The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-09-15
For the st. Louis Times.
Who II Gen. Scott.

He 10 brave and disting uished colder of IL
| American Army, who has helped to fight the bat
ties his country, and helped to gain the glory
and renown belonging to American armies
throughout christ ndom? For this, he has been
honored and paid by his countrymen, and has
| gained impershable fame abroad But for all
this, is he entitled to the Presidency! If So
then every soldier who tough, and gained victo
ry for him, is entitled to the same Office. The
American General fights from patriotic love Of
country and for glory, which he is certain to
obtain. The soldier under him fights from pat
riotic motives--for poor pay-for the satisfac.
ton of dlscharging his duty, and for the certain.
ty of being unknown, and unhonored. General
Scott did not lead into battle soldier who was
not probably as capable ofleading an army to vic
tory as himself The opportunity was only
lacking. The men no entered the army in the
year OF 1912, were the FIRST and most noble cit.
liens OF the land, they wen, into the army, moi
to follow the service as profession, but 10 help
to vindcate their country's honor, and help to
punish the arrogance Of an insolent foe. They
were willing to do the hard service and the hard
! fighting, and allow their commanders to receive
the high honors. They mnrmured not at thi.
but they claim much merit for the faithful dis
charge Of duty, and gallant conduct before an
enemy, as 10 conceded to their General, and il
such merit claims the highest honors of the
country in the Presidency, then their claim te
this high office is not below that of Genera
Winfield Scott. The men composing the Amer
lean army during our wars, have been Of gooc
materials for good General. The traits Of
character Of the American soldier, are those oil
energy and daring. They rush upon enemy
unthinking of the necessity or the way OF re-
| treat. The writer will mention an instance illus.
,rating this fact.
There is man now living IN this city, who
was a non commissioned officer, and who led
twenty picked men during the night into Brit.
ish town Of i've hundred inhabitants, in which
| were stationed guard of militia and British
regulars, and took from their midst three pris.
oners without the loss Of man, aud only one
| wounded.
This same man, (who, blythe by, was boy
in his teens,) was of thirty, who, at the bat
tie OF Plattsburgh, went unarmed, carrying hay
and tar, and setting fire to the dry pine under
brush under the very mouth Of the enemies
guns, and although on his return he tainted
from loss Of blood, and foated three hundred
yards down the swift current ofthe Saranac, he
remained on duty until the defeat Of the ene-
my.
The same thing would hive been done by
every soldier in the army, it the opportunity had
been furnished.
The Americans are accustomed to pay all the
honors to their victorious Generals, and not to
the men vino fight their battles.
They are something like the Russians, who, a
few years ago, filled their country with ianen-
tons for the loss of fourteen hundred officers,
who had fallen in q great hattie. but they had
not word of sympathy for the thirty thousand
soldiers killed IN the same battle. The heart of
the widow ard orphan Of the poor soldier may
be torn with anguish, and they be permitted to
mourn in silence and unknown, but the families
of the fallen officers must have the sympathy
of the world.
PIERCE DEMOCRAT.