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Bilis (I Lad; 2 1kuldinlIst rivry deserißtion, tiiidtly pririted ;41fficeiU. thikeed aid prices 4 . .. , %Speech ofThr. ti 1 4:ii, MA propeaLfieeto initiruif the Commi+ of Waist and Means - to , f4paiti an appropniton fer,the I ffen!itiudisii of the a t inber/wid Ro 1: 1• , ; 'HOUSE iiilteineserriA.Tiiks, Feb. 15, 840 Mr. CORWIN, of ?Ma i rose and aid : '..Nir..lSPeriker: I ena 'arlitionistfed, by the ager 4 - ?'licitations pf 4eotleuiqi nflouud me tn i ,egive litty,:for a motiori An adj.ourO of that practice +arch° _ House which aceetds us more of ler -nure on this clay than in alloWed to us on any ! otheillay.of the week.lThelservantsef Other ,goodmasters are, tbelieve,fridulged in .a sort of saturnalium in the aft4riotin of 'Saturday, and we have supposed thatput . kind maters,s the people,might be viillihg to grant usJtheir most faithful slaves, 4Weiler respite from -toil. , It is now.past thteen'elock in thinfter- 1 noon, and . 1 should be very witting to' ause an the disciission, - Wrere I,lnet urged by those -menacing cries of 'Go our , from vario 'parts of the, Huuse". • Iti this state of things,J can not hope to summon tolirly thing like !men tion:the unquiet inindth °tiffany, or the ded ija tint' worn down faculties,' otl a still larger iMr lion of the House. 1 ' hope, howeve l r, the Hansa will tkit withhod_lfrom me at. bOon, -which - I have often seep I grained to othe , s, , that is,' the privilege of speaking without be :jog tappressed by a crfnalded audience, which is accompanied by: this additional advantage, that the orator thus Situated can at least list en to and hear himself -(,.:; If4mt, Mr. Speakeri: and thelaenthers of this - Ouse have givenlthet attention 4o the' . *Meech ufthe'ge, ntleman frhro Michigan, Mi. Citiry,_inade yesterda, which some of us Mite:thought it our dill t bestow, lam sure the nevelty of the scene l I say nothing more of it, must have arreneed your Curto'sity, if, indeed; it did pot give tise to profound [ reflec tion. Vl.' tt,„ • I need not 'remind theonse that it ie a rule here (as I suppoie:'t is every %here else where men dispute by; any rule at" all) that - silat is said in debatelif ffirld be relevant and pertinent to the stubj l ect under discussion.— .. '. The question before tts2is a L proposition to In struct the Committee of Ways and Means tii report a hill granting foilr hundred and fifty thousand dollailitononrifnue the construction of the Cumberland rciadr i l he. States of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana ._; ', 'he objection's to the measure are, either, 'hi , it ihis Government is in - no sense, bound b ,o',rpact to make the road, or that it is no a;werk of anruaticioal 1. concern; but merely ot loc.' al interest, or that the present exhausted ritnte of the Treasnry, will not watrant therii 3 Orppriation , admitting the object of it to be cairlf within the consti tutional province of t.lotigress. If thegentleman fican S; Carolina, (11,r. Pickens) - and the , gentleman • from Maine, T Mr.atris, ,who cons der the Cumberland roads work of mere sectional advantage to a very email portion of 4te si) People have atten ded to the sage disqhisi l ti us of Ihe geotleman (tom Michigan on t i tle€ rt of war, they must now either come to .lie cpnclusion that almost i the whole of the gent, man's speech is what ohifashioned peoples_ '' w man calla "non sequi- 1 enr,"or else that this r ad connects itself with - .not merely the mill' r dbfeneesof the I.lnion,' . birt it is interwoven tai intimately with the 1 progress of science; a especially that most Ilifficult of all science s the 'proper appliCation .or strategy to e ' .4eneies of barbarian c the warfare. It ,w II tie a Oat the far-seeing 'sagacity andtn 'long re hing_ understanding r 4 of the that, f' ichigan has_discov ered that, before lwelc n vote with a clear conscience on the in tructions proposed, we must be well informed I pl9 to the number of In dians who fought at the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, how those Savages were painted, whether red, black e blue, or'whether all were blended on theivi barbarian faces. Fur ther, according to'bo views of the subject, before we. vote Monet to make a road, we Must know and:aPprn a of what Gen. Marti iim thought, said ind i ;did at the battle of i i Tip pecanoe!. i I Again, upon this pi'ocess of rearming; we • must inquire wherein enrol should be when c i if battle begins,--nspe rally in the night, and what hispasition dnri g the fight, arid where he should, be foundl when it is over; iand -par ticularly home-Kentuckian behave himself when he hears the liidia.f war whop in day . or night. 21,_nd, , after_settling - all ,t ese puz zling propositions, Istill l we must fuly under stand how and ;by whom the battle of the - Thames was foughtand in wheOrianner it then and there been 'e Our troops - ',regular & militia, to conduct themselves. kir, it must be obvious, that if the,:te topics are germain to the subject, then does the Cumberland rend • encompass all the irOresta and all. the stib ' jects that touch the tights. duties,qind desti nies of the civilix_a(l world; and:l hope we shall hear no more frOm Southern gentlemen a the narrow, sectifimal, or unconstitutional character , of the preposed measure.. 