Madison Whig advocate. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1839-1841, 1840-05-02

GTThe following eloquent passages
are from speech made by Judge Han
son before the Wing State Convention of
Maryland which assembled in Baltimore
on the 10Th iast The sentiments utter
ed by Judge ii. will find response in
every bosom where love OF country and
patriotism has resting place:
The day of deliverance is approaching.
The day Of our travail is come: the dav
when we may all rejoice that the Old
Petticoat Granny, William Henry Har-
rison is at hand. We do therefore hail
ed in our agony and dismay, to cry out
for his help; yes the old petticoat Gener-
al, William Henry Harrison comes to our
rescue. He comes; the coward! who In
every battle was victorious; the co,card
who never turned his back upon the ene-
my of his country, the coward who in
every conflict from Tippecanoe to the
Thames, was seen sswith his beaver up,''
to course along the lines, scattering his
around;" and whilst in the
hottest of the fight and in every post of
danger the fire of his eye cleaned like
sword, and his own peculiar voice was
heard ringing in the ears of every SOL
der, those memorable words, ssstand to
your guns boys, never surrender" till
not a foe was left upon the field Tis he
we claim as our deliverer. We look to
him, w. Fl. Harrison, to restore the per-
ished credit and fill the exhausted and
pillaged Golfers of the country. We |
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from Office poor and in debt, whilst he re-
plenished and filled the national treasury |
with millions ofdollars, not one OF which,
ever stuck in his palm in passing through
his hands. 1t is to him, William Henry |!
Harrison. we turn, who was the adviser |
the friend. the farther to every poor en-
igrant, who settled beyond the mountains;
who was always ready to take by the
hand, the poorest settler Of the meanest
log cabin in the wilderness; it is to him
that we look once more for peace and
plenty, for private and national prosperi-
ty, for restoration of all the privileges
and blessings of freeman; in word we
look to Him, under the blessings of prov
dence, for the great consumnsation of pub
'ic and private faith. IT'S to such de-
liver we look; to sour old tried hard ci-
Ter, log cabin, Tippecanoe.n Not to
such deliver as the Emperor Alexander
IF Russia, he the deliverer, who deliver
ed Kings, .Emperors, and a whole CONT
lent of nations into the hands of the
Holy Alliance: but we seek to be deliv-
cred from an alliance, than which none
vas ever more unholy, and from under
he pressure of which, no people ever
5roaned more, than we, the people of the
United States; tits to such deliverer
We look. And if in as mongrel pack,
IS was ever Uttered in kennel, there
,e not included in the deliverance, pair
If notable twins engendered is the cabi-
let of the kitchen, then in the language
# the facetious old Knight, "there is no
kill IN surgery"
But let US no longer linger with the
,ast, for the time has come, TO give thanks /
md rejoice. Those upon the look out,
ire proclaiming joyful tydiflgs from all
lround US. Land is once more in sight, ;
md our perils at an end Too long haye !
We been at sea, without chart or compass. !,
tossed about by every wind of Doctrine"
'ut the great swell of public opinion is Il
esetting; the under tow of intrigue and {
orrDtion is running out, sweeping along {
With It, the turbid feculence, that poIlut-
d the land, we trust, to be for ever sin I
he dark ocean of oblivion buriedr-the li
ain bow of promise is again to be seen; I
istempered elements are every where /
ispersing, and the prov Of our bark
nee more points, to haven of safety. Il
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