The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1848-06-09
The GrenI Cnnfnin.

main specifications of SCOTS charges "a
gainst the department, and it sufiices for
the present TO say that to these Secretary
Marcy did not reply. His answer runs
Offinto othermatters and does not meet the
issues presented. He goes out of the
record and lugs in testimony that, in no
wise, is relevant 10 the true issues. Says
the Wig:
"The public is not entirely ignorant of
the "malign Influences" which prevailed
at Washington even before Gen. Scott
set out upon his important and hazardous
campaign in Mexico. They know some
thing of the efforts to supersede him-of
the attempt to put over the heads ofhim-
self and Gen. Taylor mere civilian, in
the character of a Lieutenant General.
In any other country in the wdRld, claim
ing to be free and liberal, such treatment
to veteran officers would have reused uni
versal indignation-but in this. we are
so used to enormous and unblushng abu
ses of power, that nothing now startles
us-nothing is deemed too monstrous to
be tolerated and excused, though in the
present case, the most servile apologists
of power seem half-ashamed oftheir task
of palliation.
The sum and substance Of the history
isthis: That, after successfully putting
down the public enemy, Gen. Scott found
in his own camp number of Executive
favorites, who were not content with a
fair share of the glory achieved, but in
their eagerness for distinction, were
ready to lay claim to all the honors ofthe
campaign. In disregard of the famous
Order 349, which the Administration had
itself revived. Pillow, Worth and Dun
can had, as there was just reason to be-
lieve, been rrivy to publications in the
newspapers giving perverted statements
of the great events in Mexico-and one
ofthem, at least, was guilty ofdisrespect
and insult to the Commanding General.
There was danger, indeed, of vide
spread insubordination-and when Gen.
Scott, in the necessary enforcement of
discipline, was obliged to arrest three Of
6cers above named, he was not allowed
to maintain his authority, but was himself
: suspended from command-and Gen.
Worth reinstated by the President,with-
out injury! But the outrage did not end
here. The Court of Inquiry, to investi-
gate the subject, was made upprncipa!y
ofExecutive dependents-no; of officers
of the highest rank, as the "custom ofthe
service" properly demanded-but ofGen.
Towson, the Paymaster General, holding
his office only for four years at time, at
the pleasure OF the Executive-of Caleb
Gushing, mere civilian, who though
jumped over the heads of veteran officers,
has never yet been submitted to the or
, deal Of Senatorial vote = and of another
officer, IA Colonel who, whatever may
have been his military merits. was known
, to be particular. friend to one of the re-
{. fractory Generals! Who can estimate
4 in all their intensity, the mingled feelings
: Of wounded pride and Indignation which
; must have swelled the bosom of the gal.
Y liant veteran whilst undergoing the mali
, cious persecution ofan ungraleiul govern.
. mentl Instead of returning amidst q
t proud military display, to receive the un'
. repressed plaujits of his counlrymen
] Gen.Scott was obliged to forbid the usua
b. tokens of official respect, and to leave hi.
a noble army in quiet way, as sort o
e prisoner under accusations of his infe
! riors, who had themselves condemned anc
p disregarded all lawful authority! Bu
9 The intelligent correspondent of the N
q o. Delta gives better picture than we
5 can ofIhi, return. After describing brief
j y the perilous and exciting scenes
: through which the General had passed
. iriumphantly, Mustang" soys:-"Lool
back and recall to your recollection the
sanguine reliance with which his gal
liant army followed him through the
, perilous times and bloody battles, unit
, he entered the Grand Plaza of the an
} cient Aztecs, amidst the victorious shouts
} of the most noble army the world has ev.
known. But all this time, while he has
been overthrowing the enemies of his
; country in front, exating our national
characterredressing our nationalinjuries
} and adorning our national history, hiS"ene-
mics in the rear" have been working to
tarnish his fair fame and destroy his just
claims to the gratitude and admiration ol
his countrymen. In the very face of the
enemy he had routed and defeated, and
in the capitol he has conquered, he has
been placed in the humlialing attitude o.
one scrambliug for justice with his infe
riors--inferiors in rank, in talent. and il
the high traits of character and education
; which make the great and successful war
rior, the statesman, and the logician.--
And now, this day he leaves the capita
ofthe enemies of his country, not witt
his victorious divisions following him Il
his native land, exulting in his unparallel
ed triumphs, but escorted by single
r company of Dragons, disarmed, but no
lshonored!"
Feeling OF the People
D On his way TO WASHINGTON. i'm passint