The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1841-04-29
From The National Iutelliseneer.
THE DEATH BED OF GEN. HARRISON.


THE DEATH BED OF GEN. HARRISON.
A personal friend of the late President,
shocked, as every body mus, be, at an afro.
cious publication in the Globe newspaper,
respecting the deaih.bed Of the lamented
Harrison, has condescended TO notice and
reprobaie il in The annexed article. We
should have thought, until we saw the
Globe of Thursday evening, tina, party fe
roci,y would have relenied on approaching
a scene hallowed by the regrets of a whole
nation, and would not have dared so revolt.
ing an outrage on truth and decency.
Communicated for the National Intelligencer
SHOCKING DEPRAYITY OF A PRESS.
In the leading editorial article Of the
Globe of the 10Th inst, among many other
gross and wicked un,ruths, is the following
shocking Justification OF "lhe death bed
scene" of Gen. Harrison
THE scene Of his death.bed. however show
ed, in the mos; affecting manner tde state of bis
feelings in regard to the matter that had engross
cd them from the moment he had entered office.
From persons who uursed and watched by HIM,
il is known that whenever his mind began to
wander, he gave utterance to the secret thoughts
that oppressed him and he continually required
TO tue distressing scenes he had recently passed
through. Sometimes he would say Ny dear
madam, / did not direct that your husband should
be turned out. I did not kn0io IL. tried 70
prersHt ~ On other occasions, he would say,
in broken sentences: II is tcrong-I cont
e0nsent-ris unjust Again: TAtss app!iea.
tiOns, till they nsrer cease? From different
and unques;ionable sources, we are informed thai
the malady of his heart, which broke out into
expression in his partial delirium, or when his
mind was distracted in q sort of slumber, half
awakened by his anguish, constantly manifested
itself by uiterng sons snatches Of sentences like
those We have quoted"
Now, however much party spirit may be
INDUCED IN the official abuse Of Gen. liar
rlson that vas published against him living,
share eau be no excuse OF, nor pallaiion for
such gross inventions as those after he is
decd. What is here said is not only no, true,
but Dot eTou experimenting truth and
all these sayings imputed 10 Gen. Harrison
are the malicious inyeailons OF the writer
for the Globe.
The Globe is again guilty Of q gross IN
truth 10 saying tina, as TO removals from
office, Gen. Harrison's Cabinet differed 10
opinion from the President by vote of four
for removals, and two against, aud that this
majority voted down the President. THIS
IS oil sheer invention, for 1t was not only
impossible 10 remove executive officers
without the Presidents consent, but Gen.
Harrison presided over and directed every
Cabiuet meeting. The first removal made
which settled the principle Of action was
that Of the Collector Of New York, in which
President Harrison concurred With erery
member Of his Cabinet.
The u,mos, union AND harmony existed
between Geo. Harrison aud his Cabinet,
notwithstanding all the Globe lnslnuases to
the contrary. The General expressed TO
his friends repeatedly his qualification tina,
he had been able 10 rally around him so
able and united body of constitutional ad
vIsers.
The attempts Of the Globe 10 exlol Gen.
Harrsou dead, after lis innumerabIe per
sonal attacks made upo- him as a citizen,
as a soldier, as a statesman, will pass for
what II is worth but the assertion there
that be Intended to keep bis friends pro
scribed BY keeping IN Office the men who
for twelve years had nonopolized oil the
honors and emolumenls Of the country, who
we're TO have nothing, while bis enemies
had erery thing, or that be lnteuded TO
SANCTION, by continuance in office, the
ccuduc! Of the men who had prostlluied the
power and purse Of their places TO keep
their monopoly up, IS all pure fiction, which
ne himself pronounced SO in the many re
uoyals he himself made aud was making
up 10 the hour OF bis Illness.
took my pen, however, not 10 discuss q
principle, but 10 express my adherence OF
the conduct Of an Editor who was hot sat
IsiIed with representing great and good
man, while alive, as IN a =" cage, under
keepers, " gambling to the geese and tur-
Keys" of the North Bend, bu, who now
makes aud lnveuls scenes for his death.
bed shocklngIy false. To prey upon the
living may be III at Eagles sphere, bat to
prey upon the dead is tor tho vampire or
the worm.
A personaI friend Of Gen. Harrison.