The Democratic sentinel and Harrison County farmer. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1851-1852, 1852-07-21
General scOtt's Bullying DispO-
sition

General Scott's Bullying Dispo
sition.
The people of the United States will re
member the almus; innumerable quarrel
that Gen. Scott has had with his brothe
officers Of the srmy and others. Even il
the commencement of his military career, a
a captain, he Gnarrelled with nearly all thr
officers with whom he was associated, which
ended in his suspension from the army fol
one year. for defaming superior officer
and applying to his own use the proceed:
of two months. When he was reinststed
in the army he quarrelled with Gen. Wilkin-
son, and wrote severalmost rancorous assaults
on that excellent officer. Subsequently he
quarrelled with Gen. Jackson, and when the
old hero castigated him in a most severe
manner, and challenged him, General Scott
declined ameeting on conscientious grounds.
About a month afterwards, he wrote an
abusive article against Gov. Clinton, of New
York. The Governor published the card
says the Investigator. and General Scott
challenged him to fight duel, although
Ihe knew the Constitution of the State of
which Clinton was then Governor, prohib-
tied him from fighting. Gov. Clinton, how
ever, retorted upon him by reminding him
that he had no claim to call him out until
he had accepted the challenge of Gen. Jack
son then in his drawer.
Gen. Scott next quarrelled with Gen.
Macomb and Gen. Gaines, and also with
President Adams, although Mr.. Adams
was his political friend. and so outrageous
did his conduct towards Mr.. Adams become,
that he, while President of the United States,
ordered bis Secretary of War, P. B. Porter,
to send the following letter, suspending Gen.
Scott from his command:
DEPARTMENT OF WAR,
NoU 26h, 1923.
SIR:-1t is not the purpose of the Presi
dent to take any final order in relation to
your late very reprehensiWe conduct, until IA
sufficient time shall have elapsed for the re-
IceiDt of your deliberate answer to the letter
addressed to you from this department on
the / 5th instant, and which contains an ex-
position of the views of the President on the
several questions you have raised, The ma
ture of that order will as you perceive, de-
lpend in great measure on the character of
the answer received from you, and which the
President hopes, may not be wholly unin-
auenced by the considerations which by his
directions. have been presented to you,
70 put a stop in the meantime, to the
course of insubordination in which you have
deemed fit to indulge, the President directs
that from the receipt of this letter, you will
considet yourself as suspended from the
command of the western department of the
army, until his further pleasure shall be
made known to you. General Atkinson has,
accordingly, been directed, by an order Of
this date, tc assume that command; and you
will therefore, without |elay transfer 10 him
all unexecuted orders that may have been
received, either from this department, or from
Mai Gen. Macomb-at the same time in.
structing one of the officers at present per
forming :he duties Of Assistant Adjutant
General of that department. to repair TO the
head quarters of General Atkinson with the
documents and papers belonging to the com
mand.
l have the honor TO be your obed:cnt ser
want, p. B. PORTER
Brcvet Major &c eral Winfield Scott,
UM'ed States 1rmy, Cincinnah.
Upon the death of Gen. Macomb, Gen
Scott became, by the date of his commission
Commander in ChiefoG the Army, and from
that day to this, his life has been one con
tinuous scene of egotistc display, and petit.
wrangling with superior and inferior officers
When General Jackson sent him to Florid
, to put down the SeminoIes, his conduct be
came so insolent, and his course of polio,
SO exceptonable that the President had t.
order him away, and leave the command O
the army in other hands. When the Mexi
can war broke out, Gen. Scott quarrellet
with the administration of President Polk
because they would not send him to com
mand Gen. Taylor's army, and afterward
when they determined to despatch him OIL
another route of operations, by the way o
Vera Cruz, he wrote his "hasty plate ofsoup'
letter, declining, lest there might be fir
IN HI rear" After he arrived in Mexico
he quarrelled with Gen. Worth, Gen. Pill
low, Col. Harvey, Gen. Patterson, Col. Dun
can, Major Burns, Commodore PER-, Mich
olas P. Trist, and we cannot tell how man,
more. Indeed, his miserable wrangng ii
the face Of an enemy, and in an enemy
country, nearly brought our army into dis
grace.
With such disposition, what would Gen
Scott be when President of the UniteC
lStatcso
Godey's Lady's Book.
The August number Of this excellent Mag
azine is already on our table. 1t is embel
lished with neatly executed portraits of Mrs
Washington, Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Madison