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The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Ledger (search)
et, we have no reason to apprehend from our enemy. Inequality of numbers will be more than reconciled by the superiority of individual moral. If the myrmidons of Scott are to penetrate Virginia, in three separate columns, he has made a consummate blunder, and exposes each of these to be cut off in detail. And this will be done by partisan warfare. Scott has always been a military blunderer, but a fortunate one. But his fortune has fain in this: Hitherto he has never fought against his mother. She has been to him the nourishing bosom, the clasp of which has been as the invigorating touch of mother earth to Anteus. Now that he proposes to stab her to theand! And in such a cause! The tool of Abolition against Virginia! The tool of such an ape as Lincoln — of such a snake as Seward — of such a wolf as Chase! He, Scott, the hungering aspirant for the Presidency, seduced in his old age by the vain dream of becoming military dictator of the country! Knowing the imbecility of Linco
The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], How the Southerners Treat prisoners of war. (search)
Gen. Jessup, when it became necessary to make a new Brigadier General, the President requested Gen. Scott to name four officers of the army whom he thought best qualified for the position, out of whom to make the selection. Gen. Scott named Albert S. Johnston, he who commanded in Utah as Brevet Brigadier; Jos. E. Johnston the subject of the present notice; Robert E. Lee, now commanding the Virgin We do not know that we have given the four names in the order in which they were mentioned by Gen. Scott, who expressly declared that he did not intend to indicate their respective merits by the ordeand skillful hands at Harper's Ferry. Of the four officers named for the Brigadiership by Gen. Scott in 1860, three have resigned, being Southerners, two of them being Virginians. Gen. Albert S.h a Southern man, that he has resigned in advance of his State. The South may congratulate herself that she has three out of the four whom Gen. Scott esteemed the best officers in the Federal Army.