Scott ended his brilliant campaign in a flagrant quarrel with the Secretary of War, and was summoned home peremptorily with the prospect of a court-martial.
He was ordered to leave General William O.Butler, a Democratic general, in command of the army in the city of Mexico after resistance had ceased.
DEMOCRATIC OFFICERS IN MEXICAN WAR.
The administration had obviously endeavored from the first to create a Democratic hero out of the war.

Authorized to appoint a large number of officers in the increased military force, raised directly by the United States, an unjust discrimination was made in favor of Democrats.

Thus William O.Butler, John A.Quitman, and Gideon J.Pillow, prominent Democratic leaders in their respective States, were appointed Major-generals directly from civil life.

Joseph Lane, James Shields, Franklin Pierce, George Cadwalader, Caleb Cushing, Enos D.Hopping, and Sterling Price, were selected for the high rank of Brigadier-general.

Not one Whig was included, and not one of the Democratic appointees had seen service in the field, or possessed the slightest pretension to military education.
Such able graduates of West Point as Henry Clay, jun., and William R.McKee, were compelled to seek service through State appointments in volunteer regiments, while Albert Sidney Johnston, subsequently proved to be one of the ablest commanders ever sent from the Military Academy, could not obtain a commission from the General Government.
In the war between Mexico and Texas, by which the latter had secured its independence, Johnston had held high command, and was perhaps the best equipped soldier, both by education and service, to be found in the entire country outside the regular army at the time of the Mexican war.