Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-22
Nroal he Cohsia<rriaI Journal. 20
RECEPTION OF GENERAL SCOTT IN
.tr'.- pITTSBURGH

Nroni Ne Cosaia<rriaI Journal. %
RECEPTION OF GENERAL SCOTT IN
PITTSBURGH
Although it was previously announced that Gen.
Scott did not intend to deliver public address,
immense crowd Appealed before the Monongahela
House on Saturday morning. In compliance with
the wishes of the people Gen Scott length agreed
to appear on the balcony. The vast aSSemblagc
being called to order, Capt Naylor on the part OF
the citizens addressed Gen. Scott, as follows:
GENERAL ScoTT-The People of Pittsburgh and
the surrounding country have devolved upon me
the high privilege, the honored duty OF bidding You
welcome to their city,. Standing for moment i'll
this intermediate position between you and them,
to you, dear General, as the hardest working man
have ever known, L say welcome, welcome to
the hearts, the homes, and the busy workshops of
the hardest working people have ever KNOWN
Look around you, and behold what was, within
your own memory, a wilderness, and you will see
that these hard working people have not worked
in vain. And should you ask, dear General, why
this unwonted interruption OF their busy tolls
this rush from their workshops-this temporary
forsaking of their forge fires-the answer will be
found in the fact, that they well know, that
the knowledge of ii is so fused into them, as to
become part of their very life-thatyou, too have
never labored in yain-but that, in your larger
field of operations the country is full of the fruits
of your labors-that as an accumulated power, for
your country's good, and the good of mankind, the
result OF your exertons and sacrifices now, and
will be sensibly felt as blessings throughout the
General Scott, ii would be in vain for me to at
tempt 10 recall to the minds of the people here as
sembed, that splendid exhibit of heroic services,
in peace and in war, which make up nearly half
century Of your life: that this is unnecessary--that
these services are known and appreciated here,
witness the enthusiastic, the grateful, the sponta-
heous, heartfelt welcome of the thousands now
around you. F.-.a' yFr-
There is no living man, in this nation, that can
receive such awelcome save yourself. In you they
h.bn m n has
secrated his highest energies, and all his energies
10 his country, and through his country to mankind
General who has applied all the resources of war,
guided by the most exalted military genius, eXclu-
Sivelyo the promotion of the great objects of peace
who has looked upon his science and his profess
sion only as a means of extending and securing
Christian civilization.
General Scott,--uo; people know these things
better than do those who now welcome you. They
know, as you know, that no one man can destroy
his country-that no one man can save it-that its
dependence rests on no one man-that its inherent
ami prescrvative life is diffaSed throughout the
whole mass Of men who make up the Country that
it Is moral treason to look TO any man the
Uountry's Saviour But, they know, also, if there
be any one living more than another, in whom
the American Lille and power and character, stand
before the world, represented, embodied, and I'M
personated, as unit, that man, dear General, is
yourself H '' ~ ~ q .'''' ''.',n ~
Does difficulty, recently, about the fisheries,
any other difficulty, arse with foreign powers,
however powerful they are at once settled /; and
being settled, some fussy. diplomatic parsonage,
trained to deal in diplomatic quirks, starts up as
the settler of these controversies and claims for
his petty casuistry an onnipotent efficiency, and
Immortality of renown. .'"i'. -'.- '"''' '''''
But, my dear General, these people, whose
mouth. piece, for the moment, am, know that the
settler of these difficulties; the tighter of all such
wrongs, lies behind this fussy diplomacy, in power,
a national power, founded upon heroic sense of
justice, which feudaistic governments and decay
ing despotism are afraid to beard. And l say TO
you, dear General, that the people for whom now
speak, well know that the entire conservation of
your life to your country and mankind, regardless
Of perils and sacrifices, has had more to do with
the building up, the consolidation, concentration
and manifestation OF this rght-securng, and over
awning power of American nationality, than any
one man now in being. Hence the enthusiastic
outpouring OF the thousands OF grateful hearts now
around you. ''' .'..-' 't
My dear General, by your side, before you, be-
hind you, all around you are your old companions
in arms, the soldiers in the of 1872, and a lit
tie remnant Of that conquerng band who followed
your eagles across the sea, placed themselves be-
fore cities and castles, and field-works and bat
teries deemed impregnable, and under the guidance
of your genius and in full faith in your power to
command victory, faith which never failed them,
subdued position after position, till submissive
Empire lay at your feet. Claiming, with myself,
as their highest, proudes honor, that they belonged
to Gen. Scott's army of Mexico, they are here To
half as their and your fellow soldier, bid you
welcome. ,'l-.'s u i'il 10 '-'' t-
General Scott-May God bless and prosper YOU.
and continue for you, long life of usefulness to
your country and fellow men. ''- ' ''
. Fellow citizens 81 intruduce to you GENERAL
Scorr. i4ci ia4 ~ teA 1it4 NJ .Ia'4E.t '.+ ~
The General commenced by thanking his fellow
countrymen for the high honor they paid to him By
this public deInonstra ton, which, however unwor
thy OF it he might feel, exceedingly grateful to
his feelings. He disclaimed all right of appropra-
ting to himself ohe.tenth Of the glowing eulogy Of
his old intimate and eloquent friend, Captain Nay
lor, but it was proud recollection TO him that He
had, under the Providence of God, been able TODD
any thing in the service of his country to merit the
appreciation ofhis fellow citizens He said that, in
early life, il had been his secret and cherished de-
sire TO do something for his country which would
prove OF advantage to If, and would call forth the
appreciation OF his countrymen and to do it in such
q way as TO make It hamonize with the well being
Of the whole family of man. Under the blessing of
Heaven, (for which he had devoutly prayed,) and
the favor of his fellow citizens, he had been in some
measure successful, but not to the extent of his
youthful aspirations, that of the attering trib
ute of his valued friend and gallant companion in
arms, who Just welcomed him TO this city. He
then spoke of Pennsylvania, and expressed. his
grateful emotions for the signal manner in which
she had always manifested her friendship for the
humble soldier who had beenso frequently honored
in leading her gallant citizens to battle. Herever-
led to the gallant soldiers OF Pennsylvania, both
regulars and volunteers. who had stood by him with
1nfaltering fidelity and bravery on the fields of
Canada, and the heights OF Mexico, andpointed the
assembled trong 70 some of those who stood around
him. who had shared with him inthe Ifatigues and
perils of campaigns of former years. This glorious
Did Commonwealth was 1e Keystone of the Feder-
IL Arch, and she had always been true to the Tn
ION, and while she remained SO, and he felt assured
she always would, the Union was safe in the midst
of all the shocks which might ever be treasonably
hurled against It,. He loved Pennsylvania for this,