Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-16
The Pictorial Life CT Gen. Scott.

We mentioned in cur last that friend had presen-
ted to copy ofthe Pictorial Life of Gen. Scott,
large package of which, understood had been re-
ceived here for distribution. Curiosity prompted
read this sketch and say now, without hesitation
and generally, that it has been fortune never to
have examined what purported to be true record of
incidents, combining falsehood and base msrep-
reservations and suppression Of truth, than this same
sketch 1t is easy to comprehend why the Scottites
anxious get this sketch into the hands of the
people Pretending to beralty and truth, it as de-
void of the former it is deficient of the latter 1t
not only deprives the brave officers with him of what
was their due, but it represents Scott CULVER in
Lilliput Looking back through vista forty years.
it "urns all associates in the remote distance into
mere atoms while it appropriates what belongs to
Them, it swells the General into the dimensions ofthe
fabulous Titan. tits due TO Brown, the self.taught
Pennsylvania, who ell the tide of war in favor OF
the American in the North, at Sackett's Harbor
with the hastily gathered ctzen-solders of the neigh
borhood-whose conception of the Niagara campaign
carried with aresut that humbled the veteran
nvincbes of Wellington to Pike, to Ripley, to Bra
dy, to Leavenworth to Mcneil, to Miller to Van Rem
sellaer to Christie, to Wadsworth, to Wool to Dear.
born, Lewis, Chauncey, Gaines Macomb, and Jackson
of the of 1912 say it is due to these eminent
and tried soldiers that their fame should not be sunk in
to oblivion by writer whose aim seems to be- to rend
from their brow the laures their prowess won order
to confer on Gen. Scott, honors which his mind never
conceived, nor his hand never achieved.
knowingly, we would not pluck from the plume one
feather that adorns the cap of Winfield Scott
But, when effort made to deprive others o.
that renown which impartial history has awarded tc
them for their bold deeds and prowess in arms we will
raise feeble voice to protect the fame of those true
soldiers whose ashes moulder in the tomb 1t il
duty to protect their fame it is part of the his
tory of our country and the who is SO base as tc
warp that history for the purpose of bedecking poll
teal candidate with honors his own would profant
the sancturies of the dead and reve in the anguish h
unhoy labor would produce in the breast of those sur
vivors who glance back at the past the only
pense they have this side of the grave for the ser
vice they rendered their country in the hour of peril
We intend in our next issue to bring forward thi.
Pictorial life of Gen. Scott, got up BY J. s. Pike the
Washington correspondent of the NJ Y. Tribune, ant
not w E. Robinson, we inadvertently stated in ou
last issue We shall rip from that scandalous and fals
publication of the stolen honors appropriated t.
Gen. Scott by this hired falsefer of history and place
them upon the brow Of those to whom they belong
I'VE shall throw oursef upon history alone to guide
US, and shall challenge refutation of the statements
made by US. 1t our intention never to have rails
ed cur pen in contest Of this character but we can
not consent to permit the names of our first military he
roes to becas into oblivion by the INSTRUMENTATION
and falsehoods of common lbeler and hired poltica
writer attached to the ultra Abolition press in tb
city of New York, devoted to the cause ofGen Scott