The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-08-28
An OLD METHODIST PREACHER.
THE GATHERING
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Suggested reading Gen. HarrisOn's speech
Fort Meigs.

Suggested on reading Gen. Harrison's speech
nj Fort Meigs.
TUNE-" Bonny Doom"
He stands on the field of his glory again,
And thousands filling his old battle plain,
And the voice of the trumpet sounds loud the blast
Bringing many thought of the glorious past
They come up before him, his patriot band
Again in the battlefield proudly they stand
The trumpet is sounding and pealing the drum,
In fancy s bright vision his soldiers have come.
He sees them when night her thick mantle has spread
And curtaincd with darkness the sumberers head;
When the watch fires were burning, the sentnels
But the eye of the General slumbers not vet
He watches the fires that are cleaning around,
He listens in silence to catch the least sound,
That tells that the of the forest are near,
Ere they break with their battlecry loud on the ear
For mothers have armed their brave for the fight
While the tears of affection dimnng their sight,
And wives at the parting their husbands caressed,
And clasped their loved children close to their
breast,
And maidens and lovers to each babe adieu
And proved hy their tears that their love most
true
All looked to their leader to bring back again
The friends they most loved from the battles dark
plain.
His soldiers were men who at Libertys call,
To Join in the battle came gathering all;
The plough in the furrow suddenly stayed,
BY the side of the anvil the hammer was laid,
And ere smouldercd the ashes, the patriots hand
Was grasping the rifle to rescue the land,
And in battles dark terrors, Impractical, untred,
He stood to beat back the oppressors proud tide.
By the side of the field where Won wood gently wave.
In the soft western wind the time honored graves
OF those, who in fight for their country did die
And tear of remembrance is dimming his eye, @
A tear which soldier could never have shed,
When the damp earth first fell on the glorious dead
For fears are unworthy. unworthy n SIGH
For soldier to show when the foemen nigh
Another brave army arc gathering there;
And banners arc borne in the soft summer air
And bugles are sounding, but peaceful their notes,
Ger woodland and valley their melody floats
And freemen are gathering, their love To record,
For their gallant Defender by counsel and sword
A nation is coming in HARRsoN's name,
The People are filling the field Of his fame
The country once more brave soldier demands,
To lead TO the contest her patriot hands
To hurl from their seats of oppression and pride
The men who the rights of the People dcficd
She calls upon him who has ever been true,
She calls on the SOLDIER OF TtFPEcASoE
He comes and the People will come in his name,
The People will cherish their HARRISON'S fame
The following circumstance was mentioned during
the session of the Harrisburg Convention, by Judge
Burnet of Ohio, 4 warm personal friend OF General
Harrison Many years since when the great tide Of
emigration was flowing through the Western States
the Hero of the Thames having for awhile exchanged
the arduous duties at statesman and General foi
the peaceful pursuits Of az culturc was on hot
summer evening At the porch Of his humble " Log
Cabin asked for shelter and meal by minister OF
the gospel Of the Methodist Episcopal persuasion
The faded appearance Of the stced and the solid gar
ments Of the rider, proclaimed the fatigue Of the dav
and with his usual courtesy, the old General wei
coined the stranger After plain and substantial