Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-09-12
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Monday. September Il, 1895.
GEN. HARRISON.

=" 7He Uero of Norfh Bond and Farmer Of
Tppecaaoc passed through town yesterday We
believe Il few of the old feds waited upon linn,
which is more than they did for Judge White. II
they offered him dinner, are sorry he did not
accept it, as pu0lic dinner to the advocate 1.-THE
Alien and Sediiion Law, in the county of Thorn
as Jefferson would have had good effect If 1t
aas offered and refused, he has more tact than his
friends, and nicer sense Of proprietv than his
countrnanoe would seem 10 Indicate. The old
feds look crcst-flllen at his appearance. We
wish he would travel through the United States
The arisocrats of tic Van Buren, party seem
nightly offended at the plain iarmcr-likc appear
ancr of Gen Harrison. They have forgotten that
"appcarances are deceitluI - and that Nature
unreqnently mplants both wisdom n virtue in very
rough and unsccmly caskets- ust as, on the 9th
or hand, the mits QIcayen save the mark y who
ridicule such transformations simplicity Of charac
ter may be stupid as the ong-cared race whose
drawings they so well initiate. It's not wonderful,
either dat Gen. lIarrSon's plain exterior and un-
County manners should be offensive to the adj
mrer, ofthe aged flop and dandy, who apes kings
and mobiles in his manners well as in his equip
age. Il would be strange, indeed, were it other
wise. There is a " daily beauty in the charac-
ter of the Ohio farmer, which renders the juvenile
airs OF the " Broadway' candidate for the PreSi-
dency disgusting to all who will draw the contrast
1t is wonderful to So" how nice your exclusive
6 democrats" have all at once become. They
turn up their noses at plain old farmer, because
torsooih he may not make as conrtly bow as thar
" big man." who has kissed the tip of Queen Adj
claude, little finger, and made his copgcc not only
to lords, dukes, marqulSes, and other such cattle,
but even 10 His Majesty king William the Alb
We admit that Cen Harrison is not remarkable
for any Of those graccs which distinguish drawing
room tops, and which we have seen displaycd con-
snmmately by men who have more brains than
goose. Nor is it strange that it should be so. lie
has been lronticrs-man from his youth upward,
and has never had leisure to study attitudes in
mirror, or to polish his outer-man by coming the
rules of etiquette, which constitute the opcn ScSSa-
me 10 good society,"" And we rarely ever knew
"A man who was remarkable for the possession Of
these attributes, that good for any thing else.
! The dandie> and ounces OF Rome, we imagine,
were accustomed, in like manner, to point the fin
ger OF ridcu'e at Cnrinnltus, while guiding his
! porch. Bot Whcua lorrien enemy was at the
gate q Rome, to whom did the people flee lor
protection To one Of hcir drrwng-room cA-
qlisitr> Ne; hut to the ed farmer, whom in the
piping times OF peace they would have deemed 100
mpoiiShrd TO be their leader II we were about
to elect "A Dancing Master General, we confess that
Gen. Harrison would be wretchcd selection,
while probably LITTLE Y an would be good choice
as could be made. Butt people require in the
of good Judgment, Of enlarged experience of bust
ness habits, and model of repablicanism, not in
words and professions, but in deed & in ruth,-in
his habits as we'll as in hi, creed. And Just such a
man they will find in William II. Harrison or in
Hugh l.. " htc-botl filters of the soil, as re-
markable for the purity of their private characters,
As for their uprghtnesS in public le-both practi-
cal democrats, in the best meaning of that term
both SIM Die and transformations in their manners
firm in their principles and honest in their practi-
ccs-both approaching nearer than any conspicu-
Gus men living,-with one brilliant exception
to the characters of the illuStrous Fathers of the
! Republic Contrast these men with the antiuuated
dandy, who, with loud professions Of" drnocracy'
on his lips, rank an ariStocrat rs the proudest
duke in England, and how noble do they APP
pear. They are like the magnificent and stately
columns Of ancient architecture, compared with
! those light and frivolous stems which g modern
deeencracy,' rather than am improved taste, has
substituted in their place
But the personal appearance of Gen. Harrison
is not SO important are his principles and acts
! And if it were true, as II is directly the rcrerSe,
! that Gen. Harrison ever advocated the "Alicn
and sedition law" charged by the CharIottes-
vile paper, we would at once pronounce him
unworthy OF the support of the American people.
This charge was once made iadirctHy by the
Richmond Enqurer-that is, it copicd the charge
from another journal, Gas il usually does when its
conscience would prick it too severely il 1t were
to place thunder its editorial head and it wasthen
reintcd, by the production of speech delivered
N Sea1on's Congressional Debates, lst part OF the
I'd vol and the concIusiveness of the rcfutation
acknowledged by the Enquirer itself. Yei ever
an anon, the ia school is revived, by men who
shonld know better, but who, we are bound to pre-
sumo, do not-.lohn Randolph made this charge
against Gen. llarriSon,in the course ola debate in
the Scnate-and the General at once. and to his
loo i,,ltrt ia. 4 ~