. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. avely said, that the treaty of peace wassilent on the rights contended for, and therefore the warwas without effect. They who make this objection haveforgotten, that silence is often the most expressive oflanguage. Thirty years have elapsed, and the acts ofGreat Britain, and other European nations, are as silentand as inoffensive as the treaty. They have practicallyinterpreted its meaning. They have ceased from theirag
. The life and military services of Lieut-General Winfield Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the war of 1812, in the Mexican war, and the pending war for the Union. avely said, that the treaty of peace wassilent on the rights contended for, and therefore the warwas without effect. They who make this objection haveforgotten, that silence is often the most expressive oflanguage. Thirty years have elapsed, and the acts ofGreat Britain, and other European nations, are as silentand as inoffensive as the treaty. They have practicallyinterpreted its meaning. They have ceased from theiraggressions, and permitted their insulting claims to passsilently and peacefully into oblivion. From that bournethere can be no return. We might as well expect tosee the ghosts of departed warriors resume their armorand renew their battle-fields, as to see these departedclaims of Great Britain, against American sailors andAmerican citizens, again become a cause of war, or thesubject of any reasonable discussion. They have takentheir place among buried abuses. Britiah impressment of American seamen was fomided on tho samepretence—a bom subject must live and die a OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN. 77 CHAPTER VI. 1813 Capture of York and Death of Pike.—Scott joins the Army as Adjutant-General —Battle and Capture of Fort George.—Pursuit of the enemy.—Anecdote.—Scotts Magnanimity. With the battle of Queenstown closed Scotts militaryoperations in 1812, on the northern frontier. From Niag- .ara he was sent to Quebec, where occurred the scene,already described, with the captured Irishmen. Thencehe went in a cartel ship to Boston, and in January, 1813,was exchanged. His first duties were performed atWashington, in pressing upon Congress the law of retal-iation, and the vindication of American citizenship. Hisnext were to revisit the banks of the Niagara, and there,in fresh actions of courage and achievement, give renew-ed evidence of devotion to country, and of martial enthu-
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