'That hranch Of the suhjeCt r is, I hope, f rever qui eted, perhaps u!iintentionally, by the gentle- Inlkti fromXichigan.; His military criticism,. if it has not answered\ the ptyposes intended,, has •at least, in this :Way, done sortie . service o-the_Cumberlaud Iroo.' And if my poor I halting : comprehensi 'Chas not blnndered, in , ._, 4 ,. pursAngtt, the , sonde . ttpward flight of my, ii ' -- \-, friend frein Alicniga, , he has in this discus - sinit,w,rdien a new t icisepter in the 'regulat . . . pliii 9 Op*Oi,' and[fnede not ourimlves only, .. bat -; the hnt the whole workllhisdebtors in gratitude, by overturning i the,uldlworn out principles of the 'inductive systet.l i • , • Mi. Speaker, thee I have been ;' many and 'ponderous volumealwritien, and Tarious unc tuous discoursee depvered; on thei r doctrine of "assnOtttion,*! lattgeldl Eltewar4, a• Scotch ' gentleman . of no aminiketensioei in his day, . lh ol lght‘ mach . and ilwftite - zmich;concerning that frincipleitimental Phileseph ; & Brown, 'stinther of the semi schhol but _of laterdate ' , hag altlO written an a 0 much - , n the same subject. This 100 gentlematt,4 think; Calls il • I - 1 A. 7 0 • 3 ••:•,\,C,' • ""' • _ it v.ru gg eptioh;"' :but,riever, If venture toisay, did any Metaphysician, pushing his .research. es furthest and deepest into 4hat occult sci ence, dre am' that would come to' pass; which we have discovered and clearly developed= that is, that two subject's so unlike as an ap• propriation - to a read in 1810, and the tactics proper in Icellap war in 1311,,were not merely akin, but actually, ideutically the 'same. hiplSpeaket, this discuseion, I should . think, if not absolutely absurd and utterly ri diculous, which my respect for the gentleman from Michigan, and the American Congress, will not allow rue to suppose, has elicited ano: therarait in the American Character, which - has been the subject Of great admiration with intelligent travellers, from the Old World.— foreigners have adntiredthe ease with which, us Yankees, as they calf us; can turn our hands ito any busineris or pursuit, public or private; and this , has' been brought forward by ouii people as a proof that map, in this great and free - republic: is a being very far superipr to the same animal in other parts of the globe less favored than ours. A proof of the mast convincing character of this truth, so flattering - to our national pride,- is exhibit ed before oureyes,in the gentleman from Mi chigah delivering to the world a grave lee toe on the campaigns of Gen. Harrison, in cluding a variety of very interesting military eventri'in the years 1811,1812 and 1813. lii all other countries; and in all.formertimes, before now, a gentleman who would either apeak'or be listened to, on the subject of war, invoNing subtle criticisms on a strategy; and careful reviews of marches, sieges, battles, regular and casual, and irregular onslaughts, would be required to show, first, that he had stunted much, investigated fully; and digested well. the science and history of his Object. But here; sir, no' such . painful preparation is required; witness the gentleman from Michi gan. 11e hasennounced to the house that , he is 'a militia general on . the peace establish ment” That he is a lawyer we , know, toiler ably well read in - Tidd's Practice and Haim flosses Nisi Prius. These studies„ so happily adapted to the subject of war, with an ap pointiment in the militia in time of peace, fur nish him at-lonce with all thekno4ledge ne cessary to discourse to us. as from high au thority, upon all' the anysteries.in the "trade of death.' Again. Mr. Speaker, it must occur to every one, ' that we, to ,whom these clues. tions;are submitted, and these military criti cisms are addressed, being all colonels at least, and most of us, like the gentleman him• self, brigadiers, are, of all'conceivable tribu nals,bese qualified to decide any nice point connected with' military science. 1 hope the Houie will not he alarmed by an impression that 1 am about to discuss one or the other of the military questions now before uspflength; but I wish to submit a remark or two, by way of inleparing us for a proper appieciatiop of -the Merits of the discourse we have heard. r trust; as we are all brother officers, that the gentleman from Michigan, and ahe two bun dred and-.forty colonels or generals of th a honorable House will receive what I have .... say as coming from an old brother in ar .s, and addressed to them in a spirit of cando , 'Such as becomes comrades free, fleposing afteevictory.' ‘-,,. Sir,;we all know the military studies of the gehtleinan from Michigan before he was pro meted. I take it to be beyond a reasonable; dourbt, that he had perused with great care the title page of "Baron Steuben." Nay, I go further; as the gentleman has incidentally assured us he is prone to look into musty and neglected volumes, I venture to assert, with out -:louching the fact from personal know!. edge, that he. has prosecuted his researches so, as to be able to know, that the rear rank stands right behind the front. This, I think, is litirly inferrible from what I understood him to sayof the twelnes of encampment at ' 'Tippecanoe.: Thus, We see, Mr. Speaker, thai the gentleman from Michigan, so far as study can give us knowledge of a subject, cornea before us with claims to great profun dity.' But this is a subject which, of all oth ers', requires the aid 'of actual experience to make us wise. Now the gentleman from Mi chigan, beings militia general, as he has told : cir i ; his brother officers; in that simple state. mutt'!, has revealed the glorious history of toils, privations, sacrifices, and bloody scenes, thrhuo e h which we know, from experience and observation, a militia officer in time of peace is sure to pass. We all, in fancy, now see the gentleman from Michigan Mallet most dangerous rind glorious event in the life of a militia general on the peaceestablishment-- a parade day! That day for which all the o ther days of his fife seem to have been made. We can see troops in motion; umbrellas, hoe arid axe handles, and other like deadly imple ments ot warovershadewing all the fi eld,— when le! the'leader of the host approaches, ' `'Far off his coming , shines; . hi pluine, white, after the fashion of the great Borubon, is of ample length, and reads ,itsjdolciul history in the bereaved necks and 'fboirems of forty neighboring hen-roosts! Like the, great . Suwareff, he pectins somewhat care less in forms and points of 'dress; hence his epaulettes may be on his shoulders, back or sides, but still gleaming, gloriously gleaming in i the sun., Mounted he is, too, let it not be foregotten. Need I describe to the.colonels and, generals of this honourable-- House the steed which .heroes bestride on such ocea. sinus? No, I see the memory of other days is with you. You see before yon'the gentleman frOm Michigan; mounted on ;his crop-eared, bushy tailed mare, thosingular obliquities of whose hinder limbs is described by thit . most expressive phrase,'sickle hams'her heiglith just fourteen hands, 'ell told ;* yes, sir. there yOu see his 'steed that latightiti the shaking ofithe spear;' that is, his 'war horse whose neck is Clothed with.thutider:' ' Ihir• filPellit'er, 'we_.hatle ' glowing desCrip tiiins in history' of Alexander the Greet and !Oyer Wee Bucephalue, at' the heed of the inivincibie Macedonian' phalenx, tipt s tiiit,suek arc the imptoveinente of medern titiies'thit iorwiu, ME ME I Wit/Laub you to pierce the bowels co ft he Earth and biing ant troni the Ca erns ofthe Moooteine,Metals whibh winge 4110 *to oar Heads and Sebjec! all Nature to oar. on and pletuarre.".--D a ililittSON. xvi. -AND P I ' - •• - - Weefily b 9 Benjamin Bauman Poitsville seknyikillt County' Pennsyll!inia. every one`must See tba jti out ratline general; with his'crop-eared to re, : with bushy-tale and sickle , ham, Would ! l iterally frighten off a battle field 'an hundred , . lezanders. Out, air, t to the history of theitia: ilde day. The gene ral thus mounted and eq uipped is in the field, and ready for action. lOn the eve of some desperate enterprise, rich as giving order to shoulder, arms, it may, there occurs a cri sis, one of the acciden a of war which no sa gacity could foresee or prevent. A cloud ri• , :ie ses and passes over th sun! Here, an occa sion occurs.for the d'is l lay of that greatest of all traits in the chars ter of a commander, that tact which enable him to seize upon and turn to a good accou t events unlooked for as they rise. Now for' he caution wherewith the Roman Fabius foil d the skill and cour age of Hannibal. Ar' treat is ordered, and ttoops,and general, in; : twinkling, are found safely bivouacked in a neighboring grocery ! But even here the ge 'era still has room for thu exhibition of heroi deeds. ' Hot from the field. and chaffed with the untoward events of the day, your gene al unsheaths his Ken. client blade, eighteen i ches in length, as you well remember, and - ith. an energy and re morseless fury he sties the watermelons that lie in heaps around hi i , and shares them with his surviving friends. Other of the sinews of war are not wanting I here. ' Whiskey,- Mr. Speaker, that great' le , eller of modern times, is here also, 'arid the ; hells of the watermet• - ons are filled to the br m. 'Here again,` Mr. Speaker, is shown ho l -• the extremes of bar barism and civilizatin meet. As the Scan dav ian heroes of old, . a er the fatigues of war, drank wine from thek kulleof 'their slaugh rered enemies; in Odi ' s Halls, so now our mi- litia general and his fi melons thus vanquish of whiskey' assuage souls, after the bloodyt But, alas, for this sli, all things will have a with the glorinui aeti ral. ' Time is on the his flight; the surf; mighty 'events ortti sky, and at the gloss hamlet is still," the 1 upon the scene, i "And glory, like the pbenix in its fires, t Exhales he odors, lazes, and expires." d i Such, sir, has been t e experience in war of the gentleman from Nlicbi ' . We know this from the: simple annunciation he is and has been a brig-. i i adier of militia in time , f peace; and now, having a full understanding of th , qualifications of our learned general, both from stu , y and practice, I hope the House will see that it s ,ould give its profound reflee tion to his discourses a the art of war. And this it will be more inclined , when we take into view that the gentleman b , in his review of General Harrison's campai gns , 1 odestly imputed to.the lat ter great mistakes„ blunders. imbecility, and even worse tban,this; I shall sbowhereafter. The force, too, of the lecture! of our learned and experien ced friend from Michigi'm is certainly greatly Cuban / ced, when we consider nether admitted fact, which is, that the general wh se imbecility .and errorspe has discovered had n , like the gentleman (Mai Michigan, ' the great ad antage of serving in watt* melon compaigns, but fly fought . fierce Indians in the dark forests of the , est, under such stupid fel ; lows as Anthony Way , and was a ft erwards appoin ted to the command:of large armies. by, the advice of such an inexperienced, oy as Gov.,Sltelby, the hero of King"s.Mountatii. And now, Mr. Spea, er, as I have the temerity to entertain doubts, and ith great deference to diffeiin my opinions on this; military question with the gen tleman from Michigan,; I desire to state a few histari cat facts concerning General Harrison, whom the general from Michigan; has pronounced incapable, hn betile, and, as I shall notice hereafter, something worse even than these, . General Harrison was com missioned by General, Washington an officer in the regular army of the U ited States in the year 1791. He served as aid to Ge eral Anthony Wayne, in the campaign against the ndiami, which resulted in the battle of the Rapids o the Maumee, in the- fall , of 1794.—Thus, in his y nth, he was selected by Gen e'rel Wayne as one f his military family. . And what did this youtiffeOfficer do in that memorable battle of the Rapids l; Here, Mr. Speaker, let me summon a witness toe ly to show how military men May differ. The wi ' ess I call -to controvert' the o pinion of the gentleni n from Michigan is General Anthony Wayne. I his letter to the Secretary of War, giving an acco' nt of the battle of the Rapids, he says: . :'I "My faithful and.gt dered.most essential S orders in every die bravery exciting the Sir, this evidence w in tbe year 1794, sem 1 gentleman from Weld he became a militia fore he ever perused 1 Mr. speaker, let me ; thatthis battle and 1; the North-west, in W of Gen. Wayne, ,e,L' most essential service gave peace to act exp from Pittsburg to the It was, in truth, the Lion, for the Indians; sin in ,our-revolution their arms until o f Wayne in 1794; " 1 We now come to Genera, whose mili rimmed General fm Imew that debates - 1i in the,BrifitiOrlia cession creillitialiy who have Been and ii all know that qo,l] reviewed the 'campal,l the movements and 1 and Massena, an d ' quite as well kap, . oat even exceptitie We respect the opi ' he not only tknio We, respect and ail skill, with Cesar s. Cl4llell . cf thit'. “ Erligli n ty Juiiit = DAY MORNING•`,MAT 9. 1840 s.wu rces, fronythe skulls"Of -d,la copious draughts he heroic fire of their scenes of a parade day. .rt.lived race of ours, end, and so , even is it evements of our gene. wing and will not stay A if frightened at the day, rides doWn the of the day, when "the urtain of night drops • hint Lieutenant Harrison ten rvices, by commtinteatinetny too,. and by his conduct and 1 uops to press for vietory."„ togiven by General Wayne, time, I imagine, - before ;the gag was born, and lOiig befoie - eneral, and long, very long, be , e title page, of Baron Steuben. emind the House, in passing, tory over the Indian forces of ch, according to the testimony , ‘ntemint Harrison rendered the by his conduct and bravery,", line of froutier, extending southern borders of Tennessee. ose of the war of the Re!olu- •ho took part with Great Brit ry. struggle never laid down er they .were vanquished by [eta something of the man, _the I ry history• our able and expo. .Michigan has reviewed. , V) e • e this have sometimes been hid .. ect. There, I believe, thedis• onducted by those in the House of merely heard of service. ' We i °pier has. io several Aiolumes, I L no of Wellington, and criticised Brits of ' Beresford, and *mit, any others, quite, • yes,'! 'say, in military. history sit as 'of , its, _ - Our general from Michigap. i l3 . ll !kc i f NarOr, because Fo l ltaaw Pr ivar.'but thit he fovea too., othal. combination of.toilitruy. Ootf 4 Tanlilus *wit. which, We flAtitent,priet‘!! became wilmow ".Wes a soldier, trained in the, . - 'DVERTIER field, and inured t therm:6lo'4;l*nd dente - is of inn. But, sir, we Generals of" Congress require no inch painful discipline MI give value. to our opinions. We men of the 1911010 m, know all things into , itively. . We understood perfectly - the milita7.anby nature. Yee, sir, the notions of the gentleman from Michigan agree exact l 7;.willi a sage-by the name of Dogberry," who bnieted ;that ri reading and wri ting come by:nature. ?;' Mr. ; Speaker, we have heard and read much. of '‘e the advance of knowledge. the improvement of the. specie!, and the great march of mind, " but never tilt now haver we 'understood the , extent of meaning in 1 theca, pregnant phrnMs. . For , instance; the gentleman from Michigan asserts that General Harrison has none of those guidings of a, General, because, at the battle of Tippecanoe, he ; was found 'atone time at it',diatance from his tent, urging his men on to brittle." ;; He eiposed his person boo ; much, it seems. Ho thould have staid at, hisient, and *shed for. thooffieera to come to him for orders. Well, sir, see now to *hat conclusion this leads; us: Napoleon seized a standard at Lodi, and rushed .in trout of his columns across a narrow bridge, which was swept by a whole' park of German artillery. Hence,,Napoleon was no officer; he did net know how to command an army. He, like Ilarriami, ex posed his Toni too much.. Oh, Mr. Speaker,What a pity for poor Napoleon that he had not studied Steuben, and slaughtered watermelons with. ue nat ural born Ge nerals of ; this great age of , thO World ! Sir,it might have altered the map of Europe;, nay,- chenged the &stinks of world ! ; 4 Again: Alexander ; the Great , spurred his horse foremost into the, neer, and led his Macedonians a' cross the Graniins, to rout the persians,*who 'stood bill opposed on the other side of the stream. True, this youth conquer* the world, and made himself master of what had COnstituted the bledeszi, Persian, A!awriiint'end Chalil,oo empires . Still according to the judgement of us warriors by nature. the :eighty Macedonian would areve nonsuhed. gocid i senOe by coming - over here, if; nuiced, there were, any .here hereabouts in 111010 dayli,inid studying, like "my 'friend . from ; Michigan, first ',ljild'a Practice, and lEspenas se's Nisi Prins. midis little snatch of &Oben, and serving as a general of militia awhile. Sir; Mesita -1 der she Great might have made a man of himself in the art. of war, had ha even been a member iof, our ' Congress, and heard us colonels discuss, thehied iiii of an afternoon or, tWo. Indeed, Alexander, or Sp-, tan, i doubt not. would , have 'improved greedy in, strategy by ohserviog, dering'thiliession,thi l tactical of the Administration party on the New Jersey elec. tion question. MG Speaker, ibis objection toi a gen- , eral,,bettatirre he tt_a;fight, is not; mit** , w#h myl friendfrom*"Michigsn. I remember a great authority,' in point, agreeing trfith the gentleman in thin. In' the times of Henrys, 4th ondlith, ,of Englind,' their lived one Cap fain Jack Falstaff. ,If Shaiislanre, may, be trim*, his opinions of the art military were exactly those of the gentleman from Michigan. He uniformly declared, as his deliberate judgement on the subject, that ",discretion, was the beneelpart ,of valor;" and this is an authority for the gentlemen: But who shall decide?. Thin the• authontyl stands --Alexander, the mighty Greek, and Napoleon Bon+ sparse, and Harrison, on one side, and Captain John ' Falstaff and thstilmieral from Michigan..rm thitothi er !' Sir. I mustleave a question thus sostained by authentic!, both ; wsye,, to , posteriq. Perhaps the 1 lights of another age may 'Debts the world to decide it. I confess my inability to say on which iii Ale the weight of authority , lii. - , 1 I hope I may obtain the pardon of American Con grecs for adverting in this discussion to another mat ter, gravely put forward by the gentleman; from Mi'ch igen. Without the slightest feehng of disrespect to that gentleman, I must be allowed to say thet his o. - pinions, (hastily, I am sure,) obtruded on the House On this military question, can only be considered as subjects of .merriment. , ; I But 1 come to notice, since I am compelled to it. one Obseervation of the gentleman, which I-feel quite certain, on refiectton, he will regret himself. Iln a sort of parenthesis in hisspeech, he said that "a rumor prevailed at the time ( alluding to the batthi of Tip pecanoe) that Col. Joseph H. Davis, of Kentucky, who commanded a squadron of cavalry there,. was. by some. trick of Gen. Harrison, mounted, , during the battle, on a white ; horse belonging to the ;General, and that, being thos conspicuous in the light, he was a mark for the esetiling Indians, and fell lola charge at the head of , his men. The gentleman says he does not vouch for the truth of a long exploded slander. It requires moldman, a man possessing a great dtfal of moral courage, to make even on allusion to; a charge such as that. against one whose only posses glens in this world are his character fur coMage and conduct in war in his country's defence, and his. un stained integrity in,the various civil offices it has been his duty to occupy. Did not the minden:lin know his vile story was known by every 4 hitelligent man west of the mountemsto be totalirwithoot founda tion l 'Fhe , gentleman seemed to appeal to the mil lion Kentuckians to prove the truth of ebbe, inuendo. He spoke of the blood of their countrymen so pro finely, poured out at Tippecanoe, as if they -would give countenance.to the idea that. the gallant Da vies'', who fell in that engagement, fell itivic t tim to the I althea of the commanding general, and their other ,gallant sons who fell there, were wantonly 'sacrificed by the gross ignorance of General Harrison in Indi an warfare. Ng, sir, before the genliminn made this appeal, be should have remembered; a few histor ical facts, which, if known to. him, as I should sup pose they were to; every othei man twenty .ears) of age in Western America, would make the. whole speech to that gentleman little else than a inost gran. ton insult to the onderstaaing of.the People' and Governmern of Kentucky. Let us briallyinoticeithe filets. - " ; . . . Noveinber; 181 1, the battle of Tippiesnee with fought . There Col. Danko, and Cob Owens, with other Kentuckians„ fell. These, says the gentle (at twist he insinuates it.) -were sacrificed by ef the cowardly artifice or by the ignorance of Harrison: Now, Mr: Speaker, r abhor the preenOn Of open flattery, nay,4 do not like to lookto tbe face Of a man, and speak ~of him in warm ,terms Of inlo- 1 gimer however he mny deserve it; bat sir on thiS oc;' casion lam obliged to say, what histcny ettest,; of the people of Kentucky. If any cornrorinity of'ew. pie ever lived, from,the time•oftbe &penn andonthe' plain:of Slumr op to Ws dai, who 1*(46 literally_ cradled in war, ! ft is to be found in theitltiite of Ben: tncky.. From the first exploration of the tonntOiby Daniel Boon up to the jear;l424, they wire engaged in one inetsestat batticiriththesaiagie ofthe t:' Trace the'patkof -an Indian ines4al an7taitierai` i ivesthkgiestirsilsy °fibs !West;tind you will find { -it led witlVKehtticky