The Rodney telegraph., 1840-06-06
From the Cincinnati Gazette.
YET ANOTHER CALUMNY!

GEN. HARRISON CHARGED AS DEFAULTER.
Among the most profiigate efforts of
profigate press, is the charge against Gen.
eral Harrison of being defauter. 1t is
Justly the boast Of his friends, that during the
long period of his diversified public employ
ment, and the disbursement of many millions
ut dollars, not one cent of it remains unac-
counted for.
The Petshurg Mercury gives place to the
following extract of letter from Washing
ton TO the editor of the Richmond Enquirer,
to "sbow that if Harrison is not a defauller,
he is sadly in arrears to the United States
Treasury" 1t says: "Gen. Harrison has
erer ired most prodigalIy. And the habits
of profuse expenditure, which he taught his
son, have probably done much more to make
him peculator, than the precepis of the
General could effect to keep him out of
CRIME" The extract follows:
"lt is fact no less astounding than true,
and the archives of the Government will
place it beyond controversy, that j. G. S.
Harrison. 0~rson ef Gen. Harrison, and a
receiver OF public money at Vincennes, in
Indiana, was removed by President jackson,
because he was defaulter to the amount of
S25, 600 TO the Government, notwithstand-
ing General Harrison was his security go
Behold the auspices of the new admnistra-
ton! Behold the harbinger of Harrison and
Rcform!''
How desperately mean must be the head
and heart that can promuleate such a para
graph against the war-worn veteran Harr-
on! General Harrison a defaulter! Near
ly halfa century in the service Of the coun-
try, has he ever applied a dollar of public
money to his own, or to the use of his friends ?
Will any one stand forth and assert that he
ever received farthing of the money for
which his son died in arrear to the Govern
ment? Has the General rioIated dny pub
lic trust? He was security for his SON
his son died indebted TO the Government,
and the debt is unpaid. Now by inference,
not by direct charge, and the base tricks OF
party, the old Hero is to he made out de-
fdulter! And Thomas Richie aids the rite
detrGctiOn! Genera Harrison, with unlim-
tied authority to draw Oh the Treasury, can
not be found ever 10 have used the authori-
" for his own bene6t-s far from 1t, with
this autho. ity in force, while he was IN con-
mand oflhe Northwestern Army, he forfeit.
ed large land entries, rather than draw on
The Treasury for means to pay it out of the
office.
J. G. S. Harrison, is understood to have
become involved, by advances TO an Indian
agent, con6ding in his assurances, of author
ity to draw on the Treasury for the money.
Instead ofthe default being S25, 900, it does
not exceed $1,000. These things occurred
| while Gen. Harrison was absent in South
America. Soon after his return, he repair
ed TO Washington TO obtain some indulgence
10 the estate Of bis son for the debt, upon the
| petition of his widow, an only daughter ol
the heroic Pike. Mr.. Clay, at present q
Senator in Congress from Alabama, advoca
ted the propriety of reinquishing the deb
altogether IN consideration of the claims o
Gen. Pike. The ssact for The relief of Mrs
CIarissa B. Harrison," which passed I'd o
March 1881, and was approved by Genera
Jackson, authorized the settlement of th'
receivers accounts upon the principles Q
I''justice and equity" giving the estate tim
for eighteen years, uitkout interest, to pa,
This debt. A lien was retained upon th'