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The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
, and take care to deal only in general abuse. For instance, Buchanan says that he had only four hundred men at his disposal to reinforce the nine forts which Scott thinks it criminal to have neglected reinforcing. Doesn't one of his vilifiers deny this statement? If it is false, it is very easy to prove it so by the record,would have been impeached if it could have been. His assailants are very discreet. They content themselves with abuse, and attempt not to controvert. Again, Scott thought it criminal in Buchanan not to have sent the reinforcements designed for Fort Sumter in the Brooklyn, or some other ship of war, instead of the Star of the West, a mere passenger vessel. Buchanan publishes an extract from one of his own letters to show that he (Scott) was the adviser on the occasion. He not only advised, but he gave elaborate reasons for his advice. Ease any one of his assailants attempted to ward off the effect of this disclosure? Not one, so far as we have seen