State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-09-06
From the Newark (O) Gazette, Aug. 8.
GENERAL, HARRISON.
A JACKSONMAN.


From the Newark (o) Gazette, Aug. 8.
GENERAL HARRISON.
This eminent citizen came in town on
business early last week, with the intention
of returning on Tuesday 10 Cincinnati, but
at the earnest solicitation of our citizens,
he was induced TO remain a short time, to
afford an opportunity to some of his friends
who were expected in from the country to
see him and exchange Solicitations with their
old commander and associate in arms. The
General was in excellent health and spirits,
and retains much more physical energy
than we had been led to expect from his
age and the great hardships of his public
life. His intellectual faculties have all the
freshness mud vigor which are usual with
men of his aye, who have been trained to
active employment and accustomed, all
their life time, to the grasp of subjects and
principles connected with the highest civil
and military duties of the country. In his
manners, General Harrison has all the
plainness that would he looked for in an
intelligent cultivator of the soil, rather than
the air and trappings OF one accustomed as
he has been TO the imposing forms of
elevated official station. He has no glitter
ing eguipage nor train of servants about
him nothing of that artificial parade by
which little men sometimes succeed i'm
attracting the public gaze, and make up by
pomp and splendor, the deficiencies OF
intrinsic merit and native dignity of char
acter. These unaffected qualities, combin-
ed with his venerable appearance, and the
recolections ofhis numerous and important
public services, produced strong and ia
vorable impression ON all who approached
him. Party feeling for time ut least,
gave place to sentiments of justice, respect
and gratitude, in which men ofall former
political distinctions seemed to participate
with equal sincerity and delight. The
whole scene of General Harrison's stay
among us, was indeed triumph OF right
feeling and honest impulse oil the part OF
the people, which our citizens will have
reason to remember with gratitude and
pride. il was intended to entertain our H.
lustrious visitor by public dinner, which,
however he declined as will be seen from
the following
CORRESPONDENCE.
Newark, July, %, 1886.
To Gen. I'm. III. Harrison:
SIR The undersigned committee of n
meeting of their fellow citizens, assembled
for the purpose o! presenting TO you some
suitable token of their high respect for
your character and public services, have
the honor TO request your acceptance of a
public dinner on Thursday next, or any
other day you may be pleased TO name,
should it not Interfere with your business
engagements, and should it be otherwise
agreeable TO your feelings.
The long period of your public life and
the important and diversified services YOU
have rendered to the country, have identi-
fled your name with some of the most in
teresing and eventlul portions of American
history, and placed you high on the list OF
our public beneiactors. In the dark period
of war, your country found you in the
ranks of her defenders, and for the most
part, i'll situations ofunequalled righteousness
and responsibility, in all of which the emf
nent success of your measures and op ra-
tons, altested your valor, prudence aud
military skill, and justified the confidence
reposed in you by your country. H. time
of peace, your countrymen have viewed
you in the milder light of civilian and
statesman, and with equal admiration OF
your public character, always vigilant, eff
fective, and disinterested in promoting the
public welfare bringing TO the public
councils the rich fruits of practical olIser-
walton and experience, and enforcing will
zeal and success those legitimate principles
of the constitution which have served to
consolidate Our public institutions, and diff
fuse and equaize among all classes of the
people the blessings of wise and free gov
eminent.
The appreciation of these important SER
vices so signally manifested throughout the
U'''''", =. the present time, is, we are hap
ny to say, warmly feit and participated in
by your fellow citizens Of Licking county;
for, however il may accord with malign
party spirit to assnI you on charges labri-
Gated for political effect, your honorable
fame is 100 well established to he dimmed
or clouded by such attacks. The deliberate
Judgment of the public, long since passed,
awarding 10 you the highest distinction for
the memorable victories of Tippecanoe and
the Thames, and the gallant aud success sful
defence of the whole Northern frontier,
under the most dishearlenlng circumstali-
ces, cannot be revoked at this late day by
misrepresentation and appeals 10 popular