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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Scott's programme — his opposition to the advance on Richmond — his resentment towards that city. (search)
by the Tribune the "little villain"--has become the champion of General Scott. He defends him against the party who clamored for the march to Richmond, led on by General Greeley, and to which the President yielded. In vindication of Gen. Scott, Raymond, of the Times, gives the substance of a conversation at the General's table, in presence of his Aids and a "single guest," (the "little villain" himself, we suppose.) This conversation, he says, took place on Tuesday, before the battle at Stone Bridge. Taken in connection with the impassioned remark of the aged Fuss and Feathers Chieftain before the President, as reported by Richardson, of Illinois, it would appear that he was overruled in the march to Manassas; but on pretty good authority it is stated that he declared, on the forenoon of the 21st, the most perfect conviction that the Federalists would be victorious in the battle then raging. The Times says: If the matter had been left to him, (General Scott,) he said, he woul