New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-09-27

are 10 be, Ct oficio, Board of Commission
ers" for the general government Of "a
cer.ain Asylum for sick and disabled SOL
diers of the Army OF the United States"
At the session lust closed, Il was enact
ed :. that the Board Of Officers designated
by the Act of March 3, 1851. to procure
sites for the Military Asyums, by and with
the approval of the President of the Unit
ed States, be, and they or part OF them
are hereby authorized to examine the Blue
/ Lick Springs ADD the land attached there
to- &c. land if the same be found eligi-
BILE for the purI Ose, and can be secured OF
the proprietors," &c, &" TO locate thereon
the Western Military Asylum"
Pursuant to this act of Congress, the
Gepera-i in Chief of the Array lett
Wssbin gton on the afternoon of the 18th
inst, accompanied by General Wool and
Surgeon Ge neral Lawson to perform the du-
iyiuposed upon him, by an authority which
be is bound to obey. He takes the short
est end quickest route to Pittsburgh
Here he finds the river low, and travels as
apy other citizen or business man won do
by railroad, via Cleveland, COLUMBUS, &c.,
the quickest and easiest route 70 the place
of his destination. He tar1ies on his road
only to sleep. He spends no time in os-
tepta,ious display. But he is The most
prominent man on the American CONT
nent. one whose name is interviewer in
the History of his country-the whole
country forty years and wherever ne
stops crowds collect spontaneously and
press to see one whose reputation Is pure
and unsullied, whose fame is not cOexten-
siye merely with the limits of his county.
but with these of the civilized world. To
these crowds hc makes no long, studied
speeches. but rs they press around him, tn
few and uns,uded words he utters the
feelings and emotions Of his heart-and
that is all And this i. taking the Stump
Had lie tai en- the stump when, after
the battle of Lundy'~ Lane, with British
lead in his body, the young officer made
that triumphal progress to Washington
greeted everywhere with all the public
honor and private attentions which, in
his then feeble state, his constitution
would bear! Was be on the stump at
Princeton, when the Faculty of the Uni
ycrsity met The suffering soldier with the
honors of an academic reception or at
Philadelphia, when the Governor of the
State and the citizens welcomed him with
military aud civic parades andprocession,
or when, afteIward, Gov. Tompkins made
him n public presentation of the sword
voted him by the State of New York
Was he ION the stump" when he re-
turned from our northern frontier in 1887,
and people throDged to see him, and hon
orcd him, not as the great warrior, but the
great peace maker, when entertainments
and festivities at Albany, in his honor, led
the members of the Legislature for time
10 forget their political rancor and wrang-
liugs,
Just as little was no 'on the stump"
when, on his way 10 the North Eastern
Boundary he reached Augusta, Me-, and
met with grand reception by the au-
thorities Of that State in their halls OF
legislation.
And when, in l64o, the Conqueror of
Mexico entered this City, by invitation of
its authorities, and crowds innumerable
met him at the landing and escorted him
into the City, amid the waving of flags and
the roar OF c0nnon-thcn, too. perhaps.
bis Loco-Foco calunniatOrs will say he
"wa> on the stump"
Thus for thirty eight years-eyer sincc
the glorious campaign on the vi igara from
tier-the presence Of Scott ha. been sufli-
ciepi to draw crowds TO look upon the man
ly form Of one whose name is IA household
word All Parties-men separated in all
political ideas, far as the polls asunder-
have united to do HIN honor as their
counuy's defender and boast; but now,
when grateful people is determined to
place him in the highest position in their
gift, because in quiet and unostenta-
tious Journey. on the bushes. of his
oiiice-in the performance of the duty of
his statiOn-peOple WiA crowd to see him,
as they have for nearly forty years OVID
ed to look upon him-the wisdom and as
tuteness of Loco Foco partisan prints,
fIom the meanes; little country seventy
nine dOcn to The Wa,hington Union, have
made the wonderful discovery that Gen.