The Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1861-1862, 1861-11-09
lsssIrnas,on Of General seoss.

Our readers read the correspondence bt
tween the President and Gen. Scott upon th
occasion Of the latters resignation as Lieuter
ant General of the United States After th
reception 0f the resignation by the Presideni
he and his entire Cabinet called upon tn
General to bid him final adieu. His aids am
others lele thercOm where the interview wa
to tale place, but what did take place
known only 10, those who:: participated in tn
scene; thsrPrcsident was the first to emerg
from the apartment his cheeks suffused Will
tesn. The occasion was solemn one; tn,
voluntary resignation Of the highest militar,
trust in the Republic, caused by the infrmi
ties of declining years. On Saturday the wal
worn veteran left Washington for his home il
New York, there in the bosom of his family
to spend the remainder of his days. He il
worn out in the service of his country, and
after half a century's labor, the hero of Lun-
dy's Lane and the conqueror of Mexico, resigns
his Office for the sweets of privacy; having
lived down detraction, his few remaining days
viii be free from the darts of malicious CEN
sure. The people of New York-the mil
lions of the Empire State, will receive the in
firm old patriot with united affection.
''The cid man bFok en- with the storms Of State,
Cones TO lay his weary bones among you.'
The correspondent between General Scott
and President Lincoln is very touching and
alike honorable to both. The General says:
,t "It is with deep regret that withdraw my
self, in these momentous times, from the Or
ders of President who has treated me with
distinguished kindness aud courtesy, whom l
know, upon much personal intercourse to be
patriotic; without sectional partialities or pre-
judices to be highly conscientious in the per-
formance of every duty, and of universal &C.
tivity and perseverance"
President. Lincoln, in reply to this high tri-
butte to his patriotism and solicitude for our
distracted country, says:
ho nuCt4Gtsi1 pCOplo' WILL uctT Will SdU-
ness and deep emotion that Gen. Scott has
withdrawn from the active control of the ar
my. While the President and the unanimous
Cabinet express, their own and the nations
sympathyiiH bin personal affection, and their
profound sense of the important public service
rendered by MIN to his country during his his
tory and brilliant career, and among which will
ever be gratefully distinguished his faithful
devotion to the Constitution, the Union and
the FLAG, when assailed by parricidal rebellion
We trust that the old man may live to see
this parricidaf rebellion crushed, and when his
eyes shall close for the last time it will be upon
our Union reunited, lone and inseparable."
Gen. McClelland has now entire command
OF. our forces and if left to pursue the convic-
tions of his own judgment, there is little doubt
but that he will be emimently successful
The President and Cabinet appear to have eve
ry confidence in his ability and they are I'M
questionably able, by this time, to measure
not only his resources, but the magnitude of
the great work which they have entrusted to
him.. The alrrity and the unamimity of the
in selecting Gen. Mcclellan
to be the veteran Scott's successor, shows how
and absurd were the thousand
rumors and statments from Washington, indi-
eating a desire upon their part to supplant
him. He has now the undivided authority
md the greatest incentive to successful exer-
ion ever possessed by any soldier of his
years. He has attained without labor and at
single bound, what his predecessor spent for
y years to achieve. We hope that he may
'rove himself worthy of the tremendous trust
nd not become dizzy by the eminence he has
ttained.