The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-11-13
High Tribute to Gen, Taylor.

in the night.
High Tribute to Gen. Taylor.
The New York Literary Word Of the Cd
instant, is enriched by a brief paper from the
pen Of Mr.. Stephens, who acquired both cele-
brity and fortune, a few years since, by his
interesting "Incidents Of TFavels'' in the Holy
Land, and att later period by his discoveries
in Central America. Mr.. S. was one Of tho
passengers on board our splendid steamer
Washington, on her first voyoge to Europe,
and he awaited himself Of her brief detention
at Bremen to pay a visit to Baron Alexander
Won Humboldt, whom he found residing with
the King of Prussia in the palace at Pottsdam,
thirty miles from Berlin. After an interesting
description of the Baron's personal appearance
and pursuits in his green old age, Mr.. Stephens
proceeds to say:
"Out of Europe, Mexico seemed to be the
country which interested him most; perhaps
from its connection with those countries which
had brought me to his acquaintance, or more
probably, because it was the foundation, Of his
own early fame, He spoke Of Mr.. Prescott's
History Of the Conquest, and said that might,
when the opportunity afforded, say to that gen.
tIeman as from himself, that there was no his
torian of the age, in England or Germany,
equal to him.
sand he was keenly alive to the present
condition OF Mexico: he was fulIof the Mexi-
can war: his eyes were upon Gen. Taylor and
the American army. | was well aware that
in the conduct of this war Gen. Taylor was
drawing upon himself the eyes Of all Europe
and that whatever might be the difference OF
opinion as to its necessity or justice, it was
producing everywhere, in monarchIcal and
antl-republican countries, a strong Impression
Of our ability and power for war-which in
enlightened (?) Europe, even at this day, more
than all the fruits of peace, industry and ex-
tended commerce. more than the exhibition Of
twenty millions of people Astounding n all the
comforts Of lite, raises US to the rank OF a
s'irst rate power" and makes us ''respected."
NNDutUI l1ulllpuluL soulu LAub ~ WV ~ AS
own maps before them, the King and his lnili-
tary council had followed Gen, Taylor from
his encampment at Corpus Christi, to Palo
Alto and Resaca de la Palma, through the
storming of Monterey and the bloody scenes
of Buena Vista. They had fought over all his
battles, and with his positions all marked on
the map, were then looking for further tidings,
They had seen and appreciated all his difficult
ties at Buena Vista. In Prussia, war is a sci
ence, and according to the leading policy OF
Europe, to be always ready for war, every male
in Prussia, the highest nobleman's son not ex-
cepted, is compelled to serve his regular term
in the army In the teeth of all settled opin'
ions, and as it were, upsetting the whole doc
trine of standing armies, Gen. Taylor with Q
handful of regulars, and a small body of Volun'
teers who had never been in battle, had stood
up for a whole day against a murderous fire
and had finally defeated four times his mum
Der. Field Marshals and Generals of Prussia
among them veterans who had studied the ar
of war on the great battle fields of Europe
were struck with admiration at the daring ant
skill displayed at Buena Vista; and this admi
ration, Baron Humboldt said, they expresses
without reserve, freely, publicly, and every
where. Amid the bitterness and malignity o
the English Press, it was grateful to hear from
such lips, that the leading military men Of
military nation did justice to the intrepldltJ
and frmness of our volunteers, and to thu
courage, skill, and high military talents o
Gen. Taylor; while Baron Ilumboldt's com
ments upon his dispatches and orders, and il
fact upon all that related to him personally il
the conduct Of the war, were such as no Anne
rican could listen to without feeling proud"