Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-03-02

The CASE OF GEN. ScoTT.-It is not in
WASHINGTON, alone, says the National Intelli-
gencer, nor in the Eastern cities, that the pub
lie Journals are scandalized at the manner in
which, at this moment, when a union of skill,
courage, and discretion, such as that which
composes the professional character of General
ScoTT, is most required at the head of the Ar
my in Mexico, that army should, by an Execu-
tive rescript of the most arbitrary character,
have been deprived of the accomplished Com
mander who had just placed it, through a Sc
ries Of successive victories, on the summit of
military renown and glory. From the South
we have the reverberation of the discomfort
felt here, and we have something more. Plac-
ing confidence in the source from which we
derive the subjoined statement. it is apparent
thai the General Order for the Court of Inqui-
ry in the case of Gen. ScoTT, lately made pub
lie, places the act on false Tor at least wholly
insuficiept) grounds, when it recites :'char-
ges'' by Gen WORTH as the ground of the in
dignity offered in the presence of the army.
land of the enemy to its gallant Commander,
by subjecting him to court of Inquiry of ju-
Nor officers.
FROM THE New ORLEANS PIcAYUNE,
We cannot believe that one of the distin-
guished Generals placed III arrest by General
Scott, and who has now been relieved there
from, has counsel!ed or remotely favored the
present investigation of charges against his
commandments. On the contrary, we be-
lieve we have good reasons for saving that he
foresaw the evil consequences which would
ensue from pressing inquiry into alleged
wrongs at this momen We are assured tina
he demanded investigation at such time as
would not interfere with the exigencies of the
service. We look TO an influence, a malign
influence indeed, flom another quarter as the
origin of this evil. We trace it to the insatia-
BILE vanity, the %unappeased vanity for distinc-
ton, of the same spirit which governed the
pen of 'Leonidas" and tVeritas." He avowed
to Gen. Scott his purpose of communicating
with the Secretary of War. mot through the
! channel dictated By military rules; and for tina
he was arrested. But he had a deeper wrong
to avenge; the affair of the court martial upon
the two appropriated howitzers had inaamed
him with a deadly hate. This ~allusion shows
Gen. Pillow to be the ''malign influence re-
ferred to. This measure of the President in
dictates to us that this man has accomplished
one of his purposes. The singular, the unac-
countable control he exercises over the Presl-
dent has been brought to bear, We were told
weeks ago that the blow would be struck, and
tre mere told whO8e influence uould do it. The
prediction has been fulfilled, and in this sus
pension of Gen. Scott we have renewed occa-
sion to regret the most deplorable appointment
which Mr.. Polk has made since the co nmenCe-
ment of the war.
Once before has this man endeavored,
through a contemplate correspondence, to fitch
from the brows of his illustrious commander
the thick clustering honors of the victories o.
the valley of Mexico. He was foiled in the un
worthy purI ose. His own p~artisans were made
to blush for him and to denounce his shame,
l~essness. Again, in a mode equally indirect
and unworthy, has he aimed a blow at his com
mander, and this time with a surer, deadlieI
aim. But the justice of his countrymen will
againinterpose to shield the intended victim
The blow will recoil upon him who aimed it
and, though suspended from his high command
and stripped of his authority, Gen. Scott will
this day stand higher in the affections of his
countrymen than if he were still debating law
to Mexicoin all the bravery of a conqueror.