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CASE OE DYSPEPSIA
Mr. David Morris, 41 Suffolk street, N.
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.Case of Inflammatory Rheuma
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—"With sweetest flowers cnricled
From various gardens cull'd with care."
TO A LETTER SEAL
J. E. DAW, WASHINGTON, D. C.
rimy that lost bind the human thought
In foolscap, post, or hot-pressed Bath,
That settest prying eyes at naught,
That seals the notes of lovs and wrath.
f hou many colored little thing.
Thou art. o'er all epistles, king.
Erom the high crests and coats of arms.
That ride the backs of lordly scrawls,
To the pierced hearts and other charms
That lovers Ilse, when Cupid calls;
Thonhcblest still thy treasure true
In court dispatch and billet dtmx.
Vithout thee love would silent die;
Without thee scandal's tongue would cease ;
Without thee, the unblushing lie
Would wound no more our bosom's peace,.
Without thee, friends would write no, more
To friends upon a distant shore.
Thy colors whisper grief (*joy,
Thy symbols speak of love or hate;
The lass, that face to face seems coy,•
By thee repents, before too late.
And spendthrift heirs with joy behold
In thy black face their fathers gold.
The yeung wife kisses thee in love;
The miser cuts the off to keep;
The school miss eyes thy cooing dove,
And sees thy love torch in her sleep.
The warrior hails thy lifted sword,
A cd little Jousts kiss thy gourd
The ilartloned marks thy form of state,
And bathes with tearlthe eagle's wings;
The statesman scans thlrcrown of weight,
And bows before the stamp of kings;
The Templar marks thy cross of red s
And o'er it bends his mystic head,
Tin patentee admires thy wheels,
And ploughs and churns, and water looms
1 he postman scans thy courser's heels,
And placemen mark thy hickory brooms.
The admiral eyes thy anchor's foul,
While gladdened wisdom. greets thy owl.
The merchant marks thy cotton bales,
And views thy laden fleets with prkde;
The farmer eyes thy lifted flails—
The painter sees how Raphael died;
The poet views Parnassus' peaks,
And Welchmen shed their tears o'er leaks.
The Scotchman views thy highland glen,
And sees the kilted piper there;
The writer marks his favorite pen,
The Rnssian greets the grizzly bear,
The ragged loafer charms the Jew,
While huntsmen scan the chase' halloo.
DEiOCRATIC HARRISON
WEBSTEEI CdNVENTION
(ocrsrLuDED.)
George Ford. Esq. offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted:
Resolved, That we will consider the
election °Menem! William lit nry Har
rison of Ohio, and Daniel Welister or
Massachuscttsa, to the t'reo dent
and Vice President to the Uilit - c:1 States,
as a sure prognostication of the end of
misrule and mob violence; and a return on
the part of the people to those pure repub
lican principles of our institutions, which
constitute them• chief excellence.
Resolved, That the promptness with
which they excepted the nomination for
the offices of President and Vice Presi
dent, is the best evidence we can have of
the fact that the nominees are republicans
who hold the doctrine that when the peo
ple command it is their duty to obey.
Resolved. That the eminent public
services of General William Henry Har
rison, as soldier and statesman, render
him to the people, who, however much
they may be misled lon a while by corrupt
politicians, never intentionally commit the
crying sin of ingratitude, and will not
therefore be guilty of refusing to him the
feeble tribute of their suffrage, as a testi
monial of their admiration and respect,
which they entertain for the patriot, fhe
hero and the Statesman, who in all the
official stations which he has filled, both
civil and military, has given them the
nest undeniable evidences of his ability
to discharge with honor the duties of the
highest office in the sift of Intelligent
freemen.
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. IV. BENEDICT PUBL[SHFIR AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1839,
Resolved, That we will rally in his
support because we know him to be hon
est and capable; and because he comes
.from the ranks of the people without be
ing indentified with the destructive meas
ures of those who would build up their own
upon to;:e fallen institutions of.
efoqu try.
