The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-06

not arrest the incipient mutneer until he shall have
ret laid down his authority and submitted himself
to trial or wait least until distant period of leisure
Judicial examination of the appeal And this IL pre-
cisey the case under consideration The Department
in its eagerness to condemn could not take ms to
learn of experienced that the General Chief who
submits to an onrage from junior. must lay his
account to suffer the Ike from all tho vicious under him.
at least down 10 rank that may be supposed without
influence, in high quarters beyond the army. But this
would not be the woe mischief to the public service
Even the great mass Of the spirited intelligent and ws
affected, among his brothers in arms, would soon re-
ducs such commander to utter imbecity by holding
him In just and contempt for his recreaucy to
himself and country. Aud discipline and efficiency
of no value in the field
But it not my request of Juno 4. report No.
80 o July 25 largely quoted from above yet the
appeal Of pronunciGd that has, at length brought
down upon me this visitation, 70 clearly predicted
That appeal doubt had its merits-consideripg 1t
from cratic brother-s deserter from the other
extremewho having just made his peace with the true
d.nunciatous Of one, from whom up 10 Vera Cruz hs
had PROGRESSED (aud not without cause the highest obi
cations Qt was there he learned, from me- that was
doomed ct Washington and straishtway the apostate
began to seek, through quarrel tho Of turning
that knowledge to his own benent) No. There was
PRESENTLY still another element in the work
kept far practicable out lstter Of recall an
influence proceeding from the other arrested General
who quite wns that y should i generally b, under
y that all rewards and pupishments in this army
from tbs fest, to follow his accommodations
$40 we'll know at the time a. soon knew, that he was
justly obnoxiousnot only to tho of that
order but to other censures of yet much graver Cha
rsoter.
10 respect to this General the letter Of recall OBJ
serves, parenthetcay, but with acumen worthy Of
than "a hasty notice. that some Of my spsciaos'
lions of his misconduct hardly consistent with your
[myl official report and commendations"
Seemingly this is most just rebuke But waiting for
the trials will hero briefly state that unfortunately
followed that Generals reports written and oral
that INV conf ienos lent him In advance had been but
altoht lv ahokA naar n
Der that up to that ne from our entrance into this
city had been at the desk shut out from personal in
with my brother officers and that 1t was not
till after that confinement. that facts, conduct and
motives began to pour Ia upon mo
that In this and other oommunications have not de-
signed the slightest dsrespect to the Commanderin
Chief Of the army and navy OF tho United States NO
doubt no like myself and all Others may fall into MIC
takes to particular men and cannot, having myself
been behind the curtain admit the legal fiction that all
in my defensive statsmsnts have offered no wsnon
dscourtesy to the head Of the War Department. al
though that unetonsIy not in the enumeration of the
Closing my correspondence With tho department until
after the approaching trial.
Your most obedt ser,'t, WINFIELD SCOTT
The Hon. Secretary Of War Washington, D. C.
sEchKrAAY MARCY TO GEN. SCOTT.
WAN DEPARTMENT,
WARRINGTON, April 81, ls45
sa-ft would not BIS respectful to you to pass unno-
ticed your letter of the Of February
just myself to permit 1t to remain unanswered ON
To attempt to dispe the decisions which you to
have long pernacously cherished, and to correct tho
into which you have fallen, dsvovss upon me
duty which must not decline but, In performing It,
to be cautious as profess to have been, to
abstain from any w.nton discourtssy;" and hope to
article of war; has induced you to hold ostsnsbIy
responsible for many thiDgs which you ars aware are
S the rr:sdsn BY aiming blows
the Secretary of War; does more credit to your ingenu
~ aoosser, then to your charastsr as soldier
edated continuance to avoid responsibility does
net indicate an intention not to do wrong
The general aspect Of your letter discosss an evident
design to create bsefthat you draw forth from
your quiet position In bureau Of this department. aud
assigned the command Of our armies in Mexico Tor
the purpose of being sacriced and that to
bukesr " were Inflicted" on you, and the necessary
means If prosecuting the war with success withheld
to any other Of the gallant generate within the Of
is choice had labored to Illustrate it, swn plans TO
ruin and direraoe for On offset unnpoztant in Its
bearing upon public sRArs charge so entirely pre-
postsrous utterly repusnans to al the probabilities OF
human conduct, calls for ne refutation
For other purposes than to combat this ondy
cd ohners s proper that should notice some OF your
specific allegations.
command Of armies the President DESTROYS that
your departure should not be unnecessarily delayed;
dsys 10 make tho necessary preparations At washing
ton. You not ordered away until you had report
cd that these preparations were 10 far completed that
your presence here was no longer required Then iu
stead of going directly to McKee, you were permitted
your request to take circuiteus route through
New York, and there to remain few days You stayed
ct New York nearly entire week. and not until the
10th Of December twenty-sx days after leaving Wash
iostop) did you reach New Orleans where you would
have arrived in days. you had been required TO
take the direct route This solicited by which
your arrival at New Orleans was delayed nearly three
weeks IL incompatible with your allegation that you
were allowed "only four days at Washington, where
twenty might have been most aivantsg, employ
ed" This complaint has relation to facts within your
nowledge error therefore is hardly rsconciiable
with any sc'citude to be accurate AS this Is your
opening charge against the War Department and may
be regarded indicative of those which follow, shall
make the refutaion Of it still more complete for tbs pur
pose of showing with what recklessness have per-
formed the functions Of an accuscr and how ttls rs
suce the present state your feelings be placed
your memory You are tho witness by whom your
allegation to be dsproved On the day yoLr depar-
your hand writing, dated November %, 1876 with
the following heading:
"Notes suggesting topics to be embraced in the secre
tarys instructions to General s. drawn up I'm hase) ut
the request Of the former"
From that papsr extract the following paragraph:
the Secretary Of War; am pleased to learn from
you General scotD that you have in very few days
slready through the general sta of the army here laid
Ss. Tor os To
the south west In order to organize the largest
number Of troops that be Obtained ia time for that
most important expedition" (the expedition against
Vera Crus).
Here is your most explicit admission that you repre-
sented 70 the secretary OF var peIore leaving
ton, that arrang far completed that you
thought It best to proceed to the army In Mex
co and yet you make your opening charge against
the department that you forced away to Mexico
before you had time for necessary preparations
present the next charge In your own language:
banded to you written request that one OF three
Of accomplished captains therein named, might be
appointed assistant adutant general with the rank Of
msjor for duty with me In the field, and there was
vacancy, at the time, for My REQUEST has never
been attended to- snd thus have had officer Of the
Adjutsnt Generals Department with me in the cam
pagp. Can another instance be cited OF denying TO
general In chief in the field ct the head Of large army