Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1841-04-28
The Death Bed OF Gen. ETarrison.


personal friend of the late President,
shocked, as every body must be, at an atrocious
publication in the Globe newspaper, respecting
the death-bed of the amented Harrison, has
condescended TO notice and reprobate it in the
annexed article We should have thought. un-
til we saw the Globe of Thursday evening, that
party ferocity would have relented on approach
ing scene hallowed by the regrets of a whole
nation, and would not have dared so revolving
an outrage on truth and decency.
Communicated for the National InteNigencer.
SHOCKING DEPRAVITY OF A PRESS.
In the leading editorial article of the Globe
of the 18th inst, among many other gross and
wicked untruihs, is the following shocking fall
sification of "the death-bed scene" of General
Harrison
"The scene of his death-bed, however,
showed, in the most affecting manner, the state
of his feelings in regard TO the matter that had
engrossed them from the moment he had en-
tered office From persons who nursed and
watched by him, it is known that whenever his
mind began TO wander, he gave uiterance to the
secret thoughts that oppressed him; and he
continually recurred 10 the distressing scenes
he had recently passed through. Sometimes
he would say Ny dear madam, / did not direct
that your husband should be turned out did
not knOD it, I tried TO prerent it, On other
occasions, he would say, in broken sentences:
1T as acrOng--I tc0n't cOnSent'tiS unyuSt.' =
Again: These applications, wtH they neuer
cease p From different and unquestionable
sources, we are informed that the malady of his
heart, which broke out into expression in his
partial delirium, or when his mind was ab-
siracted in sort of slumber, half awakened by
his anguish, constantly manifested itself by Ut
ierng some snatches Of sentences like those
we have quoted"
Now, however much party spirit may be in
dulged in the official abuse of Gen. Harrison
that was published against him living, there can
be no excuse of, nor paliation for, such gross
inventions as these after he IS dead. What is
here said is not only not true, but not even ap-
proximaiing truth; and all these sayings I'M
puted to Gen. Harrison are the malicious in
ventions of the writer for the Globe.
The Globe is again guilty of a gross untruth
in saying that as 10 removals from office, Gen.
Harrisons Cabinet differed in opinion from the
President by vote of four for removals, and
two against, and that this majority voted down
the President This is all sheer invention, for
it was not only impossible to remove executive
officers without the Presidents consent but
Gen. Harrison presided over and directed eve-
nv Cabinet meeting. The first removal made,
which settled the principle of action was that
of the Collector OF New York, in which Pres
ident Harrison concurred with every member of
his Cabinet.
The utmost union and harmony existed be-
tween General Harrison and his Cabinet, not
withstanding all the Globe insinuates to the
contrary The General expressed to his friends
repeatedly his qualification that he had been
able to rally around him so able and united a
body of constitutional advisers.
The attempt of the Globe TO extol Gen. Har-
rison dead after its innumerable personal at
tacks made upon him as citizen, as soldier,
as statesman, will pass for what it is worth;
but the assertion there that he intended TO keep
his friends prescribed by keeping in Office the
men who for twelve years had monopolized all
the honors and emoluments Of the country, who
were 10 have nothing, while his enemies had
erery thing, or that he intended to sanction, by
continuance in office, the conduct of the men
who had prOslituted the power and purse OF
their places TO keep their monopoly up, is all
pure fiction, which he himself pronounced SO
in the many removals he himself made and
was making up to the hour of his illness.
took my pen, however, not TO discuss a
principle, but TO express my abhorrencs of the
conduct of an Editor who was not satisfied with
representing great and good man, while alive
as in "cage," "under keepers" "gabbling tc
the geese and turkeys of the North Bend, but
who now makes and invents scenes" for his
death-bed shockingly false. To prey upon the
living may be in an eagles sphere, but to prey
upon the dead is for the vampire or the worm