The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-23
.TuERE TALL HERO &c."
Tune-Thers .0as an Old Niger" &c.

There is tall hero who is known as General
Scott,
And he makes grand military show,
But It's said in his head there's mighty soft
spot,
Near the brain where the soft places grow,
lie has hung up his feathers and chapeau,
And has laid down his quiver and his bow
And running for the Presideht Is IAli oehei"l
But he never can be President you know.
VIXEN the war first commenced with amigo Mex
He was asked to direct his career,
But he sat down and wrote TO the Generals
simo,
aIm afraid of fire in my rear, -
"And have hung up my feathers and chapeau, ="
.sAnd have laid down my culver and my
bow
There is no more fighting for tall General Scott,
Yet he never can be President you know.
But after he had taken hasty plate of soup, ]
And had drank off pint of old wine,
He thought of Rough and Ready and his
volunteer troop.
Who were fighting Ger the Mexican line.
Then he took down his feathers and chapeau,
And called for his war steed Junot,
"For" said he General Taylor goes ahead of
Gen Scott,
As perchance he for President may GO"
lie took from Trough and Ready" all troops
of the line,
And he bore down upon Vera Cruz,
And there with the army all the navy did COM
To carry out his mountaineering views.
Then he put on his feathers and chapeau,
And he mounted his war steed Junot,-
When that strong hold had fallen then thought
Gen. Scott,
ar 10 D.ae;Ja,t 7 bava tha hast Sho
For the fall of Vera Cruz General Scott gave
the praise
To the force of his regular command
But of the gallant navy he alters not phrase
When the flags at the *Foint came to hand;
And there hung up the feathers and chapeau,
Along with the buckler and the bow,
All placed to the credit of the tall General
Yet he never can be President you know.
Twas the troops of the line ard the famed vol
unteers,
And their chiefs who there fought for re-
nown,
Who won ali the battles while he got the cheers,
When the Mexicans were all done brown.
Then ne put on his feathers and chapeau,
And bestrode his proud war-steed Junot-
Then the Leperos would hail the tall General
Scott
.Por el Pre,ide,,tc General Schotte.''
Yet when they had fought him into Montezu-
mas Halls
He cut away the arch of his fame
he raised such breeze that it turned into
squalls
Which bluffed off his presidential game.
For Taylor without feathers or chapeau,
And without any grand martial show,
Was run for the office then the tall General
Scott
Was the picture of unmilitary woe.
Yet the Wings have restored him in vain,
For their time and their money viii be all mis-
spent
At the fighting of the fall campaign,-
Then the tallest fuss and feathers and chapeau
That ever any government could show,
viii be laid upon the shelf with the tall Gener-
al Scott,
For he never can be President you know.
West Point where the Mexican trophies
are displayed. PALo ALTO
T"John,'' said clergyman to his man,
you should become teetotaler-you have been
drinking again to day.
"Do you never take a drop yourself, minis
teri"
'Ah, but John, you must look at your cir
cumstances and mine"
'Very true, sir" says John; '.but you
tell me how the streets of Jerusalem were kept
20 clean ?"
'No, John, cannot tell you that"
'Well sir, it was just because every one kept
his ain door clean"
Wealth without friends, is ike life with
oat health; the one an uncomfortable fortune
TIE ether miserable being.