Excerpt from Life of General Washington

Our country has thought you worthy to bear a military title which she had before bestowed on George Washington only, leaving to him the one higher title of "General of the armies of the United States."

Allow me to imitate that honorable association of your name with his, by dedicating to the greatest living commander, this Life of the greatest and best of all ages, and I do so more gladly because both you and he, while yourselves at the head of armies, have been proud to serve the Lord of Hosts, even as humble privates under the banner of the great "Captain of our Salvation."

Note. - The reader will be glad to know, that, like Washington, General Scott is a Churchman. He remarked in his speech at San Francisco, in the autumn of 1857, "I am a church-going man. I have not failed to go to church on a Sunday for forty years, whenever it was possible to attend. I am always sorry to stay away from divine service."

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