Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-01-07

A1ANAANA AA~AN ~ HARRISBURG 2
We are not IN tho habit Of indalQinr n
strong language prior 70 an election, With an
affected certainty Of a favorable result.--h,,t
there AZ convection on our minds We cannos
get over, which IS well supported too bv pres
cnt hcts,--hat Gen. VIM Henry HARRISON
Will the next President ofthe United States.
We feel as nnow, ailer a long struggle the
question was settled. We see the way clear
Il is well known this Journal has unfirlcd no
banner in the little civil war our friends have
been having,--but It is Vell known too that Il
was our belief the name Of Harrison was neces-
sary forsuccess. For the great Kentuckian
thas mob e hearted man, whom we have pro-
nounced before, the best living personiHcstion
Of the character Of his country, our admiration
was so strong that he could not break ground
but the feelings nevertheless, the instinct, five
may 50 express ourselves, was vet SO strong,
that Gen. Harrison was the only man for the
crisis, that the movements in Harrisburgh ex-
cited in our minds breathless apprehension
The time Of the kentuckian was not vet come.
II was necessary we saw to right theship, be-
fore we put him in command The sharp
shooters Of the enemy, we felt, would pick him
ott-wiih his brilliant honors upon him. We
shuddered over the threatening sacrifice. The
Lieutenant General must fight this action
and then the COMMANDMENT Chief viii come
into the field. All is well now The sky is
clear. Our way is TO the Capitol The Goths
may as well begin to pick up their baggage
and fly TO the holes whence they came.
p2We are well aware that in the contest we
are to hear the usual story of Gen. Harrison's
"imbecility," and are TO be assured,--and it
Is to be proved that q he is coward and a
fooL"-A an old granny" at best and saknave
at worst" so that if the Wings had ransacked
the whole earth fer IDIOT and scoundrel, they
could not have a greater. All this comes of
course, and will pass for what it is worth The
Oldmen Of the country, however, who lived
when Gen. Harrison most hourished, can easily
put the stamp offdlsehood upon all this, and
the young men who take the trouble to read
history, will soon see, that the man who has
held more civil Offices than any other man liv-
ing except John Quincy lAdams,--protsge of
Washington, Jefferson, the Adamses, aud Mad
isons could not have been imbecile. General
harrison, indeed, has passed through all The
gradations of civil life. Il he be "a Military
Ghieftain,'' it was because the unsettled con-
dition Of new country, the inroads Of hostile
savages, stimulated by British brides and M
fuence, compelled him to take up arms to de-
fend the country; and when he threw down
the functions Of the civilian, and put on, as Of
necessity, the armour Of the solder, he added
70 the chaplet Of the statesman the lalIrels of
the Hero. What civilian has done more
What American soldier has done so much
Gen. Jackson! No, for General harrison has
fought two battles to his one. ne was a Mil
ltary ChIeftain when every man that ventured
beyond Virginia, or crossed the Ohio was COM
PEELED TO be such a chieftaIn,--wben arms
were necessary to defend the pough,-when
the woods rang with the war wboop--and the
Lawgivers debated with muskets in their
hands. No coward was he who imortalized
himselfat Thames, and Tippecanoe! no nm
beetle was he, who rs Governor of Territories,
ami Representative and senator in Congress,
and Minister Plenpotentiary, first IN civil posi-
tons, and first in military commands, did all
he had to do with honor, and won the esteem,
OF all who conferred such hOnors upon MN.
General harrison, indeed, is a link of the
present with the pasta man OF the good old
times, who viii bring back the Republic to
such times. A son Of the signer Of the Declar-
alton Of Independence, he was educated in the
school of the men that framed that instrument.
His compatriots have been the best men Of the
nation. The principles he has maintained has
made the Republic all It is. The life he with
his ike have led, has bequeathed TO US all the
blessings we have. To abuse him is to abuse
history To calumniate bun is to calumnIate'
every President before General Jackson. To
deny his service is to deny the progress of the
whole North West History will discharge
its duty to him and bear him onward on TO honor
andto victory. The fault we have committed
here as Wings was, when without effort tho
People Of themselves almost elected him, we
did not keep up bis name, with which long
ngo, we Should have Decn certain Of success.
The Wings Of the Union are now encamped
IN superb position before the enemy. Dis
cord is hushed--and no man will be more
prominent than Henry Clay in the necessary
propitlasionss Pennsylvanid Is brought INTO
line again. If harrison cannot take the State,
he can keep the adversary in an intrenched
camp, and he dare not sortie our. New. York
and Ohio are arm in arm, Indiana Is secure.
The New England Regiments are impregna-
bic. Illinois is wheeled into a Wing position
The Maryland Line and Jersey Blues are or
hand. We win have a good guerilla hgh'
throughout the whole South, --but if the Soutf
wants 10 be rid by our "Northern man with
Southern principles" we who shook him Of
our backs, can look on and see him ride, anC
laughat those who carry him. New-York car
chnclxle well as her cast off Politician sticks hi:
spurs on bare back there. They who love Il
be cheated, and werc born to be, let them be
Never, no, never, were the Wings on so good
ground. In the centre of the Union is oul
strength. The skirmsh is on its wings. We
pitch our tents upon the household gods of oul
enemies home, and here we dwell irresistible
We have driven him from his own guns, ant
here we stand with lighted matches to .fir'
theml Courage then, Wings Of the Union.--
Rally; organize: lay hold Of the Tippecano'
emblem, and lay low the enepies OF TIN
Union.