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OT rhe following extract is from long
and able article in New York Courier and
Enquiler upon the late disgraceiuI 'afflir OF
Mr.. Benton and the Major Generalship:


Why call cabinet council on the subject?
Surely there can be but one reason for so
doing; and that is that The President himself
was in favor of such procedure. Ii not,
he would al once have said nay, and rebuk-
ed as it so richly merted, the impudence OF
the officer putting forth such an unheard-of
demand The idea OF any officer making
such demand strikes everybody with sur
prise and asionishmeni; but in our opinion,
the bare possibility Of its being listened TO
by the President. and his calling cabinet
council TO deliberate upon il. is even a grea-
Ter outrage than that committed by the Ma
ior General from Missouri. Self-resqect, If
not decent regard for military subordna-
ton should have prompted an immediate
decision against the demand accompanied
with very distinct notice tha, the name OF
the offending party had been sirken from The
roll of The army.


What spectacle for the country 10 look
upon. A President seeking shield behind
which to commit greal wrong against the
faithful servants aud the whole American
people; and Major General, Of his own Sc
lection and appointment impudenty pro
claiming that he will not serve unless veler-
ans who have grown grey in The service OF
their coun,ry-men whose names are iden-
t6ed with its history and constitute por-
lion offs glory--be degraded aud disgraced


And this Major General! what a spectacle


does be present 10 the public. A Senator


in Congress, he moi only consented TO be


nominated for The responsible station of Ma
ior General, knowing that he must be junior


10 al least four officers olthe same rank then
in service; but ii now appears, that at tha


very time he had determined 10 demand o
the Executive the sacrifice of The whole o
Ihem in order to caier 10 his own selfish de
sire for notorieiy. He was willing 10 give


up his place as Senator of The United Stale:
and loan himself TO an intrigue mi ended ia
disgrace such men as Scott, Taylor aut
their ass0ciates-men, who, in talents, char
acter, position. aud all The qualities which


constitute good citizens are as lmmeasuia


bly, The superiors of Benton and Polk as The.


are in the quality OF iIuih-that all lmportan
! element in the character OF gentleman


A ern!rgue or more disgusting spectacle


has never been presented to the American
i, people; and the officers of the cabine. Il


whom The proposition 10 recall The general
in the field was made, must leel that the
: have been grossly lnsulted hy it,. The coun
Try at large will have but one opinion upor
, the subject and Of those w1o tatn"y submit


TO such insults