The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-05-04

out of employment, and We are actually here in this
expensise.ciiy having nothing TO eat MY dear sirs,
continued the President, 'it almost Kills me- can
hardly stand il the unworthy will not 60 out, and the
worthy shall not be turned out" Now, this is fact
that he established upon good authority.
The immediate which worked up his feversh
excitement, into paroxysm, chill produced by boz
ing caught in light rain, being closely beset to
be detained on his way home after walk. But when
ILL., letter after letter came bearing from this one and
the other applications for Office Some of them were
left in the ha nds Of friends In this city, and never de-
livered. Day by day during President Harrison
illness, turned OUT Of office. Some tcho
had been expelled before his illness, appealed TO him
he assured Them that he knew nothing OIL though it
ALI rmed that he did IT, And, but brief space
before his death several dismissed from their
Payments.
them of conflicting character, and the Notifying
heciion that although he had denounced prescription
he forced by those around him to do what he
never intended when DOING his mind was continual
ly running the distress inflicted on the many help
less families within hail Of his dwelling; and yet
prescription was still pressed upon him Who that
has eper sap man laborng in the last stage Of in
hammation affecting all his vitalsthe state in which
the President died-does not know that when a
subsuitus tendnum on, and the muttering de-
lirium, as was the case with the President often inter
ruPted by broken cxpressions-whst the patient is
pnchng and pulling the bedclothes-thc mind is
and anon recurring to and dwelling whatever was
pressing on and producing anxiety during health.
This was the case with President Harrison. Hun
March demanding the places sfothers, whose proscrp
ton they insisted Their letters, their personal
applications, forced on the President, and their
claims were pressed by the Cabinet. At last, the
President is told that IL his political friends not re-
warded his forces will be dsbanded and the called
session Of Congress he will find himself in the mnori
~. The work Of excson is pressed on. The Presi-
dent ILL., absent from his family, without the kind at
tenon of the wife Of his bosom, most of his children
and grandchildren distant He behed the friends
who had accompanied him TO Washington around him,
but without the power to resist the torrent and relieve
his feelings. He hears only Of his cabinet, to
know that they paying of their political friends
by depnving whole families Of the means Of subsis
ience. The Preachers of the Gospel the members Of
Christian Churches, the meek quiet citizens, who
here to get Offices and who staid here until they
got then,-some of them just the Of the Pres-
dents death-had received their pay; but where are
those lovely women and children who have no breadl
In this state, laborng under derum, the last efforts
OF his distracted mind were turned the victims of
the cruel policy of his cabinet, and expressions
santly escaped him dcprecatng the cruelties which
he had endeavored in vain to arrest.
1t was in this way President Harrison died, and
who will say he was not persecutedto the death.
We take it upon ourselves to pronounce these
vile assertions and insinuations in regard TO the
debiitated condition of the President on arriving
at the Capitol, as false. When he entered the
Senate Chamber, before commencing the Inau-
gural Address, his appearance indicated no I'M
usual degree of fatigue, and Immediately after
wards he commenced, and continued with
out interruption, its delivery, throwing his
voice 10 the very outermost limit of the ini-
mense crowd for the space of more than an hour
and half. We were near him then and after
wards as he walked up the steps to the Portco,
and we appeal to every man then on the steps
of the Capitol to say whether one man in five
hundred of that audience could have performed
such task with so little effort or fatigue.
Who that was present will ever, can ever, for
get the clear, calm, earnest voice, and impress
sive manner, with which, near the conclusion
of the Address, he, without the usual dictation,
took the solemn oath 2 The whole cropd heard
it, and with simultaneous impulse, without
signal or example, all barred their heads, as he
appealed to Heaven. From desire TO crafty
the wishes of the multitude, the President in
the afternoon, received those who called upon
him, but he "shook hands" with none and but
few were introduced or conversed with him.
But we presume and believe that the assertion
that men took that occasion to present their APP
pcations for Office is. another of the usual un-
founded statements common in that paper
some old stagers Of the spoiis party, for they
have not been either few or modest here for
some weeks past.
All this might have been prevented had Gen.
Harrison followed the example set by his illus
trious predecessor" of stationing an armed SEN
try at the door of the White House to keep out
the thousands of I" cobblers and tinkers'' and the
"log cabin gentry" who wished to see their Pre-
sident.
1t is true that the President elect was impor-
tuned for Office, both before and after his Inau-
guration. He expected it. 1t was nothing new
or strange. The custom of personally soliciting
Office was introduced into this country by the
friends Of Gen. Jackson in 1929, and has been
practised by them ever since. And though il
cannot be denied that many worthy men have
been driven by the late terrible reverses to seek
office, and that many from sincere desire TO
serve their country in the places now held by
those who have aided and abetted in plundering
the Treasury, have urged their applications
Yet we have never known any among the
crowds we have lately seen, so importunate, SO
earnest, and pressing, in annoying the late and
present President and heads Of Department,
those who have all along supported the late and
former administration, and held office under
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decent men, who have conscientiously labored
for years to reform the abuses of the late admit
nstration, are joslled aside by these gentlemen
so well practiced in making their way to the
public crib, and in monopolizing its favors.
The privacy of the Presidents House, and of