The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-12-13

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- sPsnaADnn a. Ansr,sA" Evsnso The Yankees
,hsusAa whsa Scott sslA Ainsslf-body aAd boass,
scd - Asaes, fass, ieashsrs, aec.sttoa. rattle.
nAks slugsss ana ALTO M Northern deepotsm.
fAsy asAs sssas nlssaks; bat il was pstursl
uAulahA There probably never exiatsd 70 over.
raAsa . ma. Even The very ofa,sn that hsd
tGhm y ~ saass q he Osnssdsrsss States had q
- splassa nd great drsaa Il the man They
- - sasas awe Of him that . school boy enter
saans q Ais sssehir. he had taught them ard
knsw1ng aoshing else bat what they had learned
Aam hin, they prtsansd - . matter of course.
- - must ksow ever thing. There had Deser
bssa W9 q . grand sole ln the country, and
.tAsy haA never bad IN opportunity 81 seeing wsr
q gFenA scale abroad
We - now look as The exploits Of Gen Scott
theoaSA ~ msdinm Ct the mighty Hillary Trans
aseasas tAas have taken pscs within the last year.
- uuly thsy seem vSty d;mhutive In the war
q lelS b IVES second In cosanand In the battles
q OAsppswa and Landy's Lans-hard.foushs On.
saesasats between soms eight or ten regiments,
~ saa total Of The forces both sdeson nsither
ossssiea rsaehing ten thousand men Il does rot
appeos from any account vs. have fead that there
w. my mar0avering-anyth.ag calculated 10
bsias cat any oshsr quality Of General than stu.
begn eoaSase. Yet his services in these little al
laln naAs him, n the eyes Of people unused to
W. upoa . large scale. great General, and enti
I'D him, In his own, TO make IN exhibition Of
Alnss1 = Paris, when It WAS occupied by the al
Nd armies, In the midst e such men - yelling
Too. 1snshse, 6charsssnburg. the Archdsks Charles.
~ ~ the Generals that mad been engaged Ia tie
wan sgalnss Napoleon. and whose names ressundsd
through The earth like the sound q tIumpe. -
The Modification which he .xpersncsd on finding
thai his asm5 had neys. been head IN 1urois il
Described BY Vincent Nolse In his work, and Is
smu.tng enough. BE-: IN this country his pismy
sxpboiss continued 70 be regarded a mil aces OF
gsnss,lship. although hs was hr. seoond in com.
maad and caused him 10 b, still looked spon as s
nrsss tsetician. His Mexican campaign, under.
faken after Gen TAs Lar hsa already destroyed ali
ths hsst troops Of the Republic, aud WA iesdy,
With Only hat The t1oops required by scott to marsn
70 he city Of As1iev, further increased his fans
Yet whas was u sitter AIT One OF The most power.
falpa.ioos In tbs world with me xasasbe supplies
q ooaey ard munitions, wIs engaged 10 \ wal
With feeble aud degenerate RAGS. hsif ermed hai
eiad anA hals fed with no money to pay soldiers,
- % enssD 70 discipline iA.m. scots wssiea
uneA Taylor had explored the way. He fs1nd thas
9aytue bad bsassn them in four sreas battles. il
each Of whith hey cuiualmoersa lin in .he pro-
portion q two to oas, and IN 1t iesss cns Of which
hey Wses Eve 70 his one. He discovered PLAZA,
tAAs no advansags Of numbers could Srssis them
70 beat the imssiesa trvops. Be ssw that victory
w. care. undss any circumstances, and he though,
- opportunity exeaslsat for adding 10 his rspuss
Non without RAINING any risk vi impairing it. II
1aylae haA bsaa reinforced after tbs battle OF
Dssna visa. y vonla have entered Mexico IN two
nentAs But. Instead Of rsiefsrting him, Scott
had nkaa sway nearly ali his regulars before
ehst bAttls 10 contribute TO his own injividua
aicsy. He beat tie xexickns In every battle -
How could W DO othsrwiss. He had ono Of tbs
Ansss aEmiss In the world; they were ~ uawar.
liks rabA;s. He bad every hing n the shape o:
as0s that ths Improvements Of science k.d czs.
ats1 1Asy h.d old tcw>r nusksis, eondemned and
sna1 . worthless. and liable to burst whenever
aag wsss 6ssd, and hsneyeoasbed cannon that had
essn lea there By the SpaniArds. He had the bsat
sdasassd s1Aesrs In the world: they had no officers
thas Aad resaiyed even tho rudimenis Of military
saneasiso His soiiisrs were. BY . large majority.
Aasse Saxons; they degenerate race. half Indian
md halt Bpaniard. Is would have been mir cle
Aad ~ failsd. Yet for suesseding hs was cried
up - ths great General of his day We never
sosA bsllsvs this. Every person who ever con.
vsessd With him. Represented him a. the greatest
sosl \ sonyssation t.ey had ever seen, aud We
eoaA not conceive possible thai fool in CONVEX.
salinn could b . great man in any respect.
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