New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-15
FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER Is, 1852
SCOTT RANGERS.


South rivers greatly need such improve
ments as the removal of snags and sawyers.
etc, and they well know how useless it is to ex-
pect such improvements, so necessary to the pro
lection Of their lives, and the safety OF property,
under any such President as Franklin Pierce
who voted against Internal Improvement bills of
which General Jackson officially approved.
True and whole-souled, generous and sympa-
thetic, brave in daily labors and quick III honest
admiration, is the genuine steamboatman and
if. Tonight host of them does not make the
welkin ring with cheers for Scott, we do not
rightly appreciate their common sense apprecia-
ton of their own interest and their generous
sympathy with noble and unfnching courage
Rally out, Rangers rally!
SCOTT'S .MayNLINESiS a.s,D EL0-
QUENCE.
Manliness and eloauencc are native to great,
heroic soul A man may not carve his thoughts
into the artstically Arabesque language of
elaborate rhetoric. and he may not come
forward as the bullying votary of the duel
lists code; but if he be a true hero, his words.
however rude in art. will be eloquent in feel
ing, and his movements manly in every act
Has Scott in his character the element Of
manliness'
Was he not brave, and patriotic, and manly,
when he abandoned the honorable and lucra-
tive profession of the law to enroll himself, under
the administration of Jefferson, as o soldier Of
his country?
Was he not manly and true when he stood the
fire of Lundy's Lane,
Was he not manly and enthusiastically pat
riotic, when, in the war of 1872, he stood upon
the quarter deck of British man-of war, and
declared that for every Irishman in the service
of the Union, shot, s' two British officers should
bite the dust'''
Did be not give every evidence of manliness,
when, at the Battle of Chippewa, Scott called
out to McNeils battalion, 'sThe enemy say We
are only good at long shot, and can't stand the
cold ironH l call upon the Eleventh to give
the lie to that Islander! Charge
Did he not show nlanlness in the following
scene. which we shall quote with an introdue-
tion. We quote from the columns of the Rich
mond (Va) Enquirer in 1888, then edited by
Father Ritchie and the leading democratic Or
gan of the Union. We quote this extract from
a communication which Father Richie edito-
rally pronounced &c A JUST AND NOZZLE TRIBUTE
Scott independent of his skill and bravery soldier
that his lite has really been one Of romantic beauty and
interest You recollect his conduct when his way
take command of the army engaged in the Black Hawk
The corps he had with him were all stricken down
with the cholera before he Joined Gen Atkinson. What
was his conduct Did he leave them to their fate and
fly the army Of the gallant and accomplished Atkinson
his personal friend in order that he might snatch
from him the laures for which he had toed long and
which he just then on the point of winning No he
chung his sick soldiers dying al around him 1eth the dread
tl pesence, and eleed himself dan and night to them
from the grare-o the imminent hazard 81 has life He could
have taken command of the arny-it was his right But
behold his magnanmity. In this Of Gen. Sc0s life
he shines brilliantly mD estimation, than in the most
glorious battle he erer fought"
Now, if the above quoted eulogy does not elo-
ouently describe manliness of character, We do
not know what manliness of character is. The
famous and ambitious soldier, feeling the I'M
pulses of humanity and kindliness stronger than
the ardent promptings of ambition, proves to us
q heroic manliness of which there can be no
question.
Did he not give every evidence of manliness,
when at Vera Cruz, he ordered his soldiers to
lie down behind the breast works, out of the
range of the enemys shot, and yet proudly
lifted up his own tail form, plumed and epau-
letted, to the cannonry
Did he not give every evidence Of manliness,
when, after series of brilliant victories, which
drew eulogies from Gen. Cass, Father Richie,
and other distinguished democrats, he quietly
returned home, at the command of a partisan
administration, to stand an insulting trial, and
refusing all ceremonial reception in the mean
while +?
Did he not show manlness, when frankly,
four gears ago, he admitted Il moments morti-
fication and passion, had betrayed him into II
hasty expression of false sentiment ON Native
Americanism?
Did he not show manliness when he refused to
bid for the Presidency by any plausible, hum
buggish professions to any section
Foremost and brayest in the battle, and fore
most and kindliest to lift the wounded and the
dead from the battlefield, and foremost and
most attentive at the soldiers bedside with all
the facts of his life, General Scott stands for-
ward as the truest embodiment of manliness
OF the eloquence of Scott, we can only say
this: it is an echo of his manliness and clio.
quent in the simplicity of truth, 1t comes from
the heart, and has no embroidery of verbiagc.
1t has the sound of the wind among the rough
huge forest trees, not the echo of the !Eolian
harp 1t is Nature speaking, and, therefore, it
is truth.
How strong and glorious it was, when at
Chippewa Scott said: 90 The enemy say we are
only good at long shot, and can't stand cold iron
call upon the Eleventh to give the lie to that
SANDER! Charged He was eloquent, when
leading our soldiers, he called upon them to re-
member what odds stood against us, and to con-
quer or die. And in the inspiration of his elo-
quence and the view of his gallantry, they did
conquer.
He was eloquent, gloriously eloquent at Co.
lumbus (Ohio) recently, in answering Il cruel
brutal and slanderous charge of having tied
fifteen Germans to one tree, Aogged them, and
hung Others Hear the man, and the eloouence
of the man, bursting from his large, indignant
heart:
sNew and before unknown to me, are such things as
have now been told They surprise and pain me
They at once all that value personally and aim
a blow at all that wherein, if know myself have the
cp.es which had believed, need search my
own bosom in vain here undermined or denied
am met with charges of injustice and cruelty-whe
leading an American army through Mexico. and while
participating alike in its trials and rriumphs
@Gentle.uen, it my lot to lead American army
upon foreign field went resolved to sustain, in the
of my progress the higde water mark OF
own American civilization in all its moral and civil virtue