The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-07-14

tnut OOils5itSs utu ~ WIS iiiittcT was 10 N.
p,opriale three thousand and ciphty.e;sl.
dollars and nine cents to pay the iiemse
the account sanctioneS and presented \,
Gen. Hunter. That sum appears lar
but il is beaf flso hundred doi.a,s les, ~
Congress appropriated in May, isoo ;,
pay funeral honors TO the memory of g. y
Washington. If your father died orr,
distance from home, among strangers :.
was decenily buried, you would dislike :
dispute the account if some Of the a.
were high. Wheusa great and good r.s
dies while presiding over seventeen mi
lions Of people, II is not expected that H.
funeral will be one Of ordinary chafoe,o..
but such ceremonies should be mapircs.i
as will be respectful to his station. and !,
the Government aud people over which T.
/ presided. But, at all events, | do M,
think il becomes the political friends i
President Van Buren, TO endeayor 10 nal,
political capital out of the amount Of Is,
appropriation, when The whoie erpeadihn
,ras caused and made under The direesa,
of Gen. Hunter, one Of fAeir owa pQriu.
Congress, at the beginning Of the Rx,n
session Of lsil, resolved, by aaaninn,
rote, to hang black Grape over the Speas.
cr's chair Of each House and that ever,
member would wear Grape on his leil arm
Tor thirty days, as mark Of respect % IL
memory Of President Harrison. An In,
was done at the public expense. Nov
apprehend il viii puzzle loco ioco logic +
convince any body that il was right to yol.
and appropriate public money TO buy crs,e
for tire hundred and ninety four memten
Of Congress TO wear mourning for Pes
den, Harrison, and vet i, was moi right !,
buy one rindiRg sheet to enshroud the DEAD
body ol that same President AVIAN NH
all political Pharisees-they often have IL
people in their mouths, aud bat sedan d
their hearts. That man must have ,s.I
disposition of hyena who can dig into Il,
grave and uucollin the dead 10 make a.
liticul capilal for party purposes. II !,
bilious, bitter party man has a natural ns,
sion to play low game, and oci the dem.
goguc, let him select some other place Il.
his theatre than the graveyard, md sons
other subject than distressed widows nj
helpless orphans. II must be a Ind eavs
that requires Christian to turn Turk.
Harrison was soldier, an officer. an3
President. According TO the declaraiaaI
Of Col. X. NJ. Johnson, he won more Isi.I
ties than any other general during the ls.i
war. His first commission was fgeaI
Washington, and bis las, from the peoss
Of the United States. To do iustice to 4.
family Of the deceased, Congress had coil
to follow the precedenls prescribed IN he
cases to which have referred that's del
widow Of Commodore Perry, the widoa d
Gen. Brown, the widow OF 0yerion Car.
and the widow Of Stephen Iiaighi. H. a.
lIeye the widow Of the late President, lasi.
self surrounded hy INDECENT widows 81
orphans,) Congress- appropriated 10 Nn
Harrison the balance Of tie presideas
salary. The whole amour, of he sa4s
IS twenty five Thousand dollars, Lut {
grcss only allowed the widow ih. lalltls
Of thai sum which had not been palj ga
to the passage of that act.
Mrs. Harrison was entitled 10 ibsi Il
proprIaiioo, no; only upon former ppet.|
dents and patriotic principles, bot 10 q
sIderaton Of sacrifices made, and cumR
saiIons Of large sums Of money cspcotsi
and debts contracted BY Gen. Harrisoa
making necessary arrangements prepaa
tory 10 entering on the public duties
President Of the United States. When
private man Is compelled TO leave hor,
for four years at one fime, he must nae
great sacrifices, and necessarily negfaI
much private business, as we'll as a.as'
large OUTLAWS TO meet outfits bffors goEs
from home. tfa private individual ha,a
encounter heavy losses and expenditure IS
anticipation Of such pro;racled sbseac
VIVA, must have been the enormous seer.
fees and expenditures Of PLAIN iaur.
OF limited circumstances, like Gen. HantI
son, when he was breaking up bis homf,
and going 10 live IN the Presidential mas
sion, where custom aud public duty Tcqua'
cd him TO see and entertain, no, only hon.
drcds OF American citizens, but forelga
ministers from all the courts Of ibe ci,li'
ed world. Upon thus very same prInc'p',
when any citizen Of the United States IS
appointed foreign minister TO any i0rsa
country, he receives by appropriation ifoa
Congress 1000 for the first year---thal
~ 5000 for his outfit, or preparatory ar
rangemcnts, and $4,000 salary for each
year he acts in that capacity land ihan
one quarter of that salary when he returns
home. In the year 1885, VIM. L. Barry
OF Kentucky, was appointed BY Gen. Jat'.
son our minister TO Spain. Mr.. Barry ea
the United States, and got as far as Liver
pool in England, where he died, but ne'ff
reached Spain. Well, Government Thea
paid nine thousand dollars for his ouih'
hls salary up to his death, and quarter
OF his salary to defray the expenses Of bi'
family back TO the United States, MAKING
the aggregate amount Of fourteen fhoa'das
''ro hundred and fifty dollars The only
difference IN the two cases is thIs-1ee
Harrison got 10 Washington, took his cain
OF office, organized his administration, ana
acted as President one month; but NJ