The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-11-10
Gen. sect.

Oe0. sect.
A sspersonal admirer" Of Gen. Scott, con.
.neeted with the New York Times, gives the,
following IN an account Of visit to that dis
tinguished parsonage:
aOn the subject of the war the General is
refacent Itgfves him pain. To q question
IN regard to It he shock his head, replying,
That - matter do not talk upon; 1t Is
subject for others to discuss, and net for me
TO dwell upon In my old age It is In other
hands, and must now engage the attention
Of other heads"
We can easily conceive that the subject
..eives him pain" We are willing to sup
pose that this pain arises in some degree
from other feelings besides personal disap-
polntment. Gen. Scott must still have about
him aome of the ordinary feelings of human
nature, and, If he has, we can easily under
stand why he broods in sombre silence over
the great national iniquity in which, reluct-
antly, We hope, he has played so conspicu-
Gus part. This man is Virginian, and, if
he can look upon the land in which he first
drew breath, and which. once so delighted to
honor him, subjected to such woes and suffer
ings ~ she has borne for nearly three years,
he must be not man, but o monster. He has
passed great part of his life in the North,
and he cannot but know the difference be-
tween the two people. Whatever the ribald
hirelings Of the Northern press may say
Of Virginia, General Scott knows, Of
Lis own personal observation, the pure
and generous character of the Virginia
people; the simple virtues of their ag-
ricultural firesidee; the high tone Of me.
raljty and personal honor, and of humble
and unaffected Christianity which distinguish
tho great mass of her community. He
knows, too, just as well the selfish, cor
rupt, licentious, goddess traits of the North
ern populace, and when he sees this herd. of
brutish beasts letloose to ravage and destroy
the once powerful and happy plains and hill
sides where he roved in childhood, the war
may well give him pain. He cannot but love
Virginia, not only for her people, but her
past history. As Virginian, he must be
proud Of the land which produced a
Washington, and Marshall and Madison,
and host Of other iuustrious names which
he vas taught from his childhood to love
and revere. Well may 1t give him pain to
think Of such soil desecrated by the vandal
feet of mercenaries from every cline; its
modest churches lefaced with licentiousand
sacrilegious inscriptions; its hospitable
dwellings burned to the ground, and the
&Amllies which once delighted to entertain
the stranger and give refuge to the distressed
driven nom their own homesteads and made
wanderers on the face of the earth its best
blood flowing like water on a hundred bat
tle.feIds, and It's very graves polluted by the
infernas orgies of the fiends who have been
Ist loose to work their will of demoniac ha-
tred upon ths living and the dead. 1.-The can
look upon such scene without pain, he
does not deserve the name of man.
Other considerations Of more selfish ma
turs add, no doubt, to the "pain" which the
war gives General Scott When the war
commenced he was the military idol Of
tho whole American people. No soldier
of the old United States Army occu.
pied ~. proud positlon. The laurels
OF the warof 1872, and Of the war with Mex.
leo. rested gracefully upon his massive brow.
Ot0o4 QXUk0o u tuO0O WoAOS ROS A"PS AAOs use
doaervine than himself. had faded away, but
he lowered upwards. grand, living monu
mont Of the nations military glory. Vir-
ginia, his mother, bad delighted to cover him
WITH maris other honor and love. Such he
vsa then. But now! Called up TO choose
between honor and interest, between graft
tuds and selaahness, between dhty and pelf
he sold himself TO the enemies Of his State
ana people, and has lost all-lost his own
eoed mama, anA lost the base pricefor which
he cold T. 70 become Commander-inC Chic
at the grand I1nkos army, he sacriaced love
AaA loyalty end every generous feeling Of hia
natare, and IN three months slter he had done
Il DO ~ thrown aside by the Yankees them,
solves, laid awey upon the shelf a. an ante.
deluyian curiosity consigned TO . mausoledm
q deaA cosebyities, whore he Is little regard.
"A y no pressing crowd - the crumbling
moaament q the unfortunate Lawrence In
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