The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1852-10-01
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We cpy the owing from the Coium-
bu. s,ae Jour last Thursday morning.
The cnmunic made to Gen. Scott evil
IDENTIFY ook hit surprise, but it aroused
his or .,t spiri, d his remarks were wor-
thy of the occi
JUICE Heyli ID upon Zen. Scott and
NJ, h..S,,r Of ! of cur German citizens,
referred 20 nj raph from the Westbote, u
German pape iblishtd in this city, and
cortaininr the tement that Gen. Scott tied
IN one tree fiogyed fifteen Germans,
while in Mex N.t.
Other chara of his having hanged 9TH
ers cruelty anC ljustiy, were also referred To.
Never have e witnessed scene more
imposing than hen the old chic ftain, with
quick and inc nant response, repealed the
false and mali iamt charge. Lofty in stature,
and standing; least four inches above the
talIest of thos among whom he stood, his
form seemed u yantic, as with heightened
color and ia hing eye, and wave OF his
hand that expressed a calm defiance OF uli
such assailants, he uttered his emphatic pro-
test against sucn assaults as that paragraph
presented:
..New, and before unknown to me, are such
things as have now been told me. They
surprise and they pain me. Tney at once
concern all that / value personally, aud aim
n blow ut all that, wherein, if l know my
self, have the highest pride: They attack
my own identity! The principles for which,
Ihad believed, need never search my own
bosom in vain, are here undermined or de-
MED me! am met with charges ofinjustce
and cruelty, while leading an American ar
my through Mexico, and while participating
alike In its trials and its triumphs.
"Gentlemen, it pas my lot to lead an Amer
lean army upon foreign field. i went re-
solved to sustain, in the forefront of my pro-
gress, the higi-tide icatsr of our oiea Ameri
can ciuiization, in all its moral and civil vir-
tue. The standard of our oon and MT the
practices of that foreign country, was the
standard which sought for the government
Of mems passions and the control of the IL
censc and excuses OF war. Alike to Ameri-
cans, whether native or of foreign birth, and
to Mexicans, l declared my purpose, and ex-
-. hibited my principles OF action.
IL promuged the martial code. Doubtless
you all have read it. deemed it ascesSary-
could do nothing without it. IL announced
the spirit of our progress, and held amenab'e
u punishment all who forgot manhood, ami
threatened t. bring shame upon our flag
dishonor TO ou' arms--or reproach upon our
virtue. Without it, we had not conquered,
or il we had conquered the brightest trophy
of our conquest had been wanting. ltwould
have been physical triumph alone. llu-
mainly would have dsowned Us. ! promu-
ged that oder. Read it aud read /; aga a.,
gentlemen, nJthen bear witness that il
was in my he TT, as it was almost hourly on
my lips, for continued months, to carry
with American arms, and under the Amcri-
can flag. even into an eaemys country, all
thu eicments OF social order, aud that regard
for personal right that belonged 10 our own
free institutions in the United States.
Yes sought to carry with he, and resolv-
ed to maintain, at all haz ards, among nay own
command and also that people am ,;ig whom
SHOULD be thrown, that high standard oil
vriu, and honor which we booted of al
home. Had not been less tLdn an Ame.i
can, and recreant to the hi CHEST interests o
humanity, and the age rcjoic. III, i'll had
done less! They say hanged som. Gtr
mans, and tied up and f1gged others. Gentle
men, some persons were hanged in Mexico
the names all of them | do not now rccol
'ect. Whether any were Germans or not, |
know not. But for what-yes for what wer,
they hanged. | hanged one for murder
gentlemen; hanged one for rape upon al "a
nocent young female, and one for profame an
wicked Church robbery. All knew the Law
that was over them. Every man of then
knew he woull be held answerablc for viii
misdeeds against the laws of God and man
ss if he were then upon American soil"
"For such crimes they suff.rcd--for sue
crimes as here, in your own Ohio-a land q
law-would have brought down on them sc
we're penalties and with equal justice. Som
did suffer death. But their trial was fair, i'm
partial, and upon the same principles of soil
law upon which they would have been ad
judged guilty, here, among you. Do som
say hanged fifteen Germans, and that other
were arraigned and fog red without cause o
tiai! Gentlemen, know nothing OF it.
is false-it is a lie-an invention, gentleme
IA lie. see aged citizens before me.
see eminent lawyers here. And, gentlemen
you see me much excited. But, is it not f.
cause! For one, who, for fifty years ha
scarcely ever walked, rose, slept, or eaten, G
.even taken cup of cold water, in the fiel'
the town, or the camp, but that his thought
were OF his country-her virtues-her r,
'slown-her honor, to be thus assailed--it
monstrous-:t is iatoleraJle! Gentlemen.
dm,~with a high hand, sustain the law, whic
with uprightness in my heart, d,tsrmiae,l
sust in. 4 did hang for murder. | lid han
4 for rape! did hang for treasonl and flo,
gei thieves and pickpockets! For, gentl
men, let me again say, not only carried wi
me, but | resolved, with every resource
Could command, to sgstIin, tsarlessly ami eff
s@aAy, in Its virtue and its chocest blcssin /,
not only to my own command, but to drieuc
less AM peaceable uexcaus, that civiiiz i,iC
Eyes, that Christian civilization of which
was proud to believe that army might appe
worthy rrpreseutativ
'But. gentlemen | was no respecter
persons. American or Mexi;an-iativs DO,
or foreign born-whoeyer kneyy th,, l,v,