Resolved, That as, his whole life has
bean devoted to the promotion of the good
of his country and the welfare of his fellow
citizens, we have in his history the proud
assurance, that if elected to the office of
Chief NETistrate, he will have but a sin
le ~ ye to HIP public good, the maintain
ance of pubic honor, and the supremacy
of the Constitution and laws, without
any re:;ard to the approbation or condem•
nation of them by a few roilicat ,
or the more dartog; roblie,s of the puiaie
treasury,
Reselved, That the diicernment of !:is
commanding officer, the gallant Wayne,
in promoting him to pats of the highest
honor and trust, as well as in confiding
to his command the most dangerous ex
peditions, together with the. e unbounded
confidence reposed in him by the Father
Of his Country, gives us aaitional assn.
ranee that if they were right, we cannot
be wrong, in trusting him still further,
and in looking upon him as the only in
strument by which .oar country may be
restored to its original simplicity, and be
administered in that purity which charac
terized it under- Our first President,
George Washinton.
Resolved, That the nomination' of
General \Vin. H. Harrison and Daniel
Webster, coming train the reople them
selves, must therefore excite as it
. does,
the determined hostility of those who ever
sought to control them and prevent their
free and spontaneous action, in the exer
cise of their inalienable rights as citizens
of the freest government on earth.
. Resolved, That calumny and detrac
tion being part of the system of. Loco Fe.
coism, we are not astonished, therefore,
at the course pursued in opposition to
the favorite Aid-de-camp- of the gallant
Wayne, and the, protege of Washington.
by those, who, while he was undeigoing,
the rigors of a northern campaign, against
a foreign enenv,,as.well as a savage foe,
were figuring in the ball rooms of our At
lantic cities, or basely skulking from their
country's service, in luxurious living in
places far distant from the scene of danger
and blood shed,
Mr. Reynolds offered tl►e following
resolution which was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee of seven'
be appointed to act in conjunction with a
similar committee fro:n the JPhig State
Convention, which is to assamble at
Chambersburg, on the 17th of June,
(should said convention appoint such corn.
mittee) which shall be empowered, in
case the fk hig National Convention to be
held in Harrisburg in December next,
' coincide with the Democratic Antimaso
nic Nation Convention, in nominating
fl'm. H. Harrison for President, 11111 i
, Daniel If ebster for Vice President of the
United States, to take all and every
measure in their opinion best calculated to
effect the complete union and co-operation
of the anti-Van-Bnren party in Penusyl
vanie, and ivsure the success of the nomi
nation.
The Chair then spointed the Mowing
persons said Comtnitte..:
John Reynolds, Thad'dens . Stevens,
Um. Ayres , Michael D. Nl'Kechan,
Samuel S. Pattersn, Samuel A. Purvi
once, Col. J. D. Paxton.
The following resolutions were then
adopted.
Resolved, That the delegation from
each cemity be requested to hold the
Seciliiaries a list ofTersons to form a corn.
mate of Vigilance and correspondence
from their respective counties, and that
in all counties were this shall be omitted
to he done, that the late committees he
continued, with power to do all acts ne
cessary to a thorough organization of the
party.
Resolved, That in case of death or oth.
er disqualification of any of the gen
tlemen nominated as Electors, the State
Committee shall have power to fill the
vacancy.
Itemilved, That the late State CAomit
tee be requested to mike and p.::klish
report of the frauds of tit, !Ito . election,
so fat as they can be ascertained, together
with such other information as they may
deem important.
The committee to report a State Com
mittee, reperted the following, which re
port was adopted.
STATE ConzufrrEE: Thomas H. Bur-
rowes, Richard Diddle, Thomas Elder,
Wm. M'Clure, Joseylt lk allaco, John II
11 alker, qrancis Parke.
The coaußittCe appointed to report an
address to the People of Pennsylvania,
reported the following:
FELLOW Ca:main—ln presenting to
your suffrages and support the Electorial
ticket pledged to the support of the dis
tinguished iedividitals who have been put
in nomination for the offices of President
and Vice President of the United States,
by the Democratic Anti-Masonic National
Convention, viz; General ililliam Henry
Harrison, of Ohio, end Daniel Gtebster,
of Massachusetts, propriety as well as
longestabliahed usage, would seem to re
quire of us a brief and comprehensive
statement oltheir claims to the supplYrt of
a free, virtuous and enlightened people.
