Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-22
FROM the Louisville Courier.

\ FROM the Louisville Courier
Presentation 'of tho Scott FinR:z74
| The Flag presented to the young Mems scott
Club, by the Misses OLIVER, at their Own cost and
| suggestions was beautiful specimen OF aIt. IL IS
made of the finest silk, and the w upon
n IL of tbe highest order. 1t could not have been
rotten nm at a costof much less than one hundred
| dollars. S II . El -
s,r;nes ofalternate white and red colors. In. the
centre ofte edge attached to the staff, is large
of blue silk, decorated with thirteen stars
beautiful the blue dome aboveus with its glitter
ing hosts In the centre ofthe blue square Isl white
elipse, around the circumference of which is rich
v,reathe of embroidered laurel. This side bearsthe
Characteristic inscription 'ScoTr EVER VICTORIOUS.
On the reverse side. Sthe laurel wreath encloses
trazen eaglewith StreaEer in its mouth, on which
IS written. as it proudly 14FI
1917 The flag tsattachedto a staff made OF the
finest polished ash. upon the summit of which is
perched the imperial bird of Joye with extended
wings, made of solid brass.
In the morning of the II thinst, the members ot
| theyoung Mems Scott Club. marched upin irontof
the residence of Lewis Oliver Esq, sixth street.
After fine national air from the Saxhorn Band of
Arbogast B. W. Pollard, Esq. President pro ten,of
the Club, introduced Miss ELLA OLIVER, who pre-
sented the flag, with the following beautiful re-
a7i15l7F MISS OLIvER'S ADDRESS.
Dir. President aud Members Of the Scott and Org
ham Club: q! ,.iil - 30 rs,-.a u.s. -
GEsrLEMEN-Wep present to you this flag, as the
most appropriate gift for this occasion; for 1t was un-
derthe broad stripes and bright stars OF our coun-
try's flag, the heroic Scorr and his gallant COM
rades landed upon the shores Vera Cruz, and gal
lantly fought their way through difficulties ana dan
gers until the flag of country waved triumphant
" upon the walls of the Montezumas, undimed by
single reverse, or shorne of single beauty
We therefore present you this flag, believing you
will as CALAMITY fight under it for the brave old
chieftain, who, upon almost every battle field
from Lundys Lane to the Capitol of MeSico-has
npheld our country's flag by his bravery and valor,
and always returned it to his grateful and admiring
countrymen without dishonor or stain. Then gen
tlemen, in this peaceful strife for principle, may
we hope 4" see this flag upon which is inscribed
the name Of iScorr, unfurled TO the breeze on
the 4th of March next. was ntaion's flag,
when implanted under the lead of Scorr this day
five years ago, upon the walls of the City Of
Mexico. .rr.Il.. u. -l..,,: is4r..
o.. The President of,the Club then handed the flag
to Richard Moore, Esq, whom he had appointed
his standard bearer. In behalf of the Scott Club,
the following brief and extemporaneous response
was then made by X. Il. Durrett, Esq:
'''" MIR. DURRETT'S REPLY. ,ulatt
Happy are ut the reception OF SO beautiful a
specimen Of American Art. Our bosoms swell with
pride at the thought of having so conducted our
selves as to receive this gift from the hand of beau
ty. To have won the regard Of our own sex by
efforts in behalfof the great Wing cause, repays
us for our labOTS but to have induced this mani
feStatlOn on Inc part OF those 10 WOm we LOOK 1Or
the noblest influences which cluster around socie
ty, involves us in q debt of gratitude which Yeas
will not enable us TO liquidate. The gift is pecu
liarly appropriate, for around the hero who is
| leading us To victory, the enSigns of our country
have ever gathered, like the tender vine which en-
twines the giant GA from which it borrowS strength
to battle with the storm. .s--.a
You tell us that beneath his counIy's stars and
stripes, the gallant Scott led our armies from Vera
Cruz to the Capitol of Mexico without single re-
threw up like mighty bulwarks to protect the enc
my, and proved his powers equal to any crcum-
| stances into which he might be thrown. He un-
fured those stars and stripes the walls of Vera
| Cruz, he bore them among mountains that lifted
their barren creSS into the regions of eternal SHOW,
and those that sent volcanic flames aud smoke into
the heavens like the flames and smoke which play
ed around the fallen batllements of San Juan D.
uloa he caused them TO float over the paths which
| Cortes tread over tumuli erected by those who
have left no other record of their names the
mystic symbols of the Aztec race, and the ha lis
in which the MontezumaS reveled i'll days of yore,
and as those stars and stripes waved in the breezcs
of beayen, the domion of his country extended over
the soil beneath their broad folds. e-t
Under his banner shall nobly fight the great
political battle that is before We shall be in
Spired by the memories it awakeS and take courage
from the inscriptions 1t bears. As we call to mind
the vast countries over which it has iloatcd in tn
umph from the frozen shores of that river whose cur
rents wed lake with lake, to the burning sands of
the tropical Chimes, we shall not forget him who d.
rected its course and babe it when ,toiwave. In
the political campaign through which he Is now
leading us, he shall achieve as glorious victory as
that which has been sung by the thunders of Mag
ara, that which the golden shores of tile Pacific
ocean have gilded with their inexliausable jewels.
That flag has known no defeat under Gen. Scott,
and wherever it floats whether in war peace, it
fills the very atmosphere with the living light of VIC
tory. s"-f Z '''... .'' ~. 30 .'''! T
For this beautiful flag, we thank you in the name
| of the Preside emit and the members of the Young
Mems Scott Club; we thank you, in the name of the
Wings of Louisville I'VE thank, you in the name OF
| the Wings OF Kentucky; we thank you, in the name
of the w hgs throughout the length and breadth of
our glotious Uni, and we thank you in the name
Of those eternal prn iples for which our party SO
long have buttled and upon which alone the per-
lnanency and the happiness of our proud govern
ment can exist. We pledge to you youth and
our strength, orr hopes and aspirations, that,
with Winfield Scott for our leader we will march
under it TO victory. ltS p" 49,
|. .la.y I... From the Baltimore Patriot -..l asa
,n, t,4 Gen. Picrccs On liuntry ,.u d. ut
An article recently appeared in the old Defcn-
der of this city, which was copied into the Amer
lean and Patriot OF this city, and other papers. rela