Tri-weekly journal., 1848-01-08
Ass duJ. UtHtIdI.
GENERAL ORDERS-No.3 49.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, !

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HEADQUARTERS OF THE AEMY,
Mexico, Nov..l2 lO47.
The attention of certain officers OF thisarmy l
is recalled to the foregoing regulation, which
the general-in-chiefis resolved to enforce so
far as it may be in his power.
As yet but two echoes Trombone OF the bril-
liant operations of our arms in the basin have
reached us; the first in New Orleans and the
second through Tampico newspapef.
1t requires not little charity to believe that
the principal heroes of the scandalocs letters
alluded to did not write them, or specially pro-
cure them to be written, and the INTEL 5ent
can be at no loss in conjecturing the aat4ors-l
chiefs, partisans, and pet familiars. IL the
honor Of the service; the disease-prurlency OF
fame not earned-cannot have seized upon nall
dozen officers (present,) all ofwhom, it is be-
lieved, belongs to the same two lotteries.
False credit, may, no doubt, be obtained at
home, by such despicable self-puthngs and ma
lignant exclusion of others; but at the expense
of the Just esteem and consideration OF all hon
orable officers who love their country, their
profession, and the truth of history. The in
dignation of the great number of the latter
class cannot fail, in the end, to bring down the
conceited aud the envious to their. proper
| level.
eqFmoman6d If Maj sie Gen. ssp5s Scott; -,
annpar-
ed first in the Pittsburg Post, was then trans
IeTred to the Union, whence we copied it on the
oth october, with some Introductory remarks
ana lhe whole then appeared in Tampico ma
per. When Gen. SCOTS orders, were publish
ed, Lieut.. Col. Duncan came out promntlv in
the North American with the following frank
aVoWai oil ms connection with the ssTampico
letter, so called. According TO the North A.
merlcan the ''Tampico letter" was "compiled
rom TWO letters written by officers of the army
IN IN Mexico to brother officer in Pittsburg; for
ms eye alone" But read what Col Duncan
has to say to it:
Mexico, Nov. 13, 1917.
10 the editor of the North American-S;r-l
herewith present a COPY of the ssFann;co
letter, characterized as s'scandaous." odes-
plcable," malignant" &C., in general orders
NO. SAY, published in the American Star ofl
this morning. '~' "a
10 the end that the true character of this LET
Ter may be known, desire that you republ;sb
1t IN your paper, and that none of nv brother
oflcers may innocently suffer for a publication
so obnoxious, hereby publicly acknowledge
myself TO be Its author. The substance of il I i
communicated from Tacubaya, soon after the
Dattles' IN private letter to friend in Pitts
burgh. i'''-
Inc statements in the letter are known by /
very many officers of this army to be true, and
can but think that the publication of truth is {
less likely TO do violence to individuals Of =
the service, than the suppression or perversion t
Justice to Gen. Worth, (who is evidently 5
3 ne OF the 'heroes' pointed at in order No. h
o49) requires me to state that he knew nothing .
whatever OF my purpose to write the letter in G
question, nor that it had been written till well t,
On It's way to Its destination; he never saw. O.
Tor dld he know, directly or indirectly even n
ne purport of one line, word or syllable of it d
Ill ne saw 1t in print, and he is equally igno Ii
ant OF my design to make this declaration II
VhIch do, as wrote the letter, unprompted II
nd on my own responsibility. n
very respectfully your obedient serv,t on