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2 that view. The conversation was con
veyea 10 Gen. Jackson by some auonv-
nous tale-bearer. The General al
: ways ready to fight any body who ven
tured TO disapprove one of his v;oIen+
, aGis, wrote to Gen. Scott from Nash
vile, requesting 10 know if his anonv-
nous correspondent reported the trut6a
uen. scott replied by telling how far
anu Inc circumstance diSayowinp anv
IN towards him as influencing his opin-
lon- General Jackson reIoined on;te
/ angrlly, and with an offer of persnnaJ
satisfaction. To this, in his answer
Gen. Scott, who thought Gen. Jacksor,
iaa no right 10 be offended, and wEsr,
toesides that he had no need TO o;yee
proof OF his having courage enongb -.
Hfet. Gen. Jackson or any body had no
And so for the time the affair drUp1Jteu,
In 1923, however, they were both HI
Washington al once; and it being cur
rently reported that Gen jackson
meant TO insult him whenever they
met, Gen. Scott sent him note refer
ing to their falling out, to the fact of
their being now for The first time within
reach OF each other. and to the posslbil-
ity that Gen. Jackson did not know of
it, nor that he would yet remain in
Washington for three days. To this
note Gen. Jackson returned concilia-
tory answer; they made friends, and
ever after remained upon terms of all
courtesy and respect.
PREPARES OUR SYSTEMS OF TACTICS:
We owe to Gen. Scott almost all we
have OF a military system. That which
we use was (as has been SEEM first ia
troduced by him at Buffalo. There he
with ii in three months converted Gen.
Browns division into men that could not
afterwards be beat. He had then only
personally taught il: but in 1814-15iit
was regularly adopted for all our army,
by board of officers, OF which he was
President. En- 1921 he published itin
8vo., under title Of General Regula-
tions for the Army" Fin s25 he pub
lished his Infantry Tactics In 1896
he drew up for the War Department
: A plan for the organization and in
struction OF the whole body of the Mill
tia of the Union" and "A System of
Infantry and Rife Tae,ics1 Fn 1885
he Published, by order of Congress.
new edition of the latter How we'll
his system works has been seen in
Mexico, through the armies formed
under 1t. Certainly, we owe much TO
West Point and its scientific instrnc-
tion; but West Point owes no little of
what 1t is to Gen, Scott 1t is he. in
reality, WHO has given TO our army that
admirable spirit, that high gentleman
hness, that character, that extreme
efficiency, that respect for law and
that love OF duty, which distinguish it
even more than its science. and make
II the finest bod Y of men in the world.
1t appears, too singularly enough, that
he may be placed among the. earliest
pioneers of the Temperance Reforrn.--
For he published in 1921 a long trast
III volumesl in Walsh's National Ga
zette, of Philadelphia, proposing plan
for restricting the use of ardent spirits.
in the United States. He was led TO
this idea by the mischiefs from mtem-
perance with which be had to contend
IN governing the army IN 1929 he
again visited Europe, for professional
IaE
THE BLACK HAWK WAR. THE CHOLERA:
sCoTF's GeNrgeT.
The interesting events which are
in the life Of Gen. Scott
crowd upon US. We must therefore
BASS very slightly over some of them
which would show very bright in the
history of others. Such a case is that
# his conduct in the Black Hawk war
If 1892; where he not only quieted most
and prudently great Difficult
les with Indian tribes, but concluded
reaties of great benefit to our people
# the Northwest and, more than all,
himself TO every true heart
~ the manner in which. when the
AsiaStic cholera broke out among his
oldiers with most fatal violence. he
Iursed and tended them, in total disre-
.ard of his own safety, although him.
elf affected all the while by symptoms
f the disease. So terrible was the
noriality which of sudden fell upen
lis men. that out of $50 there were ina
ew days bul about 400 left. The rest
ad perished aboard the steamers hJeis
we're conveying them, or, when landed
t Chicago, had fled from the pesII-
enee-stroke; but, overtaken by il in
heir flight, and every where denied
heller and aid by the terrified inhabi-
lnts, had only died, for the most part,
ill more miserably. SCOTS own boat,
mall and crowded, became perfect
out of 22O men aboard, So
led in the passage, and 80 had to be
laced in the hospital when they
cached Chicagol The deck and hold
ere covered with the dead and dying.
midst this terrible scene, instead Of
himself las most men III
ommand would have done) with mere
! ordering the medical men 10, take
Il necessary measures fnr relieving
le sick, Scott became in person their
tendant, and perfufmed for his hum
iest comrade, with a, brothers. care,
very dangerous office from which 9th
IS shrank. Much as he has shown him
IF tho bar rr =, ,S,,, b..,to GaiJ,ELo