The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-05-20
r.,th Bed Of Cen. Harrison.

n..th Bed Of Cen. Harrison.
.,sonal friend Of the late President,
IA. IS every one mus. be, at an at
60 oublica,ion in the Globe newspa-
sd's ..pec.ing the death-bed Of the la.
Harrison, has condescended to
and reprobate it in the annexed
l We should have thought, until
30. ,he Globe Of Thursday evening,
s..av ferocity would have relented
plpo,oachisg scene hallowed by the
asY e 4 whole nation, and would not
frs Jared so revolving an outrage on
p 4 nd decency.-National Intel.
~ .n;eated for the National Intelligencer.
s.,cking Depravity of Press.
!. ,be leading editorial article of the
y If the 18th inst, among many
wv y, eross and wicked untruths, is the
Sa INC shocking Justification of "the
sg = he'd scene" Of Gen. Harrison.
s'r rhs scene of his death bed, however,
Id in the most affecting manner,
aa's .,s,e Of his feelings in regard to the
''n.r that had engrossed them from the
''M Jun, he had entered Office. From
nsI Jun, who nursed and watched by him,
F,.I Known that whenever his mind be-
- y u wander, he gave ut,erance to the
thoughts tina, oppressed him; and
= sa Continually REQUIRED to the distressing
.ass he had recently passed through
s., he would say, my Dear
| sSca. / did not direct that your hus-
/ s IND should be turned out. 4 did not
~, 4 / tried to preuent It, On
S sSs. occasions, he would say. in broken
' ..s,ces: 1T is aurong--I 'front.' con-
s 'at~'ti, unjust Again: These ap-
IT, r.,,;ess ,oiN they never ceases'--
rnn different and unquestionable sour
Tvs !. We are informed that the malady
III. heart, which broke out into ex-
.sssion in his partial delirium, or when
f mind was distracted in sort of slum-
!, half awakened by his anguish, con-
I .snav manifested itself by uttering some
m,,che. Of sentences like those we have
Now, however much party spirit may
i. ;udulged in the official abuse of Gen.
| HARRISON that was published against him
| T,iue, there can be no excuse for, nor
,,,la:;on for such gross inventions as
T.. after he is dead. What is here
ala is not only not true, but not even
.,n,oxirnating a truth; and all these say.
I Is imputed to Gen. Harrison are the
| nsiciious inventions of the writer for the
Globe.
The Globe is again guilty Of gross un-
4 ru,h in saying that as to removals from
i .see Gen. Harrison's Cabinet differed
!, ouinion from the President by vote
! fnnr for removals, and two against
md ,hs, this majority voted down the
1 President. This is all sheer invention;
n il was not only impossible to remove
,recutiye officers without the Presidents
consent, bu, Gen. Harrison presided over
md directed every Cabinet meeting
The first removal made, which settled the
rinciple of action was that of the Col
,ctor of New York, in which President
Harrison concurred with every member
idhis Cabinet.
! The utmos. union and harmony existed
Ss,ween General Harrison and his Cab
1ne,, Notwithstanding all the Globe lns'n'
I utes to the contrary. The General ex'
4 messed to his friends repeatedly his graf
! iica,ion that he had been able to rally
! mound him SO able and united body Of
institutional advisers.
! The attenp, of the Globe to exto
Gen. Harrison dead, after its innumer'
I Hs personal attacks made upon him as
] atizen, as a soldier, as statesman, vii
/ lass for what it is worth, but the assertion
/ hat he intended to keep his friends pro
j eribed by keeping in Office the men VINO
abriwelve years had monopollzed all the
I ionors and emoluments of the country
I sho were 10 have nothing while his enc
aiss had every thing, or that he intended
assnction, by continuance in office
/ De conduct of the men who had pros.itu
I'd the power and purse OF their places
II keep their monopoly up, IS all pure
ii:tion, which he himself pronounced 81
lathe many removals he himself made d.
ind was making up to the hour OF his Ill
sass.
j took my pen, however, not TO discuss
3.principle, but to express my abhorfenc'
aathe conduct of all Editor who was no
salis6ed with representing great ant Il
apod man, while alive, as III "cage,
dauuder keepers "gabbling to the gees
Ind turkeys" of the North Bend, bu
who now makes and invents ''scenes
sior his dea,h.bed shockingly false. -
pns upon the living may be in an eagle e
sphere, but to prey upon the dead Is 10
hs vampire or the worm.
A Personal Friend Of Gen. Harrison
I CORRESPONDENT of the Galena Gazette.
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