Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-08-27
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To The Editor Of the Bath Telegraph:
DEAR SIR: How stands Harrison in the West?
Let the recent elections answer. The y tell us that
in the land where he is known, in the bosom of the
great west, he still retains firm hold upon the afec-
tons Of the people. The children whom he saved
from the scalping knife, when the woods of the
north west echoed onyto the Indian war-whoop, ARE
now paying the debt of gratitude they owe him, and
rallying round him with confidence and enthusiasm.
The young men who, in times of doubt and danger,
aecked to him for shelter and support, are now
while monarchy and oppression threaten the liberties
their fathers won, turning to him as the man whose
stern Repubcanism will renew their happiness
our government back to its purity and simplicity
They have all confidence in bis honor his integrity
and his talents.
Amidst such general out-burst of feeling for the
Hero and the Stateman, how degraded ought those
who have basoy attacked his unsulied character to
feel The party presses ofthe administration tell
us that he is coward; and moro, that he has pass
ed into his second childhood. They have been re-
buked by the hardy yeomanry of the West. Men
who have fought under him tell us that he is brave,
and have given to him their su1rages. The free
man of Indiana, Illinois, and Louisiana, tell US he
has governed them, and they fear not again to trust
him. Those who have seen him upon the old bat
tie ground, tell US, that he is yet full of vgor and
manhood--the soul of republicanism and the un-
bending friend of berty.-Thus vanish the la
bored attempts to break down the peoples friend,
If, with such incontestible proofs, the tongue of
SANDER is not senced, it is time for every friend of
OF America, to mourn over the degrading influence
OF party. Iproof from the mouths ofiving Witness
es were not sufficient to disspate the manufactured
stories of Harrisons cowardce and imbecilily, may
not this declaration of the people do it? The friends
OF the administration profess, as every man ought
to do, to have all confidence in the judgement of the
people. If they sincere let this judgement o.
the people Of the west convince them ofhe Injustice
they have done to Harrison. Here is an opporruni-
ty for them to reract their unfounded attacks, and
to carry on the remainder of the campaign with
manliness aud ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS standing in the
West, shows to the people Of the North, that his
friends have not overraed his popularity, or his mer-
it. Where he has lived he is honored, and there for
long time Withdrawn from public station, the friends
of his youth have not deserted him. What better
evidence ought we to desire of his character 1t
proves him to be all we would have him, and to all
who dissatisfied with the administration of Mat
tin Van Buren,, it appeals holding him up as true
friend oft the people. To all such. he is exhibited as
the man who will purge the channels of public bus
mess, of the corruption, which for the last twelve
years has been gathering in them. Harrison
standing in the West exhibits him to the friends of
the administration, already holding the palm of VIC
tory, and melting out to them justly, yet severely,
the punishment they have SO long deserved. The
people too have determined that he shall be Pres-
dent. They have determined that the laureIs he
has won in the Senate and the field prove him to
be their man and, they mean to add to the honors
which now cluster thick around him, that of being
their servant, C..