The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1841-04-24

his feyerish excitement into paroxysm,
was chill produced by being caught in
light rain, being so closely bese, as 10 be
detained on his way homo after walk
But when i'll, letter after letter came, bear
ing from this one and the other applications
for office. Some Of them were left in the
hands Of friends in this city, and never de-
livered. Day by day, during Pres,len,
Harrison's illness, men we turned out of
Office. Some who had been expelled be-
fore his illness. appealed to him; he assur-
ed them that he knew nothing Of it, though
it was affirmed that he did it. And. but
brief space before his death, several were
dismissed from their employments.
Thus excited by continued applications,
many of them Of conflicting character,
and the mor,fying reflection tha. although
he had denounced prescription, he was fore
ed by those around him 10 do what he new.
er intended, when doing, his mind was
continually running on the distress inflicted
on the many helpless families within hail
of his own dwelling; and yet prescription
was still pressed upon him I! who that has
ever saw a man laboring in the last stage OF
inflammation affecting all his vitals--the state
in which the President died-does not
know chat when subSutius fendinuna
comes on, and the mutterng delirum, as
was the case with the President, often in.
terruPted by broken expressions whilst
the patient is pinching and pulling the bed
clo,hes--tl:e mind is ever and anon recur.
ring 10 and dwelling on whatever was pres
sing on it and producing anxiety during
health. This was the case with President
Harrison. Hundreds of individuals had
been here from the first of March demand
ing the places of others, whose prescription
they insisted on. Their letters, their per.
sonal applications, we've forced on the Pres
iden,, and their claims were pressed by the
Cabinet. AT last, the Presiden. is told that
if his political friends are not rewarded, his
forces will be dsbanded, and at the called
session Of Congress he will find himself in
the minority. The work OF excission is
pressed on. The Presiden! is i'll, absent
from his family, without the kind attentions
Of the wife of his bosom, most Of his chill
dren and grandchildren are distant. He
beheld The friends who had accompanied
him to Washington around him, but with
out the power TO resist the torrent and re-
lleve his feelings. He hears only Of his
cabinet, 10 know that they are paying off
their Political friends, by deprving whole
families Of the means of subsistence. The
Preachers Of the Gospel, the members Of
Christian Churches, the meek quiet citizens,
who came here to get Offices, and who staic
here until they got them-soms Of them
just on the eve of the Presidents death =
had received their pay; bu. where are those
lovely women and children who have no
bread ! In this state, laboring under de-
iri"n, the last ffnris of his distracted mind
were turned towards the victims Of the cru
el policy of his cabinet, and expressions
constantly escaped him deprecating the
cruelles which he had endeavored in vain
TO arrest.
1t was in this way President Harrison
died, and who will say he was not persecu-
ted TO death
A LOCKER ON.