Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-05-08
1.-THE WIDOWS CRUISE.r


pended we doubt not, by the spontaneous
voice of the whole people. The National
Inteligencer, Of late date, says, that the
remains of the deceased "had not been
committed TO the tomb before we received
two or three letters, from very respectable
sources suggesting the facts of Gen. HARRr-
SON having been in rather narrow clrcum-
stances when nominated for the office OF
President; of his having been subjected to
heavy expenses by his position before the
People, by the consequences of his election,
and by his preparations for his residence
here: and of his having been, therefore, un-
der the necessity of borrowing money be-
fore lie came to the seat of Government,
which it would now probably require the
sacrifice of his family's property to pay
and proposing the opening of subscrip-
ton by the People, at the rate of one dol
lar for each voter, to provide for the COM
fort of the family whom his death has des-
tituted Of their dearest friend and only ma
tural protector.
This suggestion is conceived in an hon
orable spirit, and we should Recommend
the plan to the Public, if it did not appear
to us that THE NATION has duty to per-
dstrust of the Justice and liberality of Cox.
GREss to doubt its dischargng at the earli-
est practicable moment, the execution OF
which would supersodc the slow and some-
what hazardous experiment Of subscription
by individuals. This view of the matter,
we are most happy to preceive, has been
spontaneously and simultaneously express
ed in different parts of the country. At
Charleston Is. c. the citizens, in town
meeting assembled, have resolved that an
appropriation by Congress for this purpose
would be not only liberal but just and
would meet with the hearty appreciation Of
a generous People. The Southern Patriot
POLITICALLY opposed to General HARRIsos's
election) expresses the hope "that Congress
viii make some provision for the family
Of the General, whose pecuniary circun-
stances cannot bear the heavy expenses
which must have been incurred by re-
moval TO Washington The American
Sentinel PHILADELPHIA also politically
friendly to the last Administration gives
utterance to the following generous senti-
ments on the OCCASION: The death of the
president, SO unexpected and sudden, be-
"sides being most affective to his amiabls
with serious pecuniary loss 70 them. The
"old-fashioned, generous hospitality Of the
''iliustrious deceased, and the heavy expen-
Uses necessarily incidental to his induction
into the Presidency, cannot but have crea-
"ted burdensome and embarrassing claims
''upon his estate. We hope and believe
shat great and generous nation will early
"and unanimously make suitable provision
'for his bereaved family. The Extra Ses-
"sion of Congress is at hand, and we trust
zone Of its first acts may be the appropria-
"tion to the widow of either one years full
salary, or, what would be still better and
'more becoming, half salary for the whole
presidential term for which Gen. HARR1.
"soN was elected We have no doubt such
IAN appropriation would crafty the feelings
land wishes Of the whole People
| We trust that the Nation will act in this
case as Gen. HARRISON himself would have
acted had similar occasion presented itself
to him. HO,c he would have acted in such
a case we are not left to conjecture. His
conceptions of the part which it becomex
!, the National Legislature to act in such q
case, expressed on the floor Of the Senate
many years ago, are happily preserved on
record. 1t was in debate upon the bill fnr
the relief. Of Mrs. BRowN, widow of Major
Gen. JACOB BRowN, who died in the pub.
lie service at Washington, that the lament.
> cd HARRISON delivered aspeech from which
we extract the following passage, the force
of which we trust we have few readers en-.
pable Of resisting:
"The grounds (said MIR. H. upon which sup.
port the bill now under consideration are those Of
. moral obligation and correct policy I am persua
ded Mr. President, that there is not Senator
within this Hall who, placed in the same situation
with regard to other individuals as this Govern
ment stands in relation to the family of General
= BEowN, would not acknowledge that lie was bound.
by sense of duty, to provide for them a decent
and comfortable support. An old and faithful SER
want, whose best days have been spent in your ser
vice who has received on his own manly bosom the
missiles aimed at yonr life, and in your absence
protected your property from being plundered and
your family from dshOnor dies of disease INCL
dent 10 ms employment. Is there person within
'thereach OF my voice who would abandon the fam
, lily Of on, by whom he had been thus faithfully
served to the cold charities of the world if he nos
'sessed the means of relieving him? Mo- | am per.
'suaded there is none But NAV be told that il in
, the money of the people which we are now called
upon to dsburse, and that it placed under ouI
control for no such purpose that we should be oen
'erous with own, but not with the funds of our
constituents. Bot, sir, if am correct in supnosno
# that there is moral Obligation upon the part of ths
l. nation to make this appropriation, who but our.
selves can discharge it? We are the Representa-.
tives of the People, aud possessed of the solo au
thority to perform their obligations. will moi
oeheve TINT ~ VIII be asserted that the principle:
which should govern honorable men do not apply
nation. "A ,,hio I