. Leading American soldiers. w slight a spark would fire the political maga-zine, he bluntly advised and helped new-born Californiato advance towards the statehood that was due to herpopulation, statehood under a free constitution. All in all, however, President Taylors was, in a personalsense, an uneventful presidency. It came to a suddenclose in the summer of 1850. On the 4th of July of thatyear the President graced the ceremonies attendant onthe laying of the foundation-stone of the Washington monu-ment. He was slightly overcome by the heat, and thatevening aggravated his condition by parta
. Leading American soldiers. w slight a spark would fire the political maga-zine, he bluntly advised and helped new-born Californiato advance towards the statehood that was due to herpopulation, statehood under a free constitution. All in all, however, President Taylors was, in a personalsense, an uneventful presidency. It came to a suddenclose in the summer of 1850. On the 4th of July of thatyear the President graced the ceremonies attendant onthe laying of the foundation-stone of the Washington monu-ment. He was slightly overcome by the heat, and thatevening aggravated his condition by partaking too freelyof fruit and iced milk. His state rapidly became alarming,and on the 9th of July he died. His death was felt as agreat loss even by men like Daniel Webster who had beenaccustomed to look down on his lack of political the loss was a real one, for Old Rough-and-readywas far above common men in his resolute valor and sense,and his memory has therefore long been honored in theannals of his country. /a. ^C^t^. r - . / ?> WINFIELD SCOTT Among American soldiers few have received less recogni-tion than Winfield Scott. This is doubtless due in part tothe fact that the end of his career came just at the momentwhen our greatest war broke out, and when the veteranhad to make way for young men who soon filled the publiceye to his exclusion. But there is another reason, whichis that no historian has yet set forth with due emphasis themagnitude of his military achievements and shown thepublic that Scott, though he was never put to the test ofhandling large armies, conducted one campaign, that ofMexico, after a fashion that Frederick or Napoleon mightnot have surpassed. His field was small, but within it heplayed his part like a great captain. He was born on the 13th of June, 1786, near Petersburg,Virginia, and his grandfather was a Scotch Jacobite whohad fled to this country after Culloden in 1746. Thesecond American Scott, Winfields father, served in Wash-ingto
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