Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-03-02
AN OLD SOLDIERS APPEAL.
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| AN OLD SOLDlER'S APPEAL.
! FROM 1.-THE REPUBLIC"
The following appeal Of an old citizen Of Clark
comfy 10 the friends Of WAYNE's soldiers is insert
ed just rs We received IL. II is another evidence Of
The worth Of Gen. HARRisoS, to sec Just and long.
| neglected claims brought forward the promise
Of his election TO the Presidency. All who have
served their county feel that so good n patriot
Harrison will use ms power for their advantage
Father Swearingen well remembers The con ditlor
+ things which preceded the election of Thomas
Jefferson and he considers that we have arrived at
just such mother crisis IN tic affairs Of the Rerub
lie lilo adds that the re joicines which followed the
elseon OF jefferson will be renewed upon Tue elsc-
ton OF Harrison, Nat. Iat.
Gentlemen and fellow citizens. and brother SOL
defs Of General Wayne's aud General ST. Ciair's
Armies, and The relatives OF such OF them are
deceased Now Is the time for you TO come up 10
the polls hing mp with you all possible aid-yons
brothers, Your nephews, aud your neig hb"rs-aud
elect Gen. Harrison for our mex, President, who
aid-d campio Gen Wayne through the Eve years.
campaign against tho destroying savagcs and con-
quered them, aud thereby opened us all this vast
extensive region OF conniiy, IN which many of "
are now so happily settled. Gen. Harrison has new
er been rewarded Tor what he has DONE and 10
knows the soldiers Of those armies have never been
rewarded FOR their sulerings, and the good they have
done. Now. let lis ard Gen. Hnrison by our
highest suffrage, and no doobt he will then remen-
Der US GU, brothers aud fathers, and all who hive
suffered with him in that pe,ions eventual, and ~,
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our Revolutionary solids and officers for The =
sontrngs and services Tor which they deserved aud
received great applause; md now We hope and be-
ieye that General Harrison will call 10 mind those
long meg lrctcd soldiers and officers Of Wayne md
do unto them likewise. 10 tho late war. land was
given 10 the soldiers as bounty. securing To them
aud their legal heirs comfortable home. which We
believe 10 be very GOOD md righteous thing. And
we believe that all want az 10 set hose long
ed aud il,ring servants and brethren on an euual
inong with the rest Of brethren Of similar SER
vices aud patriotism, sto elect Gen Harrison to IN.
Presidency. lie cannot but remember them, and
NJ leasi give 10 them, or their representatives. the
land that promised TO them at their enlistment
for the writer OF these lines very well knows that
theru wa bounty Of three hundred ac,es uC land
Offered 10 be given, On The indiv dual arriving NJ nre
10 every man that "ol Id enls for the term Of Tire,
year. under Gen. Wayne. Although, perhaps.
Govt inm.nt had never authorized the tecrupp Mi.
cefsto oHer sueha bounty. We, BY the agents Of the
Government those bargains were made, and la, enrv.
been fulfilled. And. seeing that our Revolutionary
soldiers, and the slliers Of our last war have beeu
compensated think that is little AZ can be done
Tor these ngneglecsd soldiers, or their legal ,epl
rssentaiists 10 give them the privilege to obtain ~
hall section OF land Tor every three years each vr
them may have served in sad armies. And I be.
l'sve that II General Harrison is elected, the us,ue
oil iher cause will, through his agency be establish.
ed, ard they will obtain the aforesaid land
"Sceondly. We call upon all of our cmip,un,.
who are no" living on these delightful parties in OUT
Western region. 10 come up and he " ard mr. cye,t
beneiaoor lo the good he has done for us. and L.,
shame cover the lace Of every one who will look n
round hun aud see the gloiious larms and d,l,yh,t
nl towns procured inr MS by GenercI Harrison and
his bay, soldiers, WHO would think Of voting far ;,
n,an who woall impose on US u paper currency and
exact III us specie nn-, which viii have the effect
oi causing our paper 10 lose half its value
"Gome achlgan. Ohio, fndaua, Illinois. Mis-
SCUM, Arkansas, and all the West; Come up To The
help oil Hanson aud his brave soldiers against the.
mighty aud formidable loes uf our general interest
aud good government. Come, also, We Easiern and
Southern Sial,s-ionk NJ YOUR inlc,rst-pIan,.
II The party III power. forgetting all those c,rai BEN
.it., or refusing TO reward ibtm.whcb is certainly
Of The greatest ats OF inginitudc and who ba,e
destroy ed the soundcst currency that we hays ever
had, give better one IN its stead, which /.
nowbLr ting npnn us in all It's dreadful forms * mini
ted horrors, aud who strive 10 palm all our measure
and distress on tie good money and good pcopie
who have done all they could for the veal Of our INV.
eminent. Enough. Shut not your eyes apa,psf
these important things. Look To your interest md
the nteaest ol the community in which YOU l,ve
This sketch IS from the zen # one who has bee
close observer NJ tie times since the plo,ous Vie
tory 10 the erection OF Thomas jefferson and WIZ
lived happy under the adm inisiraiions or Madiaoa.
Monioe, john q Adams. hut who is painful OBJ
server If our two late Administrations, and who de-
sres without party spnit.tha these few remarks NAV
BIZ pnbllsh,d in all the Democra ic as well as Whr
new papers Of our country.
JOHN A SWEARINGEN
" OF CLARK county, OdiS."