The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1840-09-05
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From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
TIE VOICE OF THE PAST.
HARRISON'S CLAIMS TO BE A
"HERO" CONSIDERED.

Apart from the raging whirlpool Of par
ty--distinct from the active men of either
political sect-is large body of quiet cti.
zens who read both sides, and from the
truth thus elected make up their convictions.
These are the seekers after light; the men
who stand aloof regardless of the violence
/, and din Of party strife. Argument, no mat.
Ter by whom uttered, they read, and it is to
this class that we may safely trust the des
tiiiseso of the country. 1t is to them that
we unfold our Democratic principles, which
they never fail to adopt, and sustain at the
polIs. We now desire to call the attention
Of men of all parties to the following pow.
erfui testimony against the claims set up by
WIN. Henry Harrison to the glory of be-
ina q Hero" We commence with the
following extracts from Marshall's History
Of Ken:ucky, written if lS24-more than
ff.esn years ago-(and for which we are
indebted to our friend Of the Pltsburg Man
ufaciurer.) This, although written with
much severity, was prepared with an eye
solely to General Harrison's Military ex-
ploits, the contingency Of his being nomi-
mated for the Presidency, making, at that
lime. Of course, no part of the policy which
dictated this mastery review of the Battle
4of Tippecanoe.
= After he battle, says the history,
9 His vanity more than fermsnted, it
bnbbered over; the.country was filed with
his letters--and The press teemed with his
accounts of the battle, in which he some
fines forgot to be consistent"
Ii reviewing the first plan of Harrison's
encampment, the History says:
Ri l." "WelI, then, it was in the face of an
enemy, that we look for the penetration and
skill of a GENERAL. What does our GOO
eyaor- general, whose name is faired and
bIaired about as modern Hannibal p
WHY, truly-after having determined to en-
camp on a prairie, one and half mile, or
less, from town, where the army had been
drawn up in order of battle, without seeing
in enemy, as we understand him, he is di-
verted from his object, on the report of the
lndian insolence and hostility"
And for what purpose did General Harri-
son relinquish his camp he had begun to
ttace in the prairie, and march toward the
Indian tewn on the Wabash?
!. Why, doubtless" says Marshall's his
tory, " to read to the Prophet and his war
riors, which he could not get them to hear
before, some lowing message of the Presi-
dent, in the nature of riot act, ordering
Them to dsperse, to abandon their town,
and save their lives"
But listen to this cautious and circum-
specl Generals description of his " camp
Ing ground which affords great facility
10 the approach of savages." 1t was"
says he, ga piece OF dry oak land, rising
about ten feet above the level Of marshy
prairie in front towards the Indian town)
and nearly twice that height above similar
prairie in the rear, through which and near
A this bank ran a small stream clothed with
Aeulllows, and other brushwood. Towards
She left faux this bench of high land wild
ened considerably, but became gradually
hasrow in the opposition direction, an at
The distance of one hundred and fifty yards
ifrom the right flank, terminated in an abrupt
point"
I 4. If the God, whom the Indians adore IN
Nar," (exclaims MarshalPs hsory,) had
made piece of ground for the camp of an
snemy, il was this, and TO this his worship
pefs directed General Harrison. And Cen
sfal Harrison, seeing the kind and quality
ol the ground, and that it afforded great
fPsility 10 the approach of sayages,' the We