Southern shield., 1840-03-28
Life 0I Harrison.

fEVIE laurels which calumny could not wither nor \ neglect obscure, have been watered aiiesh from the fountains of fsorrowing justice, and are destined to hloom anew. The deeds of a soldier, as valor- oua and brave as ever warred aginst a tyrant-and of an officer, as gallant and accomplished as ever narshaed legion in the cause of liberty; and ofa civilian and statesman, pure and patriotic as the Washington from whom he received his first colnmisslon-an array, in short, ofvared talents, Of useful services and private worth, combined by no other living citizen-haye at last received as 1t were in national immersonation in the just judgement of national assembly convened to devise the means reclaIm and to save and to perpetuate the repub lie.
 Ifunder any circumsences-especially under such as present themseves-his counnymerI will de- S.re 10 possess themselves of work which, from a store of authentic sources, shall faithfully compile and arrange the story, of sage and patriot who can be known but to be honoredwhe,her 1t be in the peace ful and unobtrusve retiremen; winch he had chosen for himself, in the digni6ed and elevated sta tion to which he seems destined by the voice of the mi lions who surround him.
 While from the abundance and authenticity of the rich and interesting moera!s al hand the author holles 10 be enabled to render bs work acceptble 20 all classes ofreaders it's publication in the hands of lhe young men of the country, will be especially andiendurngly valuable. 1t is to present them mod el for imitation in every walk and relation oflife- front the csegian in his study the subaltern in the arap,--ascending thence by unaided integrity and enlarged capacity, through intermediate grades of eminent public service to the highest stations in the civil and military departments of tehe government thence voluntarily returning to his fields and ncor- porating himself again with the interests ofheir hus- baiidry--as so many necessary gradators in it. ting hlm to comprehend, preserve and direct the in- tertsts and machinery of the whole.
 Concedng that the motives of an author can but have little consideration with the public it may new erteess be not unworthy of remark as tending ito ex nnolec alraady- alluded to ten atone for the delinquency that, up to the re- cent period in our political history when portion of the States contiguous to him had drawn his name from retirement and connected with the canvass for the Presidency, the undersigned was himself compar- atvely Cnnforned respecting the history of a man who had he lived and acted on the stages of antiquity would have had his deeds perpetuated in annual fes- tivts, and impressed on the national memory by mo- nuflents to his fame and mausoemas for his ashes.
 It is sketch of the life of such man. ard of the history of his times that tho editor has consented in defer ence to the too favorable regards and solicitations of friends to place before the country.
 This work which will embrace the most prominent of the civil as well as the military services of General Harrison, will be edited by Col James H Birch, member of the bar of this place, whose character as citizen and writer is too familiar to the people of this State to require any additional guaranv for the fidelity and ability with which the task will be execu- ted It will be comprised in a. volume of between three and four hundred pages, and Twill be delivered to subscribers in Missouri, at one dollar and fifty cents per copy. An engraving and fac sImile, on steel will bt prefxed to the volume and the work, whether published here or in the east will go to press early in the spring Subscriptions out ofthe State, by merchants committees and others, must be in num- numbers sufficiently large to jastify the employment of agents in their delivery, and the price such will be fifteen dollars per dozen, with volume to such gentleman as may have interested himself to procure and become responsible for the subscription
 Address, CYRII. c. CADY
 Faygus, Missouri