The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-08-06

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,. formed upon youthful sympathies and
congenlal dispositions proved too strong
hot 70 TIME and absence, and we met in NJ.
! ork IN 1927, after a separation Of thirty
years, the same warm friends as we had
pared on this spotin '97. This period
recalls to my mind the Inauguration Of The
elder Adams, and with it the CHARGE ).
galnst Harrison of 'sancient federalism ),
am living witness that, at the period
to which ! refer, the charge was without
i. the slightest foundation. y, The republican
principles of Harrison were then as we'll
J known as his chivalric spirit, and he had
\ no superior in either. 1t has been re-
served for the politicians of the present
day, even while surrounded by the monu-
: ment of his civil and military virtues, to
I Question both. General Wayne was a
severe disciplinarian as well as an able
! general and a gallant soldier. He exacted
the most punctilious conformity to all
the rules Of military life; particularly did
he exhibit himself, and require his staff
to exhibit, constant example of the con-
llduct he required of others. Brave, tenn
|perate. and laborious himself, he selected
his staff for qualities similar to his own.
vi such military family thus organized,
Harrison became member in the con-
hdential relation of abide, camp. The
first Northwest army, while in winter
quarters in the wilderness, had few a.
musements to vary the dull routine of
camp duty. There was no society ont
IIof the army. The consequence was,
that habits of dissipation were acquired
by many of the officers whose rank and
age made the habit contagious. Har-
lrlson, though of an age peculiarly weak
against such temptations, was strengthen.
ed to successful resistance by an un-
quenchable thirst for knowledge, both
general and professional. Temperate,
active, and studious, then as now, he
lost mo time. Then, as now, the sun
never found him in bed, and the intervals
of military duty were devoted to course
of extensive historical reading. ,>sg8.
3 The battle of the Maumee, on goth ,Au-
gust, 1874, was fought by the Indians
with the most desperate courage. There
was no point Of the line at which the dan
ger was not imminent. AS aid-de-camp,
it was Harrison's duty TO carry the orders
of the General to any part of the, army
These orders, of course, were most FREE
quent where the fight was thickest, and
IN those parts Of the fight I generally
sa'o him on that eueaful dag. s :.
lean attest the truth Of the remark said
to be made by General Wilkinson and
Colonel Shamburgh, that Harrison was in
the front of the hottest battle; his person
was exposed from the commencement TO
the close Of the action; wherever duty
called, he fastened, regardless Of danger,
and, by his efforts and examples, contri-
buted as much to secure the fortune of the
day as any other subordinate to the COM
mander-in-chief. sas,..
General Wayne, in his official account
of the battle, after naming several officers
who distinguished themselves. says: 81
must add the names Of my faithful and
gallant aids-de.camp, Captains De Butts
and T. Lewis, and Lieutenant Harrison,
who. with the adjutant general. Major
Mills, rendered the most essential service,
by communicating my orders in every
direction, and, by their conduct and bra
very, exciting the troops to press for
victory III 4 I'D ssastas IL
| was stationed with my troop on the
extreme left, and the order to me to
charge was delivered by Harrison. In that
charge was severely, it was thought
|mortally, wounded. Perhaps I owe my
life to the prompt attention Of my young
friend, who carried me to the Generals
tent, and nursed and watched me with
the tenderness and affection of a brother.
Ofthe officers of that army, so far as
my knowledge extends, there are but four
who survive Generals Harrison and
Brady, and Major John aPosey, of Ken
lucky, who was a Cornet in my troop,
and myself. General Wayne, whose best
|eulogy is the grateful and af'ectionate re-
membrance of the People of the West,
was wholly unnoticed by Congress, and
died alta miserable hoyel in Pennsylvania;
and there, without a stone to mark the
place, his body was deposited.
And now, when the People are calling
your friend and neighbor from his farm
|by reclamation, to redeem the country
from the degradation to which it has been
reduced by a,selfsh and designing poll
tician, the orders have gone forth to
charge upon him, even upon him whom the
People assemble in unheard of numbers
to honor, the most detestable crimes, civil
and military, which the widest magma
ton, unrestrained by single moral sense,
can conceive-military crimes which, if
true, would long since have consigned
his body to a felon's tomb, and his mem
DRY to general execration-civil offences
and delinquences which, if true, think
you he would now stand first in the
hearts of his countrymen? <fs't7
People Of Ohio and Indiana! you who
have been the objects of his civil admin
istration. upon you especially deyolves
the grateful task of asserting the civil yir-