Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-10-01

strength nearly equalto that oil a well-iought
battle.
81 have often admitted, what ] could
not now conceal without fragrant injustice
to the slandered patriot, that learned IN
1918 from Genel al Harrison the best les
sons had ever learned in the art Of war
against savage foe-lessons precisely such
MS in 1918 | found General Jackson
jealousy employed in teaching TO his vol
unteers in the first Seminole war. To
these lessons and more especially to that
terrible theatre of savage and British war,
am indebted for the first impressions Of
my system of national defence by railroads
and floating batteries. With railroad
from Cincinnati Fort MeIgs, with anoth-
or from Pittsburgh to cleveland and San
dusky. General Harrison would have tfl-
umpphed over the British and Indians at
one-tenth part of the expense OF life and
money which attended his operations with
out such roads.
Ella the expression Of my admiration OF
Harrison MS military commander, | am
by no means disposed to compare him to
Washington or Napoleon, who stand un'
rivalled in the history of their respective
countries. Compared with these extraor-
binary men, we can boast of no great Cen
erals Nor shall we probably ever see
such men in our country until we see our
principal seaports in the hands OF foreign
ers, which we may very soon be obliged
10 witness. That seven years war
against England, France, and Russia, or
civil war. such as ragged in France prior
to the advent of Napoleon, would produce
such men as Washington and Napoleon,
| have no doubt. But few months, or
year or two of active service, alternately
against n savage or civilized foe, disre-
garding all the approved principles of the
art of war, can never produce great Cen
rral, save only the great by comparison.-
Compared with all the living Generals per-
sonally known to me, have no doubt
but that Harrison was apd is the most
highly qualified for The command OF
large army /; and consequently the greatest
and the best for the office OF constitutional
commander-in-chcf.
1t is well known to all who know me
well, that ] have always deemed il wrong
ior any man to be permitted to solicit or
accept the office Of President otthe Uni
led States longer than for one term. de-
sire the election of Harrison, not indeed
because he has been nominated by an irres-
ponsibIe body of men calling themselves
National Convention of lThigs, Conven-
ton unknown to the Constitution of the
United States, which sacred instrument
contains ample provision to enable the
People and the States to make an election
according to the law ofthe land, but be-
cause | believe him to be Wing IN prin-
ciple, as Washington, and Pendleton, and
Henry were-a Democratic Wing, for his
country against the world, but never for
the pu, poses of an intolerant party. wish
HIM to be elected, because he has proved
himself to be an honest man and TO possess
that high degree of moral courage which
will prompt him 10 encounter any danger
10 do his duty honestly and faithfully; and
because am sure he does not possess that
airocious hardihood -misnamed courage.
which would promp, him reckessly to vio-
late the constitution. If he should be cleo
ted am convinced he will appoint to office
no man but such as he shall be assured is
honest and capable, aud faithful to the Con-
stitulion and laws, and | am equally sure
he vii! remove none from Office but such
as he may find TO have been incompetent
or such as were appointed upon mere party
principles; and above all, he will do
whatever is lawful, necessary, and proper
80 put the country in a state of defence
and afford effective protection TO the from.
tier settlements, and prove by his official
acts, rather than by promises that may be
broken, that he will be the President of the
United States, and never the President Of
party.
at will be recollected by some of Cen
cral Harrison's once seemingly devoted,
but late questionable friends, that, while
under his immediate command in 1918, j
endeavored 10 shield him from the intrigues
of some of those dangerous friends, by re-
sisting their attempts TO forestall public
opinion by lawless combination TO vindi-
cate, in idle words and opinions, his con-
duct, which could be indicated in prop
er manner only by action; and which he
was then prepared to vindicate by a vigor-
GUS movement upon the enemy, then con-
tended. and do still contend, that the right
way to vndicate a public officer is to sup
press no fact, sustained or sustainabe by
TRUTH
--'nohng extenuate nor set down anght in malice.
"To give him vigorous support by acts
rather than by ,cords then Withheld my
signature and strcnuousy opposed the sign
ing, on the part of certain inexperienced
generals and field officers of the army, a
paper which we could not sign without a
violation of military law. But now that