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The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted (search)
n, Napoleon, and Wellington could not have said with truth. It would place old Scott above all these renowned Generals, were we sure that he had run as many risks omiles, and with a force reduced in numbers and demoralized by defeat, faced old Scott at Cerro Gordo, on the 18th April, not two months after. Opposed to this rabble, Scott had the best appointed army the old United States had ever sent forth. He had all General Taylor's regulars, which he had most ungenerously taken from him.After that, the Americans were constantly victorious everywhere. How could old Scott be defeated? Who was there to defeat him? How could he lose a post, when the the enemy was always on the trot? Upon the basis of this one campaign, old Scott is accustomed to class himself with the great captains of the world. His flattrdan, as Ney, as Napoleon him self. It is not credible that such a man should have pronounced such a judgment upon the small potato doings of old Scott in Mexico.
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted (search)
The London times's correspondent. --Which the London Times's correspondent was in the South be received great civilities, according to his own account, from the Confederate authorized and military leaders, and was even permitted to inspect the interior of their fortifications and their preparations for defence. He received the same or even greater attentions at Washington, being invited to dine with the President, Gen. Scott, and other distinguished persons. It is not at all wonderful, therefore, that Mr. Russell has assailed both sections with impartial malignity. His is not the sort of nature to forgive politeness or have a good dinner unavenged, Being unable to conceive any other than an interested motive in the special distinctions which he has received, he considers the individual. Russell, under no sort of obligations for the favors which have been lavished upon the correspondent of the Times. In this he may be right, and if his constant exhibitions of ill nature towa