The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-07-02

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By order Of the committee Of arrangements,
f. BLISS, Jr., Secretary.
Iowa city, June 5, lo4O
GATHERING AT TIPPECANOE.
Our limits forbid our giving even a
sketch of the immense gathering of the
People at the Tippecanoe battle ground.
The estimate is that there were at least
forty thousand present. A large num-
Der of the officers and soldiers who were
at the battle were at the celebration, a.
mong them Gen. Bartholomew. These
all testified in favor Of the bravery Of
Gen. Harrison. We cannot however
omit publishing the following incident.
The flag used by Gen. Harrison's troops
at the battle of Tippecanoe was exhibited
at the celebration and at the unanimous
request of the old Soldiers, presented to
JAMES Brooks, Esq. the original Jack
Downing ,-erroneously stated in our
number of June IL, to be Mr. Davis.
The presentation, to James Brooks,
esq.,, of New York City, of the flag
which was borne by Captain Spencer's
company on the night of the battle, was
accompanied by an address from Judge
Poke, in which he said
"'Thas in the name of the old soldiers
of Tippecanoe, he entrusted this dearly
beloved Flag of theirs to Mr. Brooks, for
him to bear home to the great CONNER
cial metropolis of the country aspeaking
witness of the dangers of the hard fought
battle upon this ground. 81 give it to
you, in their name," continued Judge
Poke, g as a yet surviving demonstra-
! ton Of the valor and heroism Of that
great day. Slashed with the tomahawk;
rent with bullets, as it is; and tattered
and torn in the terrible strife of savage
encounter, you will be able with this to
confute the calumnies and falsehoods of
those men, who in assailing our old
Governor, our commander in chief, assail
us all and who in calling him a coward
call us all towards too for wherever
we were, he was, and that Flag was ex-
posed to no more perils than he was that
day. Take it home, then to your Tip
pecanoe clubs, tell them the old soldiers
Of Tippecanoe sent it to speak for them !;
And when our old commander shall re-
store in Washington the principles of
Washington and Madison, take it there,
and present it to him to be deposited in
the archives of the government.
Mr. Brooks replied:
!" am a happy man to have such a
happy errand. My fellow citizens of
New York will profoundly feel the value
of the treasure you intrust to me to be
exhibited to them. Thousands and tens
Of thousands of eyes will greet it there,
and bless the soldiers here who have
given them this consecrated argument to
redress their wrongs. So tattered and
torn SO thickly pierced with bullets so
venerable now by age, and so holy in
| Its associations !; there itis,-and how
it speaks for itself and who dare call
them towards, that stood uponsthis small
enclosure, exposed to the perils Of this
Flag-none being more exposed than
/ your beloved commander in chief? The
Flag is History, and blessed be God that
| it is sleft, for in the cloud of falsehoods
] now; conjured by power to blacken the
Hero Of this field, there is danger that
written history be lied down, unless i
bears some such breathing, speaking au-
thority as this. This Flag, then, from
you, venerable men, presented here
where so many Of your comrades are
/ buried, where some Of you were wound.
4 ed where all have now assembled, Il
/ give as it were, your dying testimony
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