should bear fruit after its kind i
and is equally naura! that honest and intelligent people
should in their majesty and Indignantly rebnke those who
would disgrace them in then estimation, by making them
ungra'eful to public benefactor.
In the fearful situation Of Gen. Taylor with force Of
than twenty thousand regular and wescpnel troops
assans his four thousand volunteers and only four hundred
and fifty regulars, General WooL, Captain BRAGG, any
commandan Of regiment might have lost him the victory
but Of them could achieve il for him. To succeed it
absolutely necessary that all should do their duty and it
equally necessary that the chief should know chat that
duty was ard ,cea and ichTe il be performed, and
give bis orders accordingly Beyond oil doubt Capt Braggs
artillery in the last critical onslaught Of the enemy secured
us the triumph But who ordered that battery to open when
aud where it did, unsupported and with full knowledge
that if the enemy epulsed the battle must be lost
When Gen. Taylor told that to " form battery" when
and where ne did the risk OF losing the guns his
repy was and the battery be not formed here instantly,
and the enemy checked, will not only lose the guns, bu,
the battle also !" II then, the battle Of Buena Vista could
BE- claimed for any subordinate Capt Bragg probably could
exhibit the best special claim because his battery which
arrested the enemy his last charge Wool noby did his
duty wherever his fortune be and did Bragg and
Beknap and every chief aud nearly every soldier and wns
because ali ulu tne ouy III every psu OF Inc hej and be-
Taylor every where, pointing what that duty
was end how and where to be performed and, above ALL
because he bad the hearts entire
euc his men, and because his presence gave them the
Of victory, that he enabled triumph against the
fearful odds arayed against him.
In conne1ion with this subject, we repubish from the
Coitr and Enquirer Of the lh May ls47 the following
romarks. They the result of reflection when all the
Of the battle fresh in the recollection Of the whole
country and may adj that the conclusions arrived at in
these remarks much in accordance with tho public
scntoent the time, that nine-tenhs Of the papers la the
United States, republshed and endorsed what wrote ac-
compsned generally, with complimentary remarks 10 the
writer Many Of those very presses, that Gen. TAYLOR
the candidate for the Presidency are oanng themselves 20
the vile ssnJcr that another is entitled 10 the credit of the
battle OF Buena Visa
TRoa THE COURIER AND ENarIRER OF NAY H.
"THE BATTLE sierra GoRro.-We were made acc-
denly 70 say yesterday, thai this be the taa bril-
liant affair Of The Not so Gen. Scott ACCOMPLISHED
all that Napoleon Wellington could have accom- plished
under similar circumstances and so al Vera Cruz But
those aairs cannot be compared TO Beno isa. That was
a2eae very different concern and offered an opportun
y 'or distinction which very rarely in whole centuries
ci war. Monterey Vera Cruz, and Sierra Gorg are ofhe
same class Of baeswhcre the did all that men coud
accompshai that circumstances would permit But Ruoa
VISTA another NdyGihoH IL Is geaerst stands alone
smong TIE many wonderful dceDces wi ch history records
aud, "a all humrn probability, centuries may elapo without
an opportunity o,ng Tor such another signal triumph We
look 10 VAIN Tor any thing II he kind the battles o the Re-
yoution, o. tie 81 lsl2 and even European history
oiers nothing SUPERIOR II there le any thing equal 10 IL