The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-06

ing to him all, both officers and soldiers, under
his command,
There are many, I suppose, who win think
write but for political effect, when cay Gen.
Harrison is one of the best educated men in the
county,-but do say, and do sincerely be-
lieye there is no man with sounder and bet
ter education, for the position TO which he is
commended, than he has. In the general lite
nature Of the day, there are but few men so well
read or who discriminate in il 50 wei, and in
the true principles Of the Constitution, he was
most soundly imbued by his Father by Patrick
Henry, whom he had heard by George Wash
/ ington, by Robert Morris, as well as by all the
Virginia Fathers of the Revolution. His re-
nnscences Of Virginia life are interesting and
| fresh 10 me. He seems TO be link of the pre-
| sent TO the past, with sympathies for each--and
he can thus make himself agreeable to the young
as well as TO the old. ! do not know when
have met man with so good colloquial powers,
and, at the same time, with such fund OF mat
ter and personal anecdotes 10 give Zest TO his
conversation. As for his health, such men with
habits like his, of life SO serene, amid pure air.
upon a farm they do not much die, as that
their frames wear out Their modes OF thought,
and their processes of life, realize what Cicero
paints in his de Senecfufe, the serene old age Of
healthtul exercise of body and mind, time
never hanging heavy upon them, for they have
enough TO do, and death, having no terrors for
conscience, has no stings. N
babe reluctant "adieu" TO this happy home
OF venerable man, after prolonged stay. II
has been among the happiest visits Of my life
the most instructive and the most interesting
have not said one word of him would not have
SAID # he had not been before the People, with al
most certainty Of having their highest re-
wards in their highest honors. His rural dwell
ing, the antique sideboard, the Lords prayer in
its time-worn frame, the plain and home
,tfrht car fhac FRA IaI
too by himself, and kindled in the morning al
ways by his own hand the rustic, but generous
and abundant fare, what contrast all this, with
the teeming and advancing luxury Of our day
Here is man who might in the early settlement
of the country, while winning millions Of acres
of the Public Lands, and disbursing millions of
dollars of the Public Money, have had the
wealth Of CrGsus now, with palace for his
habitation,--his halls hung with damask, and IL
Illuminated with flashing tapestry, while statues
graced his grounds, and velvet couches bore him
over them; but here he is, happy in his retire
ment and simplicity, valuing more the honors
his country have awarded him in the resolution
of Congress, and of the State Of Kentucky
which he has well preserved and framed, and a
little telescope, his near and dear friend Com
modore Perry gave him, used in espying the en-
emy's feet in the battle of Lake Erie, when he
wrote to Harrison 1--WE have met the enemy and
they are ours ;"-setting more value say, on
these testimonials, with the unlmpeached name
OF an honest man, than upon all the wealth of
CrGsus, with all his Injuries. As the steam
boat approached ''the Bend" that daily touches
there, | shook hands with the Hero Farmer,
whose sword has been SO emphatically turned
into the ploughshare with the abiding convic-
ton that the people will almost unanimously in
their electoral colleges, request him to change
his ''Log Cabin" and all its plainness, and sim
picity, for the more splendid apartments of their
White House in Washington