The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-04-30
RICHARD IRWIN, Sec'y.
VERITABLE WITNESSES!

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1t is not little singular that some
| of the very endorsements of general
Harrison, yet published, have pro-
ceeded from Col. r. M. Johnson.
Thomas Richie, John M. Niles, and
Isaac Hill! @ aa
The high and just encomiums which
the first two honestly paid General
Harrison have been given to our rea-
ders. All these testimonials are the
more valuable because they were
given in a spirit OF justice and patri-
otism, when the eyes of their authors
were not blinded by party prejudice,
and their hearts not embittered by
party spirit. How futile and ridicu-
lous do they make all these attacks
and SANDERS with which mercenary
press now pursues the patriot soldier,
merely because the people have Sc
lected him as their candidate for the
Presidency.
It is scarcely necessary to say that
Isaac Hill was recently the Governor
Of New Hampshire, and has long been
the leading oracle Of Mr. Van Buren's
administration in that State.
! We find in the New Hampshire
Patriot of July 90 1918, of which
Isaac Hill was at that time the editor,
the following, which shows where Mr.
Allen of the Senate obtained his hint
for that infamous SANDER upon Gen.
Harrison, with which the loco foco
press is now rife: cir 10 s
SAT council with the, chiefs of the
Delaware, Shawanee, Wyandott, and
Seneca tribes of Indians at Frank
|lington, some of whom had manifest
ed symptoms Of hostility, Gen. Har-
rison in a speech alluded to the agree.
ment made by Proctor to deliver him
|up to the Indians to be murdered, in
case Fort Meigs was taken and pro
missed in case he, Harrison, was sue
cessful, that he would deliver Proctor
into their hands-on condition that
they should do him no other harm
than to put a petticoat on him---:for
said he ssnone buta covard or a squaW
would kill prisoner :"
! In the Patriot of November 90, in
1 the same year, we find the following
high eulogy upon Gen. Harrison: 81
4 ssWhat man lives, whose whole
heart and soul is not British, that can
;lnot sincerely rejoice in the late victo
lries of Perry and Harrison, that doe:
not fell a pride in the valor and pa
triotism Of the heroes Of the West
who have freedsa country large as thu
Empire Of Alexander the Great, from
the Indian tomahawk. and scalpins
! knife! If there be such an one, he il
J "a traitor to his country-he possesse
the spirit of murderer"
1 In the Patriot Of January 7, 1912
we find the following paragraph
8 touching the letter Of Gen. Harrison
to Congress, after the glorious batll'
Of Tippecanoe:
u 8ssTo every American who feels 70
his country, the perusal of that lette
! will produce pride and pleasure"
Il But, Mr. Niles, of Connecticut, tn
/. late well known u. S. Senator, am
: at this present moment the Van Blu
! |ren candidate for Governor of tina
. Commonwealth, has sswritten q book,
which comprises condensed Biogrs
I. ply Of the Peoples Candidate for tn
7 Presidency! 90 that mine enem
: had written a bookr' and here W
i have it, Truly, considering the rel;
! Tive position of the parties, it is arar
curiosity,oworthv the attention ofth
literary D'Israelis of the day
1--WE commend it for the especial p
i rusal Of the editor of the Glob
+ who holds Mr. Niles in the 3highe'
! consideration for he has told US tn:
& Mr. Niles speaks as Doctor Frankl'
lwrote.v IS
7 The book to whichwe refer, beal
aIthe following title !: si9is ssa