Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1842-11-26

Gen. Harrison; wha, for his disconso'a'e widow
and hat for the descendants VI Harrison, Pike an
Morgan?
Congress no. being in session when Presider
Harrison died. his Cabinet issued the folowIn
order:
, "WAsHINGroS, April 4, ls4I.
1.-THE Marshal of the Dlstrc, Of Columbia wi
superintend the funeral ceremonies Of the lat
President Of the United States, and will procee
TO make all The necessary arrangements. Wha
! ever expenses shall be necessarily incurred Wi
be paid"
The Marshal General Hunter) is decide
friend Of President Van Buren,, and very honor
able man. He made all the necessary arrange
menis, and caused whatever expense vas incur
red in the funeral ceremonies of president Hlr
rison. All tina, Congress did in this matter wa
to appropriate three thousand and eghty.eigh
dollars and nine cents TO pay the items IN the &C
count sanctioned and presented by General Hun
ter. Tha, sum appears large, but il is nearly
two hundred dollars less than Congress approprI
a,ed III May. 1900, TO pay funeral honors 10 ihe
memory Of General Washingtm.-lf your fatheI
died great distance from home, among strangers
and decenuy buried. 20, would dislike tc
dispute the account if some IF The items were
hgh.-When a great and goot man dies while
presiding over seventeen mlliDns Of people, il Is
not expected tho funeral will be one OF ordinary
! character; but such ceremones should be mani
! IeSteO as VIII % TeSpeCiiut 10 iis ~
/ the Government, and people which he presi-
ded. But, at all events DO net think II becomes
! the political friends Of President Van Buren, to
endeavor to make political ca,ital out OF the n
mount of this appropriation, when the whole eX-
pend,ture caused and made under the oirec-
ton Of General Hunter, ono Of their own party
Congress. at the beginning Of the extra ses-
sion of 1871, resolved by unanimous vote, TO
hang black Grape over the Speakers chair of each
House; and that each House; and that each mem.
Der would wear Grape on his left arm Tor thirty
days mark Of respect to the memory OF Pres
ident Harrison. All that was done a, the public
expense. Now, apprehend ii vii! puzzle Loco
foco logic to convince any body that 1t was right
TO vote and appropriate pubic money to buy
Grape for two hundred and ninety four members
of Congress to wear mourning for President Iiar-
rIson, and yet IL was not right to buy one wind
ing sheet to enshroud the dead body of that Same
President Away with all political Pharisees-
they often have the people in their mouths, and
but seldom ia their hearts. That man must have
the disposition of a hyena who can dig into the
grave and uncofn the dead TO make political cap
l,al for party purposes Ii a bilious, bitter par
" man has a natural passion to play low game,
act the demagogue, let HIM select some other
place for his theatre than the graveyard, and
some other subject than distressed widows and
helpless orphans.--it must be a bad cause that
requires Christian TO turn Turk.
don't. According to the declaration Of Col. NJ.
Johnson, he won more battles than any other gen.
eral during the last His first commission
was from Washing ton, and h last from the peo-
pie of The United States. To do justice to the
family Of the deceased. Congress had only to fol
low the presidents prescribed in the cases TO
which / have referred-tha, is the widow Of
Commodore Perry, the widow Of General Brown,
the widow Of Over,on Carr and the widow of
Stephen Haight. To relieve the widow Of the
late President, (herself surrounded by INDECENT
widows and orphans.) Congress appropriated to
Mrs. Harrison the balance of the Pres dents sal
airy. The whole amour, of the salary is twenty
FIVE thousand dollars, but Congress only allowed
the widow the balance of that sum which had not
been paid prior TO the passage of that act.
Mrs. Harrison entitled 10 that nppropria'
ton, not only upon former presidents and patri,
Otto prime pies, but in cons ideration of sacritices
made, and compensation for large sums OF money
expended, and debts contracted by General Har.
rison in making necessary arrangements prepar-
atory to entering the public duties of Presi-
den, Of the United States. When private man
is compelled to leave home for four years at one
time, he must make great sacrifices, and neces-
sariIy neglec, private business, as we'll make
large OUTLAWS to meet outfits before going from
home. If private individual has to encounter
heavy losses and expenditures in anticipation Of
such a pro,ractod absence, what mus, have been
The enormous sacrifices and expenditure Of a
,la in farmer, Of limited circumstances, like Gen
eral Harrison when he was breaking up his home
md going to live in the Presidential mansion,
where custom and public duty required hin 10
zee and entertain not only hundreds of Amer.
,an citizens, bu, foreign ministers from all the
courts of the civilized world? Upon this very
ame principle, when any citizen of the United
States is appointed foreign minister to any for
,ign country. he receives. bv appropriation from
Congress, $4,000 for the frs, year-tha' is,
80 900 for his outfit. or preparatory arrange
nents, and $4,000 salary for each year he acts
n tina, capacity, and then one quarter Of that
alarv when he returns home. in the year 1885,
ym r. Barry, of Kentucky, was appointed by
len. Jackson our minister to Spain. Mr.. Bar
v left the United States and got as far as Liver
ooI. in England, where he died, bu, never reach
d Spain. Well. Government then paid $4,000
o.. h.. his dea III and a nuar.