Record Data
Source citation
“Gen. Scott and the Secretary of War,” New York Times, February 5, 1857, p. 4: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Daily Times
Newspaper: Headline
Gen. Scott and the Secretary of War
Newspaper: Page(s)
4
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
GEN. SCOTT AND THE SECRETARY OF WAR. – Bits of the correspondence between General SCOTT and Secretary JEFFFERSON DAVIS, recently communicated to Congress, have been made public. They foreshadow the opening of a budget which, for the credit of the country as well as of the parties concerned, ought to be suppressed. Both of these gentlemen have sufficient ability to be very abusive towards each other. Their friends would much rather give them the credit of its possession than witness its exercise.
