and bloodshed, but he has effected it by obtaining the esteem and confidence of the poor Cherokees themselves.  They look upon him as a benefactor and friend, and one who has saved them from entire destruction.  All the Cherokees were collected for emigration without bloodshed or violence, and all would have been on their way to the West before the middle of July, had not humanity induced General Scott to stop the movement until the 1st of September.  Three thousand had been sent off in the first half of June by the superintendent, before the general took upon himself the responsibility of stopping the emigration, from feelings which must do everlasting honor to his heart.  An approval of his course had been sent on by the War Department, before his report giving information that he had stopped the emigration had reached the seat of Government.  In the early part of January last the President had asked Congress for enlarged powers, to enable him to maintain our neutral obligations to England—­that is, to tranquilize the Canadian frontiers.  Before the bill passed Congress, General Scott had finished the work and effected all its objects.  These, too, he effected by flying from one end of the frontier to the other in the dead of winter, and during the severest and coldest period of it.  He returns to Washington, and is immediately ordered to the Cherokee nation, to take charge of the very difficult and hazardous task to his own fame of removing those savages from their native land.  Some of his best friends regretted most sincerely that he had been ordered on this service, and, knowing the disposition of the world to cavil and complain without cause, had great apprehension that he would lose a portion of the popularity he had acquired by his distinguished success on the Canadian frontier.  But behold the manner in which this last work has been performed!  There is so much of noble generosity of character about Scott, independent of his skill and bravery as a soldier, that his life has really been one of romantic beauty and interest.”

It was General Scott’s intention to accompany the Indian emigration farther west, but receiving information that the Canadian insurgents were making renewed attempts on the Canadas, he was directed to proceed at once to that frontier.

Passing through the States of Kentucky and Ohio, accompanied by Captain Robert Anderson, he called upon their respective governors and arranged for the calling out of volunteers should they be needed, and also gave proper instructions to the United States marshals and district attorneys for such duties as they might be called upon to perform.  He passed on rapidly to Cleveland, Sandusky, and Detroit, and met great assemblages of excited citizens, and, by his appeals and reasoning with them, prevailed upon them to desist from any acts in violation of the neutrality with Great Britain.  Pending these important services, he learned of the trouble which had arisen between the State of Maine and the British