The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-06-11

Aitc1en CaOinet, winch was iOuus5
lencored.
On Wednesday morning the Conven.
ton again assembled. At eight o'clock
the Old Soldiers-there were upwards
Of two hundred present-many Of whom
had been with Harrison in nearly all his
campaigns, met, and appointed Dr. Hen
~ Of Bloomington their President, with
several Vice Presidents and Secretaries
This was a most imposing scene. Ma
Iny ofthem made remarks in testimony Of
their high respect for the bravery, hu.
mainly and good generalship Of General
Harrison. they were in body constituted q
Jury, the calumnies and craven falsehoods
Of the Van Buren, presses against their
old General were read to theni' anu 'hey
we're called upon to pronounce on his
guilt or innocence. Every right hand
was raised in ,estipony Of his innocence
not one to pronounce him guilty.
these are the men who are the best
able to judge whether or not Gen. Harri-
SON was ever cowerd, and their verdict
on this occasion, ought TO make every
Van Buren, editor blush, if he has one
drop Of patriotic blood remaining i'll his
veins.
Directly after the meeting of the Old
Soldiers, the. niarshals began to form the
Procession. 1t was Herculean task.
They nevertheless succeeded, and a. a.
bout p o'clock the great mass began to
move. They marched on, about a mile
on the prairie and then wheeled for the
purpose Of marching through town. This
was very interesting movement. as it
gave each delegation an opportunity of
inspecting the whole procession as it
passed on its line Of march. The day
was clear and delightful. There were
hundreds of banners floating in the breeze
with beautiful emblems painted OH them
and all with appropriate mottos, and as
one banner after another with significant
emblems would reach different points.
the air rung with the thousands of cheers
that encouraged them on. We felt proud
for Iowa on the occasion. As her hum
Bile banner was borne along with the mot
to /" Hawk-Eyes cannot vote, but they
.sciN speak,' we often heard the welcome
sound, :" three cheers for Iowa." coming
up like the sound of mighty waters.
A large canoe from Morgan. drawn by
six white horses containing about forty old
soldiers of Harrison's army, attracted
considerable attention. A neat steam
boat from Beardstown, with sailor sing
ing out the soundings also attracted the
notice of all. The boat was called the
Tippecanoe. There were several very
cleverly executed devices on canvass ac.
companying this boat. One was the
Farmer of North Bend in front Of his
farm house with all the implements of
husbandry around him. Onnnother was
a beautiful steamer with appropriate mot
tos; and on another was a queer looking
chap with his thumb on his nose twirling
his fingers and saying " You cant come
it, Matty.' The Chicago delegation
brought down beautiful full rugged brig,
with midshipmen, sailors and all
The flags on the brig were Of course
very appropriate.
The farewell county delegation had
among others beautiful banner, describ-
ing the scene before the Pennsylvania
school house which has been so graphical
ly represented, and which has gone the
rounds Of the papers. There is seen the
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Post Boy at full speed crying Harri-
son has whipped the British and In
dams y and in the back ground the
school master is seen issuing from the
school house, followed by his pupils,
and crying Boys, do you hear that! %
There were several canoes. One from
Marshall county was SO feet long, man
ned by 80 of the real grit. There was
another from Pike. We do not recollect
where the others came from. There
were several log cabins, too. The one
from Cotton Hill precinct, S;ngamon
county, attracted great deal Of alten-
ton. 1t was drawn by sixteen yoke OF
cattle, being open at top it had attached
to it several sizeable trees with men and
boys in the branches. About one hun.
dred men were drawn along on this cabin,
most of whom were engaged in singing
Tippecanoe songs. Another log cabin
had a live eagle on the top Of it in a
cage. with a boy cracking hickory nuts
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