The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-06-13

HIUT. GENERAL winfield Sg1F'
4 Was it Hazlitt who said, when + e touche
the hand OF the poet Rogers: Il live
the presence of all the litary men of Gel
turyY 10 shake hands with the gre;
Chief who is gone, at any rate, was to bo i
the bodily presence of all American hitol
His was life reaching back three gener;
ton. For eighty, years, less only. fiftee
days, pc has lived in this Republic, and fc
hfty.si years has been, not a presence onl
but colossal energy, which his grand sta
ure fifty symbolized. He came from lh
Old Dominion, the mother ofgrcat children
and 1t must have been hard thought in hi
latest days that she was declared the dignt
Of representation in the Capitol he ha
twice defended. r
There, in Petersburg, he was born, Jun
l3, 1856. ...t.-
| In Petersburg! This stoim ridded town
this little battered hulk ins sea of wave
heaped intreuchments, whore the guns of
army have rain d their deadest, maxim
the morning perilous, and the nights traie,
with fry bombs--evcn here, where the las
ard Longest struggle for empire was main
tanned, Winfield Scott, our master-soldie
was born s H.,
| lhere is something superbIy appropriate
10 thus .colNmemoratlon OF u great captain
birthplace History has few Similar adap
| tatlunS OF men TO places
| Inc parents or General Scott we're Q
Sco,cA decent remotely. and, dying IN hi
po!yhood, yet gave hlm sufficient to insur
nm iaIr % Weatlon IN the battle-scme'
t0Wh OF Nilllams6urg, at William and Mar.
College.
hetorhlhS 70 fcterSDurg, he became {
ID" STUDENT with Ar. a. h0blhson, and, at
ter admission TO the bar, prdctlced somt
years with the average success "i a proyin
c'ai lawyer. lhls period wnS fertile Of an
noyahcGs from he old world, aud IN 1905
young lawyer Scott, ardent with MARTA
inspirations, raised battery OF flying artil
lefy In fetcrshnrg and proceeded to the
Slhrc omlnouS City OF Charleston, taking
post IN the now stored harborS.
FIRST MILlTATY REBUFF.
Soon after his vnl,ntorv sntro,co into
military life, Captain Scott was regularly
appolntet to corr spending rank in the
United States army and in the artillery
brahch. lig DISTINGUISHED himself directly
oy great zeal IN political matters. and While
at Baton IIouge, Louisiana, IN Wilkinson 5
division, he made so precise and pointed
remarks upon his commantlng General that
ne was prosecuted, and afterwards suspen-
deH from cnWmanL Ihe cause Of his IN
SufpoluinatirD was the famous Burr con
sp.facy, IN "n!csi he believed W llklnsonsa san
acSlSe spirit
mus; I0f the second time, We see re-
inhrHahle parallel III the lIne OF our great
GcaPtan;; LIS opening career was marked
oy ms remuneration ct ahaltoroua, scheme,
as ms iaSt great act was an armed protest
against aolReS'le treasoa
returning 70 Feter'bnrg, he lard aside
1he la"' ala diil&cntly studied military 1t
dnct;ng he Lt".t ,,,. "", Ia',
campaigns, and the xymnhuthins cf Car.
tain Scott were warmly r,st in favor of the
European Marshal as opposed to the COM
binations of tyrants. He was soon destjue1 d
to meet the egions Of one Of those same ty
rants in actual campaicu.
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Anf ""',l' "a y l | Il = n0''t'
AZ o ti,e age OF tWehty-slX, IN the summer
u lol1' e'tiz9h Gcott was reappolhted
Lieutenant Colonel ana ordered to report
AZ AZ, once TOT uu'S on the O'hada tlontler-
w iieii he arrived at, LH"iSto"' ne louhd our
lIo'pS Already across the fiVef' ana crossing
A. ~ once became tfe central inquire IN the Tray.
MS ight nIo"h locks ana commanding stat
lre r mace MN at once conSpltlonS; the late
1i 'he gay was 4ouotiui; ne reformed the
.roops' leo the charge himself, and made
ne dlspositlons OF the battle, ana the day
vas y soon decided FOR the Republican arms;
AZ the moment or victory. the national
~ ,,'?l;t;o onI la'';, a''I ,'C'I' "'pGoou
.bout exnosing tbcmseiy'.e yafnsad ID oro"s
The British mustered reiniorcements and
he little army of Scott was almost ali taken
Of war
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ms oiplohatlc nature was at once OF use
0 MS government. Inc British had long
'ractlced the MAXIM OF once sublrct>al
ways a subject Therefore they resolved
select all the Scotch, English and Irish |
ola'ers ~ the captured command, and send
hem TO England to be tried Tor treason.
Colonel Scott ordered. hls men
either to speak nor declare nativity, and
threatened to retallate, man lor man. for
very punished American soldier: This he
ad confirmed, when exchanged, by the ad-
!inlstratlon, and mum Der OF British sol
lers were set aside to be executed it any
visitation bettll the, exported Re
ublicanS; AT the end OF the war, there
1re, all the threatened men We're returned.
m, single action, so far IN advance OF
q Z; a;,n, .aia. naa peen lousn,' gase the young
,ined hv f;enersI Won | in tLn % asrjv b,ttlaS laS
The rnbeIlion, - - Wv ''''' o"'''''
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PhoMolEp 10 CoLoNACY.