The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-21

Mer~ - sAs New York Cs.saer s~a E.q.,rsr's sAlss
sssasasnss to the Admaaissratsen and General
Scott s1f
One ac OF baseness Is very apt to lead another Ii
thief p'cksa pocket, he may well be expected to lie in
order TO get out Of the scrape This principle is well il
Illustrated in the stand taken by the New York Courier
and Enquirer in relation to the gross and wanion false
hoods which it published last summer concerning the
course Of the administration towards General Scott
There had been sad disappointment in the Courier ece
about certain brgadie generalshp; and when the ru-
NOR of the quarrel between General Scott and Mr. Trst
reached this country, the Courier instantly began its
work OF gratuous and wanton Islander against the ad-
mnisration The peculiar disgrace OF the proceed
ing was, that the Courier professed to speak upon
the matter as being thtn its knouedge and thus
saked its reraeity upon its assertion. Having done this
proceeded, four five days afterwards, up its
charges agla the administration follows crowding,
as we showed last Sunday three absolute falsehoods into
one short paragraph
Sand them if ax the seal to this long catalogue OF
injustice and outstrip by single act, the accumulated
ba of the whole they 1.-The administration attempted
pl1ee both the General and his army under the supreme
comnsawd oa clerk from WashngfoH! Although they
that in its condition, delay might be ruin the whole
army, Mr.. Trust had to conclude aristice Al
though General Scott responsible for the safety of his
force he Instructed to obey the orders Of Mr. Tfis If
they the orders of the President himssfr'
To these charges against the administration, soon as
they reached us, the nth Of July, replied fol-
lows:
From the Union, July
"TnK ADMINISTRATION AND GIN. Scorr.-Several OF the
more violent wing journals taking their from the
New York Courier and Enquirer, which processes TO have
eceived special Information the subject from its south
correspondents, charging THAT Mr. TRsT
rARY AUTHORITY GENERAL Scorr. The repeti-
charges in other journals has led us to make
careful inquiry this matter and state postirey
that all these accusations ADMINISTRATION,
GIVING Mn. TRlsr AUTHORITY INTERFERE, in any
form in the sghtsa degree, tcih Gen SCOTS military
command are ABSOLUTELY aud WITHOUT
TON"
Staggered by this precise and positive denial of the
wongdong which it imputed to the administration, yet
determined not be hwared in its purpose of caumny,
the Courier went in two three articles to state what
Mr. Trist had DONE and what Gen. Scott fit to think
of his dongs To this of remark we replied on
the 18th of July, and in reply confined ourselves
carefully to the impregnable ground which, upon due
knowledge of the case, had taken the 18th, in our
previous denial that is say, fully exculpated the
administration, without saying word 10 any unau-
MorSed proceedings OF Mr.. Trist to Gen. SCOTS
views of such unauthorized proceedings. This, our
second reply of July 18th. follows and it, like
first reply, literally and exactly true and branded
| the disgrace of utter falsehood upon opponent.
he Union, July 49,
About the armsce, the powers conferred Mr. Trist,
retracng Of the part of the administration. &c
equally false and ridiculous, have doubt, and
he Courier is probably just correct in its other
is in stating that of its previous assertions
been contradicted in the Union. We refer the
Union of Saturday night only for the refunton of this
declaration, but also for the contradictions of rhat has
been the habit Of saying for the last ten days. in regard
the Of the focards Gen Scott We
contradictions Of Saturday night the
psstire need not therefore, assume, without
the slightest he,ation, the entire truth o. the
thas made for again have hesitation in mailing the
spurious coin to the counter.
By this time even the malignant stodity Of the Cour-
Ter enabled perceive that its game OF fasehood
was losing game; and, finding itself utterly Muaried
N its tricky attempt to make ceaken position by
embracing Mr.. Trst's unauthorized proceedings within
The sweep Of denial, dourned the question OF
saeuy as follows:
From the Courier Enquirer, of July
so far its (he Unons) statements hitherto made can
% regarded dena pledge ourselves whenever the
documents in regard to the matter are published to prove
hat the Union has falsifed facts either by design
though ignorance the with which itproiesses
| be acquainted
Thus the whole matter stood. when-afte the publica
lion OF the correspondence upon the subecafter the
asehoods OF the Courier Of the 9Th of July, as quoted
boye had been by the record made manifest to all men
that Journal with the strange nfauaton that sometimes
befas even the most hardened vllany, saw fit again TO
call public attention the subject, by charging fasehood
upon us in the case in its most vile and brutal article OF
Thursday of last week. Our readers may remember
with what effect we at once in paper bearing date
Of Sunday morning last, quoted at length both the
Couriers charges against the administration, given
lbove and the record which showed them all three
be most gross and unmtigated falsehools We need not
20 over this record proof again.
Now, this state OF facts, it is not to be wondered at
that the Courier should find its position uncomfortable
because is hard matter to eradicate all of pub
lie shame from any human breast. Yet it is to be
Tered at that the Courier being in such plight should
see anything but aggregation OF its own shame in
the following barefaced attempt made in its paper of
Wednesday utterly to msstae and falsy the whole issue
between us. The Courier of Wednesday says:
Our statement concerning the difficulties between Gen.
Scott and Mr. Trist. printed, II will be borne in mind, be
any authentic Of the had been publish
ed here follows;
"Hr Tris did ewcow Gen. Soft despatch from the
Department Of lrar givng HIM Crisp poVr to conclude
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