The Sun

THE NEW YORK SUN
Friday Morning, Nov. 23, 1861.

War Intelligence.

THE REV. DR. SCOTT.

The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Press in speaking of the late arrest of Adjutant Scott of the regular service, on a charge of secessionist, says:

I see, by the New York papers, that Adjutant Scott, of the regular service, has been arrested on the charge of having secession proclivities. I know nothing of this man or his guilt. His father, the Rev. Dr. Scott, of San Francisco, and a very eminent divine of the Old School Presbyterian Church, who recently created quite a disturbance in California, as you will remember, by avowing sympathy with the South, was compelled to resign his pastorate, and is now on his way to Europe.

Dr. Scott is a representative man, eloquent and gifted, but he is southern by birth, and ardent in sympathy—one, I believe, in Tennessee. For many years he was the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New Orleans and was noted for his aristocratic associations, being a large slaveholder, an ultra Southern man in principles, deeply devoted to the C school. He was extremely popular with his people in New Orleans, and went to San Francisco in 1850, having received a magnanimous offer from a Presbyterian congregation. In foregoing, he disposed of fourteen of his slaves and manumitted the remainder. During his residence in San Francisco he has been an avowed champion of the South, but the present turmoil of the country, and the fact that many of the people of that State are eminently Southern in their proclivities, have given him spirited play which his eloquence as a minister and his personal magnetism as a man served to strengthen.

Dr. Scott has been more honest in the expression of his sentiments than one who are now with us at the head of traitors. The fact is which his military son has received will probably make him the undeviating foe to the American Union.