Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-05-09


If tho establishment Of bank could be made sub |
seryent to either Of these objects, it would certain
IS find favor with many who would not be disposed
TO support II on other grounds. | entertain no, a
foubt bnt that this end may be attained, and TINT
the state will be thereby enabled grcoty to contri
butte towards the construction Of such works of i'm
provement as may be thought most likely to prove
beneficial and useful.
Fellow Citizens. --Havo the inducements and
promises Of this party, in relation to Bank
been realized? How much good has been &C.
complished by the establishment which is called
"the Bank of Missouri" We might be tempted
10 expose its Operations, and to demonstrate not
only its utter ef,utiliy, considered as a Bank
but the absolute and wide spread injury it has oc
essoned to every general interest which looked
TO it for luIf!lment Of the promises and predc-
.ions of those acho made 1t. But we lorhear. The
pledges and the (alsifcations are both before you
and it is for pour decision whether the guilty au
thors Of both shall escape upon the neo and false
Glamour which is nor raised against the IVhigSl
Same! Eternal SHANE
The same party and the same leaders will tell
you tina! Col Benton and Mr. Van Buren, are
for the graduation and pre.enption bills, and that
the reelection of Mr.. Van Buren, constitutes the
only hope Of carrying these objects. All this too
will b. asserted in the face Of The journals of
Congress which shew that General Harrison was
the author and founder Of our present land sys.
TEN, more than 20 years before either Col. B. or
the President had even seat in COngress--in the
teeth, too, Of all the votes Of General Harrison
intdrour and the votes OF Mr. Van Buren, against
these bills during the period they served together
in the Senate, and the reiterated declaration Of
Gen. H., during the present canvass, that his
opinions Of the justice and policy or the pre- emp.
,,cJ or IL
You will be told that the Wings are opposed to
the reduction Of the duty on Salt, and that there.
fore you must vote for Mr.. Van Buren-notwilh.
standing we read from the Register Of Debate
now before us that General Harrison Introduced
the bill to repeal the duty in 1928, and opposed
the motion Of Mr.. Van BWre1, for its Indefinite
postponement, in a mastery and unanswerabIe
speech Of several pages
These devices, and scores besides them, will
doubtless be resorted to, in order to begue the
minds Of the upright, but less informed portion
Of the people, from the real issues involved in
this momenous controversy. We hence desire
to impress, again, in the conclusion Of our re.
marks, hat THIS is A QUESTION, EMPHATIcAuLY
AND WHOLLY, BETWEEN GENERAL HARRISON
AND HIS PURPOSES AND Mr.. VAN buren,
AND HIS. As Statesman, you must be salts
fed, from the evidence before yon, that the former
hasmore rigidly adhered to the republican creed,
in adccrsity as well as prosperity, than his com.
petitor-and in this respect he stands before US
at least the more reliable candidate Of the two.
AS Citizen, his life is unstaned by dishonor,
unclouded by intrigue and untarnished by wrong
AS Soldier, HISTORY has placed his name
and his deeds a5oUe the breath Of that envenomed
detraction, which would sacrifice the very angels
to compass the sordid designs Of those who en-
r,ln ,bn o,oyc sab
the creduly Of the people they have so long and
so fatally practised upon can make them believe
that WILLIAM Henry HARRlsON was not ''the
first Military characters Of his age, then indeed
shall we have renounccd the histories which we
have read at school, and even our very ''house,
hold wolds' will be turned into lies at the bidding
ofparty! But we appeal to the middle aged and
the grey haired meu Of The coun ry Tell us
where this slondeted soldier was in the SHOWS o.
1872, when his competitor was in the Legislature
Of New York, voting against M1dis0a- -'.tho
soul Of the war;" Stand forth, ye who shared
his perls and prvations in the wilderness morass.
es OF the North, and stood by him until he flew
the flag Of your country aud his, from the smoul-
de,ing ruins the arsenals and the prison houses
OF Maiden!
Fellow Offensive must needs refer the story
Of his services in the field, from the period OF hi
subalterncy under Wayne, until the close Of hi,
career as a victorious General n-chicf, to the yc
luminous histories Of that day, when no polilca
motive existed either to traduce him or the Other
gallant spirits who had devoted themselves 10 thei
country. To reflte the SANDERS, in detail, which
are now propogated against him, would be to re-
write that history, even an appendix to which i,
more than we have room for here. II may suffice
to cover al these charges, that the Legislatures 81
Kentucky and Indiana, the officers who served under
him, including Shelby and Johnson aud Dayiess ant
Cass, his ads-de-camp (Uithout regard to their poll
teal bus) and scores whose names We have ever
not room for, have approved him brave soldier, AT
able commander, a pure patriot and an honorable
man. If we have room in the appendix, some o
these testimonials will be therein embodied 4
this place, we can only venture on the space
sufficient to record the following joint resolution
which passed both houses Of c cngress with butt
dissenting voice, after years Of i"qury aud inves
tigation had stamped the wisdom Of his measures
the bassasss Of his sLaa3ersrs! We copy from pag
III Of the session acts Of the 1st session Of The l5l
Congress, now before us--on which is also reCurde
resolution Of the date presenting swor
TO Col, Johnson for his gollpnry and good conduct
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Rcprese
tetives Of the United States of America in Congres
assembled, That the thanks Of Congress be- an
they hereby, presented to Major General Wi
liam Henry Harrison, and Isaac Shelby, late Cover
of kPDtucIv. and n,l,f 4, 10, f i.,r