Daily American telegraph., 1852-09-11
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
ARebuke Tor the washington Union,

UntOns
The ablest and the meanest of all the oppo-
nents Of General Scott among the newspapers of
the United States, is the New York Herald Yet
hear it on the subject of General Scott's remune-
ration:
"On the death of that sterling old patriot,
Henry Clay, the Democratic governor Of Ken
lucky appointed to his vacant chair in the Senate
a MI. MeriWether, a Democratic politician, re-
garded In the State as a man Of talents and abil-
ity Instead, however, of any attempt to emu
late the lofty line of conduct of Mr. Clay, we
hnd Mr.. Meriwether, on the first convenient oc-
casion, descending to the level OF q cross road
small-beer politician, in resolution calling for
information concerning the pay, emoluments, and
extra allowances, received for their public SER
vices, respectively, BY General Scott and General
Pierce. The information communicated by this
resolution has just been published by the Wash
lngton Union, and will, of course be circulated
from one end OF the Union to the other for cleo
tcneering purposes against General Scott.
Ii appears from these official returns, that,
for some forty years Of the most active and bril-
liant services in the army of the United States,
General Scott has received from the Treasury an
aggregate OF tUo hundred and ninety thousand foe
hundred and seventy se0en dollars and eighteen cents.
Ihls would be little over seven thousand dol
lars year for forty years--an exceedingly paltry
exhibition of liberalty, in contrast with the SER
vices, for which it is paraded as an extrayagant
reward. To show how niggardly and beggarly
has been this extravaganza OF the government to-
wards General Scott for his extraordinary SER
vices, we select the following items of extra al
Second Auditor of the Treasury:
Here follows the extract
Now, here we have some sixteen hundred
dollars compensation for book on sInfantry
Tactics, and five thousand dollars for the New
System OF Discipline and Tactics the value Of
which to the government, as illustrated in the
Mexican war, can only be measured by the gold
mines of California In any other country the
compensation to d general officer of the scientific
attainments and experience of Gen. Scott, for
such standard works in our military schools
would have been, even in poor Mexico, at least
q hundred thousand dollars, in England duke
dom, and IN France a chateau and country
estate. Only look at it. Gen. Scott receives
SO, 600 for the work on the New System of Dis
cipline and Infantry Tactics, and Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe refused $4,000 for the copyright
OF Uncle Toms Cabin. And so of Gen. Scott's
pay as an Indian Commissioner How contempt
ibe it appears alongside of the profits and pick
ings Of the Galphin, the Chickasaw, Cherokee,
and Choctaw operations of other commissioners,
contractors, and spectators. Greeley's fuss
and feathers about the mileage of members of
Congress was thought to be small potato bust
ness, but it was great thing compared with this
pitiful trumping of Gen. Scotts pay and extra
allowances by Senator of the United States.
"But OF all others concerned, the editors of the
Washington Union ought to be ashamed of them
selves. Congress has just voted the handsome
gratuity to Father Ritchie of fifty thousand dol
lars, $5O,OOO,) for losses upon printing con-
tract wiich he Jailed 10 uft; and they have taken
away from another contractor the public printing
and given it to Gen. Armstrong, upon terms by
which he acW probably maize clear proft Of one
hundred and my or teco hundred thousand dollars.
And they have done all this without giving FL
wood Fisher, as far as we know, for his losses Of
forty thousand dollars upon the Southern Press,
the first red cent. We are surprised that either
Father Ritchie or Gen. Armstrong could become
a party, under such circumstances, to this little,
pettifogging, dirty, and contemplate proceeding
against Gen. Scott. We are mortified very deep
ly at such conduct in Father Richie and Gen.
Armstrong. 1t is unworthy either a father or
general in Israel, with his pockets brim full of
extra allowances
''We commend these views to the Washington
Union. As the central organ of the Democratic
party, it ought to be above the mean and pitiful
warfare of trumping up Gen. Scott's pay as an
argument against his election as if in being poor
ly paid for great services, man becomes disqual-
ifed for public employment"