Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1848-05-04
TIE Two Heroes.

speak Vi OeHeral ScOtt ana benefdl TlllOW-
There is but one step between the sublime and the
ridiculous.
| Read, Americans! the report, extracted, on
our first page, from the New Orleans Pcayune of
The proceedings before the Court of Inquiry, in the
case of Major General Gideon j. Pillow exampe
the testimony which MIR. Trist, the Peace Com
missioner bears to. the character and acts of that
redoubtable champion, the favorite and near
neghbor'' of MIR. Polk, who has discovered the
easy way ofwrting himself down hero, by means
of little ~ glorfcatioii in the newspapers
Read that, and decide who or which should blush.
the American army, which has had the honor al
most of being commanded by this heroic ndivid-
ual the American people, upon whose history
he must figure hereafter forever, blot upon the
grandest chapter of the Mexican war; or the
American President who dragged him from the OBJ
security in which nature designed him to live and
die, for the purpose of sending him, truncheoned
Major General to Mexico, to revive, in his extra
ordinary person, the recollectons of all the Boba-
dis and Falstatfs the PAROLES and Ancient Pistols
that ever shocked belief in the page OF comedy :
We do not ask whether General Pillow himself
ought to blush it is very clear that he is beyond
the reach of such an intrmity. We are much
afraid, however, that, whoever ought, the Ameri-
can people will.
The testimony of Mr.. Freaner, previously pub
! lished was bad enough. That or Mr.. Tris is con-
clusve,-it is overwhelming. 1t must be remem-
bered that Mr., T. was and still is for his commits
| J,.al \ i
plomatic and the confidential agent of the Presi-
dent, General Pillows friend; and it appears that
he was even prejudiced in Gen. P.'s favor,''
having been placed on very intimate personal re-
lations" with him by the President, and preserved
those relations until shocked into contempt by
what he calls " the uninaginable and incompre-
hensible baseness of his character and the dis
covery of scheme of villany."--' scheme OF
imposure for passing himself off upon the country
| for a skilfu general and able commander, and
an attempt even to render Mr.. Trist himself " an
accomplice and tool in villany."
! What Mr.. Freaner swears in regard to the pri-
vate newspaper bulletins of General Pillow, and
his contemplate object IN sending them, MIR. Trist
fully substantiates and thus General Pillow is
exhibited before the world in scandalous attitude
not only as a trumpeter of his own fame, but a
very pickpocket of glory,-the pretender to and
robber of other mems merit,-the hero-Mr, Polk S
hero-who had the ineffable unworthiness and in
credible stupidity TO resolve to carry off, and to
think he could carry OIL, the Immortality of the
battles of Mexico by smuggling into the papers the
g. tbp first
1" all for his own beneht.9 The miles gtOriosus
has always been favorite character with the dra-
matists but, in real life, there was mayer before,
in all history such an extraordinary representation
Of it as that enacted by General Gideon }. Pillow,
who made Mr.. Polk president"
! And this General be it observed, is the creature,
the favore the pet, the minion of the President
hof the United States of that President of the Uni
ted States who sent to Mexico the Court of 1nqui-
ry-before which the favorite is stripped so igno-
miniously of his borrowed plumes-to disgrace
and crush General Winfield Scott, hero not o
his creation-a soldier who learned the act OF war
not in county court house, bu. amid cannon, and
bayonets, and blood, on twenty fields of battle,--
who never commanded in battle that he was no
victorious,-who never wore trophy which he
had not won,-who never coveted or denied lau
rel achieved or deserved by another,-the hero o
two wars-for Scott was a hero at Niagara thir
ty-fcur years ago.--and who, stepping out of the
past into the present. complete warrior in bis
ancient harness, went to Mexico, not to write bu
f. to fght to plan to march, to charge to storm,-
to drive the Mexicans out of their strong holds tt
occupy their cities to capture their capital to over
e throw and utterly subdue them, and thus compel
5 them to the peace which he had been sent tc
. s. conquer" n
These are the two heroes of whom we meant t.
speak,--the one thing of feathers and epaulets
|" counterfeit presentment' Of general who win
renown by writing letters. or procuring letters t.
! be written for publication, in his own praise, an
a is honored therefor by the President the other
d gre at captain, worthy to be compared with tn
II most illusIrious in history, whose name will b
identified henceforth, through all time, with tn
glory of his country and the recollection OF Mexico
and who is rewarded for his great acts in tha
$ country-by the same President who honors Ger
Plllow-by the disgrace of a removal from hi
> command and recall to Washington " to AVA
:, further orders at the Department"
:, Fortunately for justice, fortunately, at least fc
:, Winfield Scott, there is tribunal, above that