The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-07-14


coSprns. When " illism Henry HsTni-
sor, \ ,srisaie cisizsn. and fnsaer 81 Ohio,
viii Eery limited means, mas laboring 20
suppori ana edacaie lhis very interesting
Ilillls aock ef fausFless and foTiune.fss|
children. he was called and rlected. b an
iose.Ehelming majority Of lhe United
Sisles. 70 preside over Ibis great repsiblie.
lie VAS Eeleomed and installed mo has
high Office. The confident hopes and san
game sniieif.soas Of lie future were d.
reciel towards the patriot President fresh
from the people. Bat The uncertainty OF
lie. like an April day Al nne hour shows
forth all the beauty of the sun. and By and
~ ! cloud takes al away. teaching Us NOR
lsls I. what shadows NE are, and what
shadows We persue." Ga lhe 4th day
/ az April President Harrison died. las
sun thea SCI 70 rise no more forever. The
dea.h OF such man. al such time, IN
such an eminent station, was a national
calamity. The question li,recnrs. what
was Is be done with the dead body Of
Gen. Harrison; what Cor his diseonsolaie
widow; and what for the defendants Of
Harrison. Pike. and Morgan.
Congress being in session when Presi-
dent Harrison did his Cabinet issued the
following order
.yasi,iagion. April 4, 1871.
aThe Marshal Of the District Of Co
lumbiz will superiniend the funeral eere-
monies of the late President Of the Unit
Ell Suites, and will proceed 10 make all the
necessary arrangements. Whatever ex-
penses shall be necessarily incurred will
!. be paid"
j The Marshal Gen. Hunter Is q DE-
eided friend Oi President Ian Raren
Gnl la very honorable man. lie made all
the necessary arrangements, and caused
whatever expense was incurred IN the
funeral ceremonies Of President Harrison.
All that Congress did in this matter was
10 appropriate three thousand and eighty
eight dollars and nine censt to pay 10 the
items in the account sanctioned and pres
enied BY Gen. Hunter. That sum ap.
ars large but il is near frO lRndrfg dol
lars Tess than Congress appropriated ~
May 1900, 70 paw funeral honors 70 The
memory Of Gen. Washington. II your
father died a great distance from home
mong strangers, aud WAS decently buried
you would dislike 10 dispute The &C.
count il some Of the items were high
When great and good man dies while
presiding over seventeen millions o.
people, il is not expected the funeral
will be one OF ordinary character; bul
such ceremonies should be manifested
as will be respectful 10 his station, and
10 the Government and people over which
he presided. But at ali events. | do no
think il becomes the political friends o
President Van Buren, 10 endeavor 70 make
political capital on, of the amount Of this
appropriation, when che expenditure ral
. caused and made under The direction Q
Gen. Hunter. one Of their party.
Congress, al the beginning Of the Exir'
session OF 1871, resolved by nicni
NOUS uOie. to hang black cape over In
Speakers chair oI each House: and tina
, each member would wear Grape on IN
left am for thirty days, as mark o
respect 10 the memory Of Pfesidnet Har
rison. All that was done al the publ
/ expense. Now, ! apprehend twill puz
j zle loco f5co logic 10 convince any bod!
that il was right 10 vote and apPropriat
) public money 10 buy Grape for two hun
! bred and nineiy-lour members OF Ton
gress to wear mourning for Presiden
, Harrison, and vel il was not right 70 b..
; one winding sheet to enshroud the dea
! body Of that same President Ava.
with all political Pharisees-they oite
1 have The people in their months, an
: but seldom in their hearts. That ma
1 must have the disposition Of a hyen
e who can dig into the grave and unroih
i lie dead 10 make political capital for pal
: y purposes Ii bilious. bitter part
!. man has natural passion to play los
game, and acl the demagogue, let hir
z select some other place Cor his theatr
s Than the graveyard, al d some Other sui
!. iect than distressed widows and helpies
4 orphans. II mnsl be bad cause that r.
i quiTes Christian 10 turn Turk.
: Harrison was soldier, an officer, an
a President. According e. declaration
!. Col. X. vi. Johnson, he won more ba
= dies than any other general dirng the la
II war. Ills first commission was iroI
!. Washington, and his last fsom the PEE
) pie Of the United States. To DO jnsiiC
d to the family Of The deceased, Congre;
Is had only to follow the preeedents prescr
4 bed in the cases 10 which have reierre'
!. that IS. the widow Of Commodore Per.
! the widow of Gen. Brown. the widow
NJ OTerlon Carr, and the widow ofSiephe
Haight. To relieve the widow ol u
!. late President, herself surrounded by i
!, sligeai wiIows and oFnhans,) Coagrs'
appropriated 10 Hrs. Harrison the balan'
J pl lie Presidents salary. The who
IS amonnt OF he salary is twenty-five .hoi
saad dollars. but Congress only above
!, Tie widow the ha.2nes OF that sum whiC
!. had not been paid prior 10 The passage
FL that act.
~ Mrs. iI,fisnn was e. ttled 10 IN
= annroorial on. not only Hpnn ifmer pT