The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-05-19
GENERAL HARRISON AT HOME.
Correspondence IF The Baltimore Patriot.
NVuFEIING AprIi 26, 1910.

Rei,c on n visit to Cincinnati | was fortunate
in finding General Harrison IN the city. HIS iaIm
Mt North Bend is distant some htieen or twenty
miles from town, and he had come up for the pnr,,
nose Of listening to sermon by an old friend and
inmate of his family. Yon will recollect that IN
the council held at Vincennes before the hattie OF
'Tippecanoe Tecumseh raised the war-W hoop and
snve tho signal to has bands to draw their conceal
ed clubs, and massacre the Governor and all me
whites in The assembly; and that u Methodist MN
ister who was N ember of the Governor ) mouse.
hold retired to the family mansion, and stationed
himself at the door, in order to defend the Govern
or lady and children from violence and murder
After lapse of nearly thirty years, 'iis Same MN
lister, being in Cincinnati, the General came 10 tue
CITY expressly to and hear hlm preach
Gun Harrisons health is excellent, and his spr'
its YOU may infer from the wide spread enthusiasm
with which his nomination has been received by
the American people, and the moral certainty OF
his election to the Presidential chair. Although
not endowed by nature with robust constitution,
vet his lame has been strengthened by temper.
ance, and hardened by the severe exposure OF
an active life. that he retains the youthful ViSo ana
elastic step of his earlier days. His intellect so
far from being decayed, is now in the full maurl'
" of its strength. Urbaue in his manners, bene'o-
lent and hosptable in his disposition, and remark
ably fluent and eloquent in conversat on, he wins
your confidence and respect on amoments acqualnt
ance. Unaffected generosity and noble disinierest'
edncss the most prominent features IN ms
character. The esteem in which he is held by his
neighbors, and more immediate fellow citizcns, is
almost univ ersal, and is well calculated 10 make
ger. Perhaps no man has ever lived so long, and
had such all extensive intercourse with all classes
of m en-, thai has made so few enemies and so ma
nv friends His attain nents rs ii scholar are wei
known, and the and the elcquence OF ms style
are remarkable for one who has spent so large
portion Of his life in the camp, and in the active
service of his country.
A great parade is nIadein the prints devoted TO the
Administrator about theleter written by the cor
responding commtte at Cincinnati, in response to
certain nerrogatories propounded by an asSocia-
ton at Oswego, New York. Gen. Harrison Is al
legged to be c0mpuS, and his iriends, we are
told, have taken him into their exclusive Keeping
and will not suffer him to write or speak I" any one
They have even gone so far as to say That lhey
have built huge wall around his house, and that,
being thus Gagged none but confidential friends are
permitted to see him. These charges are 50 film
sy and ridiculous, that they carry with them their
own refulaon. A simple statement will put the
whole SANDER to the blush.---The cores
,pondlng committee is merely part OF the
general committee at Cincinnati, appointed by the
Wings Of that city in town meeting assembled
With Gen Harrison personally they have nothins
to do; and of my own knowledge, | assert that
Gen. HARRISON did not know who the individuals
were that composed the committee. Receiving,
however more letters than it was possible for any
one man to read or answer, at Ger Harrison 5 re-
quest expressed to his friends, the central commit
tee undertook to read and answer such letters as
we've not important; but those That required sPe-
cial reply, ordered to be submitted to the per-
sonal inspection Of General; that 1t necessa
~ they might he responded to by him individually
I would also add that this association represented
themselves to be friends; they were so understood
and believed by The committee, and their letter was
answered under that impression. IL appears that
they were enemies in disguise. ~ generous peo-
pie will not countonance such infamous frauds, but
will visit them with the vengeance thew deserve
You can have but a faint idea of TIE enthusiasm
which pervades the whole West in favor of Gen
Harrison. The people pant for the election day
and burn to send on President their distinguish
ed favorte. Meeting after meeting, and conven-
ton after convention, attest the unbounded con ii
dence which they feel in The justice Of their cause
and the success Of their candidate. AT every cour
try inn and cross road old soldier ia heard re
counting the battles which he has fought under his
beloved commander at Fort Meigs, Tippecanoe
or the Thames; the boatman floating down the o
ho on the flats and RATS, chant songs IN honor Of
tire hero Of the last war; the boys at the landings
shout for Harrison; liberty poles, with Wing in
scrptfons, are erecting in the villages; and even
the ploughman stops his horses in the middle Of
the field and huzzas for the Farmer President
Kentucky--the sheet anchor of the wing party
is fast and firm. Ohio and Indiana, those young
giants of the West, will give their old Governor
more overwhe lining majority than he received ir
1886. Michigan redeemed and regeneratcd, |,
certain and true. With Illinois, the question il
not whether she will vote for Van Buren, or Har
rison but whether she will noj give Harrison
lager majority than lndianaG IF Virginia 90 agains
us, we shall lose nothing that' we claimed; if sh
go for US THE BATTLE IS OVER