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There is a fearful responsibility resting some
where,. gays the Bulletin, 'sior this STATE of
things, and if it is followed by the defeat or
capture of Gen. TayIor's army we should pity
our worst enemy, if he had TO abide the ''wak
ed wrath" ofthe American people. The great
and obvious error has been in reducing The
force of General Taylor, to SO great an extent
and stripping him Of al! his regular troops
II he had been permitted to retain 1000 regulars
as a nucleus for the volunteers to raIley around
and depend on, it would have doubled the elh-
cheney ofhs army, as all must acknowledge ge
the disadv antages of force, exclusively COM
posed Of volunteers, deficient in driIland dis
cip!ine and without regular trained aed educ a.
ted officers. The plan of the campaign was no
doubt arranged by the cabinet previous TO the
departure OF Gen Scott from Washington and he
has been authorised 10 direct 10 take the whole
regular force with him to Vera Cruz leaving
Gen. Taylor not only with an inadequate force
but the whole bank Of the Rio Grande utterly
defenceless in state that invited attack--as Mr.
Calhoun justly said that the Administration
blundered into the war and have gone on blum
derng through the whole progress OF it. and
they have now put the cap sheaf upon all their
errors.