Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-07-01

American territory. The whole popula-
ton of Northern New York seemed about
to march into Canada to avcnge the wrong
which had been done to the national hon
or. The object of the administration was
to preserve the peace between the two
nations, until pending difficulties could
be settled by negotiation. For this pur-
pose Scott was sent to the frontier. There
he labored night and day, passing rapidly
from point to point, experimenting and
directing the actions both of the military
and civil authorities, and frequently, a
long a line of eight hundred miles, ad-
dressed immense gatherings of the excited
citizens. He succeeded in his mission be-
yond the expectations of the mostsanguine.
The peace of the country was preserved.
During the same year he was ordered
to the delicate service of removing the
Cherokee nation beyond the Missippi.-
Here he displayed at once the highest
degree of energy, sagacity and humanity.
The leading journals of the day were
filled with encomiums upon the conduct of
Scott in these services. The National In
telligencer of September 9th, 1888, says:
+" THE manner in which this gallant Off
Ger has acquitted himself within the last
year, upon our Canada frontier, and late
ly among the Cherokees, has excited the
universal admiration and gratitude of the
whole nation"
In 1889 arose the North Eastern Boun-
dary difficulty. The disputed territory
was about to become the battle ground
between the troops of Maine and New
Brunswick War was considered inevi-
table. In this crisis, General Scott was
again deputed by the Government to calm
the rising storm. His able services on
that occasion showed him to be possessed
of the highest talents as statesman and
diplomatist. A war considered ineyita-
bic was prevented-the honor of the coun-
try preserved-and Scott returned with
fresh laurels upon his brow, and the
hero of Lundy's Lane" was hailed on all
sides as the " Great RacifcatOr."
The services Of General Scott in the
Mexican war are Of so recent date, and so
fresh in the recollection of the American
people and the whole civilized world, that
it is useless to do more than make pas
sing allusion.
On the 10th of March, 1847, General
Scott arrived before Vera Cruz. On the
18th of September, I647, he planted the
stars and stripes over the National Pal
ace in the City of Mexico. Within these
six months San Juan D'Ulloa,-the A
merican Gibralter,-was stormed, and the
battles Of Cerro Gordo, Contreras, San
Antonia, Churubusco, Molinos del Rey,
and Chepultepec, were fought and won.
With less than ten thousand fighting men,
he attacked and routed again and again,
thirty thousand of the best troops of Mex
leo, posted behind the strongest fortifca-
tions, and fighting with the courage of
desperation. Nothing of military achieve
ment recorded in ancient or modern histo-
ry, can excel the glory of that march from
Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico!
Such is brief sketch of one whose
life has been devoted to the service and
glory of his country-and whose patriot
ism is enlarged enough to extend to the
whole country. Born Southern man
reared and educated among Southerners
he has fought and bled alike for the
North and Southland to suppose that he
could be willing to do injustice to either,
would be to declare the last forty years
of his life but a lie .