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

and highly impor tant aspect If John Van Bu- |
rem and the barnburners should be rejected ON |
the ground of their Wilmot proviso position
what will they do? We have every reason to
believe they will not give up the ship 80 easily
as some may imagine. No doubt they will or
ganize new democratic convention at Balt-
more, and will take their ground boldly and re-
colutely for the whole Union, as they have al
ready done for this State in New York, and Uery
probably they tciH nominate General Taylor for
their candidate, as they did at Utica, few months
ago. Having done this, they will then trust to
the chances of defeating the election of Presi-
dent by the peoples vote, and of carrying the
three chief candidates into the House of Rep
and in that body General Taylor
would have as good chance as any other man
As regards the wing convention in Phlladel-
phin, we very little prospect of General Tay-
lor being taken up by that body. Mr.. Clay or
General Scott will, no doubt. be their choice
All the fuss and noise made in this quarter, in
favor of General Taylor, as is we'll known, is
utter delusion and mere fanfaronade. But, by
the nomination, and with the support of the
barnburners OF New York, and those who SYM
pathize with them throughout the Northern
States, including, also, all who favor him from
the whig and democratic ranks, both In the
North and South it is most probable that Gen.
Taylor would become very formidable candi
date among the lots which may be presented by
the various parties.
The Scott and Marcy Observation-Disclosures
Peppered Plate OF Soup.
We give in our columns to-day, the famous
Scott and Marcy correspondence, which recent
ly created such an uproar in Washington among
the politicians there, and which will probably
cause great deal of observation and remark, of
various kinds, among all parties throughout the
country, during the ensuing summer This cor
respondence consists of only two letters; but If
they are few in number, they make up in length
sufficiently to satisfy any apr elite or any con-
science. They are the browning and concluding
eplstles between General Scott and Secretary
Marcy, and embrace all the complaints, annoy
ances, follies, and faulty of the military man,
on the one side, and all the smartness, ill.tem-
per, sarcasm, eloquence and patching pretensions
of the bitter Secretary, on the other side.
These epistles are even more remarkable than
the original hasty plate of soup; they are more
highly peppered, too, and therefore will be proba-
bly, better relished by all those readers, of every
party, who like good cookery, either in the read
ing room or dining hall. These two letters are
also full length portraits of the two distinguish.
ed individuals-each self drawn. General Scott's
letter is heavy, long, tall, turgid, ill-tempered,
courteous, heroic, silly, and ridiculous, all
mixed up together. Secretary Marcy's is even
longer, more studied, much more bitter, ironical,
sarcastic, pointed, energetic, eloquent, and much
more successful. As fighting man General
Scott has his equal only in General Taylor; but
as writing man, he has not the sense and pru
dence of school boy. Secretary Marcy, on the
other hand, is full grown Machavelli, with ali
of the tartness and some of the irony of Vol
| taire. Under such circumstances, therefore, it
is needless to say that General Scott has been
far less successful in his writing than he has
been in his fighting, and that his campaign with
Secretary Marcy has been by no means equal to
the glory of his campaign with Santa Anna
In fact, Secretary Marcy, clothed with his fifty
nt-patched- pantaloons, has achieved brilllan
triumph over the conqueror of Mexico, the mo-
dern fernando Cortez of American history. and
the greatest military leader and the slliest letter
writer of the age.
1t may be thought harsh and disagreeable, by
the political friends of Gen Scott, who wish to
make him President of the United States, to be
told in plain language these fatal truths but we
are Independent, and care no more for General
Scott, or any other great man, than we do tor
the Rewsboy who rears out, "Here's the Eztra
Herald, with revolution in France' We are
forced to do justice, and will do justice to the
great merits of Gen. Scott, while We censure
him for his weakness, Stiffness. vanity, imbe-
cllity, and want OF all sagacty, in the common
political affairs Of life. Of Secretary Marcy we
kaow a. much as we do OF Gen. Scott. He is a
strong minded, clear-headed man, with little
principle and less delicacy to prevent him from
trying to aspire to the spoils of Office, or the
honors or emoluments of power He is just 6 8
exact and certain about the mending OF his
breeches-price fifty cents-as he would be about
ripping up the weaknesses and lndiscretions of
Gen. Scott.
OF the justice of General Scott's cause, to GER
tain extent, we have 70 doubt. He was selected
| to take command in the campaign from Vera
Cruz 10 Mexico, from The necessity of the case,
and because MIR. Polk and his Cabinet dared not
brave public opinion by refusing it to him; but
there is no doubt that soon as he set out on
that expedition, Mr.. Polk went to work to super
sede him, if he could, by the nomination of Mr..
Benton as Lieutenant.General. In the com.
plants put forth by General Scott, there seems
to be much truth; yet he was wrong to notice it
when he saw the attempt to supersede him was
defeated by the interference Of his friends In
Congress. On the other hand, in the quarrel be-
tween the General and some of his subordinates
in relation TO the publication of letters in the
newspapers, and particularly in relation to
committed on both sides. General Pillow