Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1812-11-12
PRESIDENTS MEssAGE-No ?.

The disaster If Detroit has served to dis
play the elasticity of the American cbarac-
Ter, and particularly that of the people of
the West. The tribute Of applause which
the president pays them in his message If the
Ain inst. is well meritcd by their Conduct
The responsibility of the greater part the
individuals who volunteered their services
Oil the surrender of Hull, the holy enthus
asm of the mass population in Ohio, Ken
lucky, and the western parts of Pcnnsyiva-
MIA and Virginia invite universal admiration
and reprove in practice the unmanly course
of proceeding adopted by the Governors of
Connecticut and Massachusetts,. 70 see
large section of the republic deriving grea
ter energy from misfortune, to see it spring
into action, at once anticipating in the path
Of duty the call of the law. forgetting com
fort, ease, and family affections in she gener-
Gus ardor of love of country, is sight wor-
thy OF present illustration and future CON
.servatinn on the page of imperishabe histo
Ty. To this animating spectacle may be adj
ded the good fortune attending the glorious
impulse of the brave spirits of the Western
people, in their finding in their vicinity
man who enjoyed as military commander,
their entire respect andunlimited confidence.
Gen raj Harrison, distinguished by his COIL
and intrepid conduct at Tippecanoe, aha the
worthy co-riva. in arms of the gallant Boyd
had secured, as we have NO doubt that he
deserves, the love and esteem of his fellow
citizens in that quarter, who indicated TO
government, by no equivocal signs, the Off
cer. whom they wished to command them.
Had this not been the case, Col Monroe,
the Secretary Of State, was prepared to ab Z
dictate his civil employment, to assume by
appointment the direction Of the North
Western army, to organize the troops by
His experience, and to lead them by the
most proper and direct route To Detroit,
there to re establish the American power,
sud to wipe fran our arms the stain they
had Suffered from Hubs discontinue.
We sps2k with sincerity of Harrison. We
believe him competent TO command lie
who, assailed iathe dead Of night by brave
but savage enemy, keeps his ground. brings
his troops TO order in the line Of battle and
finally to the charge. mast be made Of the
right stuff to head armies. At the same
time we think quite as well Of Gen Boyd /;
and it has panied us more than once to per
eeiyc efforts made to elevate each Of these
officers above and at the cxpence Of the o.
tner. Is there not room enough for both in
tic walks of war and the love Of the conn
try IL these two chiefs had been at De
troit instead Of Hull If they had once set
foot on the Canadian Sheye, the tale Of the
campaign that Hull has given us would new
or have been written. We should not have
been told of the COLLECTED force Of the
northern nations Of Indians :" Of the chiefs
Marpot, SValk-in the-Water, Split-Log,"
and " names aud tribes, whose uncDuth de-
n limitations serve only to make men Of hu-
NOR smile and to turn vaior ipto ridicule.
Let no one attempt TO depreciate either Flar-
rison or Boyd, nor to eulogize Hull; let the
two former be dearly and equally cherished
and the latter forever eXecrated.
|. The decision with winch VIC thus speak
N pehslf Of Gen Hsrrison, en:itlsa US to tho