The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-11
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FRIDAY MORNING. OCT. II. 1851.
GrS. TArloR AND voluxrxsa..- Probably
no military mln in the late United States 30
weis understood the character of the volunteer
soldier "a the lste President TAYLoR, or Old
Koagh and Ready" a. be was Familiarity
known in the camp. His hes. friends viii not
c'aisn for him that the Presidency was his
proper spheres he did not claim it himself; he
never sought that Office, never desired Il ard,
we have very little doubt, preferred the grave
which relieved him from it to its ephemer,
honors, it's perplexing cares, and painful re-
probabilities. But ne an American soldier. no
man, since the days of ANDREW JAc1seS, has
touched such deep springs of admiration and
confidence in the American heart A veteran
officer Of regulars, he was also practical and
prosperous Louisiana planter. who had min.
Rled freely with the world outside the army,
and who thoroughly understood human nature
and The management of mankind. Probably
no two officers in the American or any other
service differed more widely in their personal
eharacterirtics than WIsarIELD ScoTr and
ZACHARY TAYLOR. The first was a mere sol.
0cr, devoted to pomp and display from his
yos,h; reckless in mourning debts and more
than suspected Of embezzlement Of public
nSaey; luxurious, extravaganza, egotisticai
self-indnlgent, irritable, and insiSordinate 10
both military and civil superiors. Gen. TaY-
Lon was one of the simplest of mankind in all
his habits; the most modest and unpretendng
Of men: frugal in his mode of life; eco.
no,nical in his expenditures; owing no man
anything; and with character 80 self poised
and self-possesscd that it commanded the re.
spect of all with whom he came in contact
ScoTT was, III a word, a fool, aud TAY-
LoR a man of sense. AS soldier, ScorT
assumes to be the 'great Captain of the
age bat exceptin his Falstaifan proportions,
he has never made good the pre,ension TAY-
LoR, in the humility of his nature, would have
resented as an insult the application of such an
enlogium to himself, and yet he had better
claims to it than General SCoTT. He succeeded
in Florida when ScoTT had VIGOROUSLY failed,
and he accomplished with volunteers what
ScoTr would never SO much as attempt with
out regulars If SCorr ha been at Buena
Vista, he would have retired, as he advised
TAILOR to do, after he had deprived him of
his regular soldiers. But old TACK understood
the volunteer character and capacity, stood
his ground, defeated five times his num-
bers, aud thus made the march of ScoTT
to Mexico an easy contamination of a con-
quest already achieved. No mere martinez
could ever have gained the battle of Buena
Vista; none but man who combined military
knowledge with knowledge of volunteers,
and the proper mode of handling them Old
ZAcK was the model of a chieftain of Southern
volunteers. We want no mere soldier on the
one hand, nor mere politician ON the other
We want a regularly educated military man
who can bring all the aids of martial science
and training to bear upon the objects he has in
view, and who has also the genius to compre-
bend the peculiar qualities and aptitude of
Southern volunteers, of gentlemen who are not
and who cannot be made regulars and ought not
to be made SO if they could, for they have
proved in this war their superiority in fighting
qualities to the best regulars on this continent.
THE CoTroN IN CITIEs.-We observe com
plants in the New Orleans press that in spite
OF the recommendations of the Board of I'm
derwriters of that city against the transmission
Of cotton to that port, some city houses, who
prefer profit to patriotism, are endeavoring to
induce the planters TO send Oh their cotton 1t
is also stated by Northern journals that the
Federal Government is aware that there are
considerable quantities of cotton in certain as
sailabls points, both ON the seabosrd and the
Western rivers, and intends soon 10 seize the
same, and give foreign powers satisfactory
guarantee that their usual supply of cotton will
notbe seriously interrupted. We know not wha
truth there is in these representations; but, /
the Southern people have 1.-THE of the spiri :
and determination in defending their homes
which their enemies exhibit in invading them
they will burn every bale Of cotton in an ex-
posed situation, unless it can be removed at
once to place of safety. Not another pound
should be permitted to approach any place in
which there is the remotest possibility that it
san fall into the enemys hands, and the man
who endeavors To bring it TO such place, or
to receive it, should be regarded as the worst
Of public enemies. The people of Charleston,
with the foresight and public spirit which
homthe beginning has characterized the course
Of South Carolina, has set an example in
keeping cotton on the plantations, which ought
10 be vigorously followed by every Southern
community.
We earnestly invoke the municipal and State
authorities of the South to keep IA vigllant eye
on the cotton which is already in Southern
ports, to remove it at once to the interior, or
70 burn it, before permitting it to be seized by
the enemy. Let the torches and the combus
tibles be kept ready as carefully as the powder
and shot. Surely the sunny South is as capa-
BILE as frozen Russia of self-sacritce and devo-
ton. II England can dispense with Southern
cotton, let her make the experiment. If she
feels inclined to depend upon the North rather
than the South for her cotton supplies, let us
show her that she leans upon a broken reed.
Let Us open her eyes by the light of vast cot
ten confagration, to the fact that the South is
prepared and determined to convert this whole
land into desert rather than permit it to be
come the victim Of Northern subjugation.
PROSTITUTION OF NORTHERN Journal.
lsM.-It is humiliating to see such papers as
the National Intelligeneer once was, singing
hosannahs to the tyrsnnical and BLACKBOARD
Government which has usurped the seat of
WAsHiNoros. How can that journal pre-
sume to affect such holy reverence for the
Union rs the work Of GEORGE WASHING
TOSS hands. when it knows that the presen
Federal despotism has not the slightest feature
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