The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-07-07
From The Gettysburg Star.
Meeting Of the Friends of
General Scott.

Citizens of Gettysburg and vicinity con-
vened in the Courthouse nThursday
evening the 18th inst. for the purpose OF
expressing their views upon the unwor-
thy effort now being made by bad and
unscrupulous partlzgns, TO tarnlsh the
fair fame of Americas best and aElest
soldier, Gen. WINFIELD SCOTT
The meeting was organized by appoint
ing Major General DAVID MIDDLE
COFF, President; 1t. Col. ROBERT
CoBEAN, Lieut.. Col. S. S. MCCREARY,
1t Col. JOHN ScoTT, Capt. j. CLAPsAD-
DIE and COL ]. Ill. MCCLELLAN, Vice
Presidents; and III. ]. Schriner, J. G.
Grey, Daniel Lashel, j. NJ. Stevenson,Jr.
James Fahnestock and John Gallagher,
Secretaries.
The object had in view by the call for
the meeting was feeIingly and eloquently
stated by d. NJ. SMYsER, Esq, who
moved the appointment of Committee
Of THIRTY-oNE, to draft and report Reso-
lutions expressive of the sense of the
meeting. ID. NJ. Smyser, ]. b. M'Pher-
son, DR.. David Horner, David A. Bueh-
Ter, John l.. Trat, r. G. Harper, Hugh
Denwiddie, A. r. Stevenson, Robert
Smith, A. B. Kurtz, ID. McConaughy,
Thomas Warren, Daniel Gilbert, Wm.
Wysotskey, James A. Thompson, VIM.
King, r. S. Paxton, Geo. Myers, ID.
McElroy, Z. Il. Little, d. Heagy, J.
Aughinbaugh, Geo. Heck, A. Dearson,
n. Codori, p Hoffman, DR.. 2. T.. Van
dersloot, VIM. Stallsmith, Geo. w. Me-
Cellan, Geo. Arnold and Benjamin
Schriver; were appointed said Commit
tee, who, after retiring short time, re-
ported the following Preamble and Reso-
lutions:
WHEREAS, The President of the Uni
ted States has refused to Major General
WINFIELD ScoTr, the command of the
army intended Tor the invasion of Mexico;
and whereas. the responsibility for this
unprecedented step, which properly and
fairly belongs to the Administration alone,
is uniustly and falsely attempted to be
fastened upon Gen. Scott therefore,
RESOLVED, That we not only justify
but COMMEND the conduct of GEN.
| SCOTT in his late correspondence with
the Secretary of War, in which he in
formed that funclionary, in plain and IN
dignant language, that he was not the
pUpE of the schemers who were plotting
the destruction Of his reputation, and en-
deavoring to deprive him of the command
of the army, to which he was entitled by
his RANK as Commander-in-Chief.
RESOLVED, That after careful exam
ination of all the facts connected with the
refusal of the President of the United
States to invest GEN. SCOTT with the
command of the army, to which he is
entitled as well by his rank as by his IL
lustrious services, and the Blood ,chich
has streomed forth from has Ueins on
the 5attIe-feLds of his country, we rec
ognize in all, with feelings of the highest
admiration, the same noble conduct and
qualities which as man and a soldier he
has always displayed, and which have so
much endeared him to the American peo-
ple-namely, a frankneSs which treas
ures no wrong in secret: courage which
fears not to cast into the teeth OF power
It's meanness and injustice and chival-
rous generosity which scorns 10 deprive
another of single laurel gloriously won.
RESOLVED, That the refusal of GEN.
SCOTT to supersede GEN. TAYLOR,
who had fought by his side in battle, ex-
cept at the head of such reinlorcements as
would allow him to do so without injus-
tise or obloquy 10 that gallant old soldier,
furnishes another evidence of the generos-
ity and magnanimity of his nature and
adds ne,c Spienaer to a name already
rendered illustrious throughout the world,
by the deeds of its owner.
RESOLVED, That the Administration
has not only been guilty of great injus-
tice to GEN. SCOTT himself, but by
its refusal to give him command Of the
army destined for the invasion of MexI-
co, through mean jealousy of the glory
which he might acquire at its head, has
wronged the country, by deprivng 1t oi
the services of its bravest and It's most ex-
) perienced General.
RESOLVED, That the eager haste with
which the Administration availed itself oil
his frank and straight forward statement
of grievances and demand for redress or
explanation, to withhold from him the
command to which the voice of THE
COUNTRY has already called m,taken
in connection with the ungenerous at
tempt to legislate him out of his commits
, sion, betrays the extent to which they
envy his reputation and fear his populari-
ty, and the unworthy arts OF contrivance
to which they are prepared to resort to
remove a rival from their path.
RESOLVED, That TO insinuate as has
been done by some anti-American, tongues
that the soldier who led The forlorn hope
at the sforming Of Fort George, and
breasted the fjde of battle on fbs bIoodl