The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-04-23

"1'he last utterance of his lips
Expressed a ferUent desire for tie
perpets.ity Of the Constitution,
and the preservation Of sts true
principles. liz death, as in life,
The happiness Of his country s6aS
esppermOSt in has EsOughtS.''
This is the first instance, in which the
Chief Magistry of our Nation has been vacat-
ed by death. And truly this first. visitation
of the kind seems marked NTH wonderful
lstrangeness. To all human apprehension a
similar bereavement could never, at least
since the early days of WASHINGTON, have
occurred a: season SO peculiarly unfortu-I
nate. The political commissions which have
so agitated the nation for more than ten long
years, have just subsidized, and through theI
instrumentaly of HARRISON, when in all
probability no other living man could have
done it, the heat of political contention has
measuraby abated, the waves of political
strife have well nigh ebbed down into the
smooth and peaceful surface of American
generously and patriotism. And now, just
as his influence has assumed its official form
and character-upon the threshold Of the
great understanding which the acclamationI
of the Nation called him to-in the first short!
month of his ministry, he is suddenly cut
down by the destroyer and we are left toi
o,o,,ry, ,ha robIo loee
GENERAL HARRISON was endeared to the
people by no ordinary ties. He was vene-|
rated by the spontaneous illusions from the
hearts of millions of his fellow citizens. The
friendship extended to him was the unpur-|
chasable gratitude of enlightened generosity.
The people of the West loved him with the
best and fondest feelings of the heart. And
the East and the North and the South were
alike warm and eager in their attachments to
our lamented President. The Nation looked
upon him as the great exampIer of Repub-
licanism and Freedom and the Peoples rights.
At home and abroad he was regarded as an
ornament to the highest civil station known
to civilization.
Independent of the social sympathies that
hover around this melancholy subject, there
are political and national interests connect
ed with it of momentous importance.
The administration of the governments de-
Wolves upon Mr.. TYLER, the Vice President
We have no doubt, but by the aid of his!
long experience and acknowledged ability j
and assisted by the council of an able Cabi-
mes, he will be able to till great portion of
the political vacuum caused by the Pres-
dents death. We have all confidence that
he viii get as near to where GEN. HARRIsoNI
was as is in his power, but that he can occupy
his place there is no hope. For it must be
recolIected that General Harrison Eived nearer
10 the People than any other President ever
did.
The FLAG in this city, which but so lately
waived in gladness over the political eleva-
tion of the iIlus!rious HARRISON, now
gradually unfolds itself to the gentle breeze
at half mast, clouded with Grape, an emblem
of the sorrow which cannot be described
There let it remain!
We learn that the family of the venerable
President were not in Washington at theI
time of his death; but were most probably onI
their way thither from Cincinnati. Theirs
is still more poignant grief, for they MOURN
a distress which others cannot feel.
May God in his mercies smile upon the
Nation, and may the people remember and
enstamp indeably upon their hearts and
consciences the dying utterances of the illus
trious HARRISON, for ''THE pERp1rUIrY OF
The CONSTITUTION, AND THE PRESERVATION OF
ITS TRUE PRINCIPLES"
AS mark of our sorrow and venerationI
for the deceased HARRISON, we send our pa
PEI forth to-day, clothed in garb of mourn !
ing.
Or We are indebted to the politeness and
attention of Mr.. Moses, clerk of the joan
of Arc, for the New-orleans Picayune ofthe
18th inst, from which we extract some high
ly interesting foreign intelligence. Il will
be seen from our extracts, that John Bull isl
rather in pet on account of the trial Of
Mcleod, and has ordered TEN ships Of war
70 our cost for the purpose of sustaining the
British Minister, Mr.. Fox, in his demand for
the release of Mcleod. This movement,
combined with others, proves conclusivelyI
that England is anxious for difficulty with
the United States. We think that past cir
cumstances oughtto convince England that,
should there ever be collision between her
and the United States, that she will receive
much sounder drubbing than she did on
two former occasions. LetsJohn Bull try ii!
While on this subject, we are reminded