Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-08-14

Ihe conversation was conveyed 10 Uen. jackson Dy
some anonymous tale-bearer.u The General always
ready to fight any body who yentured TO disapproye
one of his violent acts wrote TO Gen. Scott from
Nashville, requesting to know if his anonymous
correspondent reported the truth Gen. Scott re-
piled by telling how far and the circumstances; dis
avowing any i'll will towards him as influencing his
opinion. Gen jackson rejoined quite angrily, and
with an offer of personal satisfaction. To this in
his answer Gen. Scott, who thought Gen. jackson
had no right to be offended and who (besides that he
had no need to give proof of his having courage
enough to meet Gen. Jackson any body had no
taste for shedding blood any where but on the bat
tle-feld, paid no attention. And so for the time
the affair dropped. In 1928, however, they were
both in Washington at once; and it being currently
reported that Gen. Jackson meant to insult him
whenever they met, Gen. Scott sent him note re-
ferrng to their falling out to the fact of their be-
ing now for the first time within reach of each
other, and to the possibility that Gen. jackson did
not know of it, nor that he would yet remain in
Washington for three days To this note Gen.
jackson returned conciliatory answer; they made
friends, and ever after remained upon terms of all
courtesy and respect.
PREPARES OUR SYSTEMS OF TACTICS: GOES
ABROAD AGAIN.
We owe TO Gen. Scott almost all we have of
military system. That which we use was Gas has
been seem first introduced by him at Buffalo.
There he with it in three months converted Gen.
Browns division into men that could not afterwards
be beat. He had then only personally taught it !:
but in 1Sl4-l5 it was regularly adopted for all our
army, by board of officers, of which he was Pre-
sident. In 1921 he published it in Svo., under
title of g General Regulations for the Army" In
1925 he published his "Lafanty Tactics" In
1896 he drew up for the War Department g 4
plan for The organization and instruction Of tie
'elole body Of the Militia Of tie Union,' and g A
System Of Infantry. and Rife Tactics" In 1885
he published, by order of Congress, new edition
OF the latter. How well his system works has been
seen in Mexico, through the armies formed under
It, Certainly, we owe much to West Point and its
scientific instruction; but West Point owes no little
Of what it is to Gen. Scott 1t is he, in reality
who has given to our army that admirable spirit
that high gentlemanliness, that character that ex
IRENE efficiency, that respect for law and that love
OF duty, which distinguish it even more than its
science, and make it the finest body of men in the
world. 1t appears too, singularly enough that he
may be placed among the earliest pioneers Of the
Temperance Reform. For he published in 1921
long tract (12 columns) in Walshs National Ga
=ette OF Philadelphia, proposing plan for restrict
ing the use of ardent spirits in the United States
He was led to this idea by the mischiefs from in
temperance with which he had to contend in govern
ing the army. In 1929 he again visited Europe,
for professional information
THE BLACK HAWK WAR: THE CHOLERA: SCOTS
CONDUCT.
The interesting events which are contained in the
life of Gen. Scott crowd upon US We must there
fore pass very slightly over some of them which
would show very bright in the history of others
Such is that of his conduct in the Black Hawk
war of 1882 where he not only Quoted most hui
namely tl1r IL T.,
dian tribes, but concluded treaties of great benefit
to our people of the Northwest and, more than
all, endeared himself to every true heart by the
manner in which, when the Asiatc cholera broke
out among his soldiers with most fatal violence he
nursed and tended them, in total disregard of his
own safety, although himself affected all the while
by symptoms Of the disease SO terrible was the
mortality which of sudden fell upon his men that
out OF $50 there were, in few days. but about 400
left. The rest had persisted aboard the steamers
which We're conveying them, or, when landed at Chi
cago had fed from the pestence-stroke but over
taken by 1t in their flight, and every where denied
shelter and aid by the terrified inhabitants had only
died. for the most part, still more mseraby Scots
own boat small and crowded, became perfect pest
house; out of 800 men aboard, 50 died in the pas
sage and so had to be placed in the hospital when they
reached Chicago! The deck and hold were covered
with the dead and dying. Amidst this terrible
scene, instead of contenting himself las most men
IN command would have done) with merely ordering
the medical men to take all necessary measures for
relieving the sick, Scott became in person their at
tendant, and performed for his humblest comrade,
with brothers care, every dangerous Office from
which others shrank. Much as he has shown him.
self the hero upon batte-felds he never any where
displayed more genuine heroism, one more pure,
noble, and affecting than upon this occasion. Such
has been his conduct towards his fellowsoldiers in
all times of suffering. Here, while their messmates
fed from them, many of their officers neglected
them, and their panc-stricken fellow-ctizens shut
their doors and hearts against them the great Com
mander, as good as he was brave, stood BY them as
| true at the death-bed as in battle
SCOTT SENT TO QUIET THE NULLIF1ERs: DOES 1T.
| He had hardly got home from these trying scenes
when fresh order of the Government sent him to
another. At the close of 1882 (November) Multi
| fcation was coming to head A South Carolina
Convention had passed its ordinance declaring that
the United States revenue laws should not be en-
forced in that State; and its Legislature and Execu
tive while insisting that Notification was the
most peaceful of remedies) making all preparations
for armed resistance. Indeed, the whole population
had, by four years of incessant agitation been work
ed up into little short of public phrenzy. Two
thirds of them had learnt to believe themselves the
most oppressed people upon earth they were ready
to 20 to any extremity; and the reader, because
they had in very bitter opposition-party at home
an object Of immediate hate, on whom they lonred
to wrcak double vengeance, for not only the sins
of the Federal Government, which that party sun