New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-06-22
SCOTT is NOMINATED!

BUTT 10 NOAntNAIhD'
With no ordinary satisfaction do we this
morning give to the breeze the Wing BAN
ner inscribed with the names of WIN
FIELD SCOTT for President and WILL
LIAM A. GRAHAM for Vice President
of the United States. They are both men
whose capacity has been proved, whose in
tegriiy is undoubted, and will bring to the
stations whereto the People are about to
call them the dignity which reposes in
uanscendent Virtue and Patriotism.
WINFIELD SCOTT has been for more
than forty years devoted to the service of
his country. Born in Virginia, June 13,
1856, he was educated for the law, admit
ted to the bar in 1906, and the next sum-
mer volunteered in troop of horse raised
in Petersburg, on call of President JEFF
ferson, to protect the coast of the Chesa-
peake after the shameful affair of the Loop
ard. The next May, 1908, the Army be-
ing enlarged, he was appointed a Captain
of Light Artillery, and has ever since
served his country as soldier with ever
increasing renown, until his fame is now
commensurate with the civilized world. No
fields were more warmly contested, no lau-
rels more proudly won, than those where
with the name of WINFIELD SCOTT is in
disolubly blended. They need not be
named-the Country knows them by heart
But Winfield Scott is not merely nor
mainly distinguished as a warrior. He
has served with equal eminence as min
lister and preserver of Peace. The de-
plorable Removal of the wronged and out
ragged Cherokees was conducted by him
with kindness, consideration, humanity
and patience which prevented the effasion
of blood, which else was inevitable, and
which would have deepened and darkened
the stain of perfdy which that enforced
Removal cast upon our National Honor.
In the winter of 1928, he commanded
the U. S. forces in Charleston Harbor
during the crisis of Notification, when one
rash, irritating word from him, would
probably have deluged South Carolina in
blood, and might have led to the dissolu-
ton of the Union. His calmness, frmness
and discretion elected universal approba-
ton. During the Patriot troubles on the
Canadian frontier, and again when the
Boundary dispute between Maine and
New-Brunswick threatened to plunge the
two greatest free Nations into intermina-
bic butchery, Scott was placed in imme-
diate command, and succeeded in prevent
ing bloodshed and restoring tranquility
and harmony. His bearing, his efforts and
his success on these occasions elected the
following emphatic eulogium from the
heart and pen of the illustrious DR.. CHAN
MING, in his preface to his Lecture ON War,
delivered in the year 1888:
much, also is due to the hen.
efcent influence of Gen. Scott. To this di.tin-
guished man belongs the rare hsnor Of uniting
with military energy and daring, the spirit Of
His exploits in the field, which
placed him in the first rank of soldiers, have been
ob.cuTed BY the purer and more lasting glory of
pacifcator, and a friend of mankind. In the whole
history ofthe intercourse Of civilized communities.
we doubt whether brighter page can be found
than that which records his agency in the removal
OF the Cherokees. As far as the wrongs done to
this race can be atOned for, Gen. Scott has made
the espiation. In his recent mission to the dis
turbed borders Of our country, he has succeeded.
not so much by policy as by the nobleness and
generosity Of his character, by morslinfuence. by
The earnest conviction with which be has enforced
on all, with whom be had to do, tho obligations Of
patriotism, justice, humanity and religion. Ii
would not be easy to find among us a man who
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