Alexandria Gazette

GENERAL TAYLOR.

The Executive archives, we venture to say, have direct evidence enough under Gen. Taylor's hand, that he considers himself to have been abandoned without adequate support, from the very outset of his march, without making it necessary for him to prefer such a charge through any circuitous channel. When the Union adds its regrets at the publication of this letter are all because of the injury that may result to the country, and not because of any damage it may do to the Administration, it taxes the credulity of its readers a little too much.

The course of the Administration towards Gen. Taylor is, as the Union says, "known to the world," and what has it been?

First, as the correspondence published towards the close of the last Congress, will shew, to plant him against his own judgment, in a position which, peace still existing, he feared might provoke hostilities—then by systematic efforts to inveigle him into a march to the Rio Grande without orders—but upon hints of the consequence of following which, all the responsibility would be thrown upon him; and finally when, Congress being in session, Gen. Taylor was at last peremptorily ordered to march to the Rio Grande, leaving him without the usual support he asked for the protection of that movement, and entirely without wagon trains or other means of making his advance formidable, certain and rapid.

This and more, is "known," or may be "known to the world," even by the documents, which upon the call of Congress were submitted by the President—documents imperfect, unconnected, and such only as it was probably thought might be laid before the National Legislature, without too plainly exposing the incompetency or the indifference of the Executive; and when a fair Committee of Congress shall have free access to the archives of the War Department, and such Committee shall report "that there is no just foundation for the complaint against the Administration" on the part of Gen. Taylor—the country will have something to guide its judgement.

N. Y. Courier