Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-09-10

,,,ured ont for them and thelrs-and the
doEt of gratitude viii, at least in part, be
maid posterity will do the rest,
| have no time to follow Scott up TO the
neriod of the Mexican war. Forty years OF
service in camp and council have passed
over him; but the vow of the youthful en-
thusiast is still the rule of the hoary patriot
he is still and ever all his country s.
Glorious deeds had been done on the Rio
,1rande and in Northern Mexico; but the
nation had advanced not step towards the
achievements of peace. Gen. Scott pro
posed a renewal of the adventurous march Of
Cortez but the scene had changed, and
where the Spanish vessels had moved peace
ehIv. the castle Of San Juan now frowned
defiance: and. instead of friendly Tlascalans
or3 feeble Aztecs, the American General
7,ret encounter an armed and powerful en-
pire. country impregnable by nature, skill
fully fortified, and ably and obstinately de-
tended The difficulties seemed insuperable,
and his project was denounced as romantic
madness. Napoleon once disclosed a mill
tarv plan to one of his staff it is impos-
sibie.' said his friend. / see no means of
its achievement Napoleon led him to
window, and pointing to the glowing midday
ukT, asked, do you see that star? !? No
was the reply. / do said the Emperor,
and it was his only answer. General Scott
thus saw the star, hidden from feebler visions.
which was to light and guide him on his
path 10 glory. The Administration long
withheld their sanction but they had no
other hope; Scott alone could save them
For that plan, so full Of genius and wisdom,
Row the glory Of our history and the wonder
CT the world, and for its sole author. Win
field Scott DO / ask your gratitude and sup
pert,
/ will not characterize that caInpai-u-I
cannot: but YOU have 1.-THE world Las il by
heart. Never was the prcscient and nompre-
h=n-ive weight of human genius more Won
derfullv displayed, than by Scott IL It's pre-
raration and execution. Every difficulty Was
tOreseen. every contingency provided for
This plan was worked out Ike problem Ia
Euclid. But we cannot follow him in his
rag!. flight from the surf Of the gulf. To- the
bowed towers Of Vera Cruz, and The start
led cliffs Of Carr0 Gprio from miracle 10
miracle, from victory 10 victory, over con
qUur1d iinpossbilitics, and crushed thou sands
to the captured capital. But YOU viii re-
member the universal anxiety feiy here, at
home, when he descended into the Valley Of
Mexico, when, his communications destroyed,
his army disappeared among enemies ten
fold its superior in all save courage and con
duct. Weeks and weeks elapsed, and not a
word was heard of them. The suspense
grew agonizing. We watched-as friends
watch the dark waves in which daring di-
Yer has plunged, but from which he does rot
emerge. White lips whispered Is he lost?
Has he perished ? And the response was,
How can it be otherwise, with a force 50 in
adequate against foe so fornidable?' AT
length, when overwrought terror became de-
Spair, the tidings burst upon us-a torrent Of
glory. ConTeras ChurubuscO, and MolinOdel
Rev. were wOn and how futtered our flags,
how b!azed cur bon-fres, and how uprose
Our shouts, again and again, when we learned
that cur noble army bivouaked in the plaza
Of the capital and beneath the stars and
stripes, as they waved above the triumphs Of
toItez. stood Winfield Scott, the lanrellcd
c0nqueror Of Mexico. | stand beneath that
banner nova brighter glory has ever since
CLEANED from its stars; and pointing to
those fields Of fame, ask, in the name, and
by the authority Of those achievements. un-
equallcd in grandeur and glory, ask your
votes for General Scott
1t is impossible briefly to sketch that cam
paign. It's battles are 50 many and glorious /
that they mingle their light, as the stars
which from the galaxy melt together and cast
q stream Of glory across the heavens. But /
this is Churubusco's day; and the nation, in /
all time,
Will stand tip-toe when this day is named" /
Instead Of one battle It's achievements /
comprise five distinct battles and five Illus
trious victories. Time itself looks back upon I
10 sGch one day. Our army was but $500 .
strong, and was engaged hotly, on foot and .
horseback, in the open field and before the .
strongest tortifcations, with 81, 600 men, we'll /
armed and commanded. 1t
made 5000 prisoners, and killed and wounded
1000 Of the enemy. Any one OF those five
briiiants gloriously strung together
and radiantly bound upon the fair brow of
our country-any one would have struck
the world with wonder; together they stag
ger credulity, and raise a monument to
American heroism that Will stand till our
melt into the plain. We meet to
that victory Of victories and We
cannot forget the patriot hero to whom We
owe it, who never doubted and never erred,
who never stumbled and never tainted. the
noble nature quote the poet literally j
g Whom passion coull not shake whose
solid virtue
The shot Of accident, nor dart Of chance
GOULD neither grace nor Pierce
Had the life Of Scott known but that one
day Of glory, for that alone | would ask, aud
you could not, in justice and gratitude, deny
your sutTragcs.
And how were these services, countless and
.Gcstimable. rewarded? Who does not blush
orer the pages Of that history? The veteran
soldier was stripped Of the command of that
army he had led in triumph-was accused
and treated as malefactor, and was dragged
in a shameful trial for the high offence-it
T7a3 only one-of having covered his country
with glory. And what did the hero-at the
head cf victorious and devoted army-un-
der this unprecedented outrage and wrong?
lion like to the foe he was meek and lowly
10 the laws and authorities of his country