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you to reward it. The cruelty of that deliberate
wrong to proud and lofty innocence, IL il yours
to redress; the reproach of that base ngrattude to
a national benefactor, it is yours wipe away
and therefore do l ask your votes for Winfield
Scott. -.... ... ....... '... .... 3. ...
Pending that persecution, Scott was visited by
temptation which who but Scott would have re-
fuseds The people of Mexico, approaching the
virtues even of foe, offered him million and a
quarter of dollars in cash. and the chief magistracy
OF the country. They asked no wrong to his own
government. Com. Porter had established pre-
cedent of acceptance. General Scott was perse-
cuted; his LIFELONG devotion rewarded with dis
grace-ths would redress him. Like Aristides
his probity in Office had kept him poor--,hs would
enrich him. His foes had stripped him Of bis
among princes. OF course he accepted an offer 80
brilliant. Why should he noti Far from it. He
at least hesitated, Not a moment "My life,n
such was his sublime answer, " belongs to my
country. would rather be her humblest servant
than the monarch of earth 3 richest empire Dis.
carded, l will stick TO her; prosecuted, wronged,
requited with contumely and disgrace, it will yet
benny glory to love and cherish her to serve and
suffer, to live and die for her." Is not this man
worthy Of your votes' Would you be worthy Of
him if you denied them: For this ask your suf
frage. as..a.. -n..a.. #a@a s}at
Glorious as has been his military career, the
civil life and services of Scott equally claim your
admiration and gratitude. He is, and ever has been
the friend and advocate of peace. His letter to the
Peace Convention ayows his opposition 10
necessary war, and his life approves that profess
| sion. You remember the Canada rebellion. Our
neighbors struck for Independence cause to
which American hearts must give throb and
thrill of sympathy. That sympathy was met by
British arrogance, and an American boat was fired
by an invading soldery, in an American port, and
sent, while the flames rose above tho bodies of the
slaughtered Americans, down the Niagara, and
over the cataract The war spirit the frontier
shot up like q bale fire. Collision seemed inevita-
ble What politician, what dipiomatist, WINS then
round adequate to the crisis? Scott alone was
considered, by Democratic administration, capa-
BILE of averting the storm. He did avert it. With
out army, without aid, sngly, by dint Of his own
wisdom and eloquence, he saved the country from
war which, had 1t come, would have strained her
every nerve to cracking, and made her every pore
sweat blood. Which of your boosted civilians
can point to such a triumph ask for that tri-
umph your votes. 1911 raaE ssj 49,.
Again, on the northeastern frontier, in 1886, the
| troops of England and Of this country were actu-
oily in the fold against each other. One drop of
blood then shed would have sluiced seas of blood.
Again Democratic administration had recourse to
the civil abilities of Scott--for who then dared to
doubt them! Aud again he averted the conflict,
extorting, by his talents and his triumph the ap-
pIause of all parties, and confirming in both coun-
tries his title as THE GREAT PAcIFIcAroR. In
this character, as the Apostle of Peace, and for
The time-honored patriot claims your reverence
as the champion of the Union, earliest, steadiest
and staunchest. No spot Of the nation--no North,
no South, no East, no West--can claim It as his
own. His patriotic life has been spread, like sum
light, all over the land he has loved and served
long and well. In his youth, when the North
plotted treason at Hartford, he shamed the malcon-
tent spirit back to its den, by the glory Of his vic
tories on the line. In after years. when the South
renewed the dark example, at Charleston, with
nuliihcation, he was again interposed to save the
Union. The patriot Jackson was then at the head
of the Government; and in that dark hour, for it
was as dark another night piled upon midnight,
where did he look for one whose lofty civil and
military qualities and devoted patriotism he could
trust to avert fraternal wars' Our land has many
great men but his sagacity directed him to Scott.
He sent him to the scene of excitement and dam
ger and with his giant hand upon the helm all
was safe. The first inteecs Of the nation united
in applauding his invaluable services; and the
magnanimous jackson, through the Secretary OF
War, Gen. Cass, expressed his high admiration,
and acknowledged his profound gratitude, and that
of the country. Will any Democrat deny the
merit which Jackson applauded, or withhold the
gratitude he bestowed? Under the sanction, then,
Of the great name Of Andrew Jackson, ask your
votes for Gen. Scott. H........ q Pei.
And in the latest peril Of the Union, where was
Scott! Earliest by the side of its noblest defender,
the illustrious Henry Clay-Clay, whose pure and
mighty spirit, when it had achieved lis last and
loftiest triumph, bore on high 10 Washington the
proud triumph that his country was saved. By the
side of Clay Scott labored earnestly and effective
ly, day and night, for the Compromise; and, when
it had passed, he received, for his early, ardent,
and constant championship, the grateful thanks of
the departing patriot For that devotion to the
Union which merited and won Clay's admiration
and gratitude, l ask yours. a. ..l '......
Such has been the entire career of Sco,t-ever
the friend Of peace, Of Union, Of humanity Our
prriOr il 0ur cal, or n,.L
hero is the greatest, most humane Of men; one who
would not win the laurels that hid the bald frat
Caesars brow at the price of unnecessary tear
That spirit made him the father Of his soldiers, and
even the plying friend Of conquered foe Wit
ness the cholera scenes in the camp at Chicago
when pestilence smote the army, and those who
braved death at the cannon's mouth fed appalled,
from this new horror. Scott was their general not
their surgeon; of course he retired to safer quarters
and left the sick and the dying the care of those
provided for the duty. He was incapable of the
thought. Let US look in upon one Of the scenes
then so frighrully common. On the naked floor
of one Of the army huts is stretched dying sol.
der, deserted by ALL one, for it is the satur-
nalia of death--death in the frtd air; death in the
shrieks Of the convulsed sufferers; death in the fixed
distortions of those who have ceased suffer; vet
there, in that scene of accumulated horrors, a tall
form bends over the dying soldier, holds the cup to
his ashy lips, and uters words of kindness in tones
of cheerful consolation. 1t is late; the sufferer
gives to his ministerng friend last sad message
for his distant family, grasps his hand, looks up
with earnest gratitude, breathes feeble blessing
upon his benefactor, and sinks back, never again
TO be aroused till called up by the sound Of the last
reveille. Now, what holy enthusiast, soicitous for
martyrdom, is he who thus abors under the dark
shadow of the wings Of pestience! Name him
that we may bless him. 1t is the youth that vowed
himself to his country; 1t is the hero whose red
bosom pressed the sod Of Lundy's Lane; il is the
veteran who swept over the battle fields of Mexico;