Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1885-03-26

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BY EDWARD PAYsOT HALL.
For tie Sentinel.
Reader, if you could have seen the
"hero of Lundy's Lane" the author
of Thirty Years in the U. S. Senate"
and the Little Giant orator of the
Missouri Compromise walking down
street together, you would have had
before you fine contrastive exhibit
ton of genius in widely different exte-
rior aspects-gen1us in the grandest of
physiques just fitted for the pomr and
tolls of war, genius in the form of a
Roman gentleman, and genius in a
whiskey barrel, all Rerambulating the
sidewalk in company. The first, per-
haps the handsomest man in America,
who knew it so we'll, that his every
look and movement seemed to say: 81
am General Scott" the second, tall,
portly, eagle-eyed and eagle-beaked III
that order of physiognomy which La
water so justly appropriates to the man
who is born to lead and to rule; the
third, low, thick-set, waddling, pot
bellied, jolly, King Cole sort of a lit
tie fellow, from whose mouth every
word gurgled like an irreeressible
stream from an uncorked, Kissing and
over flowing jug of soda-water or bot
tie of champagne Had you met the
first, he would not have spoken to you,
unless you were rich man Or a titled
official, and would have marched by
you with all the pompous ureoncern
of q turkey-cock strutting past 81 SNOW
bird; the grasp of the seconds hand
would have reused by thrill of cleo
trio affinity all the latent Democratic
spirit i'll your bosom; the third would
have asked you up to the nearest bar,
ordered the gin-slings and cocktails.
and talked to you half a day at q
time in tide Of eloquencc go very
fiery ana cogent you would have been
a Douglass man forever afterward.
Scott was great, proud, brainy, ep-
auletted engine of the science of war
a ridiculous martinette he woald have
been, but for his genius-an aristo.
cratic, dignlfied, tyrannical, cruel
high priest of Mars, from whose "glit-
tering generalitics" special mercy or
feeling treatment were alike unlocked.
for both by his own soldiers and his
nations enemies. Benton was the
typical American eagle-the here
statesman before whose indomitabie
nature uncultivated voters of the State
of Missouri and intellectual giants in
the U. S. Senate bowed instinctively
through torty-odd years. Douglass
WAS the typical and tipping pot-house
politician of America-the man who
in conjunction with whiskey, could
make the best speech then to be heard
during the session of Congress.
"Odd zoundsi Captain" exclaimed
Scott, in one of his naughty moods
"ti,is thing of furlough is an insu ufera
bic bore, sir! They want to get 9rat'il
that's all, sir. Tell 'ein To prepare
for battle to-morrow-the balls may
give few of 'ern a furloughp'
"Benton's enemies have said that
Benton, Che never said T.; it was al
ways Benton was old, enfeebled
childish and broken-down," thunderec
the gray-haired and indefatigable ole
Tom, III his lsat speech of the Nilsson
ri Gubernatorial canvass of 1855; bu
the old war-horse is here again, fel
w-citizens of st. Louis; he has trav
ersed the State; Benton has met hi,
opponents at every appointment Ill
your vast domain; and Benton is here
among you, as fresh as st the outset O
the CANVASS; and rs for those nlisera
BILE rascaiIy liars who prophecied hi
failure, Benton is able to whip, single
handed, whole coao-Pen full of sucf
men to-day!'
"My jolly compatriots of Shawnee
town." gurgled little Dug on certain
OCCASION, "l really wouldn't give ,
good drink of whiskey for the who'll,
combined mental calibre OF our oppo
nents. If one of these amazingly
small creatures were to tumble int
my glass, hie-hic-hic-I',
remove him, like this fly here, viii
my spoon!"
Scott's lordly discipline had smacl
of kamnteur and harshness scarcel,
American; yet his victories, whethe
over the rcd-coats ut Lundy's Lane o
the "yaller rascals" before the city 0
| Mexico, were distinctively the achieve
ments of that kind of genius in action
which was one of the original feat
ures of military life in our newborn
republic. It was just that kind o
practical genius which Washington
| displayed In the retreat from Brad
docks Defeat and at Trenton and b,
which Harrison overwhelmed the In
dinns at Tippecane. For birds-eye
pen-and-ixk view of the action a
| Bridgewater, (or Lundy S Lane, )whicl
laid the cornerstone of his militar,
| prestige, nothing was ever written il
as few words as the following by
participant in the horrid tragedy, hal
so descriptive and expressive:
I General Scott rode along the lin
cheering and restraining his troops
then passed from flank to flank to Sc
if all was as he wished; he wheele'
| his stecd into the rear of the troops
and gave the command to "Fire." 4
voice was Immediately heard in tn
British ranks-supposed to be that 9
their eircemmander-e "Charg
| the Yankees! charge the Buffalo ms
litia charge! charge r The Amer
can general ordered his men to "SuI
| port arms !"
Tho Rritish rushed forward wit