The State guard., 1848-05-30
The Big Imtliam fHE or General
 Scott,
The President and War Depart
 lnent.


 Feb. 24,-that of MT. Marcy, in reply, i, dated April 2l, 184S. In this correspon dence the War Department not only sus tains itself against the nelarious attacks made against it by the Big Indian He, bu proved, beyond all doubt, that the charge. and specifications made by Scott against that Department and tbe President, are mol only sprinkled with errors, eminating from coraled brain, but are also the vehicles by which are conveyed some of the mos bare-f.c ced falsehoods and inconsistencies of which the most credulous can conceive. And we are sincere when we say we are not only surprised, but are much mortified to sec the probability of stain following our invincible army, and its most une xam. pied and brilliant victories, by having had for it's chief commander man, who is not only exceptionable in point of habits and morality. but much more so from a want of that truth and integrity which his elevated position, alone, seems to claim for him.
 That Gen. Scott was vain and dissipa. ted, We had been sufficiently informed, but to be convinced, as we are, of his total want of truth, we were not altogether preparad to receive, and is well calcula- ted to prove past expression of opinion of ours, that vain man can be neither a wise nor good man.
 In the reply of MT. Marcy, dated April 21st, he not only charges Scott with gross errors, but plainly intimatos to him that some of his many errors must have arisen from a want of truth and justice, of which ingredients MT. Marcy has be- lore this, no doubt, ascertained to his sat isfaction, General Scott never monopol- zed at least. MT. Marcy then goes on to prove most conclusvely, that he wants but one witness to prove the falsity of Scott s charges against the President and War De- partment. and says, that witness is Gen. Scott himself, and in addition;to Scott s'let- ters to prove this charge against him, he adduces also the letters of Gen. Jesup, Quarter Master General, which unques- tionably proves collaterally, that Scott has not only proven himself guilty of false- hood, but that Scott was the only witness needed in the premises, and whose word is to be relied on in that particular, alone.
 A copy of these two lettess should be in the hands of every man, woman, and child in this country, and we cannot re- commend them too highly to the attention of all lovers of truth and justice, for the dear louer of truth himselE will doubtless also read them attentiv ely.
 We are at a loss ta know how General Scott is to get out of this difficulty, for the letters of MT. Marcy, Gen Jesup, and his own, arc all pointed to the glaring false- hoods of Winfield Scott, who must have known very little indeed about the Depart ment at Washington, to suppose for a moment that he could, in his fits of incon- gruity and selfaspirations, blow both not and cold with the same mouth and the same breath, without being detected :here- in.
 He solicited the President to recall him from the army, and repeated that solicta- ton before he was recalled, and then turns around and complains to MT. Marcy, and says he is dismissed from the servce-- (stick pin there). He did not want to go to Mexico, and then complains that he was not sent, as he expected to go and was ready, &c.-(stick another pin there ]. He was ordered to Mexico while taking his soup, and then complained that he was not ready-(stick the third pin there. He complained of the President for making promotions in the army, and then com, plained of the President for not promoting one of his Scott's) pet captains over the heads of senior officers then in command )--(stick the fourth pin there). He insults his superior officers-the President and Mir. Marcy-and then not only insults Worth, Pillow, and Duncan, but actually arrests them-(stick tho fifth pin there). He complains ot the President for no sending him ten ships from the North, to make up the Al vessels which he would need about Vera Cruz, and then complains that he was not furnished with those ten ships, when he was furnished with l63-. (stick the sixth pin there). He complain. of not having necessary supplies, after ac- tually getting out of the way of his sup plies, left at Vera Cruz for him, and then complains he had to make (not unlike Cortez-rich comparison this) a self-sup- plying machine of the army-(se see Gen. Tn.,,,,se lott1x ~l -.