The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-08-11

accusation, could imsg CINE that any hing LIKE .
r-hnke was contained in this extract; yet on
hi. un,.bs,anrial basis alone rrs.s the eh; re
over and over again pr scented, that you wtre
r+bukrd ny the War Department & 3 discharg.
my the prisoners captured at Crrrn Gordo. y,
in case where il was so easy - br right. and
50 difficult 70 GIT wrong, you uli tnii INTO such
: obvious III .s.ks., Shat u'aynot . expected
from you in ober matters where your perverted
feelings hav. fr,ef and wider range
Before considering you. complains for not
having been suppl d with sufficient means Of
FIR the expedition ngains, 'Ta
Cruz. will pd:cr your "f'ur mcin"rials, 10
the War Department. in which yun demon
s,ra'ed, as y'us, e, that Vera I ruz was The
true basia .t np ration. and that ihe enemy
c p.ta, s,ul! Mt preb,biy BE- reached from The
Ri, Grand.
canpn, d SC yer the pe..in'ncy Of your al
ls,uu 10 these four neln'ia's, rxcept II be- I"
put frr'h claim ~ the merit OF originating til,
expedition az inst Vera trnz, and i b'in1 tn.
FIRST l. discover .hlt the ID ,s. practicable route
:, the II 4 Nj Iico Wa. from that point on the
Gulf; hut your known abtorr nc. f,r "prn
riency OF fame II : earned oegh, To shield you
from the .usp;ci n Of su.h III .ihr mitv.
ap sure you are not igaorant .f tls. fact
hut you are, it is npverth less trur--'hat the
expedition again Vera Cruz had been for sa,n"
time under CONSIDER ii N /: that great rains mad
been taken To get iniurnlt,un 10 the d, T n.
c"s If that city, tie strength of the castle, and
the difficulties which would attend the char.
kation Of 70 'ps; tina; maps had been procured
and carefully examined; th1t persons who had
resided there, end officers OF tie amy and navy
had been c"nsnlted on the subject, and the en-.
tcrpr.se actually resolved on before the date Of
Jour first lae 'ir, and before you were thosght
@ tr ,nduc, l..
~ early as:Le 9th 81 J.ly, l5l6, WITHIN Two
lnoath, afr. the declaration Of war, and b-fnrs
Tia r,a: I, bo;'y % troops s.i.ed for II, prosecution
had reached the scene of operate rs, ns.drra:e
attention had been given e. that subject. On
tha, dnY, a letter from this departsn n, TO Gem
aral Tayler thus alluded ta = movement from
Vera Cruz mo the interior Of The enemy s
com ry:
81, from all the inf rm atom which you may
Communicate u the department, As well a.
that derived from other sources, it sh. uld appear
that the difficulties and ot stacl-s TO the Con
dnctnX Of a ciiBpailn fom thr RIO GFandr,
the prrsen, bas" OF y ur operations, for any
c ,nsiderabic distarc.. into The interior e Mex
leo, will be- very great, the departure Mt will
consider whether the ma II nv IS on III uid not
u ..nltely take place from some point IN the
c,as:-say lampieo, or me other ,int in The
vicinity "t EGrn Cruz This 81 sge.t.,n Is md
with a view Ia call y"ur ait niion to il, ami to
obtain from y u such information as ynu may
br able to nnrart. Shonld It b. Determined
that the main army should invade Mexc, at
some 9TH p,nt than the Rio @ ande --sav the
cini'y Of Pern Cruz-a large and suflic en-
number f transport yes ella could be paced at
the lnuu h otthe Ro Crude by the time
the heal hv season sets in sly early IN Nov
rmber. The uIain army, with all Is muni'i"ns,
! l., IT. Il p,..pf
b-h nj to hid and "ccupy he Ri, Grandr, and
all 'h- t WINS and pr. vines which yon may
havr conquered b toe hat im. Ia tue even,
ot such being the plan of ppera =, your upin-
ion Is d,i ed VIA Increased fIcc, if any,
W II he rsqur d TO carry ii ,ut with success
We Ian hit the Amy C uld b. dsenbarked
"A I. III rs distant from psra Cruz, and read
II. invest the wn in ITS rear, withnn' COM g
within the range Of tn. for rrss Of SIN jun
a'uh"a. Tia / WIN could be readily taken BY
land, while the fntre>s, being ,nvr-t by land
and sea, and al com nunicati n cut off, mn.