It is the boast, as it is the peculiar ex
cellence of our institutions, that to no
measure of policy or action, can the con
currence or submission of the people be
required or enforced, which has nut pre
viously obtained the approbation of their
own judgment, and the sanction of their
will, constitutionally expressed. The
•edilic will being thus powerful, it is im
,•o: .to t to its propper exercise, that it
be enlightened, just in proportion
• , s the structure of our government gives
its influence ancLefrect.
It would not comport with the design,
or the proper limits of this address, to en•
ter into a minute and circumstantial detail
of the alarming inroads made during the
last ten years, upon the constitutional
rights of the people, and the wanton sac
rifice of their most essential interests by
the Administration party now in power,
of whom Mnrtin Van Duren President of
the United States, is the acknowledged
head, Based as the party is upon the
principle that unquestioning and unquali
fied devotion to party, is a duty paramount
to allegiance to the Constitution, and
viewing the offices of government as the
legitimate spoils of victory, to be parcelled
out by the victorious chief of party, among
his unscrupulous followers, and adopting
such blind devotion as the only test of
qualification or fitness for office, instead
of regarding them as institutions created
for the benefit and service of the public,
every thing has been made subservient to
the propagation of this heterodox creed,
untill it bas attained a degree of power
allarming to every one who yet cherishes
a regard for the vital principles of good
government, and remembers the opposite
doctrines and practices of the days of
,Tf ashingtiin and Jefferson, in what may
be with great fitness, called the Golden
Age of the Republic. This principle,
opposed tes it is, to tho plainest end most
elementary doctrines of freedom, is yet
the Shibboleth of the Van Buren party;
the Procruslian bed ,upon which all are
stretched, and by the most imeprious and
unscrupulous cruelty and despotism, made
to fit; and the maimed and mutilated in
' stitutious of the country, yet quivering
and bleeding from the wounds inflicted
by the tyrant, attest that the rack and
the knife are as freely used by the mod
em Procruslus, as by him of yore.
Corruption the most rank, favoritism
the moat undisguised, and proscription
the most cruel, are, and too long have
been the order of the day. The must
shameless venality characterizes all the
officers of government and is scarcely
sought to be disguised or disavowed. The
laws of the land, the Constitution, the or
ganic of fundamental law, every right
guaranteed by it have been .the sport of
these parricides of Liberty! The Consti
tution! I las it sot been the play-thing of
a vile mob? The Law! !!'hen in the
last ten years, has it availed to punish the
evil doer, or bring the public defaulter to
justice, if covered by the JEgis of party?
It is true, we still have all the forms t
free government; a Congress, judicial tri
bunals, written Constitutions, and the
right of suffrage.—Have they availed to en
force anything like fidelity or accounta
bility in the floes) agents of the State, and
to guard the public treasure from the
Prices, the Swartwouts, and ether harpies
who feed upon and devour it? Or have
they been efficient to shield and protect,
when
and denounced,
the dm
e on f
and,o partyh
with
cries as
for proscribed blood
demand his victim? Alas! no. The
state of general suffering and distress; the
prostration of public credit at home and
abroad; the derangement of the currency
and domestic exchange of the country;
is just emerging, arid limn the effects of
w ar h e i .ch portions
ye ts.i ff g n , till tsnosuttvi
Tliest evidences of the existence of a
tyrany—of all others the most dangerous
--a tyrany under the name and forms of
republican government, are yet recent
and Cannot be mistaken; and find their
lit parallel only in that epoch of English
history, when in 1539, in the reign of
Henry VIII., the Parliament of that coun
try
passed a 6claratory statute, giving
to the King's Proclamation the force of
law;
other words, declaring the will of
the King to be the supreme law of the land.
To the cousumation of the ruin of liberty
in this country., nothing is wanting but
such a statute, to legitimatize in form
what the President has long enjoyed in
substance. For what barrier of law that'
impeded his march to arbitrary power. has
Lot been broken downi-- 11 hat individual
or corporate body, fortified behind the ram.
part of the constitution, has ever dared
pAeo.s.' .l* '
resist his trill or question his power.
without becoming his victim?
