The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-10-21


say the posters for the LocoGoco meeting;
so say the Locofoco press Of this city. We
say, NO, NEVER! Scott never permitted
the flag Of our country to be hauled down by
British or Mexican hands, and the friends of
that great hero and good man will never be
so base as to permit the flag bearing his
name to be hauled down by the "PRACTI-
CAL ALLIES" of Great Britain in this
country. 1t would be ingratitude not de-
served by any one act in his long and event.
full career.
"HaM Dozen your Scott Fzagr" Men'who
can cheer over an ill-timed allusion to the
surrender of three hundred gallant Ameri
cans to four times their force of British and
Indians at Queenstown Heights, may raise
that cry and labor to do the deed; but the
gallant and patriotic American citizen who
is proud that he can claim Winfield Scott
as one of his countrymen, viii NEVER per-
NIT the lustre of his great name to be dim
med by such an act as that.
"Ham do,cn your Seot Flag" And why.
That the flag of the practical allies" of
Great Britain may be reared in its stead!-
Such deed may be worthy of men who are
SHIELD together by the cohesive power of
public plumbers" but the base order will be
spurned with scorn by men who have seen
recorded on the bright pages of their coun-
try's history, the gallant and heroic services
OF Winfield Scott; whose hearts have swell
led with grateful emotion for his great sac
rifces for the public good, and whose patri-
otism has been re-invigorated by the record
of his forty years of faithful and untirng.de-
voton in the service OF his country.
"HGm doacn your Scott Fag!" The hand
that penned the order would tremble at the
slightest danger that Winfield Scott has
witnessed in his country's service; the heart
that conceived it, would cover, though only
Gen. Pierce should bid him charge the chap
parel; and the intellect that permitted the
record Of such sentence, is cold and cal
} lous to all the bright deeds of men whose
patriotism has nerved them in their labors
to make the name of the country which they
love, illustrious.
: "Ham do1on your Scott Flag"" Do you
hear the taunt, FREEMEN OF OHIO!-
And will any one of you remain at your
home after that, and by neglect permit the
S deed to be done! twas the gallant Scott who
I, did more than any other man to wipe away
the disgrace Of Hull's surrender; it was him,
u,h laI kha ns;k Elon,
: George and made Britain's veteran troops fly
t before the armies of our country at Chip
> pewa and Lundy's Lane; il was him, who led
. the gallant troops of America to victory and
d honor from Vera Cruz to the Halls of the
n Montezumas; and more than that, it was
: him, who in the hour when pestilence struck
:. down his soldiers by scores and hundreds
! aiiayed the suferings of the sick and
i smoothed the pillow Of the dying, comfort
ing whom he could when the physician was
! powerless. We might 60 on and add column
q after column of what he has done for hi.
II country and for you citizen of that coun.
i try; but you know his history, you have read
: of his services, you are satisfied with his pa
i triotism, and we call upon you, with all the
c earncstness which we are capable,to rally
d around that glorious standard, bear it aloft
/ in the thickest of the fight, and defend il
i with all the power with which you have been
@ gifted. Do this. now, until the contest is
] over, and that flag will float proudly to the
i breeze with "SCOTT, GRAHAM and VIC.
q TORY" inscribed upon its beautiful folds
e and you can say with a full consciousness Of
f. Truth and Gratitude, al HAVE DONE MY
ID DUTY"