New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-06

GEN. :WINFIELD SCOTT.


GEN. WINFlELD SCOTT.
The military ability of Gen. Scott is unquestiona-
bic. This is a fact whiohh has been demonstrated
too many times to admit Of any sort of cavi or dis
pute But military ability is the only sort OF tai
ent he possesses, Whenever he goes outside his
proper sphere, and essays to play the politician OF
statesman, he always makes himself rIdlculous-a
laughing stock to all the country.
Gen. Scott is a Southerner-a native OF the nobe
old State of Virginia. State which has been as
productive of heroes and statesmen as it has been
barren of traitors and towards. From the patron
age OF Virginia this Southerner derived his first
office, and through her he was pushed Oh into posi-
ton after position, which enabled him to winall the
distinction he has acquired. Virginia is his mother
she nursed him in the infancy of his military career
her strong arm sustained him in the room of his
manhood-a and her great heart throbbed high with
pride as, in his declining days, her fayorite child
won new laurels on foreign fields. Yet now, in lis
advanced age when the irosts of nearly four-score
years are upon his head, and when his steps tend
darby in the direction of a not remote graye-tLis
migrate, this traitor, this matricidal wretch raises
his old, feeble hands, to strike his own mother to
the earth--to bring upon her unutterable shame,
Iutiittss EuplhS, duu iHllueGiGaUle ueSlUCIUu
The orderings of nature are ineXpcable, HUI
man comprehension fails to grasp subjects involved
in mystery. Undoubtedly it is best that it is so for
it is very questionable whether superhuman kuow
edge would not take from, instead of adding to.
the stock of earthly happiness. Ninety days ago
Winfield Scott was a hale, healthy, strong man,
considering his years. Now he is but a shadow of
what he was Them and if he does not improve ma
terialy the chances are that he will not live to see
the close of this summers campaign With him
the doctrine of compensation holds good. Ills
punishment has commenced: and the lashings Of a
guilty conscience have reduced his aged but ro-
bust frame TO comparative weakness. He knows
that he has raised his hand to strike his grand old
mother to the ground, and he feels that the I'M
partial historian Of the future will write the fact
down as it deserves to be written down. blot so
foul, black and damning, that the glores Of his
previous career will be obscued thereby-or, if
remembered at ALL will bring into holder relief
this last, most detestable, and unnatural crime.
It has been truthfuy said that few great men
know chow to die creditably." This is particu.
larry the case with Winfield Scott. Had he died
six months ago, the whole country would have
mourned. Should he die now, the excavations of
millions of the section of country in which he was
born, raised, and which advanced and honored
him. would follow him to the grave, while the
Abolition honors that would be paid him would
make the soul of an honest man sick-for even the
Aboliticnists cOntemn and despise him in their
hearts, and he would not be permitted to retain his
present position single day, were it not that his
military skill and experience are absolutely inds-
pensable to their cause. Poor old man. He is
really almost as much an object Of pity as of hate
The tool OF AbOlitionists to Wreak their vengeance
and the victim, his own mother State.
If Gen. Scott should happen to die at this June
ture, it is not difficult to tell what would become
of Lincons Government and armies. The one
would fee from Washington and the others would
break up and disorganize and leave for their homes
with all possible rapidly. 1t is Gen Scott this.
Gen. Scott that, and Gen, Scott the other-from
Lincoln down to the lowest Abolition newspaper
published in the North. Without Gen Scott it an.
pears impossible fer them to do anything He is |
not only the center, but the beginning and ending
of what they haye done or what they contemplate |
doing in a military way
Although Scott is a traitor to the land of his |
birth, we of the South, if we cannot feel any
PRIDE can well afford to smile at the complete de-
pendence of the Northern people upon a Southern |
"0tu NeHeiaA' hut lor me military genus OF a |
Southern man they would be like a ship at sea,
without rudder, chart or compass. The skill of a
renegade is what they most rely upon! They are
leaning upon frail support. SCOTS ability will
not avail them The cause of the South is like a
rock for it is founded in truth justice and patriot
sm and the highest and hoIiest emotions which |
IAN animate the human heart. Consequently the |
waves of treason and fanaticism will beat against
t in vain.
Speaking of Generals, reminds us of the fact |
hat the North has never yet produced single
5reat military man of ability, bravery, resources
md TACT saving and excepting Benedict Arnold
i1n0ld the hador-Arnold, the Northern man,
Who tried to sell WASHINGTON to the British Ar
lod was unquestionably possessed of splendid
military talents and undoubted courage, and he
attempted to do to the Thirteen Colonies what Win
eld Scott is endeavoring to do to the Southern
Satisfactorily them into the hands of their enc
MES! II anything, Arnold was a better man than
Scott, for he was in the prime of fe had been
reated badly, and the British held out to him the
most glowing inducements, while Scott is a very
I'D man, has been praised and honored, has no
cause of luminosity, and his advanced years pre-.
'luded ambitious aspirations. Yes, Arnold was a
)etter man than is Scott. The one earned an i'm
mortality of infamy. The other is now aiming to
o surmount the highest peak of the same bad
minence. History has taken charge of the one
History will take charge of the other. Let the
wo traitors descend the pathway of time in unap-
infamy. They are worthy of each
,ther.