The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-19
Gen. Srctt.


friends, before the battle of Manassas, that he
never suffered defeat The Lieutenant g en-
erai has been very succe ssfol In making the
public forget the facts of history. The very
hr6t action he was ever engaged in he was de-
feated. This was the attack on Queen stown
many being killed and wounded, and SCoTr
himself made prisoner Of war. In the bloody
battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane both
sides claimed the victory. The Seminole war
in Florida was placed in bis hands, and all the
resources OF the Government at his disposal,
and he managed it so badly that he was or
deted home and deprived of his command.
Ola Rough and Ready then plain C,l.
TAYLOR, with limited means and resources
conquered gloriously where Scorr had failed,
and taught the Indians of Florida to respect
American valor. 1t is therefore, sheer falsi-
Ecation OF history to pretend that Gen. SCorT
has never known defeat. He was successful
in the late war at Fort George, Fort Erie. the
descent upon York, and the capture of Fort
Matilda he was badly beaten and made pris-
oner at Queenstown totally unsuccessful in
managing the Florida war, and again tortu-
nate in Mexico; showing that his military
lie, like that of many other Generals, has
been ono OF alternate triumphs and reverses
The Mexican victories, which gave him his
chief ec!ot, were due IN IRE 10 Gen. TAYLoR's
triumphant campaign on the Rio Grande, and
10 Gen. LEES engineering skill on the Vera
Cruz line, than TO his own talents. Old ZAck
broke the spirit Of the Mexicans at Pal0 Alto,
Resaca, Monterey, and finally at Buena Vista,
where the flower of the Ne xican Army, under
SANTA Anna, was smashed to powder, aud
demoralized. After that battle.
the Mexicapa, cowed, dispirited, deprived of
their choicest troops and military supplies,
gave way readily before the splendid column
# SC9TT, composed in great part of Old
ZACK's regulars, whom, with his usual mag
naninity. the Lieutenant q eneraI had des-
poilcd TAYLOR of on the eve Of the battle OF
Buena Vista. ard commanded by such off
rers es BEAUREGARD, LEE, J0nSsoS and
others. Nevertheless, old "Fuss and Feath-
.ro" n4aragcd to scramble off with vast share
Of glory from the Mexican war, and became
Lieutenant General, which never consoled him,
however, for the election Of TAYLOR to the
Presidency, or for his own defeat when run
ains for that Office
Of late years, it has been fashionable with
the Lieutenant General, whom his deyotees
describe as the great General of the age, com
Dared with whom NAPOLEON and WASHINGTON
were small potatoes, and Marshal PELlssIER,
old General HESS and Count ToDLEBEN,
ne1e iarthing ;ushIights, to play the par: Of
the Gyeat Pacifcator. lie has been solicitous
10 have il understood that MARS is capable Of
being pacific and benefcent; that terrific and
luuih1 ating as WINGFiELD is, VIXEN fairly
reused, yet the very c0nsciousuess of his aw-
ful POWERS Of deStructiYeness makes him most
reluctant to put them in exercise. Conse-
auently, on various occasions. he has gone about
the country, now to Maine and now to Cali
fo-nia, like an amiable lion, with an olive
branch il his mouth, trying to induce people
not to shod each others gore. We have heard
nothing of lis exploits in this way since the
present conflict commenced. lie has not once
sought to smooth the 'Wrinkled from. Of grim
gisaged war" since he discovered that pacific
counsels would endanger his salary. Virginia
is his mother, 1t is true, and she has loaded him
with more laurels than he ever deserved; but,
like spoiled child, who forgets ninaty-nine
favoTs, when he is refused the hundredth,
soorr never forgave Virginia for declining to
vote for him for the Presidency. That grudge
never ceased to rankle in his aspiring heart
The Presidency had been his day and night
dream for years, and to think that old ZAcH-
AIRY TAYLOR, a subordinate officer, rhould
have that prize in the lottery thrown at his
head, without al effort for it on his part, and
that PIERCE, volunteer subordinate in the
same war, should beat SCorr in Presiden
tial campaign, and receive the vote of Viz
einia besides, was too much for his philoso-
ed vanity that have impelled him to har-
den his heart against Virginia, and to make
hsr once peaceful plains and beautiful valleys
run red with the blood of his former COM
panions, comrades and friends. We rejoice
that this military impostor and personal in
crate is about to receive the reward due to a
long career Of selfishness, falsehood and trea-
son. The announcement from Washington
that he is virtually displaced by MCCLELLAN,
will be sweet music to all Southern ears. In
the South, no one is more despised and exc
Grated than WINGFIELD sooTr, and the North,
which has used him only TO reap the fruits Of
his treason has at last discovered that he is
humbug. The newspapers and telegraphs
name, now scarcely ever refer to Ger- ScorT.
1t is Gen. MCCLELLAN who orders this and
that ii is all MCCLELLAN, and will continue
to be, until MCCLELLAN shall venture upon
4 Manassas, when he, too, we predict, will be
laid up in dignifed retirement with the late
Commander in- Chief of "the Grand Army"
Affairs In Missouri.
The recent brilliant successes of the Con-
federate troops in Missouri have electrified
every true Southern heart. Never has State
been more cruelly oppressed and treated
never in America have any but the Indians
such inhuman butcheries as those
in ST. Louis, in which innocent citizens, and
actually aoonaen and children, were shot down
in cold blood by the myrmidons of Gen. LYON
and Gen. SIEGEL, the first Of whom has hap
PLY been sent to his account. 1t is evident,
sven from the Federal accounts, that Gen. Nc
CuLLooH has gained magnificent victory
We fervently hope that he will be able to push