Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-19
THE CASE OF GENERAL SCOTT.

1t is not here alone, nor in the Eastern cities,
that the public journals are scandalized at the man
ner in which, at this moment, when union OF
skill, courage, and discretion, such as that which
composes the professional character Of General
ScoTT, is most required at the head OF the Army IN
Mexico, that army should, by an Executive re-
script of the most arbitrary character, have been
deprived of the accomplished Commander who had
Just placed it, through series OF successive victo-
ries, on the summit of military renown and glory.
From the South we have the reyerberation OF the
discomfort felt here and we have something more.
Placing confidence in the source from which we
derive the subjoned statement il is apparent that
the General Order for the Court OF Inquiry in the
case Of Gen. ScoTT, lately made public, places the
act on false Tor at least wholly nsuficien grounds,
when it recites !. charges" by Gen. WORTH as the
ground of the indigniiy offered in the presence OF
the army (and Of the enemy to its gallant Com
mander, by subjectng him to Court Of Inquiry
Of Junior officers.
FROM THE ORLEANS PicAYuSE.
We believe that one of the distinguished Generals
placed in arrest by Gen. Scott and who has now been relieved
herefrom has counseed or remotely favored the present in
the contrary we believe we have good for saying that
he foesaw the evil consequences which would ensue from
pressing inquiry into alleged wrongs at this moment We
assured that he demanded Investigation at such time as
would interfere with the exigences Of the service We
look to an influence magn influence indeed from another
quarter as the Origin Of this evil We the Unsuitable
vanity the unappeased appetite for Distinction OF the same
spirit which governed the pen Of Leondas and Veras.
He Gen. Scott his purpose OF communicating with
the Secretary of War; not through the channel dictated by
military rules and for that he arrested But he had
deeper wrong to avenge the affair Of the court martial upon
the two appropriated howzers had naamed him sh deadly
hate This alusion shows Gen. PILLow 10 hc he "ma-
ign influence referred to- This Oh lc President
indicates that this has accomplished Of his pur
poses The singular the unaccounabe control he exercises
the President has been brought to bear. We told
weeks ago that the blow would be struck, and told
,ohose influence acouH do IT, The prediction has been full
filed and in this suspension of Gen. Scott have renewed
to regret the deporabe appointment which Mr.
Polk has made since the of the Once
before has this endeavored through contemplate
respondence fch om the brows of his ilustrious
mander the thick clustering honors of the victories Of the
valley of Mexico. He foiled in the unworthy pur-
POSE His partisans made to blush for him and
to denounce his shameessness. Again. in mode equally
indirect and unworthy, has he aimed blow at his
der and this time with ure deadier aim. But the justice
Of his counymen will again ntepose to shield the intended
victim The blow will recoil upon him who aimed it and,
though suspended from his high command and stripped of his
authority Gen. Scott will this day stand higher in the aec
tons Of his countymen than if he still debating law
Mexico in all the bravery Of conqueror.