Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-09-25
GEN. SCOTS SERVICES AND PAY.

AS politicians might Tin the language OF one OF our
respected contemporares) wen be pleased rather than
otherwise at the insult offered to the great American Gene
raj and through him to the American people, by Demo
cratic Congressman, and portion Of the Democratic
press by the course pursued in reference the payment
which General Scorr has received for his military and
other services Such hearess ndgnity to who has
served his country faithfully and we'll such
and unjust persecution Of hero whose life has
been periled and his blood spilled for his countrys
honor find favor with the Of the American
people, but must awaken dsapproval and disgust and
prompt them with ready and generous gratitude to rally
around the nsulted and prosecuted patriot Persecution
yet permanently injured righteous cause but in
the breasts of free and people promotes
rather than Injuries such cause, by evokng fervent
sympathy with the prosecuted Such in many quarters
has been the effect of this attempt to parade nydous
before the world General Scots remuneration for his
great services and if political opponents really be-
eve that apathy respecting General Scotts election pre-
walls in the Wing ranks, they are certainly doing an
egegiously foolish thing in thus arousng sympathy
the generals behalf.
But there is another view of the matter which it i,
really painful to contemplate; painful because humat
ing TO us great nation and republic setting
ample Of sef-government and Of popular institutions be-
fore the other nations of the world, Looking at the
action Of Congress in this matter and the course adopted
by the Washington Union and some other Democratic
newspapers flor all have not sunk low in this light,
cannot but feel nexpressibe modification. Here is
confessedy the greatest General his country has
produced since the days Of Washington having supe
rior in the world and but one, any, equal who
from his youth up has lived for his country only and has
led her hosts to victory in every campaign; who has
known defeat and whose victories have been
untarnished by rapacity or wrong; who has
hrou OH 1v 1esS In Inv wis
dom in negotiation than by his valor in the field and
because this man is proposed by political party for
President of the republic he has faithfully served and
because his private e like his public career, affords
vulnerable mark for the shafts of SANDER and calumny
the other political party far forget national pro-
priety patriotism and patriots services to measure
General Scotts services nay as to measure their coun
trys honor and renownfor the two inseparableby
the dollars and cents which they have cost. What
spectacle for the world Had foreign journal pur
sued the which of Democratic jour-
mails pursuing, how earnestly and universally
and justly would that print have been denounced offer
ing gross insult to the whole American people. How
much to be deprecated, ave. and despised too is
such conduct on the part of American journals
New York Commercial -4drertisr
is claimed (says another contemporary the same
subject that the into which the United States have
been driven those of necessity and sefdefence
However this may may not be, as touching the war
against Mexico in it there but party the
question of pursuing it successful issue Thus too
with the late against England would agree
stop it short of complete vndcaton of the Yankee
motto, "a clear and sailors rights !" But what
would the latter have been without Lundys Lane Chip
pewa and Queenstown the former and latter without
Vera Cruz Cerro Gordo Contreras Cherubusco Chepul
Ja1 Da. lo.t1a Az
aye, without Palo Alto Resaca de la Palma, Monterey
and Buena Vista Need repeat how Locofoco Con-
gress ced the leader of the Northern line for the most
glorious humane, and at the time polite, stroke Of
war which distinguished his victorious march Need we
remind abashed countrymen how the Administration
which sent him aeld did every thing in its power to
barrass his movements and sacrifice him deathoer
ing upon his own victories?
And now what is this grovelng indoent party .
about? The wn-brother of American glory him whom
the People of the United States delighted to honorand
whose ilustrious memory death embalmed just he
reached the summit Of civil SUGGESTS arraigned
like culprit to give account of the moneys expended
under his control leader of armies for the last
forty years Nobody has dared to whisper that
even dollar was misapplied, that every of his
dealings with the Treasury not just and fair But,
10 this man. who, unlike Marlborough, Nelson, or
Wellington has conducted countrys forces through two
successive wars at cost absolutely inconsderable is
guilty Of the crime Of aspiring to the American Presden
cy and the party in opposition to his election conceive
it to be their interest to an his fair fame Good God
who can athom the unutterable and ingatude
Of such movement? Who but the People Of great,
Free and prosperous country who by eevang ZACHARY
TAYLOR to the highest Office within their gift rebuked
the foul spirit Of party defamation and gave earnest
Of their intention and ability do Justice to WINFIELD
ScorT?
We have faith to believe that the Ruler Of all things
viii confound the devices of those legislators with Mer
wether in the lead who, by submitting ScoTTs dealings
with the Treasury to commission report after the
Presidential election have strven to throw asperson
Of disgrace Of the pures best, most magnan
nous characters of the age.-Seioo Gazette.
We heartily endorse every word that is so fifty
spoken by our brother journalists in the preceding
extracts from their columns, in regard to that sys-
tenn of personal warfare, which the unprncipled por
ton of the party press and unscrupulous politicians
resort to in Presidential canvass, as the enemies
of General ScoTT have now done in raking up the
amount of money paid to that Officer in the course
Of his fortyodd years Of public life, and paradng it
before the Public for purposes which every honest
man must in his heart contemn. The object of the
intrusion Of this matter into the Presidential can
vass is to persuade the ignorant narrow minded
Of Gen. ScoTT's countrymen that he has been paid
extravagantly for the numerous and priceless SER
vices which he has rendered in council and in the