F flow citizcns: We do not wish to ex
aggerate the condition of things. We
would fain draw a faithful picture, even
though our hand may tremble as we trace
it. We believe that the liberties of this
conntry do, in very truth, stand on a
precipice, over which another step, will
suffice to hurl it to perdition. We would
fain arrest it whilst standing ou the awful
verge; but we are all unequal to the task.
The task must oe achieved by your in
telligence, virtue and firmness—yours
must be the hand to arrest the mighty and
malign influence which, unseen but not
unfelt is fast urging it to destruction.
There is but one method by which this
can be effected, and that is, by wresting
the reins of power from the hands that
have so lone. held.and abssed it, and.con
fiding them to one who is both honest and
capable; who has deserved such a reward
at your hands, by a life devoted to 'your
service, and of whose uprightness and
capacity you_ have full and satisfactory
proof.
Such a man we believe, is General it il
ham Henry Harrison, the gallant veteran
who first turned the tide of defeat and
disaster into the full flood :of victory and
triumph —the hero of Tippecanoe and the
Thames, and once the Fabius and Mar
cellus, the sword and the shield of Ame
rica— the father of the western country
under whose auspices it has sprung up in
a day, as it were, kotn infancy to maturi
ty; the man who has seen more service,
done more for his country and suffered
more in qer cause than any other man now
living—who has never known defeat but
by name, and whose well earned glory
illustrates the brightest page in his coun
try'S annals! Such is General Harrison!
And we proudly challenge our opponents
from among their wisest, their ablest and
their best, to paoduce his equal.
What a pleasing picture does the life of
this great and good man present! A brief
glance at *some of its leading features,
cannot fail to be interesting.
General William Henry Harrison, is
the son of Benjamin Harrison, a Revolu
tionary patriot, and one of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence: and
was born at the residence of his father on
James river in Virginia, in 1773.
From the veneration and respect in
which his father's name was held, and the
influence of his early friend and guardian,
Robert Morris, the financier of the Revel
lotion, he had every right to expect suc
cess and advancement in the walks of
civil life, for which his education and
talents eminently qualified him; but with
that singleness of devotion to his country,
which lie has shown npon every occasion,
we find him in 1791, when scarcely
eighteen years old, foregoing all these
prospects, and abandoning the study of
medicine, in which lie was engaged, to
encounter the perils, hardships, and unre
quitted
sufferings of savage warfare; and I
in that year he obtained his first commis
sion, that of ensign, from the hands of
Washington himself. He joined the
western armp under Ueneral Anthony
Wayne, one of Pennsylvania's gallant
sons, soon after the unfortunate defeat of
General St. Clair; and throughout all the
subsequent trying scenes, was distinguish.
ed as a young officer of gallantry, intelli
gence and promise. The eagle eye of his
coati:leder soon discovered his merit, and
selected hiin as one of his aids; and its the,
account of hisdecisive victory over thel
saveges, you ligliarrison is named with
honorable distinction.
In 1797, the country being at peace, and
his active spirit disliking the idle routine
of garrison duty, Ensign, now Captain
Harrison, resigned his commission in the
army. So distinguished was lie, even at
that early age, for ability and talent, that
lie was appointed Secretary of the North
Western Territory; in which office, he !
gave such general satisfaction, that two
years after, in 1799, he was elected the
first Delegate to Congress for that territo
ry,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.
which now comprises the States of
haat representing this territory in
Congress, he was appointed chairman of
the committee on Public Lands, then and
now one of the most important committees
of the House. Whilst in this high and
responsible station, he fully justified the
selection, by introducing a reform into the
evils and abuses of the Land System, and
by devising and originating the prese:;,', l
system of sales of the pun l .lc In ds , t o
which more than to any other cause, the
rapid advancement of the country is
owing. At that tim e , under existing laws,
public lands Could only be purchased in
large tracts, containing, several thousand
acres, except in certain cases,
specially
excepted. The effect of such a system
misuse be obvious at a glance. It left the
great majority of actual settlers, men of
small capital and narrow means, whollyat
the mercy of the rich monopolist and
speculator, by compelling them if they
purchased at all, to purchase from them at j
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t'leir own terms instead of being able to
enter government land at government
vices. Nothing could be better calcula.
ted to retard the growth and the settle
ment of the country, than an unequal and
oppressive system like this.
