The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-01-18

| GENERAL ORDERS--No. 3l9. H .F
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
f& Mexico, Nov. IL, lS47.
The attention Of Cor ain officers of this
army is recalled 10 tae forego Ding regulation,
Which the general-n-chief sre,olved to en-
iorceso far as il my be in his power.
| AS yet bnl two echoes from home of the
brilliant operations Of our arms in this basin
have reached US, the first in New Orleans.
aud The second through Tlnpico newsp,-
per. 90
| Ilreqnres no little charity to believe that
the principle heroes ofhe scinpaIous letters
alluded to dill not write them, or specially
procure thom 10 he written; AMI the iuteI-
gent can be at no loss in conjeciuring the
auihors-chiefs, parts ms, aud pet fimiiars.
10 the honor of The service, the disease
puriency of fame, not earned--cannot have
seized upon half dozen officers (presenl.)
| all of whom, it is believed, belong to the
same Two coteries.
False credit, may, no doubt, be Obtained
at home, by such despicable self-puff.ngs,
and malignant exclusion ofothers, but at the
expense ofihe just esteem a I'd consideration
of all honorable ofliceis who love their coun-
try, their profession, and the truth of history.
The indignation of the great number o. The
latter class cannot fail, in the end, 10 bring
down the conceiled and lhe enviuus, 10 their
proper level. Nv
BY command Of Maj. Gen. Scott.
e Ii. l.. SCOTT, A. A. A. G.
The letters alluded TO BY General Scott
as ''ihe echoes from ,me,' are eyi,lcu "
the "Leonidas" letter, and lie other letter
which appeared first in the Pittsburgh Posi-,
IS thence transfe rrcd TO the Union, whence
we copied it on the 9Th M October, win
some Introductory rcmarksI and The whole
then appeared in a Ta'n,ico piper. When
General Scots orders were published, Lint.
Col. Duncan came ont promptly in the Nnrlh
American with the following frank avowll of
his cannecIion with the '''rampcr letter."
so called According to the North Ameri-
can the "Tampico letter" was "compL d
from two letters written by officers Of The
army in Mexico, To brother officer in Pitts
burgh, for his eye alone" But read what
Col. Duncan has to say 10 it: #-a-.
.,...s MEXICO, NV. l3, 1917.
| To the EIiar of The North American
Sir: | herewith present copy of lha Tam
pico letter." characterized as "scand ,lous,"
''Jespicable," "malignani," &C., in general
orders No 3l9, Published in the American
Star of this morning. s..-... -.
To the end that the true character of this
letter my be kpuwn: | dcs!re that you re-
publish it in your paper, aud that none of my
brother ol1iceIs may innocently suffer, fDr a
publication 50 obnoxious, hereby publicly
acknowledge myself TO be lis author. The
substance Of it communicated from Facu-
baya, soon after the battle, in private let
Ter TO friend in Pittsburgh. ua &. g..
The statements in the letter are known
by very many of the officers Of this army to
be true, and can but think that the bu3li.
cation Of lr,nh is less likely 10 do violence
TO individuals or the service, than the sup
preston or perversInn OF it. d, .a.a.,
Justice to Gen. Worth, (who is evidently
one of The "IIerocs'' pointed ar in order No.
394, requires ne to state that he knew ''h-
| ing whatever ofmy purpose to write the let
ter in question, nor that it had been written,
ill when on its way TO its destination; he
never saw, nor did he know directly or in
directly, even the purport of one line, word
or syllable ofi, till he saw it i'll print, and he
is equally ignorant Of my design to make
thi declaration, which lde, as wrote the
letter, unprompted and on my own RESPONSE.
bil,y. ,,.,. h as ,g - y, '.., ...Sa
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
ae JAMES DUNCAN, %
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U. S. A.
After the publication of this letter, Col.
Duncan was placed under arrest, and subse-
oueu,ly Gen. Pillow wus arrested, and mex,
Gen. Worth, The North American is of
the oninion that Gen. Pillow Was not ares
ted on account of the Leouidas" letter. but
ON the following grounds: le, ..,.,,..,a !,
Thero has heen annorher. arrest, that of
Gen, Pillow, one Of the chiefs aforenamed,
but not, AS appears, on account of ,he letters
of which he is the hero. We hear, general
". that The cause was this: Gcneral Pillow
having taken exceptions to the fndidg Of a
court ofinquiry, which finding has been APP
proved by Gen. Scott, addressed a paper re-
iatine to The matter to the Secretary ofsWar,
through the commander-in.chief, preserving
a copy, which he avowed in letter accom-
pany,ing, he had sent, or would send, direct
'iy 10 the Secretary at Washington; This
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