"Winfield Scott" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... came on. In the Whig convention Fillmore had some support, especially from the South; Webster had most of the Massachusetts votes and scarce any others; and choice was made of General Winfield Scott, in the hope of repeating the victory of 1848 with another hero of the Mexican war. It was to Webster a blow past retrieval; in bitterness of spirit he turned his face to the wall, in his old home at Marshfield, and ...
— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam |
