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led to eti - ery arra nge Ment that can contribute to corn.
fort anifconveniencei
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will embrace the most favorite
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his friends and the t
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favors.
liella therefore, the lanponrt of
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per to visit his ho'itse, he hopes
to their wants, to establish for
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FREDERIC
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Silver.l
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RAIL ROAD TI
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manutictured from
the patent EV Cable Iron.
LT. for placing between the
Iron Chair and stone block
°ledge Railways. :
ROPE manufactured from
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ed with India Rubber; and
intendedfor Incline Planes
Just received., complete as
sortment ofChainf,frum
in, to I in. proved & man
ufactured from the best ca
_ ble Iron.
RAIL.ROA I) SPIKES,
of different sizes, kept con
sale by
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• rchants, 13 south Front
st, b, 3 3
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Whale OIL ju.t
Corn. M
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nthraeite !Pie Plates and
k. Ilre r
-,d Pans.
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ST received on iconsienment, a supply of An_
hracite Pie Plaleqand Bread'Pans from Monre&
Sterard's Foundry, Danville, made trom the Roar.
int, Creek Iron. They are a superior article, and
better calculated for hiking Pies and Bread than any
oltr articles heretofore in use.
JJ B. BACCAN.
September 5 - 36
I A Fari r m for sale. - <
AFARM .of land 4 in the immediate vicinity of
, Pottsville, containing 20 Acres, 10 Acres of
wich is cleared line( in a goad Atate of cultivation.
lALS .1, a valuable tract of land in Jefferson coon.
tyl near Ridge Way sellement, containing 1005 acres
This tract is heavily imbered with White Pine and
Cherry, and the soil it excellent fur agricultural pur
poses.
I The Warferrand Ridgeway Turnpike passes . a.
14ng said land. The quintv at piesent contains abbot
Eighteen Thousand i habitants and is fast increas.
log. The subscribe proposes dividing this tract
l c
into fi ve equal parts- f two hundred and one acres
each, so as to come w r ikhin the means of industrious
nien of-limited capital to settle in a healthy, flour
Shine., and fast improving county.
For terms, or further information. enquire of
1, - WM. HAGGERTY,
Executor af A. Wainwright, deceased.
I Pottsville, Nov 2 I ' 94 -tf
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* in .cnnnection with i his Book Store, where,
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notice at low rates. !
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VOL. XVI.
From the Southern Literary. Messenger.
THE POWER OF DEATH•
Inexorable death
Come when thou wilt in thy terise power.
Thou co'nest unbidden—in unwelcome hour—
. And all whose life is breath.
At thy approach— thy myriads of the sea,
Of earth and air—submissive bow to thee.
i, All eltruiti•confess thy reign—
All tribes and people, civilized and Jude, 1
In busy scene, in peaceful solitude,
' And on the bounding main,
Must sink 'neatli thy dominion firm and fast,
Like unremembered generations-passed. '
O'er all thou rurst elate—
In
earthquake, avalanche, and lava form,
Ir. file until famine, pestilence and aturni,
And cup inebriate :
In infidel rbvenge; and bigot zeal,
fhou madly ti,tm'st the
,pile, or baro'at the ateek
When war awakes in wrath,
Thou , ridest 'furious no the arrow's wing, '
And ,gabre's edgel-tholi rustiest with the sling,' '
• , And tread'st the charger's path :
When carnage tires, in sullen state alone
Thou brood'st unseen, to hear the wounded groan.
I
I've passed throngh pleasent vales,
And sweet sequestered groves where el - tiding peace
Blest sturdy labor with a rich increase—
There, thy recorded tales
'Tel. that the rustic in his humble bield,
ThOtt strik'st as sure as warrior on the field.
Though mightiest of the brave—
At whose great bidding nations bend the knee— ,
Mtist, at thy summons, yield his life to thee,
Obedient as a Jlavc•
Kings, priests, and siiges, like the unlettered clown
Who turns the bud, shall to the grave go down.
Look, where Ike pious throng,
In holy aisle for worship congregate; . .
And where the independent crowd debate
-A real or tuncied • wrung;
Or look, where judges sit, and statesmen
hoverest near, with da•t uplifted hand.
Gaze on the father's face,
When wife and children gather round the hearth ,
While he instructs, she, partial, guides their mirth,
How happy is the place!
Yet, in the moment, of hi, pride or prayer, •
Thou cum'st unseen, and istiik'st the dearest there:
Around my humble hearth;
A loving wife and prattling chi'dien smile,
Whose winning ways my weary e,ires beguile
With unrestricted mirth.
Destroyer death ! thy visit there delay—
O spare the hived, till some Mr future day !
But soon t h e feeble hand
That vainly pens this ineffectual lay
' Shall passive sink beneath thy awful sway,
And join the spectre band.
Then, !leaven, on thee the father will rely,
To shield his orphans, and their wants supply !
Thou, who from pole to pole
Sustain'st with wond'ious skill earth's mighty round
And guidst through apace, hatti Death is limits
bound .
And the immortal soul—
The preciuua gift—he only conies to flee,
But dares not touch—it soars unharmed to Thee.
When dawns the day of doom
At the dread ti limpet's sound, and sun and skies
Dissolve, the good and guilty shall arise
Tu jtidgmont from the tomb !
Then, to the'King of kings thou shalt restore
Thy seeptrci, Death, and reign on earth no none
Foreign Extracts. 1 =
Wine Cheaper than Water.—A late fire
recently destroyed thirty-four dwellings and
a considerable . quantity of cattle at Thervay,
near Dole. Prance. Its inhabitants, for want
Of water, used casks of wine to stop the pro
gress of the flames.
A Valuable Lamb.—The Duke of Rich
mond lately offered I11:r. Jonas Webb nearly
8700 for a male larnb, which the • latter , re
fused.
The Balks of TVi.'lbaden.—More than
17,000 visiterS are now s(journing at the
baths of Wisbaden.
TheiFisheries.—The ship owners of, St.
Brieux; France, engaged in the Newfound•
land fishery, have entered into an association
for the mutual insurance of their ships
iaga nst, risk of War.
British Prit;ort Discipline.—A fine heal.
thy boy, who hjid offended his master by at
tending a wakeland neglecting his duty, was
brought before !,the magistrates at the police
office, and for that offence he was sentenced
to be imoris , n'ed one month, and be well
flogged. On the morning his imprisonment
expired he was tied up and most inhumanly
flogged, and then turned out of gaol to roam
where he pleased.. On his arrival his 'dis
tracted mother put him to bed, and he; chd
hot rise from. that bed for fifteen days. Bus
life ,was despaired,of. A surgeon attended
lorn-for one month, and he received for his
attendance from this - boy's relatives, who
are poor people, the surf' of six pounds six
F.—A 'Oyer coin, of Titus,, was
e rubbish, of an old house, which
A Reli
found In ti
was latel,)
Chester,
fol the rai
pulleciddw,n in Eastgate street,
Fug. In digging the foundation
lw building,U pavement was dis
t about eight feet below the pre.
if the street. This gives strength
va lent opinion, that the level of the
irigirailly that of the floor of tite
thedtal, to n hich persons have
ieend by several steps.
covered
sent level
to the pre
city was
ancient c
now to de
! and Holland.—The ratification
Jaty of Commerce between France
d were exchanged Sept. 3, at the
the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
of the ratifications was as usual
nd and gilt, and presented with all
nmed formalities for the signature
sjdent of the Council.
~
Franc
of the Tr:.
and 11011a 1
office of
The text
richly boa
the accost
of the Prel
an Cattle Fair.— The fair of St.
Otieh lasts four weeks, has this
numerously attended. The Tar
cs and Citbardians, brought in
d horses. It also collected 10,000
finest breeds, 50,000 oxen, cows,
t r s, and heifers, 100,000 sheep,
ine.
A Rus.
Onoufre
year been I
ars, Cosst
30,000 wi
horses of
bulk, ste
10,000 svi !
Thelri
ing his RC
his doinini
ed to have
tercommui
ng of Atomic/ has abolished dur.
.yal pleasu're, the highway dues in
on., whiCh are generally consider.
checked the progress of local in.
nic ntions.
AND P
Weekly by Benjamin Bannon, Pottsville, -Se' ,
Punishment on the French Government
Steamers —A sailor of the Lavoisier, at
tached to the Levant squadron,'having been
guilty of insubindmation, was ordered into
the coal hole, and was suffocated. The se
cond officer of the ship has been 'serit 'borne
under arrest, and the ftther of the deceased
has laid* complaint before the Procureur
du Roi at Toulon. •
East India Mails.—lron boxes are in fu
ture to be used instead of leathern bag's, for
the letters and packages of the mails from
Bombay to Europe.
Old Coins.—Some coal-rakers in the riv
er near Blackfriars. have found several
pieces of the reign of Edward VI., and about
vuO silver coins of the reign of Queen Eli
zabeth, bearir.g, date 1565. A large parcel
of pins, which are of gold, but of the same
make as the common pin, have also been
discovered. They are probably of the date
of Elizabeth.
Diminution of Crime in Ireland.—The
following are from the homicide charges in
the constabulary returns•—ln 1836, 141; in
1939, 125; in 1840, 69. The decrease has
equally taken place in crime in.general,
Distress in Ireland.—Nearly 250 tenants
have been recently ejected from their houses
and deprived of employment, 01/ a single es
tate in Ireland.
Glasgow College.—We understand that
Dr. Chalmers is a candidate for the chair of
divinity in the university of Glasgow.
The Eft a of Trinspertation.—Jahn
Grady, who was transported a boy, to Syd•
ney, New South Wales, fifteen years since,
hits purchased there 300 acres of land- and
5001. worth of cattle, and has written for
several members of his family to be sent out
to him.
To Protect Fruit from TVasps.—A gar
dener near Newbury has adopted the follow
ing novel no,de of protecting his fruit from
the ravages of the wasp. Ile destroys the
black birds by catching them, in an ingeni
ous little trap for the purpose, and hangs
them up in rows in front of his fruit; the
wasp immediately fixes on them and leaves
the 11114 untouched. This may be seen by
the- peach, apricot, and plum being without
a bite.
The Times in England.—The London
Spectator thus playfully discourses of the
present state of affairs in England:—
Every thing breathes peace at home. • No
sound is heard to disturb the plicid air, but
the crack of the Fportsman's rifle; yet that
brings with it thoughts of enjoyment, though
its immediate effect he death. The harvest
wiirk goes on in the North—now in sun
shine, now in cloud—but it still goes on, and
well. Some warlike notes of preparation,
indeed, reach the eat from the out•ports, but
they sound feebly through the distance.
Even O'Connell is. gone to his lair, and agi•
Cation itself seems to slumber.
Effects of the Penny Postage.--A fine stag, a
present from the Marquis of Breadalbane to
her Majesty, was forwarded by the mail last
week,to . 11 iudsor.—Dundee Courier,
The American Minister to England.—His Ex
cellency the American Minister and Mrs.
Stevenson loft their residence in London
Sept. sth, for the Isle of Wight, and pur
pose making a tour of visits into Devonshire,
Wales, and the north of England. His Ex.
cellency will be absent for five . or six 'weeks.
IVnt in Lyons.—Lyons has been disturbed
by the workmen, as well as Paris: several
arrests had taken place, and persons belong•
Ing to Republican societies were found
among the rioters. The French Govern
ment had been prevented from reorganizing
the national guard in the large provincial
towns, by the intimation that the (thief citi
zens would quit if they were threatened with
the liability to that service ; and to arm the
poorer citizens would merely be to supply
discontent with weapons.
Van Buren's Idea of Justice.
Wealth
Commodore Elliot was
lately tried by a Naval
Court Martial, on sun
dry charges preferred a.
gainat him, found gull.
ty, and sentenced to be
Ouspended—not by the
neck, thumbs or any
such way, but simply to
leave the service for
four years, during 2 of
which his pay as also
to be stopped Martin
Van Buren th .• ht this
too ciud—he . i.e.refore
disapproved of so much
of the judgemcr.t of the
Court, as deprived the
worthy Commodore of
the two years pay, ma
king the sentence a
mount to the dreadful
severity of going into .
retiracy, or doing noth
ing for four years, . and ;
to receive therefore a- 1
bout TEN THOUSAND
!
Renturciation.—Jonathan Allen, Esq.
Post Master at Pittsfield, Mass., has openly
renounced Van Burenism. Mr. Allen was
a supporter of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson
and Van Buren, but the notions of the latter
have at last convinced ham that he is no lon
ger entitled to the support of the old Jeffer
sonians.—Boston Mercantile. Journal.
An Auspicious Sign--Old, staunch, un
wavering Republicans—men who supported
Jefferson and Madison and Tompkins and
Jackson, are leaving Van Buren.—They
opposed the TREASURY BANK and
STANDING ARMY Schemes' in 1798,
and they cannot, without a sacrifice of con
sistency and abandonment of principles; sup
port a TREASURY BANK AND STAN•
DING ARMY in 1840.—Ebaly Evendpg
journal.
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INESSZEI
SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER . 17. ISO.
Poverty.
Sailor Livingston was
found guilty, of disobe
dience of orders, unruly
conduct, &c. amount
ing in all perhaps, to the
criminality, of Elliott's
offences. He was sen
tenced to receive one
hundreditoenly lash•
es on his ba re back, and
be dismissed from the
service forever, without
any pay. The Presi
dent saw nothing unjust
or cruel in this sentence
—he accordingly AP.
PROVED it—Livings
received the one hun
dred and twenty merci
less lashes, and was dis.
missed a mangled out.
cast upon the world !
•.
TEMPERANCE RECORD.
111074 Tar SUNDAY at iIOOL 30V11 114 L.
- ,
COLD WATER.
'Bring me cold water from the icy fount,
That rises quill ng o'er the mossy brim,
Then weeps its way through herbage and dark rocks,
Down, down the moist declivity, till,iained
By many a kindred wave it flows amain
A rill, a broke, a river, to the sea.
Bring me pure water from the fountain head,
Tasting of rocky depths and uncombined '
With maddening mixtures of the preqsa or pipet.
Who would drink fever? Yet the Runice glows
Little less fiercely than thy skin and, breath
When chaldd to fury LT Circwan bowls.
Who would drink madness? Much is in a name ;
The drunken man is mad, and mail by choice,
And, in a thousand cases, mad for life.
Who would drink woe? The cup is at thy
Joy in the foam, but in the dregs despair ;
Horror to life, and then the damning sting .
Of hopelessness, in realms where all is Woe,
Bring me cold water; for my parched brow,
My panting bosoio, and my aching hrart.
Taint not my table with the murderous glass,
Which viewed but as anemblem, brings to mind
Ten thousand self destroyed and lost for aye.
Tempt not my blessed children—tempt not me;
I would die peaceful in a Christian bed.
A vaunt ye hell-born furies from my hearth.
Haunt not my threshold—and, I lowly pray,
Eternal Providence and grace' preserve
Me and my loved ones from these tastes of death!
\rum..
k RIDDLE
• P H M
IC O'M
These letters in the prciper place,
Will show the world rind thee
A cause of sorrow and disgrace;
An t d . souree of miserj,.
The above riddle we cut from on old paper. The
solution will be found in folding the upper line partly
over the line; of capitals.—N. Y. Time,.
FOR THE 3111'1E11 ' S JOUIIbTAL.
TOTAL ABSTINENCE
"I have never joined a TemperanCe Society,—l
can keep my 'word, and I think it is degrading to give
up one's right of free agency." such is the language
sometimes used by young, and inexperienced men ;
and, sometimes, too, by those who have lived long
enough in the world to know the fallacy of man's
resolve. There is reason to believe, that many, who
use such sentiments, do it for the purpose of excusiq
themselves in their indulgence in intoxicating liquori.
It is such men, as " can keep their words," that
ought to join Temperance Societies, and sign Total
Abstinence Pledges. It is not the man who is in
capable of keeping his word, that will be benefittrd
by so doing, but he who, when once pledged, will
consider his honor at stake to support it. Those men
who take a glass occasionally, are the persons most
beneflued by pledging themselves. A man may take
a glass a-day, for months, without going beyond the
prescribed limit; but, as the excitement produced by
it wears off, and as the coat of the stomach becomes
inpaired, (as it eventually must,) the victim gradual
ly begins to feel a depression, equal, if not grCater,
than the stimulus which he has been ,in the habit of
taking, and he then is obliged tohave recourse toano
ther glass; end so on, till he becomes a confirmed
drunkard ! such is the slow, but certain progress of
the destroyerintemperance ! Let those who oppose
the pledge as; unnecessary, reflect , aa-the importance
of a coi rect public opinion: Public opinion is the
secret law that governs men ; more is thought of it,
than of self, generally is to give a correct and
virtuous feeling to public opinion, that Temperance
Societies are formed. Besides, associations of men
exercise more influence, and have more sway, with
the generality of men, than individual exertion. Men,
who are incapable of abstaining from strong drink,
are incapablekaf supporting their honor when mem.
berm of Temperance Associations. If a pledge Could
have any other than a good effect on the mind, (here
would be reasonable ground for objecting to it ; ;but I
defy any objection, worthy a moments, consideration,
to be presento against a pledge.
An illustration of one of the many good rrlsults
may be witnessed in the following incident ; two
friends were conversing of a third person, who, on
the previous evening had appeared somewhat more
exhilarated than usual ; says one, " I think —=had
been making , application to the bottle; he seemed to
joke so hard.'! " That," replied the other, els not at
all probable, he signed the pledge last week." iiThe
t I
,application mid moral need not be made.
As respecte the latter part of our text we are much
inclined to the belief, that the objection is, equally in
competent ; and ateowe future time we shall endeavor
so to prove. But there is one fact which we should
consider: viz,—lf a sober man is a better citizen than
a drunkard, those individuals who are in the habit of
exercising then: influence against the temperance
pledge, ought to consider how little pretension they
have to the Character of patriots, or of consistent
Christians. A. H.
I AM NOT A DRUNKARD
The mind of the individual who is in the habitual
use of ardent spirits is manifestly under an illusion.
Nothing that relates to itself appears in its true co
lours. It will often admit in words the correctness
of a principle,'While it repudiates its application. It
will allow that drunkenness is en odious vice, destruc
tive alike of health,.of peace, of prosperity, of happi
ness, and of hope—sind yet while the habit is form
ing, and even' hen it is formed, he is the last to per
ceive that he is entangled in its mashes without any
prospect of escape. Ho drinks, to be sure—but, in
his own estimation he drinks temperatelyto benefit
rather than to impair his health—to give rest to life,
not to destroy it—to increase his enjoyment, not to
diminish his pleasures—and thus he continues, often
from year to year, under the impr ession
. that " he is
not a drunkard"—and deluding himself meanwhile
with the belief that he has fell power to overcome the
habit which he has contracted. The lessons which
experierim teaches have but very little effect upon
him. A father, or a son, a neighbour or a friend,
whose habits of drinking are not more inveterate than
his, may confessedly go down to the drunkard's grave.
Aml 'be may see it, and admit it and yet he will go
staggering to the funeral, and 4ek en abated:tent "of
his, grief by , taking poison. fie* 'the soros' cup
,that
has proved so terrifically Ltd:: Theis is ridnab
thing as reason with him. Every body may see that
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be is a tinandtirk, buf himself; ; And to hear that he
also had fallen would create not the slightest surprise.
And yethe cannot be convinced that in his case there
is the least iniktginable danger.
But what would hi say. ifPlainly told that he was
verging; fast to that terrible n mania" width is one of
the fruits of intemperance, and from which so very
few recover ? A denial that he is d drunkard will not
arrest the lawsof nature. And if he himself is blind,
the community are not blind who are observing the
rapidity of his descent to that fearful state. '1 em
perste drinkers ought not to trust to their nwn judg
ment. As phyaicisns who are under the influence of
disease commit its management to others, so ought
temperate drinker, to consult those who touch not,
Ittste not, handle not," in order to ascertain their po
sition ; for they are often drunkards before they sus
pect it.
It is, we believe,, an admitted fact, that if all the
deaths were properly registered many more could be
directly traced to intemperance than to any other
cause. And yet such is the madness of man that
While he shuns other avenues to the grave he pursues
this with eagerness, heedless alike of the admonitions
of friends, and the reproaches of his conscience, and
the warnings of his judgment, and the terrible exam
ples of which he has been the frequent witness with'
no efl ct but to urge him on to the same destruction.
Charle.llon Obserrer.
Naturalised Cetizens.—Let no natural.
ized citizen forget on the election day, the
memorable remark of Martin Van Buren in
the Convention which altered the (20118111u
lion of New York, that " Foreigners will
make our elections a curse instead of a
blessing."
OPINIONS OF GEN. HARRISON
Gen. Ilarrioon, in his late speech at Chillicothe,
Ohio, expressed his opinion of the propriety cf stump
speaking on the part of a candidate for the Presidency,
in the following wanner
lam not with you to-day fellow citizens, in ac
cordance with my own sense of propriety. I cannot
well realise that it is in all respects proper for an in
dividual occupying theposition I do before the Ameri
can people, to leave the retirement of home, and go
from plate to place in the capacity of a public speaker.
No one can more deeply 'egret the course I am coin.
pe.led to puisue, than I regret it myself. Indeed, I
simetimea fear, that upon me will fall the responsi
bit* of establishing a dangerous precedent to be ful
bwedin future time. Much more consonant would
it lie with my feelings to remain at the domestic fire
side, than to be hartassed - by the cares, the difficul
ties, and the anxieties of a struggle like this, But
we have fallen upon evil times : such, at least, is our
opinion. And what once might have been justly con
sidered wrong, circumstances scem now to render an
i:nperative diry. • • •
I am bere, at the urgent solicitations of my friends,
sold brcAuse to appear among my fellow citizens was
the only way to disprove one, at least, of the many
allegations that unscrupulous enemies have laid
against me. And thus much you must already have
perceived, that I am not CAGED, that I am not the
old man on crutches, nor the imbecile, they accuse
me of being, nor the prey to disease my enemies
world Lave it believed.
In reference to his own claims, Gen. H. said :
I solicit no man's vote in opposition to his better
judgment. If there is any man led astray by feeling,
because he deems me a persecuted mat., he is wrong.
I acquit him of all obligation to vote fur me, if he find
the pretensions of my distinguish..d opponent better
than mine.
We quote the following sentences from the speech,
eferring to a variety of topics :
PROSCRIPTION
The removal of public officers merely for a diversity
of sentiment I have never believed in. Were I elect
ed to the Presidency I should consider the officers the
servants of the people, and should never deem it my
duty to remove them without cause. The public of
fices should be filled by freemen, and they should be
allowed the right of private opinion, and of casting
their votes as they choose.
MILITIA
By the measure of Mr. Poinsett, all are obliged
alike, the poor and the rich, to submit to the same
expense in procuring the same arms. This is bringing
the poor and rich upon the same footing. My pro
posal was that arms should be furnished at the cost
of the government. I admit that 'here should be a
well organized militia,.but it should be under sub jm
tion to the state governments. Men should not be
punished for not purchasing arms, when they show
their inability to do it.
PLEDGES.
Washington and his immediate successors in office,
had not been required by their countrymen to pledge
themselves in advance. The uprightness exhibited
in their previous careers, was sufficient, and the only
proper guaranty, that they would administer the go
vernment for the honor and happiness of the nation.
By this test, Gen. Harrison wished to stand or fall.
He:would be grateful and proud to receive the high
trust upon these conditions, but upon no other.
MILITARY CAREER
I have a delicacy in commenting upon acts in which
am personally interested. But I cannot well ex
culpate myself without doing so. - • • • •
You have been told, fellow-citizens, that I was two
miles from the scene of action at the memorable battle
on the Thames. Now I will here prOpose a bargain.
If any one will show that I was two miles at any
one time during the engagement from the front of
the battle--that I was one mile from the front of the
battle—that I was half a mile from the front of the
battle—that I was quarter of a mile from the front of
the battle—that I was one hundred feet from the front
of the battle—that I was Arty fait from the front of
the battle, then I will give up the contest.
COL JOHNSON
Suppose I had entrusted the command to Col.
Johnson, I would have been responsible for the result
But I did not give the command to Col. Johnson;
I did not give him any discretion as to his cOuree.
And for More reasons than one. In the first place,
had such, discretion been extended to him, I should
have been liable, by the laws of war, to be tried for
nnufficer.like conduct by a coati martial; and to be
cashiered. • , 11 • -
But fcir still another, reason, I did not submit any
discretion to Col. Johnson, ,1 He knew nothing about
it. He was no more capable of taking command of
an Army for battle, than either of you. gentlemen. who
had not been instructed,in the mechanism of a *itch,
would tei to put the . .vrOals of that instrument to
'ether and eat it in motion. tie iru'riot &nip' e—bilit;
bee use he bed not been educated to militiry
ads had no aaperiencein wy.
TCSTIMONY FaR 611.401115T0N
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Having said thii mach of Col Johtuton, must
noir say whit I know of him theft; good, Hi whole
mildery career, as .1 hate •pieviously rimark, a: did
not . euieed four months; and`yet 'Allele was a
member of the army, he serried his countri - Wlttiiinf
surveyed fidelity. A purer patriot I never seal, Dor
ing the l compaian t when I took command of thartoy.
he Was a member of Congress, end all the . ti ttle that
lie could be spared flora biz duty there, he weir in et: -
five artiieinndeirny command, sometimes with one
company, sometimesi with two, arid finally wt h a ye.
gunebt. His wounds attest his bravery. in.t. Ilekt
and if !wiled been kilted in battle, or had die, lace,
he would have dui:lived a monument to pe -tuater
his name.
NO. 41
GENERAL HARRISON AND THE
RAL)ZED FOREWIsiEitS. '
Inahinen 'and Germans it
General Harrison while at Lancaster. Ohio
attention called by some friends to a report est
circulated, in which he is charged with un
feelings towards foreign emigrants, and with
either of withholding from them the privily :
unship, or of curetting the period assign
law for the ehjoyruent of these privileges.
Id reply to this roost fay/ and infanzi us
the Worthy Old Hero of Tippecanoe and the
d the r itiZOUS of Lancaster, Ohio, in
lasting manner:
I am accused, fellow citizens, of entcrtai
friendly lettings toward foreigners who emi
this country with a view of becoming eitii
of a design to throw obstructions in the way
naturalization. Nothing can be more false t
charge. Indet el it has become the custom o
litical opponents to ascribe to me opinions
imp the very reverse of those that I tntert I
without a shadow of proof, on their naked un
eJ arsertion, put me upon my defence. W
fellow citizens, can be muro cruel and unj
this? I have bon more than forty yams be
country, most of the time engaged in activ . 1 1
service—end my votes and my speeches et ,
upon record and Is fire the public, are a true
my opinions on this, as well as afar import ,
jects. And if those who thus accuse me will ,
a single rote or any expression of nine whie
the least support aimr obit r ion, then I will s •
I am bound to come forward and explain or
truth. But they cannot do this. No such t•
ever given by me, and no such opinion ever ex
On the contrary, I hove ever felt the warme r
l
pathy for the victims of tyranny and oppre i
the old world, who have fled here for retell
h a ve on all occasions given my support, val l
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the national councils as a private citizen, t i
'w e which have been pasta it to render their el
better or their naturalization more easy. Na,
I have on several special occasions lent m
bands of oppressed foreigners exiled from thu
when the general laws of our country were
fectual for their relief.
•t When Ireland was ci tidied in the atti
throw off the British yoke, and when her ent.
sons, the United Irishmen, were defeated, an
into exile, and the elites sought our shore—th
poor and withonta home—l was one w bo syrnl
in their suffering; and advocated a law for t
lief—a law setting apart to them a tract of I:1
ficient for their wants, to be gi yen to them
credit and on the most moderate terms. lad
too, alike grant of land to the Fn nch exiles, o
they proposed to e.ltivate the vine and oli
short, whether in or out of public station, I
whys dotie whatsoever was in my power It
the burdens and add to. the comforts of the
emigrant—and where I could nt t serve the
efficiently I have given them my canoed
sympathy, and they have rewarded me with the
eat marks of their gratitude and affection.
In the last struggle of Poland for liberty
the last battle, fought under the walls of War!.
which the fate of that gallant nation was sable I
was an eminence immediately under the w
minutely contested and three Units lost and
the contending armies. The spot was ovcrgro
small alder shrubs, and every bush was steepe d
blood.of the patriot Poles. When the con
over and Poland had sunk into a Russian pr
her people who mingle a strong degree of r'
devotion with a patriotic enthusiasm, flocks
spot to cut and preserve as holy relics, pieces
shrubs etuined aith the blood of their coon
who fell as mart) rs in the cause of liberty a
country.
The Russian Government, fearing the effec
feeling, ordered the hill to be cleared and the
burned, so that no more of these rt tics could
cured. hence those slimly gathered, becam
estimation of the Poles, a treasure above all
Only one of them, perhaps, has found its
America, and that was presented to me but thr
ago by a delegation of the exiled Poles, as a
their gratitude for some services which I was
render them, arid for the kind feelings whi
know I entertained for them and their count
as you see a cross, made of small sterns of th
and beautifully wrought with silver. These
Innate men esteemed it the most precious gi
could bestow on one whom they knew to b
friend, and I prize it as they prized it.'
Who, after the expressiot.s of these frank noble
and generous sentiments, will still dare to actin
General Harrison of hostility towards foreign i 41;
rr. Steenrod of Virgini
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This Loco Foco member of Cengreis
from Virginia is now stumping it in schf
gun. lu one of his recent speeches h
wirved that for some things; which he i tend
ed to pay •• lie would probably be cal (flit
LIAR by - Whig editors - and' Whig t_t
after he had left the city,/ but that T Mir
DARE NOT DO SO WHILE HE AS
HERE." -
With this premise he went on to
that Gen. HArtalsow . wasi‘ , never in
de." Mr. tt.:TEENTIOD found that lie ;I
laced " p.obabilities" right. _The edit
the Detroit Daily Advertiser thereupot
noureed him as a " consumate fool and
berate trar'—and to make sure that
STEENUOD should be early apprised
intentions in this respee4 he sent Wit
following note:
Drtacirr, Sept. 28th, 18 0.7
Stn--1 intend to publish you to m rrOw
"a cnnsumate fool and deliberate bar " for
having a-serted that " Gen. Ilarriso had
never been in a battle."
I give you this notice now, because I hayo
heard that you have asserted that you would
prpbably be called a liar after you had left;
but that no one would dare do so while 'sidu
were hem. Yours, &c. • •
GEO. DA Wgr 14;.
Mr. STEENROD was exceedingly 'dig
nant, but , concluded to pocket the a; rout,
and hurried off to Ann Atlvr to reitcra a His
infamous slanders against General 'lt . iliti•
SON.
Martin ran Buren and' Poor ken.
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the laborer recollect the i neverlo•be fo I
ten calumny of Van ,Buren, uttered 11
New York Convention, - that
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