Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-01-13

come 10 he what he is, by the force of cunning and
OF circumstances. How well, then. does it become
the supporters Of Van Buren, to endeavor to be.
little HARRISON: they would, if they could, bring
the latter down from his proud height to the level
OF their own man. But we will allow an honora.
BILE opponent to administer the proper rebuke to
the Shameless slanderer9 of HARRrsoN. Let the ed
itor of the Patriot read and blush. After copyinr
TWO brief extracts las given above, succeeding the
quotation from the Patriot the OHIO Confederate,
". is. pape', has the following:
From The Ohio Confederate
GEN E.RAL HARRISON.
If we did not entertain a high respect for the
papers from which wo have made the foregoing
quotations. we would avoid the liabilities to which
we know we are exposing oursClf when we take
exceptions to these expressions. But it is pre-.
csey because we esteem them influential aud
worthy Journals, that are not at liberty 10 for
bear the objections which we have against them,
or of the inputation fault finding dispositions.
Can it be brethren at the cause which you es
pouse, the principles you advocate, or the success
even of the man whom you prefer, can only be
secured by the Use of such means AS this? Are
the truth aud the beauty and the power Of repub-
licunism to he established by refractory assertions
Of individual character? fire Nh. Fan B,uen'S
claims 10 the respect and confidence ofhe people, and
his tile 10 The highest honor Of The public sercce,
only to be maintained, in any degree assisted, by
contume ious treatment Of his rivals IN popular IA
oar? Surely there is error in this thing. Diyest
yourselves, if but for a moment, of the excitement,
1--WE had almost said of the phrenzy) which you
allow your party attachments and anmosities TO
engender-assume the cool and generous frame
of mind which well belts the free and engl-
tened citizen, land such you are) and calmly an
swcr the inquiry "Who is he whom you are des-
cribing as the petticoot GenerdL-a Supernatural
\ dotdrd?" Yourselves will answer-and that not
IN coupulson-po aspirations out of view,
ourselves will answer most rankly,--he is "A tried
Of, Il io0rthy citizen aye, seven times tried is
le ordeals of fire and of water. While yet
ng, you will say he gave himself to the
srvce of his country; he exchanged the
.e safety Of fam,iy and home, for the per-
hrdships Of a droary wilderness and a
~ For forty years, thence forward
Die himself to his country in peace
Var, in danger and security, in the camp
ne closet in the Senate and in the battle field,
did he serve that country in true fealty and un-
furnished honor-until, even now, grown grey in
that hard service which has brought him nothing
but glorious reputation and conscience void OF
offence against the obligations of patriotism, he
stands, in his old age, among the millions who sur
round him. model of oficidl purity and ancorrup-
ted integrity. And this is the toll worn soldier and
honored citizen who is described as "superan-
nuated and pitiable dotard, and petiicoat Gener
al!n'
Brethren, if we believe another to he the better
statesman, let us say So If we think the aged
patriot entertains opinions end sentiments adverse
TO the important interests Of our country, let us
canvass unreservedly those sentiments and opin-
IONS But IN the name ofhumanity and gratitude,
let us mol tdunt the ueterdn Cith The de-
cripitude of gears, ,oich 10 all Of human kind,
nor touch, Nth rude, uteeiing hand his hardearn.d
garlands ,oon many bloody field, chere brace
men fought? Gentlemen, there is vast difference
between the goose-quill and the death dealing
sword--a mighty contrast between the suflerpgs
and the dangers of tented field, and the soft aud
easy lie of The critic who despises it,
When under the impulse of political acerbity,
one feels prone to disparage the just claims Of Gen.
Harrison to the consideration of the people, there
are two circumstances, The recollection OF which
ought it would seem, to arrest the incipient pur
pose. 1t should be remembered in the first place,
That too years haze just gone By since majority
of citizens of Ohio iUoud hare raised him 10 the
iofiest post Of responsibility and honor-and that
such expression Of popular opinion is entitled TO
some ,oeight, IN estimating individual character.
And, in the second place, let it not he forgotten,
(by future generations it will not BEL that from the
service ofthe state, continuing through all the ac-
tive years OF a heightened life, he retires in poper
tn. When the fact bee mes common as no lon
ger to be remarkable, let his countrymen cease to
hold it as a token of Harrisons worth but while
as yet the solitary instance, one, in
which the love of money has been totally lost in
the noble love OF country and honor, let it be ac
knowledged the prondcst monument of his
greatness, and tie best memorial of his virtue.
The same paper makes the annexed remarks on
the Wing nominations.
"What we may think of the ticket rendered to
the country by the Wing National Convention, we
do not assume 10 be matter of public Importance.
Nevertheless, 1t is our right and perhaps our duty
TO say 10 our readers, that we believe il to be the
II. IL.
the Wing party, had the power 10 offer to the
American people. Two men less eXceponuble
to the honest and patriotic yeonIanry the coun-
try in point of individual worth could not probably
have been found among the thousands Of dstin
guished merit, within the wide compass of selec-
ton. Worthy, popular, nay, beloved by their
countrymen, ifa ma iory shall he found to with
hold their suffrages from Cen Harrison aud Mr..
Tyler, for the highest Offices of the Republic, il
may not authorize the conclusion that they have
not the unbounded confidence of the people. The
strange combinations of party interests which sig
nalize the period, place these citizens before their
country, as the representatives Of principles and
parties, IN some instances foreign to each, in many
10 one OF them, md may produce results, which,
m The absence these peculiar associa ions would
be essentially varied
1t has happened TO us ON Two occnsions when
neither oursef nor those around u.s. were ,nticipn.
ting Tor MN the important posture in which he.
now stands before the country to express our onin
ions OF Gen. Harrison and to assert his high claims
TO the respect and confidence of his countrymen
The evidences Of these cmbelish masy Of the
brightest pages of his countrys history since near
ly half century. To repeat them, is supereroga-
tory, TO deny OF dispeage them is most cruel and
unjust. 1t forty years Of public service, in high
and responsible stations, begun ir youth and aflu-
ence, spent IN toll and fidelity, and ended in pov
erty without reproach- ifhese qualities and serv-