The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-11-13
INGERsoLL,s HISTORY or TnE

ENJE6SOLLS tiS OE HE
LATE WAR.-Mr. CHARLES JARED NIGER
SOIL, a natiye born citizen of Pennsylvania,
is the man who holds the opinion shat ifhe
had been old enough to haze taken part IN
the Revolution, he wOuld haze been a Tory"
And he is the man, who, holding this opinion
no doubt honestly, did not hesitate TO avow
it, when charged with it; and, with a frank
ness in which hardihood and dissatisfaction
were principal ingredients, added that be
should never regret that opinion. We be-
lieve he has never disavowed or retracted
it. The Albany Evening Journal we'll
says
"Whatever may be said Of him and his
course in other respects, his whole life has
been consistent with that declaration. His
maturity has fully vindicated his youthful
predictions. If he was not old enough to
oppose the establishment of Republican In
slilulions, he may console himself with the
reflection ofhaving contributed largely 10
their desecraticn."
But an ordinary man might have found his
qualification in descrating the Institutions,
without l~ibelling the men, of the Republic.
Mr.. Ingers0ll is not one so to~be gralifed.-
He has recently written what he calls a ''Kis-
tory of The Late War with England, " in which
the men who took part in the events of that
time, and who are now alive, are greatly be-
praised, even though they be in politics new
er SO much opposed to the author of the
praise. He did not venture to SANDER the
living, but he could not forbear traducing the
dead.--On page 1870 of his work he thus
speaks of General Harrison
Thus closed the military career of William
Heniy Harrison: who afterwards served as a
member of both Houses of Congress, on a
foreign mission 10 Colombia, in South Amer.
lea, which he solicited, was elevated from
the clerkship Of a court in Cincinnati TO the
presidency, and after one short mouth OF
heacheroms triumph IN that Office, crounei
his good fortune by premature death IN The
presidential mansion. The house was throng-
ed with people, even the chamber in which
he died not free from idle intrusion. He
on his lips, before difficulties and distractions.
to which his administration was inevitably
destined, leaving the world with most men
of all parties inclined to think well OF his
character, TO magnify bis virtues, regret his
foibles, regret his zde1lh, aud celebrate his
memory.
This is the true Falstaf courage an in,
ferior animal kicking a dead lion. Bat the
man who is siandered will not find his peace
lul rest in the grave disturbed by this out
pouring of malignity, and the people of The
URited States, who bowed down their heads
and acknowledged that the taking away of
Gen. Harrison, even at the threshold of his
presidential career, was a national affection
they will not be slow 10 conclude, that
what in him excited Mr.. Ingersoll's ire, was
his virtues which Mr.. |. couldnot evenafTect,
and a patriotism which he had never ceased
10 hate, from the day when he declared him
self a tory. The Albany Evening Journal,
therefore, well concludes that little conf
dence will be placed in a work ostensibly
written to commemorate the events of war
that occurred mole than thirty years ago, but
which thus reaches forward to assail and cal
umniate, with all the rancor and malignity of
a partizan, the character and memory of that
beloved Soldier, Statesman and Patriot, Will
lam Henry Harrison.