The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-05-01
OMENS AND ACQUIRES.
TIE following "prodigous" sentiments are from
the Globe
&" THE PRODIGES

The PRODUCES.
The prodgies referred to in the article quoted below,
actually occurred stated but of them not pre-
cisey at the moment given by the writer The scroll
containing the motto Ofthe Union fell from the talons
Of the Eagle while Mr.. WEBSTER during the last ses-
sion of Congress- was making his last set speech in ia
yor Of an increase Of the tariff. The of the God
dess Of Liberty holding the Constitution broken
off in the midst of the hard cider campaign.
The writer might have added another to his list of
omens. The ddUent of The PRESIDENT to poicer
tods precisely simultaneous ioi the shocking exposure
of the specatons, corruptions, and ruin Of The Bank
Of the United States, made By tho report Of The
miHee Of stockholders. Gen. Hanson died at mid
night Of the fourth Of April-Mr. TYLER accession
dates with the gtkt-the Banks Charnel House was
opened up on the 18TH to the meeting Of stockholders
in Philadelphia sa ss
From the Wheeling Argus.
The announcement Of the death of the President Of
the United States will produce pause in the current
thoughts Of the most needless amongst us. He who
watches the sparrow when alls prescribes the action
exalted, however humble or prominent; and when an
individual sustaining the relations which this promi
nent man did is suddenly snatched from his honors
his position, and his relations of life and Office the
mind will muse upon his fate and every for HIM
self will draw his own moral In the last months of
General Harrison's life were crowded strange and
startling circumstances which each will consider
cordng to the peculiar frame of mind in which he may
be- warnings ofmercy or intmations of justice, MOTTO
the departed, but to the living.
While riding from his farm into Cincinnati, his
horse precipated through deep hole, and he him
self with difficulty escaped destruction. On leaving
Cincinnati the papers announced the trembling Of
earthquake and the explosion of the banking system
mingled with the parade of his reception at Baltimore,
and driving snow-storm accompanied him to the
place washington city, where all his honors were to
be consummated. w
On the day of his arrival at Washington, the nation
hat e thoE
the Senate chamber. The motto is, e piuribus
unurn one Government out of many, the pledge Of
our Union and at the time the hand of the God
dess of Liberty in front of the CAPITOL bearing in it
the Constitution Of the United States, broke of and
| fell ...'....
| His friends at Washington had stretched cord
across the bearing the flags of the States which
had voted the Wing ticket which broke about the
ire and fell North and South, and were dragged in the
mire And one month from the day of the lnauguaa-
ton the seal of death is placed upon his form in the
| Presidential mansion.
We must think there is something in these things
| Divinity speaks with most miraculous power and Vind
Gates his Truth. The people ofthe United States have
passed through period Of phrenzy in which all social
relations were violated moral duties forgotten and re-
ligious forms almost abandoned. All look back upon
the period with asonishment, and many with awe, to
/ sec the gulf Of civil commoton which we have esca-
ped Every passion of the heart was aroused, every
prejudice was excited, and one wild shout and hurrah
was heard throughout the land; there was strange
union Of supposed interests and still stranger combi
nation ofparties; these are now oil dissolved.
We are quite grati6cd to our enemies driven to
such small and absurd apologies for arguments as these
above quoted. There is, however, something to ex-
cite feelings other than those Of ridcue in this men
ton Of the fact Of Gen. Harisons almost miraculous
preservation on the occasion of the falling in of the
tunnel Of the canal on his farm when he passing
on horseback over il. Truly, Divinity speaks with
MOTT miraculous power and vindicates his truth" II
not however in the silly "prodgies" and omens Of