Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-04-13
FOR THE y~IRGINIAN.
GEN. HARRISON.

GEN. HARRISON.
A soldiers reputation is his c%ountry's properly.
He that would u Justly tamish II would taruish
his couutry's honor and glory.
1t is "a sin and a shame ihai an old soldier, who
has served his country aiihtully-whG has toilcd for
her IA whole ltetime-and who has 50 often gal
lantly and braveIy exposed his LIE In her defence.
should at last be branded as "A COWARD' by
unpfinclpled deTagogues aud traders III politics,
who, while he was fighting his counuy's battles.
we've snugiy wrapped in their s%waddIing clothes in
their nurses arms, or %tumbling under the lngIorl-
Gus discipline OF some wayard demagogue.
1t may be borne with, IN Christian iotbearance,
for scurvy deuagogues TO denounce Gen. Harrison
as an Ahoinionist, after his whole public lie has
given The stamp OF utter falsehood TO the charge;
Tor no man in America has stood up more firmly tor
The South, OF made greater sacrifices in defence OF
her principles and rights upon this great and absorb
ing qnestton-but that lie should, at tins late day,
alter the bravery and gallanfry Of his military a
chleymen,s have filled 50 many OF the brightest pa
ges of American history, have his hand earned
laurels tom from his brow, and be branded and VIII
fled as a coward, 10 make capital for trading pollti-
clans and unpfneipled presidential pdrliH ms, is real
~ too much 10 he horne in human patience. Are
the people of VirginIa-of Virginia. the birth place
of him that fought under WAYNE at Tippecanoc,
at Fort Meigs, and the Thames-arc they prepared
To tear the brightest leaves from the pages ot their
country's history, and to surrender into The hands
of official calumnIators the fan fame Of one of her no
bltSl sOHS, merely 10 ntl} Tie SlhhciS dDu SNIIl-
mers'' to bolster up a lettering Administration whose
history has been a history of ~bungIing imbecility
and reckless nnlsrule, whose whole course has been
marked with aburtlye experiments aud fatal mistakes,
and which has p~aralyzed the energies aud industry
Of he country, aud scattered distress and embairass
ment and ruin over the land-waging al tins mo-
ment IA worthless war against labor and properly aud
every lhing valuable amongst us-and borrowing
models of currency from Cuba and China and
kamchatska!
Is VIM. Henry Harrison a coward J! We appeal
not to stupid ignutance-but we call upon men
upon the honest yeomanry of the country-upont The
farmers particularly OF tins proud old commonwealth,
IN whose veins flows the blood Of other heroes-to
men such as those, we appeals Gen. Harrison a
coward
Was he a coward when he fought by the side Of
Wayne, in that brave veterans great aud bloody vic.
tory over the Indians at the close of the Revolution
AIRY war! Did Wayne compliment his gallant aud
brave conduct on that memorable occasion for
iorn's sake only-and are the heros Of the Reyolu-
ton to be dIscredIled, to give currency TO newborn
paitizan ISLANDERS, never heard OF before to day i
Was BonapG,,e. al the battles of Marengo, Aus
terlltz aud Jena, a coward Vas he a coward when
he seized The French colors at The bridge Of Lodia,
aud bore them ahead OF his squadrons against The
rdking fac of a hundred cannons !! Did HARRISON less
expose himself at the battles Of Tippecanoe aud the
Thames !! What say four aids, the true men who
loug ht by his side, aud assisted IN The execution of
all his orders What would the gallant Owens,
another aid, say, who fell fighting BY Hairison's side
in the lhickest of the battle, if he were now alive !
Let his living aids speak for hemselves-dnd they
but speak the testimony of all the witnesses, living
and dead. They speak the testimony Of the brave
Shelby, the hero of Kings Mountain-of all the
gailaot men that fought under Harrison IN his va
rlous battles, and the ieslit ouy OF universally es.
tablisled, and never before disputed American his
tory. They give but the details of the resisiless
broad mass OF testimony Immediately after Hdrri-
sons ably conducted aud bravely fought battles, en-
bodied IA the votes of thanks Of the legislatures OF
kentucky, Ohio aud lndiauia, and ofthe Congress OF
the United S ales. They give but HE details oil
events that excited thea In every American bosom,
sentiments OF gratitude To Heaven and admiration OF
The conduct ola brave General, who had crowned
his country's arms with glory, and expelled from
her soil a ruthless enemy.
IflIarrlson is TO be abused and vllliicd at tins laie
day, when he has gown gray IN his county 5 ser
wee, for his conduct in var, better would II be tot
he lnercenarv hordes Of off tIal calutinlaiofs TO
change front, aud Take another tatk-Let those
blame him, not iqr%cowardice, but lor exposing lIu-
sell as The commanding General, when men we've
filling all AFRO nd nm, and thereby exposing lie ar
my IN the rreat ctisls Of the battle, 10 the peru otbe-
ing deprived of commqnder-in-chiei-iof wherever
lhe haIrle was hottest the testimony shows tda' ntefc
Harrison taS ! JOollOh.