The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-06-04

VIvE La BAeArELLE.-The opposition
prints are every where teeming with silly
and senseless remarks, about Gen. Harri
sons having :. Confidential committee
to conduct his correspondence; to thinl
for him, to speak, and act, and judge TO
him, and thereby release him from al
personal responsibility to the American
people, for whatever opinions he may
entertain, in regard to certain principles,
now good deal agitated by the political
q,.id nuncs Of the day. And the reas.
on they allege forsooth, for all this is, that
Gen. Harrison is now incompetent to ap-
pear, advantageously, before the public
as writer; that he is frail, infrm,
old man; that his physical system is
efete, and worn out by age. and that
his mind has necessarily become imbecile
and feeble. Now this is a most wicked,
and wilful peryersion of the truth, and no
man who has the slightest regard for
moral principle, and is not callous to
every impulse Of humanity and benevo-
lence, would adventure the assertion
Are these reckless calumniators, so igno-
rant of the history of western literature,
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as not to know that Gen. Harrisons name
stands pre-eminent, on the beadroll of this
department! let them look into the ar
chives of s. The Historical Society of
Western Antiquities" and other standard
authorities. and they will there meet with
a practical refutation of this cruel and re-
len.less slander-let them just turn to the
published opinions of some Of the most
erudite men Of the age, in reference to
Gen. Harrison's scholastic merit. When
such powerful genuises as Edward Ever
EFT, Daniel Webster, and DR. Charming
speak on this subject we should charita-
bly, think that mere newspaper declaim-
crs, large proportion Of whom, are no.
thing more than Sciolists in reading, and
drivellers in thought, should keep silent.
But the veriest cur, will feel himself
honored, to stand and bay the Lion
Now the whole secret of this commit
tee affair, about which their has been so
much clustering and hareing up, is this,
some two or three months ago, few
gentlemen in Cincinnati, intimate friends
Of Gen. Harrison, finding that his cor
respondence had become somewhat one
rous, on account of the numerous COM
munications he daily received from every
quarter Of the Union, proposed to become
his Amanuensis, or which is the same
thing, to assist him through the tolls Of
his epistolary labor, to this the General
consented. and here is the mighty bug
bear that has set the ink-holders of the
party, in such state of heated efferves-
cence.-"Strange whirlpool, where straws
and feathers, run eternal round"
And again-how deeply humiliating it
is to men of sense and reason to see with
what relentless avidity, these STRIPPING
editors, essay to fix the stigma of cowar-
dice upon General Harrison, to throw a
kind Of unhallowed penumbra around his
name, and 10 rob him of all his well.
earned fame as statesman and soldier.
tell it not in, Gath that at the time the
civil, and military destinies of this whole
western country were committed to the
hands Of Gen. Harrison, one-half of his
present villifers had no positive exist
ence, and the other half, were pulling
and whimpering in their mothers arms !!
enquire of them about their personal
knowledge Of some prominent events Of
the last war, and they can't touch bottom.
tits an era reaching too remote into Anti
guilty for their adolescent minds. Aud
Just as little do they know about the
chronicled incidents of those times, and
yet they will, immodes,ly, arroga,e to
themselves the right of traducing this
veteran chief, this great conservator Of
western interests, to whom it may be,
they are indebted for life and being, at
least SO far as this depends on the inter-
position of human agency-think of this,
ye hopeless young scions who are now
ranking and vege,ating along the pur-
lieus Of a still more hopeless democracy,
and strike another uein.
WHIas GOING AwRY AT WAsH1NeroN.-
It's now positively asserted, that Amos
Kendall Of !" heaven born memory, ha.
resigned. the Office of Post Master Gene
raj, and it is even limited, that most 0
the cabinet dignitaries will follow in hi.
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