Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-08-28
led to this idea by the mschiefs from iptemneT,n..
with which he had to contend in governing H.
army. In 1923 heagain visited Europe, fol proSes.
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with which he had to contend in governing NJ.
army. In 1929 heagain visited Europe, for pfofes.
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i THE BLACK HAWK WAR ThE o1,o1 EaA Z scor1,
i DUCT, sci k
The interesting events which are contained r,
/ the lie OF Gen. Scott crowd upon u.s. We must
thereiofe pass very slightly over some of them which
would show very bright in the history of Others.
ouch case isthat OF his conduct in the Black Hawk
war OF 1882 where he not only ouieted most brN
namely and prudently great difficulties with Indian
tlbeS but concluded treaties of great benefit TO orr,
i people of the Northwest /; and more than ali on
deared himself to every tue heart by the manner
which,, when the Asiatic cholera broke out amon
his soldiers with most fatal violence he nursed ons
tended them in total disregard of his own sofat,
although himself affected all the while by symnton,
OF the disease Soternble was the moralfywbieb >
of sudden fell upon his men that cut Of sSo ~
were, in few days, but about 400 left. The rest
had persisted aboard the steamers which were
conveying them, OF, when landed at Chicago had i
He'd from the pestilence strokes but overtaken by
Their flight and every where denied shelter and
aid by the terrified inhabitants, had only died for
Il the most part, still more miserable. Scott own
boat, small and crowded, became perfect pest
house; out of 2l0 men aboard, so died in the pas
sage, and 80 had to be placed in the hospital when
sney reached Chicago! The deck and hold were
covered with the dead and dying. Amidst thister
rlble scene, instead of contenting himself (as most
men IN command would have done) with merely
ordering the medical men to take all necessary
measures 10 relieving the sick Scott became in per-
son their attendant, and performed for his humbest
| comIade, with brothers care, every dangerous
ONCE from which others shrank. Much as he has
shown himself the hero upon battle fields he never
any where displayed more genuine heroism, one
more pure, noble, and effecting than npon this oc-
| casion. Such has been his conduct towards his
| fellow soldiers in all times of suffering. Heie,
while their messmatss fled from them, many of
their officers neglected them; and their panicSrck-
en- fellow citizens shut their doors and hearts from
them, the pIeat Comma uder. pQll ha ,yoS
brave, stood by them true at the death bed as in
| battle. 80 goa 'a'e ei-fsl4f -.
SCOTT SENT TO QUIET THE NULLIFIERS.
| DOES 1T? .. Ha-. ~
He had hardly got home from these irving scenes,
when fresh order of the Government sent him to
another AT the close of 1882 (November) multi
| lcation was coming to a head, A South Carolina
Convention had passed its ordinance declaring that
the United States revenue laws should not be en-
forced m that State andits Legislature and Execu
tive were (while insisting that ullifcaton was the
most peaceful OF renedes) making all preparations
Tor armed resistance. Indeed, the whole popula-
ton had by four years ofincessant agitation, been
worked up into little short of public tphIenzy.
4 Two thirds of them had learnt to believe them
selves the most oppressed people upon earth; they
were ready to go 10 any extremity and the reader,
because they had, in avery bitter oppositon party
4 at home, object of immediate hate, on. whom
they longed to wreak double vengeance, for not
only the sins of the General Government which
l that party supported, but for its own. In short,
tne adverse 1acuOnS ABOUT eQuuliy idudtiCd were
a n point of mutual evaporation where collision
could hardly be hindered and where that collision
could scarcely fail to become the signal of civil
war. The Union or Government party regarded
its opponents traitors to The confedefacyi its OPP
ponents looked them as traitors to their State.
Both were keen to come to blows; the former,
though the weaker, because they were denounced
and prescribed by the others and relied upon the
strong Federal arm for crushing them soon as it
came to aims; the latter because they know this
feeling, and were doubly furious against those
: who, though Carolinians, were anxious to have
: their own State dragooned. Such was the cond-
e ton of things amidst which Gen. Scott was sent
among them. At first, to ascertain exactly what
measures were needed and yet to avoid adding to
their excitement by open steps OF military precau
b ton, he went down, in November, to Columbia,
d Augusta, Savannah and Charleston, as if on his
e ordinary yearly visit of inspecting the United
States troops and fortresses. When he had thus
quietly looked into everything, he returned to
Washington, made his report to President Jackson,
$ concerted with the Government all was to be
u done, sent forward to Charleston the revenue
cutters and troops that were needful, and then
paired thither himself with. confidential insrue
tons. These, we cannot recite further than that
he was to keep the defensive, as far as possible,
and to rely on the legalmeans OF enforcing the law
until they failed; but large discretion was, of
course, left him. for everything depended on judg
ment. Without that, all the instructions in the
world would not have beenworth button. Hap
PLY for the country and not less happily for South
Carolina, the right man had been chosen for this
difficult service, and chosen because the Govern
4 ment knew him to be just the man, not because
it loved him. He conducted the whole business to
its end with such SeadineSS and skill, with such
q happy mixture of Cancellation and frmness, of
secrecy and of timely words that he controlled the
violence of both parties, induced the Leaders and
setterson of the matter themselves to hearken to
his patriotic counsels, and finally disanned those
y flaming animosities and that insane wish to see
bloodshed, which had, when he arrived in Charles
h ton, filled all mems minds and AIMED their hands
e against each other. Nothing could be more dan
It gerous than the men, the temper and the situation
of things with which he had to deal nothing more
e delicate and yet finn than the management re-
t CURED A single false step would probably nave
been fatal and lighted up civil war, which would
have spread through the whole South and sunder-
o ed the Uuion. We owe (under Cody our escape
from these terrible evils only to the exertons and
wisdom of Gen. Scott, who abundantly proved to
y all who were actors in the matter (among whom
the writer hereof was one) that his abilities are
quite as equal to dangerous and difficult civil con-
juncures as to the handling of armies in the field.
e FLORIDA WAR.-PUBLIC DISAPPOINT-
E MENT, AND INJUSTICE nor
: Ofthe Florida war and Gen. SCOTS brefpar
in it, we need say little. 1t is not agreeable to
dwell upon operations, which the habits of the foe
and the nature of the country where he was to be
hunted up made, and still continue to make, in
II variable failures. The public, with levity and
an injustice of which it has now been long aware
! condemned Gen. Scott because sent off TO Florida
suddenly and without preparation, he did not finish
5 in month war,ywhich, afterwards, cost years
of exertion and ten millions Of money and is hardly
. ended yet. He lost no battle, suffered no check;
but no matter-he did not atonce sublue an enemy
whom he could not not find; and all his merits, all
his serviceswere forgotten Nobody knew the inn
practicable country in which he was to act, nor
that it was warfare of guess and experiment in
which he was obliged to began by cropping in the
dark for the best mode, of operating. He was
laughed at by the public and recalled by the Adj
ministration. But he demanded an inquiry and
the able caurt before which the matter was tried
came to the clearest opinion that he had committed
executed with all zeal and ability These transsc-