Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1836-01-09

u f1anisoa was conseu kently extended fro
1.-THE Straits Of Miehil imacanac to the Gu
lof Mexico, embrac}ng q tact Of count
-four hundsed AM 6fty thousand squal
miles in extent. Ind now constituting ii
Estates Of Louis ana, lliu6is, Indiana, N
the territories q Michigan and Arkansas
which now ,Aasfaln population Of two an
. half mill cos Of souls. Here he had ,
sscsuseerlau the various prsiudices D,
euIiar to he people Of the frontier settlt
Emsnss, vbo we're congregated from ever
lneet;on II the Union-some for sain an
spscul.f zion, and Others q daring advas3u,
lers. The manner in which hs dischasse,
That d,Ity Is sufficieatly evidenced BY d,
|many complimentary lettes written hin
|uuoj ito terminatisn, and the freouen
~ eals made to him to indrces his contin
aance in ONCE. Although the appoint
ment Of all public officers, the Judges o,
the territory excepted, was repssei in hi,
hands, yet he appealed, in every instance
to the people, to VIXEN the right Of selec-
tisn properly belonged, and was never
known to appoint any individual to Office,
Who bad not received the free and unbias-
sed suffages Of bis felJov-citizens. In
this hs pat into practice those principles,
which he had imbibsk.i II his childhso1,
and evidenced by ITS that he regard
- the Unlimited q Else Of power by one
aan q an asf pe,mstion tending to the
eserthrow y 6very Privilege secured by
The war Of the Revolu6oa.
In 1906, the terrisdsy q Indiana resolv-
ed en- entering npsa . SECOND grade Of gov
anda lehiela1ive council, of ten
persons, wascl6d by the house Of rep.
names Of the individu-
olD Ahus neniaa1o0 were forvasdoA - tlse
Of the United Stases, who Fetur-
ned them . General Harrison, cOnfidiDg]
tbs entire power If selection in his hands,
And thus Mr.. jefferson aga;n gave demoA
! fations a his entire confidence in thel
PATRIOTISM and 6delity Of Gencr-
al Hanisos. Upon the assembling Of thel
council and house Of representatives, be!
delivered q message Of some length which
may Be now seen in the archives Of your
state, and which contains those sound Fin-
ciples Of state policy, by the adoption of
which yeu haze become what you now are.
This was an important crisis in the his
tory Of your country land Crisis too, which
fully tested the public virtue and integrity
Of General Harrison. The early settlers|
Of the territory had su5sisted under thet
most trying and effective circumstances for al
number Of years. The war whoop of the
savage had startled the infant from its slum
bsIs, aud si.1 fond parent 100 often found
il weltering in its Blood prey to the fi+
~ Of the fiendisl foe. The cornfield I'll
the husbandman was guarded with the RI !
fle ofthe Pisaeer,and every sgress of the
white man was alta peril incapable Of be.
ing borne but by thu s,eu.est hearts. In
der this state Of things society could mott
long have remained, and it was the dutyI
as well al the object of General Harrison
to remove them, md throw around the
disaffected and the jealous, shield of
government protection. But individuals
have not been wanting to accuse him oil
ambition and an anxiety for the possession
Of power. Did he, at this time, evil
dence tho influence Of motives unpatriotic,
or ambitions? Could he mott
have exercised the almost supreme power|
which he possessed, to his own and the ag-
Of his friends! Most GER
Iainly he could. But, impelled by the
same spirit which guided him in after lite,
ae rather choose to repsse it in the hands
IF the people to whom it properly belong
I'd. This he did by urging the adoption
pa second grade Of govsrnment, and shar-
ng that power which hal been entrusted
% him by the national epvernnent, with a
Legislative Council and House Of Repre-
,entativcs.
From this until the actual breaking|
put of hostilities between the whites
md Indians, the intFmediate time
was devoted by General Harrison toI
the defects IN the militia
system of the Territory-removingl
he property qualification of voters in
indiana, and extending the right of
outrage to every freenan-settling|
questions between the
whites and the nstixes-securing the,
orrect administration Of justice and
aw and guarding against the insidu-
,us efforts of Tecumseh to incite his
to deadly conflict.
Upon the breaking out Of hostilities|
With the Indians, Gen. Harrison was
by the Governor of Ken
ucky, in 1912, Commander IN Chief
f the Kentucky militia, which ap-I
ointment was subsequently approved