Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-07-16
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Sc0tt'S Foreign Policy.

I SSVSe y . OASA6A VAASy'
It is an honorable fact that our best
Gencrals-such as Washington, Jackson,
Harrison, and Taylor dreaded, and
took most pains to avoid as far as possible,
all bloodshed. Gen Scott's views have
been long on record, written by him for
an Album, as follows:
"PEACE AND WAR.
off war be the natural state of savage
tribes, peace is the first want of every civ
ilized community War 10 doubt is, un-
der any circumstances, a great calamity !;
yet submission to outrage would often be
a greater calamity. Of the two parties to
any war, one, at least, must be in the
wrong-not unfrequently, both. An error
in such an issue is, Oh the part of chief
magistrates, ministers Of state, and lcgis-
lators having voice in the question, q
crime of the greatest magnitude The
staying Of an individual by an individual
is, in comparative guilt, but drop Of
blood Hence the highest moral obliga-
ton to treat national differences with tenn
per, justice, and fairness; always to see
that the cause of war is not only Just, but
srBicie"t; to be sure that We do not coret
our neighbor' 5 lands, nor anything that is
his that We are as ready to give us to de-
mand explanation, apology, indemnity, in
short, We should especially remember, all
things whatsoever We would that men sho'd
do to you, do ye even so to them This
divine precept is of universal obligation
it is as applicable to rulers, in their trans
actions with other nations, as to private
individuals in their daily intercourse with
each other. Power is intrusted by the
Author of peace and lover Of concord, to
do good and to avoid evil. Such, clearly,
is the revealed will of God
II WINFIELD SCoTT.
" Washington, Ar-il &C. ISL"
Re-. DR. CHaNSING, the eminent Peace
advocate, in work published about fifteen
years ago in Boston, wrote cf Gen Scott:
"To this distinguished man belongs the
rare honor of uniting with military energy
and daring, the spirit of phiianthropst.
His exploits in the field, which placed
him in the first rank of our soldiers, have
been obscured by the puIer and most last
ing glory of Pacifcator, and of friend
Of mankind. Ir the whole history of the
intercourse Of civilized with barborous or
half-civilzed communities, we doubt
whether a brighter page can be found than
that which records his agency in the re-
moval of the CLerokecs. As far aswrongs
done to this race can be atoncd for, Gen
eral Scott has made the expiation
"ln his recent mission to the disturbed
borders of our country, he has succeeded,
not SO much by policy as by the noblencss
and generosity Of his charatter, by moral
influences, by the earnest conviction with
which he has enforced on all with whom
he has had to do, the obligations Of ratri-
ctism, justice, humanity and religion. II
would not be easy to find among us a man
who has won purer fame: and ! am happy
to offer this tribute, because | would do
something, no matter how little, to hasten
the time, when the spirit Of Christian hu-
manity shall be accounted an essential
attribute and the brightest ornament of a
public man"
These facts and opinions sufficiently
Indicate tie truly brave and humane War
rior's course as Chief Magistrate. Should
war be Our lot, however, nothing could
strike such terror to the hearts of Crowned
Heads, to Nulliicrs, or to Fanatics, as The
name of Winfield Scott, Commaracr-in-
Chief Of all Me Imcricoa Forrest
UISTORIA.