Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-23

accordance with that promise, we pr eed this week,
70 Law the character of that "e open to our readers
remarking by the way, that extracts are gathered
from pamphlet that we regard as truthful having in
some instances been enabled to verify them by the CO.
temporary descriptions Of other writer's in our possess
ion.
The duty devolved on is neither pleasant nor of
our seeking. We were content to let the opposition
make out of the military reputation of Gen. Scott all
the political capital that he egitimaely entitled
TO and we conceded to them the privilege OF fanng
the fame of military enthusiasm even to fever heat'
knowing as we did, that incidents recognized by msto-
nv in abundance were scattered through his career OF
FORTY wears out of which conceived they had right
70 make h,stan speeches and Buncombe eulogies-
In this they were right But when they stepped aside
from History and TRUTH and entered the field of
NANCE and put speeches into their heroes mouth that
he neither conceived nor uttered made him perform
exploits that happened and win battles that
won by others before Scott reached the feld more,
sche cs see them grasp at the laurels history has long
since assigned t0e Dead order to bedeck their pre-
sent political hero whit is not in to withhold that
which their base, not to say cowardy conduct
Justly merits. Can human mendacity get lower than
when it seeks to rend from the brow of a companion
in-arms the honors he has perilled his life to wn only
with the intention of placing those honors upon the
brow of another, simply to swell his fame into coos
sal size that he may the certainly subserve the
purposes designed by corrupt and reckless political
faction 1t is almost impossible to believe that Gen.
Scott could have lent his sanction to Pixies Pictorial
Life of hmself and yet, tits scarcely possible for any
one to escape from that conclusion, who reads it. 1t
l., Jo4o
cdents to be familiar to any one, the party of
whom they are related. Thus regarding this Life of
Scott-assuming that it wasgot up with his sanction,
and that he appreciates only the
to his part in the scenes described but that he
countenances the wilful injustice done to the brave
and chvalric Brown, Mcneil, Jesup, Christie, Dear
born Chauncey and others on the Canada frontier in
1919. We assume that Gen. Scott must have seen
il he did not furnish much of the material for this Pic
toral Life and If he either furnished material for it
or has seen it since it published, he is much a.
meanabe to the condemnation of public opinion for
the fraud and injustice done Others though he had
prepared it. We the ground, that so soon as
he it, and is fair presume he it before ii
sent to the press for learn it was prepared in
Washington city, he should have made those correct
ions at least, which robbed the dead of their renown
end have permitted his friends to throw around
his name deeds of daring belonging to those who
cd with him. But this he has not done. He has ST.
lontiy permitted the hcnors won by Brown and Jesup
Mcneil and Chauncey, by Dearborn and Christie, t.
be thrown upon his shoulders, part Of the trophies
won by himself Is this soldier-likc-is it generous
or, is it honest
An ardent supporter Of Gen. Scott now, on another
occasion said
If mans friends deliberately commit a fraud il
order advance his interests and he does not prompt
" dsown or chide il, when brought to his knowledge
the whitening force Of the exposure must reach him.
This is the right doctrine, and when Gen. Scot
saw this Pictorial Life of himself got up by Pike,
base fraud upon both the dead and tho living and per
mitted it to 60 the world without his disapprobatioh
he connycd at the injustice done Others either thrc
vain and scottish spirit or he was willing the frau
should pass SO that his interests thereby adyanc
ed politically. Ii the prideofGcn. Scotti5 tcklcd
the sort Of adulaton poured his feet by this paid abe
ltion Hessian writer, forced to believe that
is less careful ofhis reputation a noble and gene
man, than he is greedy for that praise which e1
cites enquiry while it furnishes the nGme Of true an
honorable soldier.
How far our remarks are warranted, the reader wi
judge after reading the article on first page. It
proper to say that regards the unity of fact and
deity to history, the account given in the Pictori
Life Of the Mexican campaign, that there but fe
departures from TRUTH in parison to those embra
ed in the war Of 1912. We account for this fact
this way. The occurrences of the Mexican campais
recent, and their leading features fresh in Il
memory ofthe people, Scarcely village, town
city in the Union but that boasts Of its soldier WI
served in that war. Thousands ofoficers andm men a
alive to give evidence against any falsefer of the I'M
dents of that campaign. But of the war of 1912, b
few now remain to correct the garbled showing of
who is ready to prostitute bis pen for politir
purposes. But two or three of the officers who d
tinguished themselves on the Canada frontier now 81
vive We believe The noble deeds of those brave M
who humbled the British Lion, at Niagara, Chippew
Queenston, Fort George and at Lundy's Lane, are
be found now only in those pages traced by the ha
ofthe patient, toiling student. History is now the
ly resort left to us from which we enabled to dr.
forth material to crush the base SANDER Of the poti
partisan, and expose the pride of brazen demagog
or snatch from the nav ofiniustice the name of m
who in their day degeneration, did their country
service, and won for themselves some renown, ey
in the deadly breach, where musquetry and cam
threw forth sheet of sulphurous flame, and the leaC
messengers Of death fell among'our ranks liks hail
There are but few alive to say 81 was theren. r
toPont to this or that battle field, and say Brown
here, JesuP there, or that Christie commanded h,
and yon battery silenced by the guns Of the br
Channcey, and that 4 saw Scott tear down the Brit
flag with his own hands,, but the fact is, it was d