Note 35 — WINFIELD SCOTT.

The charge was, in substance, that General Scott remarked at a public table, that he had never seen but two traitors, viz.: Generals Wilkinson and Burr,—and that General Wilkinson was a liar and a scoundrel. Whatever may have been the justice of Scott’s sentence, for violating the rules of military subordination, he had certainly strong reasons for associating the name of Wilkinson with that of Burr, inasmuch as there were then weighty suspicions attaching to the conduct of the former which have never been wholly removed.