New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-08
Another Letter from Lieut.-Cen. Scott

To he EeiisrI Of Ia. National InteiIgeaeer.
An official repor. of mine made TO President LIN
coin, March 80 1861, our Southern forts, was
published on the 2lst Of October last. To this ex
President Buchanan replied at great length in tho
same month. short Iejoinder from Inc followed
early in November, and here is another paper from
Mr. buchanan dated the 18th Of the same month,
and on the subject. brief notes OF this paper
shall terminate my part in this controversy.
Mr.. Buchanan has intnated that have been
acuated by q feeling OF personal ill-will toward
him. This is unjust. | had no private resentment
TO crafty. On the contrary, l have well remem-
bsred the many official courteSies received from him
as well as from Mr.. Floyd, both as Governor OF
Justice and the truth OF history is a paramount OBJ
I hid saii that, with view to the meditated
rebellion, Secretary Floyd had ordered ll5,W0
extra stands OF mufkets and rifles from Northern
repositories to Southern arSenals 10 this MIR. Is
now replies in substance. That the transfers
were made under an order dated nearly year
before Mr.. Lincoln's election TO the Presidency.
True; but IL Mr. Is. has persuaded himself that the
rsvoh had not long before been planned dependent
on the election OF any Northern mani, 1t Is not
likely that lie will ever make "a second convert 10
that opinion. 9. He only gives 10000 as he mum
Der Of transferred, emitting the lOOOO rifles
| 3. lie says that the muskets ilO5,OOO) were con-
denned and that purchasers could not be found for
many Of them at g. 20 each. Now, here Is an
! Just received from my papers at Washington),
showing that e. 900 OF ihose arms were per
cussion muskeIs, probably entirely nsw, and
| 10000 others, termed "nluskets altered TO per-
cushion" with 10 900 percussion rife.'--not one
Of the 1900 was ever condemned" but all
precisely like most Of the enal-arms issusd TO
troops Irregular and volunteerl IN 1861. 4. Mr..
BacLanAn further intimates that those arms we're
transferred TO equAlizo, in degree the deposits
among the different States as II these had any State
pride in allowing storage to the property Of the
United States within their particular limits. IL 60,
why not establish storage places III the great States
Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, within which the
United States has bad no deposit of arms and no
ars-nall D. Dir. Ii. supposes me 10 brand the trans.
ierred Arms with the ePi,hoi 4" stokn.' In my
rsjoiadsr 10 him nowhsre use that term, because
knew the Transaction, though very quietly con.
Quoted, officially recorded, and The freight paid
for by the United States, whose property the arms
continued to Lc in theF new depositorlos.
Mr.. Buchanan mixes uP-perhapt ought rathei
10 ,ay sseris 10 eoHfonHd-quite a different class o.
Rrms with the foregoing VIZ, the quotas of arm,
distributed among the several States under We
annual appropriations toward aTning the whol'
body Of the militia Of the Union. Thus he says
The southern States received in 1860 less nstsa'
II more than the quotas OF arms 10 winch theJ
wsre entitled BY law" This IA most strange, con
Trusted with information given to me last year. snC
a tslegrnm Just received from Washington and 1
high oGioer-not Of the Ordnance Dureau-in thet'
words and hgGresi
Rhode Island Deavar- aud TEXAS had not dawn at the
eirhteen o their quotas Of Tor "a
year aud M.sssohus. Tennesses and h-ninosy only Ia
pat ks'nA South Carolina, Ooosis, Florida. Alsbsu
oni,saa Mfispf and Kansas by the order Of the
Secretary Of War, supplied with their quotas or sish.et
.tyoss C6l In sivaIee and Penn'y' Anis and Map and
IN pGL'
! This Advance Of arms to eight Southern States is
a sufficient commentary by itself on tue trsInsier,
about the sI1e tine. OF the u5,O.O muskets and
/ niles.
H. respect to the heavy cannon ordered from Pitts.
/ bnrgh 10 The Gull Of Mexico, Mr. Buchanan has
shown NO that was in error IN saying that their
/ Shipment was coun'ermanded in March, instead OF
January 1901. This was the only immaterial part
Of my statement; for was correct IN tho declare
lions that gave information TO Mr.. Secretary Hols
that the Shipment had commenced, and that he Or
dersd the guns be reanded, and stopped the rob
berry. WINFIELD SCOTT.
Noe. York Dee. 2, 1852.
'Oysr and above previous AID usud deposits In tie
Southern afsenas.