Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-05-12

Among the ad captandum subjects OF Loco
foco TRADE and abuse, which the conservatOrs OF
rood order and good institutions have Tor years
been Obliged 10 discuss, against those VINO
were bent on their destruction, that OF the vaiue
and Importance to the country OF the Oniteo
States MILITARY ACADEMY at west folnt mas
been prominent. Originating, as that noDie III,
sttion did, in the patriotic and lar slsnleo
counsel and countenance OF some Oh the OeS.
and soundest minds in the country, 1t was yet
never allowed to escape the assaults OF those
who. for marty purposes, found it convenient to
denounce it as aristocratic inits origin and anu
republican in its tendencies. 1t was, moreover,
attacked on the ground of its being an eApen-
sive establishment: and, at political meetings.
on the stump, in the halls of local Legislation,
and on both floors of Congress, the abolition Oh
this sfederal' and sarstocratic' institution was
nut forward as one of the grand results Which
we're to flow from democratic ascendency.
Rut amidst all this, it had, as it deserved, It's
friends and supporters, who, until they saw that
if was to be constantly and Vigorously assault
ted. until, by dint of perseverance, 1t might DC
made unpopular, yet saw around them so many
palpable proofs of its efficiency,and could not De
easily rsnde to believe that it could ever De sui
: cessfu Asailed. And when the last attempt
was made f6qpverthrow it, it is within the rec
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halls of Congress. and protected it from the
overthrow that seemed to be impending over 1t.
, We have now, in the results ofthe late Mex
D lean campaigns-in the stories OF Palo Alto
| Resaca de la Palma, Vera Cruz, Monterey, ant
] Ruena Vista-abundant proof OF the high de'
r serving of the Academy at West Point 10 Dc
f considered one of the best and most lmportan
J of our national institutions. In each and ever.
n one of these memorable affairs the graduates o
: that school, as we have shown before, hav
S heen found foremost in the fight among tn
> most reliable in emergency, among the mos
:. deserving in the retrospect of every action :
s While. before the walls of Vera Cruz, occup.
is the point of danger, and therefore the point
honor, we see the gallant VINToN, cheerful an
active in the midst of the worst and most I'm
R minent risks on that glorious field, strlcRe
N down in the gallant discharge OF his duty, W
* cast eve back upon time when, not the SO
IS of rich aristocrat, but OF widowed motne
m be graduated, full of scolastic and military nor
I'd ors. from the United States Academy at We
" Point. And then, recurring to the field OF b.
a. eua Vista. and seeing there the bravery and IL
t. voton of the gallant and lameIited Clay, We II
member the day when his illustrious lathe
pointed to the lofty highlands, between who
c. and our noble river the Military Academy
es West Point stands, and babe him remember til
r the spirits of revolutionary patriots were lookln
y Down upon him from those heights, and watcl
in ing his course as student, in his country Sc
er vice. there. We might greatly extend the II
he of those whose deeds, ever since this war cor
no menced, have furnished the most fitting reiut
life ton of the vile partisan attacks il has BET
b of late years considered so popular point
he make in certain quarters. But these instance
with what we have before given, VIII aDun
antIy sufice.-.N. Y. Express.