Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-10-13
Fr ON the Ohio Ste tctesman.
GEN. HARRISON AND HIS SPEECH

GEN. HARRISON AND HIS SPEECH
ES.
Ofall the speeches that ever emana.e(
from the brain of a politician, Genera
NUNS are the most remarkable for theil
silly contradictions and puerile efforts a
argument. Fate seems to have required
this of the federal party as an additional
and lasting reproach TO its high and bonn
bastic professions. The Editor of the
West Liberty Democratic Club was at
Urbana, and reports portion ofhis speech.
We extract the following:
"The General, in his speech, told us
that he fought the battle of the Thames,
admitting that Johnson did fight well
but that he fought according 10 his orders,
for his benefit, and that all the glory be-
longed to him, and not johnson; and that
whilst he was giving johnson his orders,
he felt that the honors he was now re-
receiving we're TO be his reward from the
hands ofhis grateful countpmen."
The jealousy and ingratitudc that he
exhibited towards Col. Crogban, leaving
a lasting and deep reproach on his name,
are eking out in the little splenetic elfu-
sions that show themselves on all occa-
sons of late. What a contrast betweea
that noble, brave, and expanded soul Of
Col. johnson, and the selfish, narrow spir.
1t of Harrison--the one soldier and
a phianthropic Democrat; the other an
officer, and a cold, contracted, ambitious
and egotisticaI Federalst, rojbing others
of their laurels to deck his own brow.
The above paragraph is pitful begging
of the people to reward him for the fight
ing done by Col. Johnson.
But hear this would be President again.
"The next point he made was his pc.
cu!iar views on the currrency-duiing
which he stated that he was in favor of
the present banking system, and would
sign the charter of another Bank of the
United States, although he believed it to
be unconstitutional, providing Congress
would pass sbch bill--and that he be-
lieved the veto power TO be wrong, and
would never exercise it under any cir
cumstances. Here he took occasion to
travel out of his way to attack the hero
of New Orleans; and in his condemnation
Of the Maysvile road bill, he denounced
General Jackson as usurper, and accu-
sed him of appointing his successor-and,
in fact ran through all the slang to be
found in the federal prints of the past
year, with regard 10 General Jackson"
People of Ohio-Democrats-friends
of the Constitution, and an economical
and limited government-what do YOU
think Of this attack upon Gen. Jackson
for his veto upon the Maysvlle road bill,
which saved 10 the national Treasury
more than hundred millions of dollars,
confined the General Government with
in its legitimate sphere, and protected
the rights of the States from being swal-
lowed up by magnificent, corrupt and
extravagant system of national internal
improvements?
What monstTous avowal is this-what
lattudinarian and federal doctrines are
these to be avowed now! People Of
Ohio, and of the whole Union, wake I'D
Beware of such dangerous and anti-Jeffer-
sonian politicians. After such avowaIs
as these, need any one be surprised at
the great interest Daniel Webster, Mich
oas Biddle, and all the old Federalists
in every part of the country, take to Sc. |
cure his election. Jarkoou's veto Of the |
Maysvlls Road bill was one of the most
popular acts Of his life, yet these false
prophets, these preachers against large
expenditures of the National Government,
now denounce General jackson and the |
Democratic parry that sustained him, for
vetoing bill, which had it passed. wouId |
have laid the foundation Eor the most I'M
limited expenditures, as we'll as swallow |
ing up the States in the magnifcence of
the National Government by its roads,
canals &c. until the whole would have
sunk into corrupt and arrogant despo-
tism. And yet, after these assumptions
Of powers, National Bank, which though
he believed it unconstitutional, he would
aid TO establish by signing bIll-a tariff
tor the protection of the rich at the ex-
Pense of the poor, in addition TO internal
Improvements by the General Govern
ments; and yet we see, after all these, the
highest Federal doctrines ever avowed
by any man, that this same General Hat
Ison ""o"Hd up his tiradc Of slang and