Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-10-12
The sIanderers of scott.

"We said the other say and we said it to the
credit of this country, that it was impossible to
enumerate or comprehend the various acts and
kinds Of homage rendered to the Duke of Vel
lington throughout his long career"
We clip the above paragraph from the London
Times OF the I'D ultimo. 1t expresses very
just sentiment, and one which it would be well
for every people to adopt and act upon, to wit :
that where men have served State long and
faithfully, both in peace and war, and at the
same time that they have achieved for themselves
a spotless reputation, have added splendid
chapter to the national history, the public re-
wards bestowd on them may be regarded as re-
fecting "credit upon their country In fact,
the honors conferred upon the Duke of Yelling
ton are now recalled by Englishmen and by man
kind generally, as the appropriate occasion of a
pride and satisfaction to the people who awarded
them greater even than all the happiness which
Wellington himself derived from them as evil
dences of popular gratitude and appreciation.
Believing this to be SO, may we not, in view of
the many and priceless services rendered the
United States by Winfield Scott, and the unblem.
ished character of his life in every relation and
position he has been placed in, esteem it source
of painful regret and public shame that at this
time partisan journals and speakers are busily
engaged in a purpose to make him infamous even
in the estimation of large number of his own
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hearted generous citizen of the republic daily
shocked by the foul epithets Of "thief," liar"
and "cewdrd," which desperate and abandoned
political writers and orators attach to name
that is associated with many of the proudest
events in our history, and which, wherever heard,
abroad or at home, seems to express in itself q
whole volume of thrilling and lustrous eulogy of
the American people?
The truth is, and it is beginning to be deeply
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defame Winfield Scott is to SANDER and dishonor
the entire nation, much Of whose dearest and
brightest fame his own fame and name embody;
and the abusive, scandalous course of opposition
which has been pursued against him as o candi-
date for the Presidency, will 60, as it rightfuly
ought, far towards securing his triumphant cleo
ton. The people are being rallied to his STAN
dard even in defence and vindication of the ma
tional character, which has been already tar
nished by his defamers and which would be
more effectually disgraced by his defeat in apop-
ular election under the vile calumnies now ut
tered against him. The best, the wisest the
most complete REPUTATION Of the base charges and
denunciations made in relation to Scott, would be
his elevation, by his countrymen, to the most
honorable Office in their gift and we very much
misread the indications of the feeling of the peo-
pie upon this subject If they do not at the polls
in November next, wipe out with their votes,
the foul aspersions made by shameless, heart
less party upon kim whose reputation is part
and dearly valued part, of the reputation of
this country American.