The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-08-23


army mere eiEilian. whose whole Inil
isFy sApsrisnre lad lsen acquired - =
othrer Of the reerniIing service in the Ia
war with Great Britain. M0nsirnns =
ms proposition was in inlamy and lnius
ice. although the Presidents supporters !
ne House of Representative Treated Il /
HE beginning with open contempt. the
weTe finally brought. by the forre Of psI
IIy dsili and ESrruliEe patronage, Ia nc
gard u Is Of singular merit anil neressily
Tn The 9Th Of JanulEy, Isi7. after Ihrr,
aboT'ise attempts an The part Of M. Jacs.I
+ Thompson, OF Miss. 10 engIail il on III,
bull 10 raise an additional military larre
= VAS pun down by a decided majority
Ihe end. however, had not rome: tic
darling pn,jseI 0f the President VAS nal
20 be abandoned WiIliOul further struggle
Tor supremacy. Two days alter il fund
q sponsor ia the Senate. in Mr.. Dix, OF
New York, who reported bill lrnm the
GommiIiee on Military Affairs 10 an.
point l.ieuienani-General 10 command
The military forces of the United States
during Tie war with Mexico" nui thanks
To The Independence Of that body, subser.
yIency To the Presidential will was not
there considered virtue. and il fell once
more dead on the hands of It's projectors.
TN tie 18th. mali1n was made 60 lay
the bill on the table. winch prevailed. 10
test the sfnse Of the Senate. the yeas and
nays were called. and resulted as follows:
ieas-Messrs. Archer, Badger. Benien, But.
leI, Calhoun, cilley, Thomas Clayton. John N.
Clayton, cnI,eEdsn, cowin, Davis, Dayton.
Evans, Green, Huntington, flanagan, johnson Of
Louisiana, Johnson Of Maryland, Mangunl, Mil.
ler, Molelead, Pearce, Phelps. Simmons, Cpham,
Webster, woodbridge. aud Yulee-2s.
Aays-Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Aichison. Bag
by, Hteesc. Bright, CASS, Chalmers, Dickinson,
Dix, Fainich, flanagan, Houston. Niles, Rusk,
Sewer, Sturgeon, Turney, and Westcott-I9.
Senate Journal, ri sess. 2sth Congress. p. los.
The is one feature in this vote which,
al this junriure, deserves a special notice.
That ordinary men, nnskilled in the arts
Of war, should have consented TO SUPER
sede victorious chieilain with one ofIheir
own number. although objectionable in
itself. should not, perhaps, excite such
wonder. but that Gen. Lewis Cass, who
assumes TO be military man, and whom
his friends so stoully proclaim The " Hero
at HutFs suTTfnder;" that he should be
gully ,sf such .i.I~ns wrong, IL Indeed a
melancholy proof of human faulty and
meanness. Tha, single vote, lrilling as he
may have thought il, will be the funeral
knell Of his ambition.
Until the oath of February, nothing
more was done, when Mr.. Boyd, from the
Committee on Military Affair in the
House Of Representatives, reported bill
(Sen. No. 1907 " making provision for an
additional number of General officers,
&c." with an amendment, authorizing the
President 10 appoint any officer of the
rank of Major General, whether Of the re.
yular army or volunteers. 10 The chiefcom.
nand." This amendment was the Lieu.
tenant Generalship under a new name,
and as such il prevailed in the House by
vote Of l2 years, To 81 NAYS. Cong.
Globe. I'd sess. 29th Cong, page SGT.
The Senate defeated il again, on and the
3D. March the second Committee of COME
'ence on The disagreeing votes between
he two Houses Performed The last solemn
ties Of It's interment. (Senate Journal,
'age 2s6-7-) The motive for this foul,
shameless. and persevering attempt 10
llsmiss, humiliaie, and disgrace General
laylor, makes chapter in the history of
ne 29th Congress too interesting TO be
lghily passed over. The more certainly
o expose its true character to The country,
IS proper in this connection to bespeak
'ublic attention ID the suhjoined extracts
rom the speeches Of the most forward in !
ehalf Of the President Recommendation: !
I" II does not follow [said Mr. Jacob Thomp- ,
on that because he Gen. Taylor is entitled to !,
INK as the bravest of the brave because when
meets the enemy three to one he can put him L
Hight, that, therefore, he is The best fitted for Il
be command. - !,
" Most of Napoleon's Mars6als were pre-eui. -.
ent IN the field. yet none of them was Napo-
'on. In more than two hundred battles did the I
rowess and unrivalled chivalry of Murat shine
nth most conspicuously. Yet he nerer ,ras ca d
abe Of conducting campaign, and Judging n
'om results, such do Iregard Gen. 7ayIor."' +
This summary disposition Of hismilita- y
qualifications, by one whose promotion. /
urely. has never extended very far, was 5
earthly concurred in by still more ex- n
judge Of the requisite fitness to ,
command, Mr.. Fickln, of Illinois. II
hat witness, before the Congressional o
curt martial. gave il as his deliberate opin-
IN tina. q" he had not prosecuted the war +
nth vigor,' and that sit was his own !
lut that he was not eight weeks sooner /,
Monterey" Ponton trains, with him, O
1ere trlfiing inventions at best-the Mex d
ans should have been, pell-mell, pursu. I
d I" into the river" after their flight at a
'esaca de la Palma. And when informed !,
lat men, who had gone without food Tor n
,lrty hours, were in no condition for such h
'ork, he gravely inquired. why they did n
OF eat before the battle !''f n