Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Gen. Scott Vanquished At Last,” August 1, 1861

    Source citation
    “Gen. Scott Vanquished At Last,” Fayetteville (NC) Observer, August 1, 1861, p. 3: 3.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Fayetteville Semi Weekly Observer
    Newspaper: Headline
    Gen. Scott Vanquished At Last
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    3
    Newspaper: Column
    3
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    GEN. SCOTT VANQUISHED AT LAST. – We believe it has been claimed by Gen. Scott and his friends – and for all we recollect the claim is sustained by history – that he was never defeated in battle. He will no longer be able to say so; for, although he was not on the spot where the Manassas battle was fought, all its arrangements were his, and he would have claimed and received the honor if his army had been victorious. In fact, he has but arranged and directed his forces for the battle in the other engagements in which he has been victorious since he became commanding General. It is only a difference of a few miles in the present case.

    This first defeat ought to set Scott and the administration and the North to thinking. Why is he now vanquished? He is fighting against freedom and to uphold despotism. Constitutional liberty at the North is a thing of the past. All departments of the Lincoln government openly set at defiance the Constitution and Laws.

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