Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1841-05-21
From the Globe Of April II.
"THE DEATH-BED OF GENERAL
HARRISON

Under this head, in the Iniellisencer Of this
morning, we have an article and an appended
| communication, with the anonymous signature
Of "a Personal Friend of General Harrison"
both stuffed with scurrilous epihets, the
scope of which is to make an impression that
we have alluded to the dying moments of the
late President TO disparage him. There never
was grosser imposture; and the communica-
ton lets that fact peep out in single line,
where it speaks of our article as ''Me attempt
Of the Globe to eatol General Harrison )" and
yet the editor of the National Intelligence ex-
olaims against it, as " an attrocious publication
respecting the death-6ed Or lie lamc,tsa Hurr;-
son - and then he says that 'he had thought
that party ferocity acould hare releated," sand
aoouM not hare dared so reuoAing an outrage,'
&c!!
But we shall treat with merited contempt
TIE instruments of the Cabinet-,heir low
tricks and their vulgar abuse. Our article was
vindcaton of the dead President from the
approbrium of the heartless prescription which
has been carried on without any other discrim-
ination than that of difference of political opin-
ion, which was carried on while he lay on the
bed of death, and almost up to the hour of his
death-and which is still carried on I'm his
NAME although cold in his grave, by sending
for selected victims, and telling them that their
fate was determined before General Harrison
died; thus leaving the inference, that the pro-
scriptlon in each particular case was the will
of the deceased, and was only executed as
bequest--no other reason being given for the
invidious act. Our article was called out to
rebuke this new phasis which the prescribing
ministers of Gen. Harrison were about to give
to the policy which they originated and en-
forced. They wished to transfer the odum of
their own acts to one whom the sorrow of the
nation would shield from immediate reproach-
es-take to themselves all the thanks Of the
favored office-seeker--leave the curses Of the
elected incumbent, his ruined family and SYM
pathising friends, to him who left the bitter
legacy, and with it, the enduring stigma Of
having established, SO as even to survive him,
a system which he denounced in the mos: SOL
emn manner, while asking from the hands oil
the people the power which was thus abused
To repell this heartless and selfish scheme,
and do justice to the kind disposition of the
deceased President, twas the purpose of the
facts we adduced in the Globe of Thursday.
and the remarks with which they were accom-
panied. They were intended to make the pro-
scribing members Of the Cabinet responsible
to the nation for their crue, policy, and relieve
the memory Of kind hearted man from having
willingly adopted course which it is known
he abhored
The specific fact on which we founded the
assertion, that Gen. Harrison espresso his alb
horrence Of the prescription visited upon the
suboEdinates in the departments, grew out of
an occurrence to which the Rev. Mr.. THoRN-
TON, Ga clergyman Of eminence in this city,
and another highly respectable clergyman,
MIR. RYLAND, were witnesses. We understand