blood. ' battle.filddi of that great theattatr isivago l war; and 'you' wilt find at white with tlie bona of her' • IMO i_l ME childhood Asp. knight; the Indians, with their' sisters and Mothers, .iii their dwellings. In iamb audit?) insintioalithey fought tluim in imbue eadoe and open battlefields .Such were the, men of itsittucity in 1811, when the 'battle ,nf Tippecanoe wirs'faught. There, tero, es we know,they, were still found; &reined were lifewas to lost, or glory Won: and that they Caere commanded by ,Gen. Het` . neon. 4 ' Now, ear; if ha that battle OM Harrison had' not iondOcted as became a Midler. and a general, would nut such men have seen Mid InOwn it Did Kentucky, in 1811, 'mourninger she then did, the loss of one ofhergreatest and valued citizens, core derith (as the gardener froniMichiian tan-attempt el_ to) the conduct of the general aim commanded in, that battle t , -Let US SOO bow they testified.. • „1 In January. 1812, two months After the battle of Tippecanoe, the Legislatu f Kentucky warn see iron. Oa the 7th of Jan ~ ,1812, the following resolution passed that yr "Resolved by tie Senate an • House of 'Represents I • I tifies of Ibe State Kenfacki, That in the late cam ,paigne against the Indiaaeupon the Wabash, Gov. 'William Henry Harrison. hair behaved like a hero, a ;patriot, and a general ; and that for his cool,deliber. ate..skilful, and gelhinkconduct in the 'Aide of Tip. pecanom he well,deservesthe warmest thanks able country and his; nation." ; -Mr. Speaker, the resolution I have just read was presented by Joust J. entrretens, now a Senator from Kentucky, whom to name, be, to coil to the minds dell who know him, a man whose urbanity and varied accomplishments presents a model of an American gentleman, whose a tedom, eloquence, and integrity, have won for him the first rank amongst American statesmen. !Such a titan, with both branch es of the Kentucky 'Legislature, batiff, testified, two months only after the event took place, that in the campaign and battle of Tippecanoe, Gen, Harrison combined the skill and conduct of an able commander, with the valor of a soldier, and the patriotism of an American. Who nail up twenty-eight years after wards to contradict thisl The young gentleman froitiltiehigan! He Who, at the time. referred to, was probably conning Webstef's spelling book in toile village school in torinettreut. But; Mr. Alpeak er, l must call another witness upon the point in is sue here. °tithe 12th of Nogember, 1811, the Ter ritorial Legishituie of Indiana Wile in session. This is just five days after the battle That Legislattire, through the Speaker of itiHeuse of Representatifes, Gee, Wm. Johnson, addressed Gen. Harrison in the following terms: "Sir The House of Representatives of the Indi anal'erritory, in their own name. and in behalf or their ciinstituentts, moat curdiallyreeiprocate the 4cougratulations of yen'. Excellency on the glorious result of the lute sanguine)* conflict with the Shaw nee Prophet, and the tribe. of Indians confederated with'him. When we 'Bee deployed in behalf of our country not only the Consurnate, abilities of the ge.' natal, but the heroism of the Tian and when we take into view the benefita which must result to that country from those exertions, we cannot, tor moment, w.tbold our mad Of applause." Here, sir, we have two Legislatures of the States whose citizens composed the' militia force at Tippe canoe. grieved and smarting, under the loss of their fellow citizens, uniting irk solemn council in bearing their testimony to the skill and bravery displayed by Gen. Harrison in that battle, which the gentleman from Michigan, with a self-Complacency that-might well pass for insanity,.now says he has discovered, was marked by palpable incapacity in the command ing General. But, Mr. Speaker. I must call yet ano ther, nay; several other witnesses, to confront the o pinion Of . the ,Michigan general. In August, 1812; about nine nionthe,pfter the bat tle of Tippecanoe, news of fearful impel*. concerning the conduct of Geo. Hull reached Ohio and Kentuc ky. Our army had fallen back on Detroit, and ru mors of the surrender ,of that place to the British, which did actually take place, ' were floating on eve ry breeze. Three regimento of militia were iminedi ately raised in Kentucky: 'Before these troops had taken the field, it was well known that our army un der Hull, with the whole Territory of MieW.gan,liad been 'surrendered to the combined British and Indian 'forces, commanded by Beech. and Tecumseh. Oni whole frontier in the Northwest lay bare and defence less to the invasion, not only of the British ariny, but the more terrible incursion of a engage foe, hungry, fur plunder, and thirsting for blood, led on by the most bold and accomplished warrior that the trifies of the red man bad ever produced. In 'this state of - peril, the gallant army of Kentucky looked round for a leader equal to the imminent ank, momentous err. ale. There was Scott, the; then Governor of Ken tucky, who had fought through the Revolutionary 'war, and under - the eye of „Washington bad risen to ; the rank of brigadier in the' regular service. There, too; was the veteran ShelbY, one of the, Heroes of King's Mountain, a name shall wake up the ones of enthutriasm in every 'Xmerican heart while heroic courage is esteemekor lofty integrity' remains 'a virtue. There, too, wee Clay, whose trumpet. 'tongue in this Hill'Was Worth a thousand cannons 'in the field.=-Thesiwere convened in council. This, letus not for get, was about nine months after the battle 'of Tippecanoe. Whom, sir, I ask, did these men select to lead their own friends anti fellow citizens on to. this gloriouri eriterprize I Their laws required that their militia ehould beCommiinded by one of their own citizens; yet, passing by Scott and Shelby, end thousands of their own brave sons, this council called General Haancrosr, then Governor of Indiana—he litho had commanded Kentuckians but nine months before at Tippecanoe—be Who, according to the gen tleman from Michigam , had shown no trait but imbe cility as an officer—he; edema the laws of Kentuc ky, was by such a council asked to resign his station 'as Governor of . Indiana, and take the rank kid com mission of Major General in the. rentucky militia, sa d lead--on, her armies in , that - tearful hotir,to re dixm tier national disgrace, and snatch. from. British domination ;and ravage butchery. the very„-country represented by the gentleman from Mielignn. 1 3 have i iet another witness to eel' against,the.gentle t `num - froin Michigan. 'Sir, if the last rest of illits trieVead is disturbed in this unnatural oarAditti living Soldier's honor, and .a living pa tr i ot's _ fame, thefeult is not mine.. It, appear p resently that the &Remain_ from litichigen, haier:nntittingly, i. may - , be.;-distionoled and • insulted , the dead, . . turd r , charged" the, pure ,andirenerated. Madison watt by poe : Arty_ and talsehood. if_ Gen t _Hairiso'nlad. been the *era, artekeatii imtieeilelthini die gentleman from ' Michigan would now pretend, cos 'not this known to Mt. Madieni; Preshient the U. Stater, 'who gave the orders under which .Gen. Ilatriscekacted, &rifle thorn the laner , wkiereationsible for his con duct .tniilytitS ceill:/koppotteth4 theye were Wanting thinie'tvici,ifitiffieuld•bave , -done , eo "Atli truth; wutdri . hilA tfittdeilarsillnll o 7444t , o!gelt,s Harrison at_ tit t er irtael'refar:rea t'ni':**ifitiiitotioliWl any degree riprihrinsildei'-ItWelt:itiese means of - 114: • •.- MMII=3 =I information what was the testimony of Mr. letedisolt ' reapecting the battle of Tippeesnoeh ; min (vote his 'Own yronla from tits message to tai Comm:, shout a month the event, The message itit • . after Deeembei, ISt 1, and reads ati follows:- 1 1 '•. While et, is deeply lamented that so many vale. - alle lives him been lint in the iiction which took plea on the Mb ultinm, Cengresel will vee with sat. ufitetton The dauntless siiint of fintitude victoriously - - displayed by evert , deriptiria of troops e+gert. , as well astee caltecreiffirenatts which Attie/wish ed their cam larder en an occasion remit g. Ikt oiliest tzertionl of refer eed discline.. , 1 • -.. • . ____, _ ip" • ...., Mr. Speaker, thave no plumate in %true tilopites bating and piling proof upon moo( le sera an insinto anon, which I think is now, appatemt le all leis beets • thrown main the meatiest of, petty rage. +Mont consideration, attd fitundultioly on *total petinlets, to ratlniflat contradiction, of evil - blatant:all record 1 hiving relation to the subject. : - : Something was said by the gentlemenTremiMieht. 1 r ' gan about the encampment at Tippecanoe. if I an. demisted him rightly. he condemned it tut injuiheiaus l , , because it had a river on one side and a nro.o on another. Now, Mr. SPeeker../ shall give ma Wake ott the qucstion Wm stated t•but it: just now OW* to I me that this eery subject, which I think is the milis tary vocabulary is called eastrametationi•seimits of some serious inquiry bearing upon the criticism un. der consideratun. In almost ali sci9tific , irCh t we find that what is, noar.reduced to cute' antra • i rues to the, dignity of science, was at firste • pup. . eruct of some casualty, which, falling under the notice of some reflecting mind, gave rise to surpriamg re. .., sults. The accidental falling of an , apple developed the great law of pavnation. I 111921 sure I 1410 Wm. where seen it statedik..l, Pyrrhus. the eelebetted kine" - --- of Epirus, who is, allowed by: all authority to have been the first general of his tune; first learned to fats tify hii camp by having a rive; in his rear arid a mo rass on his flank; and this was first suggested to talc . by seeing a wild boar, when hunted to desperation. back himself against a tree or rack, that be might fight his pursuers withouidanger of being visaed in his rear. Now, sir, if I comprehend the gentleman from Michigan he has against him on thil point not only the celebrated king 'of EOM!, but abet the wild ! boar,' who, it seems, was the tutor ofPyntcus in the art of eastrametation. Here, then, are two approved authorities, one of whom Nature taught late -art of war, as she kindly did us colonels, and the ;other that renowned hbro of Epirus, who , pad the Komans so I much trouble iu his time. These authorities one near ' two thouland years old, and, as far as I triotv, *nil questioned, till the gentleman from Michigan attarki , ed them yesterday. Here, again, I ask who ball`'. I decide! Pyrrhus and the boar On one side, and the gentians') from Michigan on the other. ; po t I de.