Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-03-31


of having blended in the course of a long and |
arduous public career, high abilities for militia
ny achievement, with the yet loftier attributes
of the statesman and diplomatist. In early
manhood, summoned by the call of an ardent
patriotism, he abandoned the f1attering pros
poets opened to him by an honorable profess
SION, and in obedience to the dictates of
;hivalrous spirit, joined the standard of his
country, upon the first alarm of anticipated
war; and during the late war he covered HIM
self with distinguished honors in many a hard
| fought field. Nor did he on the return Of peace
abandon the military career which his gal
! lantry had opened to him. and which was con-
| genial alike to his tastes and his energetic
character. His services, while adjoining with
his private virtues, and Illustrating with his
| public abilities, the various Offices through
which he has since risen by regular gradatons
have not SO fully filled the trumpet of fame,
but have been emneDtly beneficial to our ma
tional army, whose martial spirit he has care
fllly cherished, and whose discipline and skill
he has sedulously enhanced, by the introduc-
ton of all modern improvements in military
science. Advanced to the distinguished rank
of Major General In the Army, we have seeu
within the last two years, this gallant warrior
hurried at the call of duty from the verdant
savannas ofthe remote South, to the ice-bound
banks of the st. Lawrence, AMI equally under
the sultry heat Of torrId sun and the chill
blasts of a northern winter, distinguished by
| lndefatigable activity and brilliant success. 1t
Is true that the harvest of glory, which his ju-
dicious plans was ripening to his sickle, was
snatched from him by the vile intrigues of
courtly parasite, who found a ready audience
from Executive jealously-But, with what
result By his imbecIe successor, the Nation
al escutcheon has been soled with the foul
stain of treachery, and Oceola has been shared
by deceit to pine and break his noble heart
within the pent walls of prison. But his re-
QUEEN is yet sung by the walls of slaughtered
families and murdered innocenls, and after
years of devastation and the bootless expendi-
ture of millions, utter lmpotency Is confessed,
by literally letting aloose the fell dogs of war;,
and in imitation of the ruthless Spaniard, set
ting blood-hounds eager on their scent of hu-
man gore, to hunt the poor fugitives of the
wids. How noble in contrast, was the termi-
nation of the Cherokee difficulties, effected
under the auspices of him of whom speak,
His superior Military skill, exercised with rare
judgement and tempered by great humanity,
crushed he recipient war, and enabled him,
while satisfying the demands of the enraged
whites, yet to alleviate the sufferings, and win
the gratitude of the outcast race. The man
who had stood unterriied and mistaken, the
fiercest brunt of Battles, who had snatched the
laurel of victory from the grasp of the British
lion, to place it in triumph In the proud beak
of his country's eagle, melted with generous
sympathy, as the 'stoic Of the woods" dropped
and eXtnrted tear on the grave of MS forefath-
ers, and turned with Responding step from
the home of his childhood-ihe land of his ma
tivity, to SEEK, destitute and friendless, his al
lotted retreat amid the wild wastes OF the west.
Heroism delights to dwell, in the same breast,
with the gentlest emotions of the soul aud it
may well be the proGdest boast of the chieftain
| allude to, that with the strict performance of
his ungrateful duties, he has blended tho exer-
else of a noble benevoence. Signal however
as were his services amid the forests of the
South, the praise due to HIM as a statesman, a
diplomatist, national pacificator, is infinitely
enhanced, when reference is had to his emf
nently judlcious conduct on our northern from
tier. Passing with indefatigable energy 20 and
fro, along the whole extent of our lines, he,
now repressed the zeal of mislaid sympathy
now crushed the Vaccinations of ambitious in
!; termeddlers, and now demanded with the firm
, yet courteous language of the hero and the
statesman, from foreign aggressors, PREPARATION
tor their violation of international rights. And
finally, when the hasty spirit of a sovereign
| State, fired by supposed insult, had placed US
, by its precipitancy, on the brink of hostilities
: with the most potent of European nations
sitting at the command of wsdom, the military
ardor which must have leaped high in his breas
as he scented the breeze of war, which in the
, DAYS of youth had waited to his brow the
plume that then decked it-Spurning at the
} behest of duty the allurements of ambition, he
t interposed with his mediation to que the i'm
pending storm and by the display Of elevated
; views by the exercise of the utmost prudence
5 combined with firmncss, succeeded in pouring
? oil on the troubled waves, and in calming The
/. angry dissentions of the rival parties. For
+ services eminent as these, it is not strange
> that he should have been thought by an admi
{ ring country worthy of being ranked in tina
: illustrious trio from whom was to be selectet
: a fitting champion to battle against the mis-.
\ rule which has reduced this once prosperous
people to the verge of individual and nationa
I bankruptcy. Nor CAN'T be lamented, that ar
/ older though not a better soldier has bee
t preferred before him, since it is allowed him t
# share with one yet greater than himself tn
D crowning glory of magnanimity unrlvaed il
# the annals of history. From this brief ant
p imperfect sketch, the inteIgenc of every audi
+ tor has prepared him TO anticipate the name
; now announce, and to respond with cord ia
If assent, when | propose
O The Health of WINFIELD ScoTr.
g The following toasts were then proposed:
e Blythe President:
4 WILLIAM C. RIvEs-Honor TO the man
1cho reuolts against the dictates of party, lcher
. parlq dictates to be done, achat honor, dsttq
) conscience and patriotism, all sCarn him not &
a do.
!. BIZ Vice President BAXTER:
@ Our RESPECTED GUEST, JOHN HILL--A
4 Wing of sound head and true heart, and
e determined foe TO Executive usurpation.
: BIZ Vice President McRea:
! JOHN MINOR BoTTs-HiS bold urRdicatiol
! Of the constitutional rights Of the States IN III
JERSEY case, entities him to the gratitude of hi
!. country. The associate Of Clay and Wise a
h the feStiUe board, he lcM euer be found by thei
). side IN defence Of the Constitution and Liber
: ty.
e By Vice President Peyon:
WILLIAM e. PREsToN-The honored repre-
: sentative of his adopted State, and the no les
; honored son Of his mother, the Ancient Domn
V ion.
e BIZ Vice President Barter:
d JAMES GARLAND-The labofious, able an
/ efficient representative in Congress, from til
: Albemarle district.
a By the President
: JOHN ]. CRIrTENDEN-T colleague
l. Henry Clay in the Senate of the U. States
h and in abilities and virtue, worthy to stand
,e his side.
" By Vice President Goddin:
J. The State of New Jersey and the House