Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-03-28


strstions began.
To welcome the arrival Of General
Harrison at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on an cleo.
pioneering tour, before the election, the
flag Of the United States, inscribed with
the word "Iippecanoe, was displayed
upon lofty pole. While the old man
was waiting TO address the assembled
multitude, bolt Of Heavens thunder rent
the flag and shivered the pole. Its echoes
had hardly died away, when an express
arrived informing the General OF the
death of beloved son.
Upon the trout Of the Portco Of the
Capitol above the pillars which sustain i,
is statue OF Justice, formerly holding in
her right hand scroll, labelled "Consti-
tuition" Prior 10 the Inauguration OF
General Harrison, the right arm OF the
statue broke, and, with the scroll of the
Constitution, fell to her feet, phere IL noT
lies.
Over tho chair Of the President of the
Sena,e is a Spread Eagle, which had &c
his beak label, inscribed with the words
"E Plribus Unum" This label, bear.
ing the motto Of our Union. about the
same time fell from its position, and has
nerer been replaced.
About the same time a picture OF Pres.
ident Harrison, 10 an elegant frame, had
been procured and lung up with great
care ic the Congress Library. One eve
ming, when all persons had retired except
two gentlemen therein employed, when
there was nothing to produce shake or
jar, it fell from it's position, the frame
was dashed in may pieces, and the pic.
ture left standing against the wall of the
room.
While President Harrison was on his
way to the city of Washington, the Bank
of the United States, which for years had
been the source of more moral if not
physical disease than Pandora's box Of
old. stopped payment for The last time,
sinking under the weight Of the corrup-
tons il had prac,sed in battle with Gen.
eral Jackson to secure power to the Wing
Party and a new charter TO itself. The
Banks in Baltimore followed the example
almost at the moment Of his arrival in
that city.
Ia the City of Washington, ire after
fire by night and by day had KEEP. the
people in constant agitation; storms Of
unusually violence ravaged city and
county, land and sea; the night proceed
ing his arrival three alarms of fire had
broken their slumbers; he entered the
city amid violent snow.storm, and was
scarcely in his quarters before another
alarm Of FIRE rang through the streets.
Office. seekers, numerous as The frogs
of Egypt, beset him in his walks and his
house, by day and by night; his Cabinet,
heartless and ungrateful, commenced the
work of prescription in direct violation OF
his public pledges and private wishes; and,
in one short month, the kind hearted old
man, worn duwn by numberless excite
men,s and vcxutions, sunk into the arms
of death, with his last words, as if in dim
and dellrlous collection Of some real
scene, admonshing his er'Ing friends to
carry out The true principles Of the Coz,
eminent.
The Steamer President had sailed for
England with news Of Harison's inaugu.
rat on, having the eloquent Goodman on
beard, whose last sermon had been preach.
ed in his presence, and the gallant ship
has never been heard Of since.
The brave Macomb, who led the Pres
ident's Funeral escort, was, in less than
ninety days, by stroke Of spoplexy, Mt
to accompany the Chief he had so recent
ly committed to the tomb.
Fire selZpd the residence Of General
Harrison at North Bend, and it WINS par
TALLY consumed; and the tomb, which had
been CONSTRUCTED for his last resting place,
fell in and crushed man who was plas
tering a niche for his coffin.
tAfer recspitulating other omens of like char
scier, and rehearsns some nonpeIformsnces 81
promises of the Wings. the Trac, concludes with
the following:1
Crimes, unprecedented in number and
nrqusll, in airoclty, filled every section
ofour country with horrors, exhibiting
hardrntd barbarty in their details, only
TO be exceeded in the bosoms Of demons
from the burning pit.
President Tyler had been the willing
associate and beneficiary of thu proil'gate
band who sought power by the conceal
men, Of principles and the prostration OF
order and morals N l640. II was but the
order OF Providence that those who had
obtained elevation by wicked means
should become the instruments to punish
each other. Their mutual elimination
and recrminatlon, unjust and maignant
on the part of the Wings as they were,
are to be attributed to law Of the moral
world which makes prohigacy the victim
Of its own Instruments.
The fatality which attended General
Harrison has not failed to pursue his as
sociaie upon the Ticket of lS40--"Tip-
pecanoe and Tyler too"
True, he has not shared the fate OF
that associate; but the arrows of death
have been thrown thick around him, and
have in quick succession struck down
those who were ntarest his hear, and
stIoDges, in his confidence.
The Wife Of his bosom was snaiched
from him in the midst OF his honors.
He visited the north in company with
his Cabinet, and at Boston the gifted Lee
care was suddenly arrested by disease and
hurried beyond "!has bourne whence no
traveller returns"