- , ',I• cher Juriediction of the queen...M. and-lease the two hundred-and flirty colonels era& House to settled - 1i" I contest, mien m nostrum !antes componere like." Mr. Speaker, I feel it quite irepossiblo.to withdraw :- from this part of the debate without some conueent on another assertion, or rather letimation,lof the ens • tleman from 'Michigan, touching the condJet of Gen. • Harrison at the battle of the Thames. - All who have made themselves acquainted with the history of that event, know 'that the order in which thii Ammicon army was to attack the combined force ofilltitish and Indians at the Thames was changed at the very it. went when the onset was about to be Made. This order of the General drew fcirth from Pommodure Perry end others, who wereiC the sniff Of the army;' ' and on theiground et the time, the highest encomi. • ems. The ea of this change) in the plan of attack, it is now intimated. was not'original with Gen. Har rison, but was, the gentleman seems to intimate, suggested' to him by another, who, it la said, was on the ground at the time. Who that other person u, or was, the gentleman has not said, but seemed to r intimate he was now in the other end Of the Capi- .. tot;' and thus we are led to suppose that the gentle man intends to say that Col. Johnson, tie Vice Pre sident, is the gentleman alluded to. Sk i t I regret ve ry much that the gentleman should treat historical • . facts in this way. If there be any fotindation for giving Col. Johnson the honor of tuning suggested toGen. Harrison a movement for which the bitter has received great praise, why not spesiout ani3 say .., i• sot' Why insinuate! Why hint or suppose on a sub ject susceptible of evsy and positive prooll Does not the gentleman know that he lathes trifling with the character of a soldier, playing with reputation dearer than property or life to it; porrusert Sir, I wish to' know if Col. Johnson, the Vice Pre:derail the U. States, has, by any word or act of bits, given counte. mince to this 'iosinuation! It would bei well for all who speak at random on this subject to remember that there are living wittieueslyet who flan testify to the point in question. It may not be amiss to remind ~ some that there is extant a journal of 1 Col. Wood, • who afterwards fell on the Niagara frontier. For the benefit of such, I too, will state what can be moved in relation to thifthange made by Genf Harrison in the order of attack at the Thames. i The positior. of the British end Indiana had born reported to Gen. Harrison by volunteer einem— brave men, it is true, but who, like Imany of us, were officers who had not seen a great deal of herd fighting. On this report the order of attack first in tended was founded, but, before the iroops were or:v dared on to the attack, Col. Wood was Bent to exams ~, _ ins and report the extent of front occupied by the-- British troops. Col. Wood's 1 military' eye detected at once what had escaped the unpractiptal observation. of the others—that is, that the, British ;replan were , drawn up in open order—and it west on his report .. that at the moment, the change was Made by Gen..,:" . Harrison in the order of the I attack--ta movement: which, in the estimation of sn'eh nun is Wood, end Perry, and Shelby, was e nough of itself to entitle Gen. Harrison to the highest rank among the milita— • .. ry men of the age. d - -,- • 1 I Mr. Speaker,,when I reviewl the historical testim6= - ny touching this portion of Gee. Herv i ason's history,, I confess my amazement at thelQuilotm, (I pray my' friend from Michigan to pardon me,) but I Must calf it the QuitatiCiexhibition which he bite made of him- • ' self. Sir, the - gentleman had 'no meal to tell us he • was a General of militia. liiitcondtict in this dior , suasion is proof of thit--streng even is is his sown wool for the fact. He has shown silt that reckless braveiy:Which has always character#ed our noble militia, but he has also, in this attack; shown:that' ~ other quality of militia troops which afreqiently itn• pets them to rush Mindig forward, Buil often to - their -, own destruction. I should like to heir many of the brave men around me speak of Gen. Il'arrison. " Some '• -there ere now under my eye who carry British-lA- I lets in their bodies, received while fighting under the ' , command of Gen. Harrison .' I shoulill be glad fel , hear ' my whole -genteel and generomohearted friend from Kentucky, (Major Butler) who aoreeil with the - pip '', Aleman from Michigan in general politics, wht`s km , not merely heard of battle, but who hills' - mingled in - ' war in all its forms, and fought WS weifromihi milks up to the head of ;'battalion-4 lay I slititild : glad' to hear his opinions of the ril l alters asserted, I. ie hinted - at, and insinuated by the plati9inail frein' Michigan. =,' -.J , j I . • '. • - Why. I ask, is this attempt to !elite the common history el rour country made now, imp why is it made helie.7 Is i t vainly imagined that, Congressional specelics are to contradict accredited ;ung•knoirri his tort* factsi—Does the fierce madriess of ; party in• i i ialGe a conception so wt , .. :-.., _ ~, 1 . ,• ~ 1 ~ , bir, I repeat, that I feel ~tio,y_- - -ametement .at rciett . en atternin.,i, I timid not sit silt and witness it in si: lenee. 'Much es I desiredito.epeale lo'the bottle and country hn the quettimi totichinti the Cintleriettd,': read,, I should hilielleft!it tolotherehad 'l''Coe il;illk,.' ,o n p4ed to get the flearld belay my tesittnoni signal , the -frogs' injustice which •I iliouglitorras about lei be- ' to :'a eitizett,--an b'ehored, cherished eitinin. of - my my own gate. T his house, l't r. so:taker, knew's that . .;*•..:,,k,'A., NO. 19
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