Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-03-11
MAJOR GENERAL sCOTT.-HIs RECALL, FORE
TOLD IN THE CITY OF MEXICO, &c.

The following extract from one of the letters re-
Gently received in this city from the capital of the
Republic of Mexico may help to throw some light
upon rather grave subject involving the public
interest and which, sooner or later, must come to
be better understood than il now is:
"CIrr OF MExIco, JANUARY l3, ls4s.
"General PILLow and -- are still in
arrest waiting for general court martial be ordered al
Washington charges forwarded by the commanding Gene
raj the Secretary Of War in November. II is under
stood here that these officers have demanded the recall
General ScoTr and hear it said that General Pillow is
eckoned be quite in the confidence of the President the
dispenser of his rewards, Sc is said here that
the President will probably not GLOW General Pillow to be
tried that is it believed by r and his friends Nous
True enough: the President has quashed the
trial of Gen. WORTH, by refusing to order court
martial choosing rather to institute an inferior court
of mere inquiry before which he has, to the amaze
ment Of the country, dragged also the Commander
of the Army, (by whom the charge against Gen. w
was preferred1 WINFIELD SCOTT the great Captain
Of the age Yes in the midst Of his brilliant and
successful career, at crisis of the highest national
concern, has the President arrested the victorious
General, and transferred the high trust he so ably
bore to one of the volunteer officers of his own Gre
alton, who, if he be born General, certainly, as
yet, has but little Of the experience of one.
We believe that the ill-treatment SHOULD we err
if we call it persecution? of this accomplished
General and Statesman, by the President and his
Cabinet, is without parallel in the history Of en-
lightened Governments of the world.
Is there not good reason to apprehend that this
untoward act>of the Executiye-the change Of the
Commander of our Army in the heart of Mexico
may result in the renewal of the war!
The occasion is apt for recalling to our readers
the memory of the admirable letter from Gen. TAY-
LoR to the Secretary of War, so recently brought to
light, in which that distinguished soldier well
parties the blow covertly aimed year ago at the
old Hero by the out-stretched arm Of Executive
power. The true view Of this case, so happily
illustrated in the fable of Esop, applies with equal
force in the present instance of Executive dis
pleasure.
One might really suppose that these great Gene
rails have been rather too successful in leading our
cohorts to victory. A suspicious temper might
perhaps infer secret purpose Of the powers that be
to defer the peace little longer, and to prolong the
flow Of blood and treasure, that some new-made
Generalissimo may perchance win for himself an
amaranthine crown more acceptable, because more
auaiable to the votaries Of the progressive Demo-
cracy" OF this our age. We have indeed heard
such surmse made by others. Be the fact as i,
may, the mandate has evidently gone abroad
i" Down with the Wing Generals! OFF with, their
" beads I! They have been too successful for their
" counry's good'' !.