Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1852-10-01
From the Ohio State Journal.
A Vile SIander RepeIIed-BTiIIiant
Speech Of General Scott 10 the Ger-


Speecn OA UeucFdl ScOtt 10 the Gefa
mans.
Judge HEYL waited upon General Scott, and
on behalf Of some of our German cilizens re-
| lerred to paragraph from The Weslbole, d
German paper published in this city, and con.
tanning the statement that General Scott, tied 10
Tree and fogged fifteen Germans, while in
! Mexico.
Oiher charges, of his having hanged others,
cruelty and uDjusIly, were also referred 10.
! Never have we Witnessed scene more i'm.
posing, than when The old chieliain, with
quick and indignant response, repelled the false
and malignant charge. Lofty in stature, and
Standing al least four inches above the Iaest Of
those among whom he stood, his form seemed
gigantic, as with heightened color and with
! flashing eye aud a wave Of his hand that eX-
pressed calm defiance Of all such assailanIs,
he uttered his emphatic proes: against such as
sauls as that paragraph presented.
"New, and before unknown 10 me, are such
things as have been told me. They surprise
and they pain ne. They al once concern all
that | value personally, and aim a blow at all
that, wherein. if know myself, | have The
highest pride. They attack my own idenIilyl
The principles for which. had believed, need
undermined OF denied mel | am met with
charges of injustice and cruelty while leading
an American 6rmy through Mexico, and while
participating alike in its trials and triumphs!
"GenIlemen, il was my loI to lead an Ameri.
can army upon foreign field. ! went, re.
solved TO sustain. in the forefront of my pro.
gress, the high.lide-waer.m Of our own
American civilization, in all It's moral and civil
virtue. The standard OF our own and not the
practices Of that foreign country, was the stand
ard'which sought lor the government of mems
passions and The control of the license and ex-
cesses of war. Alike 10 Americans, whether
Of native or Of foreign birth, and TO Mexicans,
declared my purpose, and exhibited my princi.
pies of action.
IL promulgated the martial code. Doubtless
you al have heard it. deemed it necessary.
could do nothing without it. 1t announced
the spirit Of our progress, and held amenable
to punishmPn. all who forgot manhood, and
threatened TO bring shame upon our Hag-dis.
honor TO our arms-Or reproach upon our vir-
Iuel Without il, we had not conquered, or If
We had conquered, the brightest trophy of our
conquest had been wanting. Ii would have
been physical triumph and physical triumph
alone. Humanity would have disoWned U.s.
promulgated that order. Read it, and read ir
again, gentlemen, and then bear me witness,
that ii was in my heart, as ii was almost hourly
on my lips for continued months, TO carry with
American arms, and under the American flag,
even into an enemY's country, all the elements
Of social order and that regard for personal
right that belonged to our own free institutions
10 The United States.
"Yes. sought TO carry with me, and resolved
10 m maintain, at all hazards, among my own
command and also that people among whom
we should be thrown, that high standard afv vir-
tue, and honor, which We boasied at home:-
Had not been less than an American, aad re-
creanI 10 the highest interests Of humanity. and
The age we rejoice n, il bad done less2 They
say hanged some Germans. and Tied up aad
logged Others GenlIemen, seme DeF.c-
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