Daily American telegraph., 1852-10-13

Family Antiquity (vol 5, p 355) gives q good OK
ample Speaking of Sir Eyre Coote the British
commander in the East Indies who, though bred
TO arms alone, overthrow the French dominion
there not less by his policy than by his valor he
says He distinguished himself very oonspicu-
ously, not only by the bravery and skill no dis
played as soldier, but by his political knowledge
For in our possessions go distant and with such a
complicated system OF delegated power, tits by no
means sufficient TO be good general: but to act
we'll as commander.in-chief, it is necessary also to
be statesman e4sNt
The really great soldiers must always possess
at least equal civil prudence. All examples prove
IL. Among the snoients, Sesostris Cyrus, Alex
ander the Great julius Ceasar show 1t. In France,
Charlemagne, Henry Nv, Napoleon in Sweden,
Gustayus Adolphus; In Russia, Peter the Great;
In Poland, John Sobieskie, In Prussia, Frederick
the Great; In Scotland, Wallace and Bruce in
England Alfred the Great, Cromwell, Marlbor-
ough, and Wellington; In this country, Wash
ington and Scott make the thing clear.
There is, indeed, no point from which man
can better rule the unsteady elements Of the pub
lic mind than great military reputation. That
of virtue alone or even Of great statesmanship
hestows far less powerful ascendancy. Let u
only be seconded by love of the public good and
by that capacity to make It which must las have
shown usually attend it, and II cannot fall to ac-
oomplish as much in the easier business Of peace
as 1t has done in the far more trying and sharp
difficulties Of war. All this has been already
abundantly proved, in the long oareer Of Scott
While yet only Colonel, he had been entrusted,
by President Madison, with the transaction, at
Albany, Of important and delicate arrangements
with the Governor of New York, and had per-
formed that duty most satisfactorily The war
| over, an important secret negotiation In Europe
was oonfded to him, and was effected. In 1882,
Gen. Jackson committed TO him the very difficult
business of the armed negotiation with the South
Carolina Nulfers. To his skill and temper
alone we probably owe it, that civil war (the
sure destruction Of this Union) did not then en-
sue. Almost as good an artiacer Of peace as Of
war, he quieted by his admirable management
and boundless activity, the war of the "Canadian
Sympathizers" In 1897 SO, and the troubles be-
tween Maine and New Brunswick, In 1889 Both
these were, in their time, acknowledged, by the
whole country exploits of peace hardly less
glorious than his most brilliant deeds in arms.
Indeed, it was his great military renown which
enabled him to accomplish these things 30 we'll
and SO soon For, as have said, none can nego-
tiate with such advantage as the great soldier who
knows what he's about Finally, the consum-
mate wisdom and justice with which Scott twhile
administering as oonqueror all affairs civil and
military in Mexico) employed all powers at once,
and both made the law and executed IL, afford the
this the offer Of the Mexicans to pay him
million and q quarter year to stay and gov
ern them is brilliant testimony such as no
other conqueror ever received. For though
others have subdued countries as we'll as he,
can find no other example of q conqueror 30
good and wise in all his measures as, while he
was subjugating people, to have also conquered
their esteem and affection!
Indian Wars and Treaties.
On these | shall dwell little In the Black
Hawk war there was no struggle, and II Is nsm-
orable rather for the humanity, justice and milA
policy which SCOTT put In practice towards rsss
on whom We hsbtually trample, than for any
deeds Of arms which at best, against foe 80
weak, can be little glorious Indeed, the only
danger which he encountered In this expedition
that appalling visitation Of the Astjc ohoierA
among his own troops, In which he displayed Q
courage and tenderness still rarer and better
than bravery in the battlefield Such conduct
should be the highest honor of the great com
mander IL he joins that to great deeds In arns
IL eclipses all his other trophies and places him
among true heroes--those who were az good az
they we're valiant | cannot call to mind In his
tory any great soldier who has exceeded Scott In
meriting this praise The most remarkable war
riors have usually been the tenderest In their
personal care of their men, and shown the great
est affection for them. Cromwell, Napoleon, and
others whom could mention, were idolized by
their troops. Washington's attentions TO his, In
that dismal encampment st Valley Forge, win
forever ondesr him TO all hearts But no leader
ever met q calamity more frightful than the sud
den and awful pestilence which fell upon the four
steamers In which Scott was transporting his
body OF near thousand men from Buffalo 10
Chicago As these crowded boats went up the
lake on the sth July, the cholera broke out
among them with such q dreadful violence as, In
FIVE or six days, destroyed every fourth man, and
threw more than another fourth into the hospital
The boat OF the Commander C. hief himself be-
came ono general pcst-house and there, forget
Ting all fear OF infection, all thought but Of his
dear but humble companion in arms around him,
though himself much affected by the disease, he
tended tie sick, consoled the dying, as IL he had
been nurse and q surgeon, not General
fought the cholera as he would have fought the
foe, and stood by his men in the obscure agony Of
the desth-bed as nobly az he would have stood
by them in all the glorious dangers Of battle
This admirable soene was Afterwards repeated st
Rock Island To return, however, to Indian sf-
fairs the skilful conciliatory and yet determined
manner, in which he dissrmed the Cherokees,
and accomplished what was thought impossible)
their bloodless removal beyond the Mississippi,
was another noble exploit Of humanity, which
only the imposing renown Of great soldier joined
to an equal civil ability, could have accomplished
OF the Florida war, and the rash and foolish pub
lie Injustice Of which Scott became for time the
victim, because he did not end IL by the first en-
perimentsl campaign, sixteen years ago, need
say but single word was told to-day, 18th Of
September, 1852 at the Indian bureau, with
much eKultation, that Billy Bowlegs, the true
original hero sndSautbor Of that thirty millions
and seventeen years war, has al last consented 10
make peace with US and though be says he had
some idea Of conquoring the United States, Is now
on his way 70 Washington. If this be 80, the
Florida war is at last ended
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