The daily union., 1852-09-30
Gen. scott and the Public Treasury.

zen. SCOtt ana the FuDllC treasury.
The procvity OF the Seward whig press to misrepre.
senalion has become chronic and incurable Repeated
detection 10 render the whig inventors of false
hood only more calous Like the pugilis,. they have
been hardened 10 blows Like the gameser they have
become reckless of public opinion So long accustomed
10 the Of the weapons of calumny they seem finally
to have decided that Others can be effective and az
after another OF their frauds is exposed they resort
invariably whatever fabrication the occasion may
suggest In the Republic OF yesterday we find the fol-
lowing extraordinary and wilful made
in defiance Of facts known 10 that paper and regardless
OF public documents at its disposal. Referring TO the
resolution of Hon. David Meriwether, senator from
Kentucky, asking information about the moneys re-
ceved from the treasury OF the United States by Gen.
Scott and Gen. Pierce, the Republic says 4.
"That the report of Mr. Neriwether was not fair to-
wards the subject fit, maered little that omitted
material points and directly alsied Others weighed not
upon his SOUL for he is democrats that IL did scandaous
injustice who has contributed the glory OF
his country than any other living small defect,
for the hero whom wronged whg that the report
altogether partisan document and mean, untrue,
and ungeneous the raDkest parsanshp could make il,
was, short, a merit, fault, and which MI
Meriwether prepared TO Stake his senatorial reputa
ton"
theless true that the Republic knew when il and
printed the above paragraph that the report giving the
ceips from the public treasury Of General Scott and Gen
eral Pierce was no, the work OF Senator Merwether
That paper knew j, was document prepared by
whg officers OF the present administration Senator
Meriwethe did not write line of it. He did not dot
nor cross in that report II only sent TO the Sen
ate at the last hour of the session, and is doubtful if
he it, All that he did done in the premises
and that was offer resolution, after the fashoa OF the
wings in ls4s when they wanted 10 assail General Cass
the democratic candidate The rest done by whig
officers Of Mr.. Fillmores administration.
So. then, the Republic affecting not to know that Mr.
Meriwether had no hand in making up the report in
question, 0ssafs the whig officers uho prepared i. Mr.
Conrad the Secretary OF War; is therefore pronounced
guilty OF 'having omitted some material points, and
directly falsihed Others" in that report Mr. p Clayton
second auditor OF the treasury, therefore charged with
having done "scandalous injustice TO who las
,rbued more to the glory Of his country than any other
living man !" and Mr.. John s. Gallaher third auditor
of the ,reasury-a Scott wing, we belieye-and Mr. M.
Nousc register OF the treasury, effect declared
have similarly offended. The report is theirs il il is
anybodys or else il is the report OF Mr. Fillmore who
the Republic as having that body "a report alto
gether partisan document and as mean. untrue, and
ungenerous the rankest partsanshp could make it,"
The object in trying TO fasten this repor, upon Mr..
Meriwether has its excuse in precisely the motive
that suggested the ouages upon truth and upon decency,
proved by the recent attacks upon General Pierce, OF
which, beyond the memory of such polluted transactions,
nothing now remains-not even much as was left in
oden times OF the ashes OF the Infamous and vle which
were scattered TO the four winds OF heaven The OBJ
ect was 10 show that the report called out by Mr. Meri-
wehers resolution was not whg report, but the work
OF partisan friend OF Gen Pierce; and doubtless now,
in distant States this shameless falsehoodor it de.
serves no other TERMS hercely and uously insisted
upon.
That the Rpue should seek to get rid Of this report
uhg document does asonish II presents some
mos, extraordinary Developments II makes come most
unparalleled disclosures These disclosures stand alone
bad examples for the future and they cannot be answered
by gusty appeals the bravery OF General Scott the
tented field We do not alude the amounts he has just
ly received but TO those amounts which he has received
withou, law in defiance Of law, and those which he still
retains and which not yet settled. No man IN this
country is too high to commit such wrongs We are
taught in history that sometimes the fortunate soldier
sezes the liberties Of the State and the treasures OF the
people, and with these powers clothes himself with des-
potc immunity TO rule and to ruin. In the whrl OF the
popular tumu consequent upon his rumphs, he asserts
powers neither implied granted in the peoples char
ter and the protest OF the patriotic is drowned In the
voice of hi. pasans Fearful OF creating any suspicion
OF such an example on his part how carefully Wash
ng,on declined to avail himself OF his military renown
and how modest and sublime the simplicity and the
dignity of his subsequent appearance in civil life,
and how wa,chul and vigilsnt his guardianship over
the public treasures We have not forgotten him,
and the patriots who followed him, in now being
afraid to cry out against the practices exposed against
General Scott His an,-war partisans shall not close
our lips; for the democracy who support General
Pierce sustained the wars in which General Scott earned
his laurels and il it were needed, their right speak o
him might safely rest on that. The apologiss of the
Gapbins shall not tell that we have no right TO touch
the sacred prerogaive Of General Scott to expend the
public moneys in defiance OF law. The men who have
coined vast fortunes out Of the last whg board OF
s.ioners 10 settle the Mexican claims cannot tcry
when we denounce the example OF Gen. Scott in asking
symens for that to which he not entitled for thai
which he never used II he can do these things in the
teeth OF the objections OF the justsmnded Alexander
Dallas and the stainless John c. Calhoun. what is tc
prevent bis conduct from becoming example for others
What is to prevent il from passing into precedent fo