Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-08
FAYETrE, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, MAY s, IsA1.

pang controlling and overcoming events their inception or
progress necessarily give expansion vgor and activity
every faculty of the mind less than
habiua harshs strengthen and nvgorae the body He who
had chosen the school of the Hannibal of the West
tined realize these joint desiderata-and accordingly
find their influence marked and impressed upon his character
conduct every station and under every circumstance of his
after life.
Where stands now, in the "Queen City of the West" the
spires which rise highest towards Heaven its temples upon
earth the veteran unassumngy pointed out during evening
STROLL than two the spot where he pitched his
first wilderness encampmen than forty years before
This brings first acquaintance with Harrison
associate with fathers who had cast their destiny the then
wild and savage West; and such, until recently,
mainly contemplate him. Above sectional preudicc local
jeaousies, the theatre of his duties nevertheless mainly
in the valley of the Mississippi her citizens and her
soldiers her interests and her sympathies.
We have already ntmated that the winter of 1901 found
ant of his Regiment Fort Washington-now Cincinnati
Contemporary with his arrival might be returning
bat Inflated St Clair. Being of the comparatively small
Der who had escaped from the dreadful of the Miami
their detected air and oorn appearance was heightened by
the they then presented the high and daune
bearing with which they had recently marched forth for
Harrison might have returned again to the bosom of
| formed and was not to be foregone
The first duty moreover which assigned him. would
have been intended to lure him. by degrees the
service before him, but to test him the command
of destined for Fort Hamton-a duty involving
peril and fatigue by night and by day. and requiring the
of great agaciy and sedenial may suffice record
of the manner of its performance that elected the commenda
| promotion
of Lieutenant which capacity in the 49, he joined the
Legion under WAYNE and was shortly afterwards selected
of his aids When is considered that he had but then
tanned his twenty first that he continued maintain this
position of trust and confidence by the side of daring and
veteran warrior and elicit the marked and emphatic
mendaons of the "od Tempest announced in his general
order concerning the of the field of Fort Rcore
and subsequently in his official of the decisive battle of
Ne we are not left in doubt as to the elements of that
forming character which, 100 afterwards pointed him out
the confidence and the affections first of the Hunters of
Kentucky" and anon to the administration at Washington
the Chief who should retrieve the disasters of the North this
head of the best blood of the West.
The death of General Wayne and the comparative quiet
ation which had been gained with the Indians left Captain
Harrison the alternatives of life of Incidence in his quarters
the resignation of his commission, along with its
He had ntermedacy married the daughter of Judge SyMME
the founder of the settlements upon the Miami and did not hest
tate in the alternative remaining Officer the head of his
garrison, Farmer amid the ocks of his pastures and the
burrows of his fields lie chose the latter vocation but
shortly appointed to the Secretary of the NortWes
tern Territory which capacity his services upright
and satisfactory that he chosen to represent the Territory
e as its first Delegate in Congress.
During this period of his public he ever,
Republican, but properly orbore either the feelings the
bearing of partisan. When contrary nsnuaon thrown
out more than quarter of century afterwards during debate
in the Senate by Mr. Randolph of Virginia General Harrison
rose in his place in reply corrected the msmpres5ion
"tbe Senator from Virginia in manner which must forever
settle that question: concusvely all the ingenious world
beside to Mr. R. hmselfwho go neoer afterwards
reuiUod ii.
But the aectionatc undying which he threw
around his name during his service IN the Congress at phade
disposition of the Public Lands Now that he is removed be-
yond the hopes the fears of political detracto let it be adj
expansive bnovonce of the Statesman who has been but
Gently theme of the deseryed rproach for his mpu
ted barbary in reference to the poor himself the first to
and execute the expense of his individual
interest the noble purpose of providing
MAN as well the rich This he effected by his unceang
efforts during the Congress of the 1SO0resung they
did compromise which laid the foundation of present
Land SYSTEM the ruins of the ancient and artocratc
of English forefathers For ts service, lie
and niddnrest yonay Of the Valley the Mississippi
has memofy But, no The waving fields them
that they cultivated by the children of lords
stead enanand these along with the spirit of personal and
political independence thereby inspired and nuured amongst
people which have spread themselves States and three
Territories, shall continue exempy through all coming time
phanoc nobeness and grandeur of the service beyond
the power Of brass marble to perpetuate!
To form just conception of the decacy responsiveness
value of his services in the triple character of Governor
Indiana Commander-inChef of its Militia, and Superintendent
Indian Affairs lin which station find the distinguished
subject of Address) be familiar with the history
of the tmes-posteror well during his administration
have read his Messages to the Legislative Council and hi
voumnous correspondence with the Government Washington
saw merely, that he ciuH Magistrate ih Arms an hi
hands, subtle enemy the heart of his dominions
inadequate impression of the combined difficulties
al and cares responsibilities of his station The enemy witt
whom he had deal wherewh his Government hac
been treaty the peace Greenyie in 1894 but whose
proveba resesness and nfey under any of the whole
of civilization had been famed and excited