Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-06-23
The Candidates of Our Choice,

President and Vice President are presented
to the people of the most favored nation on
carth-the Gland Of the free and the home of
the brave for their appreciation or rejection.
No American will ask, Who is General Winfield
Scott? for no American is ignorant of his deeds
OF glory from 1912 to 1913. Every American
has heard of his fame and chivalry from Chippe.
wa to Chepultepec-from Canada to Mexico!
Vera Cruz, Cerro Cord ,Contreras, Molino del Rev,
aud tie hills of the Montezumas, are monuments
TO his memory and herosm ! All his splendid tri-
In,phs have been tempered with humanity, with
mercy and compassion! /! All his victories are
evidences of his regard and attachment for the
persons and the lives of his gallant soldiers
No unnecessary sacrifice of men ever marked his
way No walls of human bodies were ever trod-
den down for his glory! No catacomb of human
skulls was ever erected to commemorate his deeds
Of valor! System, prudence, humanity, and
skill have ever attended all his movements and
the tears of widows and orphans, which were
caused to flow by wars of necessity, fell, unac-
companied by the agony too often known in ruth
less battles of wild and reckless ambition while
the hearts of the sufferers were softened and
soohed by the kindness, care, and sympathy of
the conqueripg chief!
His enemies (for he, as well as all other good
and great men, has them) have never accused
him of cruelty in war Mercy has ever gone into
battle with him; and, in the hour of victory, hi.
enemies were so no longer His heart throbbed
with charity for suffering humanity, whether
friend or foe; and oil his exertions were then in
mer;y's cause
That be is the most accomplished and gallant
commander of the age, no well-informed man in
this wide world will deny That he has given
numerous instances of his skill and tact in di-
plomacy, who, that ia possessed of common intel
ligencc. viii dispute? His talents and acquire.
lnents are great and unquestionable and his
habits manners and morals are "as pure and
unstnined as is the snow on the mountain s brow"
Yet he will be abused and sandered. So was
Washington; and so have ever been the good and
great of all nations, from the days of the patri.
arcls Of old to this day.
Republics may be ungrateful but there is
redeeming quality in the citizens of this glorious
Union; and when they know and understand.
they viii do right, and they will support, uphold,
and exalt the hero who has fought and bed and
devoted all the days of his life to the honor and
glory and interest of the land of their homes,
made happy and free by the blood of their
fathers
That Gen. Scott is a firm and true friend of
the constitution as it is, and the Union as II Is.
no sane man, of fair intelligence, has ever for
moment doubted. That Gen. Scott is no section.
alst or bigot his whole life and all his acts and
deeds are proofs as strong us those Of Holy Writ
lis folly, madness, to suspect him of want of
love for his WHOLE coUHTRYl
No platform Of party, no creed, need be pub
lisbed for his guidance. His heart knows "no
South, no North, no East, no West"
For the Vice Presidency we have presented to
Us by the Convention William A. Graham. of
North Carolina, late governor of that modest old
State, and now Secretary Of tho United States
Navy; man whose character like the Chevalier
Bayard's, is "sans peur ct sans reprochs,"---a
gentleman in every sense of the word-beloved,
valued, esteemed, and respected by all who
know him! He was elected governor of his
native State by majority larger than any one
ever had before for such an Office, where there
was contest, in any State His moral worth
and silent charities are superior to those of auy
other human being of the same means He IS in
deed, the pride and boast of the Old North State
aud will he the cherished and honored Of the
Union!
Washington City Young Mems Christian
Association.
We are requested to state that the committee
appointed By this association have completed the
constitution, aud printed it and that copies of it
can be obtained at the bookstore of Mr. Nourse,
corner Of and Tenth streets, or Of the secre.
tory, Mr.. W. G. Lanpdon.
A1S Inc baltimore Argus says that Lola
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