The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1866-05-10

plring-oniy taxation goes on at its
usual rate. lg.r ... r.
Poisoned Presidents.
The most infamous newspaper
article we have read for a long time
appears in the Cincinnati Daily
Gazette of the 30th ult., on assas-
sination as means of power. The
writer hints that Harrison and Tay-
lor were poisoned to make way for
Vice Presidents more subservient
10 the South; that the National Ho-
tel poisoning Of Buchanan in 1857,
was part of q plot to make John O..
Breckenridge President; and that
the leaders of the defunct rebel
government at the South planned
Mr.. Lincoln's assassination-Booth
being merely tool in their hands
so that johnson, a Southern man,
could take Mr.. Lincoln's place
AS long as Hamlin was Vice Pres
ident, nc attempt on Mr.. Lincoln's
life was made. And SO on, for
quantity.
The editor of the Gazette may,
perhaps, remember that when Gen.
Harrison was elected President, he
was very old man, and feebler
than most men are at seventy. He
may know something of Harrison's
journey to Washington before be-
ing inaugurated; he may recollect
the fatiguing programme marked
out for that ceremony; and he can
not have forgotten the importuni-
ty of hordes of office seekers who
dogged the heels of Gen. Harrison
from the momentit was certain he
would be elected till he perished.
Harrison began to fail long before
he reached Washington; he was a
worn-out man in appearance on the
day Of Inauguration; his power of
attention to business gave out ut
terly two weeks afterward; on the
9th Of March inflammation of the
brain set in, and, on the 4th of Ap-
ril, 1871, he died. Not a symptom
of poisoning was present at any
stage of his illness.
Gen. Taylor, it is we'll known,
died of a disease, contracted in
Mexico, which was fastened to. a
fatal termination by the part he
had to perform at a public cere-
mony in Washington, three days
before his death, and by his singu-
lar imprudence in diet and expos
ure at the time. There is absolute
ly no evidence-not the slightest
of poison in his case. ,or
(. But suppose that some villain,
for political ends, had meditated
such a purpose,wha would he gain?
the Vice President, was
a Wing OF the straitest sect, and
party man of far more decided an
tecedents than Taylor's could have
been. The presumption in John
Tyler's favor was quite as strong.
He was member of the Harris
burg Convention of 1889, and was
jealous there in support of Mr..
Clay. When the result was an
he was so mortified at
Clay's defeat, that a Harrison dele
gate, merely to pacify him, propos-
ed him for the Vice Presidency
In fact, Tyler was a sort of COM
promise offered to the Clay wings
by the Harrisonians. That he dis
each at last is matter of
history, but this does not invali-
late what we have stated. ~.
So of Andrew Johnson. The i'm
preston about him, when elected
Vice President, was that he was a
ar more violent man against the
rebels than Mr.. Lincoln. He had
made some bold speeches in which
Davis, Toombs, Iverson, Yancy,
Wigfall and Crawford were handled
gloves or mercy. AS Pro-
risional Governor of Tennessee, he
certainly did not earn the good
will of those who had been his op-
oonents. 1t is notorious that the
pulpit demagogues, a year ago, ex-
blamed the phenomenon of Mr..
Iincoln's murder, by saying it was
providence; he had done his work,
but he could do no more; he was
90 merciful a man for the times
about to follow. We needed man
If iron, like Andrew johnson, &c.
And, after all1is said, some reli-1
'nce must beplaced in sthei aver.
lra sense and m 0i.alifrr ofs ,,aa,, J