.on tai! From Trra Cruz 10 h.. Guy "t Mex
there is a hne rad upon which the dill
y nc,.s or sage coaches run daily. The dis
lance fro Vera Cruz to III" city nf McKee, *
not mo e than ono bird If that from the Ri
Grand to the city Of Mexico ;"
The subject was again br u!ht into virw or
the Is b al DC obcr, in the same year. and N ore
particularly -n the I'D OF Oc.obrr, IN letters
addr. strd TO Gen,rai Taylor. At the last date,
the plrn had been far inatu.ed that several
officers of the staff and line were Indicated for
thu, srrvIc". This was nearly month before
it was determined to empl"y y"u wi h the army
in any part 1t Mexic"
1t was never contemplated here 10 s'rik- at
the city of Mexico from the line occupied by
G neral Taylor, or through any other except
hat 70 81. L..
pushed to tina, extent, IT required no elaborate
d"fn"nstIaIon--no prof ind military talents
nnili ~ more than common xa.aciiy and very
slight 50 fec ion on h snhj"ct, 10 see The pro-
prirty and necc, ssi 1T making Vera Cruz the
base Of military rp' r,i"ns
An alleged delicn ncy Of means tn transport
The troops in the expedition % Vera Cruz src.ns
/" b. IN st prominently pr scented, and most
confidently relied on to sustain Y. ur charge
ati. inst tn War ID pastmcnt fl neglect ny tins
b arrh # t. duties
issu d, IT SENS to be I'd nit:ed, the prop.
or Ter, ~ lar a. the means of transp 'r.aii we1e
to be drawn frons the North but IN all. ga
Ii n is that It was issued 200 late, and was new.
er'xcu.ed. Il was issued a; least four DAYS
bef,re yen arrived at New Orleans on your way
t. the army. II promptly executed, it was
reas nabi.' calculation that the zen vessels"
alluded t. III your tier, would have arrived in
season to receive the troops as soon AZ ycu
could ''lect them from their r,nnt- and scat
ter d posi'l, in the interior of Mrxc, bring
them IL the sracoast, and praplr. for their en-
b,rka'ion Whether an order fur ships t. be
sent out in ball st, i,sued the 18th nr December,
was CT was not in season for the service they
were d. sgned f,r, epends upon the time wh
the cxp.dtoa could BE- got ready TO SAL. To
determine this, regard m lst be paid tn what
you required t" he ne preparatory tn the cx-
petition, rather than to uha: you may have said
OF that subj CT
A reference t. two or three Of your rcon
lions viii show hat no ration, hope could be
rnte timed that the expedition would set forth
before the midal- or the last OF February. You
quired as one item of the outfit hundred
and forty surf boats all To- D.. CONSTRUCTED after
yam left Washington. Though the department
urged less ma nher, you insisted on all. YOn
es mated the exp 'ns- of each at $2)0; and
III ught, by putting the princip,i ship-ya
the Atlantic coas, in r gu siiion, they yht b,
constituted by thu first 1t January. t. show
what r. ance was I" be plac. d on y. ur calcula.
ton, refer to the fact that, 'hough due regard
t" economy was had in pr cu.ng these b ais
sach COS: ON an average sos -na ly five io!G
your estimate. Coacediny ,ha, you err. d much
less ~ to III ii ne within wi,irh thy 'uld he
have been ready ny the Isl Of J,nury-lnd
sooner you d d not expect they could oe made
by NJ reas unable calcnl hinn Md they hav,
r.'ach d the cnas' ri NJ .xico before tn. LIST #
F bruary. The expedition could MT 20 tortl,
hou' them. In y"nr letter to me dated th.
2sth F. bruary. o. l. hos, y,usate that bn, a
snail prrt Of the ira, sports cnsag d at N ~ Or
leans, under y"ur orders Of the % h December
&c had arrived. and '.n"t one f tn 'en ordered
by your (ny) mem randnln Of h.. I5tl, Of tina,
month, ami the nhoie ,ocrc due atthe Brax"s on
the 18Th Of January" Having thus sh,rn BY
your own opinion, ihat under nv order "th.n
ten yesseis ought To hav. been at he Brazo.
at least fifteen days before the expeditions could
Aare teen ,sndy to sait have v.nilc,-ed
myself tiom ,olr cha'g.n of having neglected
my duty b. not s-ning that order at an arrr
date 1t Issue d. earlier. it would hive ,nv,ivet
a lag ly increased Expenditure t..r demu rage,
and resulted in no pubic ncfit
Blu, ,te gravcr part Of this charge is, that
none If these "t'n vessels ever arrived "R-
lying (y"u say in The letter w und,rc nsrd,r
aton) upon tn III {the ten =, ssrls) confidently,
the enharkaton was G. layed in whole in par
at tn BRACES and Tampico, fr,u, The Is :"
January 10 the 9th of March, l.avrr il Va.