The Connecticut Observer, And New York Congregationalist

Compliment to Gen. Scott.—In the preface to the Lecture on War by Dr. Channing, which has just been published by Dutton & Wentworth of Boston, is the following well deserved compliment to Gen. Scott, the Pacificator, whose conduct on a recent occasion, has given him additional claims to the gratitude and respect of his countrymen, and of every friend of humanity. Dr. Channing says—

"To this distinguished man belongs the rare honor of uniting with military energy and daring, the spirit of a philanthropist. His exploits in the field, which placed him in the first rank of our soldiers, have been obscured by the purer and more lasting glory of a pacificator, and of a friend of mankind. In the whole history of the intercourse of civilized with barbarous or half civilized communities, we doubt whether a brighter page can be found, than that which records his agency in the removal of the Cherokees. As far as the wrongs done to this race can be atoned for, General Scott has made the expiation. In his recent mission to the disturbed borders of our country, he has succeeded, not so much by policy as by the nobleness and generosity of his character, by moral influences, by the earnest conviction with which he has enforced on all, with whom he has had to do, the obligations of patriotism, justice, humanity, and religion. It would not be easy to find among us a man, who has won a purer fame and I am happy to offer this tribute, because I would do something, no matter how little, to hasten the time, when the spirit of Christian humanity shall be accounted an essential attribute and the brightest ornament in a public man."