In accordance with the views embraced
in his celebrated land report, which alone
would have sufficed to earn for him a
Statesman's fame, a law of Congress was
enacted, dividing the public lands into half sections, &c. each section
containing 640 acres and no more, and
allowing actual settlers four years, by
equal instalments, to pay the purchase mo
ney; substantially the system that has
continued in operation ever since. This
at once removed the barrier to western
emigration, by enabling almost every man
to purchase at government prices; and
the consequence was, an immediate influx
of active hardy settlers, which has con
tinued with little abatement to our own
times, and has made of the valley of the
Ohio and Mississippi, the garden of Amer
ica. Having thus earned the title of ben
efactor and father of the region north west
of the Ohio, he soon after retired from
Congress, on receiving from Mr. Jeffer
son, the appointment of .governor of the
newly erected territory of Indiana, the
duties of which he entered in 1801.
The duties of his new station were
arduous and important. The whole ter.
ritory, then, contained a population of
less than six thousand souls, sparsely dif
fused over its wide surface, at large inter
vals; whilst it was covered and surround
ed by numerous tribes of warlike and
depredatory Indians, whose restless fero
city, and jealousy of white men, it re
quired the utmost address to restrain
within the bounds of peace. By a wise
union, however, of firmness, justice and
moderation, accompanied by a vigilance
that never slumbered, he succeeded in
this difficult task, and held in awe and
subjection, their turbulent spirits, until
the intrigues and machinations of Tecum?
sell and his brother the Prophet, afforded
him in 1811, an opportunity of reaping
fresh lanrels in the held of battle, and the
banks of Tippecanoe again witnessed his
military skill and successful valor.
Annexed to his office of Governor of
the territory, was that of Indian commis
sioner, in which the latter capacity, by
equal and fair negotiation in numerous
treaties, he acquired for the United States,
the title of upwards of seventy millions
of acres of land.
The victory of Tippecanoe, in which
he narrowly escaped death, a ball having
passed through his stock, and which was
gained by his masterly management, sec
onded by the brilliant and steady valor of
his troops, dissipated for a time, the con.'
federacy of northern Indians, and aver
ted from the frontiers, the horrors of sa
vage warfare, until they were i enewed by
the w'.:r with Great Britain in 1812.
Twenty-six years have elapsed since
the calamitous and disgraceful surrender
of Hull seemed to presage nothing but
disaster and disgrace for the American
arms—yet the teeth% of astonishment,
indignation and chagrin with which that
event overspread the country, are fresh to
the recollection of many. The immedi
ate train of disastrous consequences re
sulting from it, were no less serious and
extensive than the moral influence it ex
ercised upon the public mind. Its imme
diate effect was, as it were, to benumb the
energies of the nation; men were enchai
ned in mute astonishment and wontrAer—
the contrast of hope with disappointment.
of anticipated triumph with appurently
remediless disgrace, was too great; the
public mind was, for an instant, paraly..'
zed. But soon these feelings gave place
to a burning desire to retrieve the natie fe d
honor, and volunteers from all pa.:o pre
sented themselves, cautious to aid in wi
ping out the stain.
To give them a leader who should pos.
sess by des9rvin their confidence, was
of the lass i mportance; no ordinary man
e as evual to tho occasion, or competent to
satisfy public expectation.
In this hour of darkness and gloom.
when th.e horizon was black with doubts
and d'.stual forebodings, and its extreme
bor:ters were but faintly illumined by hope
"all eyes looked," says a writer of the
times, "with a common impulse upon the
Hero of Tippecanoe; the united voice of
the west called on the Govei nor of Ken
tun,';,y to dispense with all formalities; and
General William Henry Harrison was
brevetted a Major General with directions
to take command of the North Western
army. Confirmed in his new rank by a.
commission from the President of tint
United States, the task before General.
Harrison was, however, full of difficulty*
and embarassment.
Public confidence had to be restored—r
the moral energies of the people had to' b
reinvigorated and strengtened. Every
thing had to be created anew. '
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mernus train of artilery with all time
munitions of war had to be Sianst;Zrted
thro,igh a wilderness, destitts of rn.a.