The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-09-04
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chronicle our deep disappointment. not {
say chagrin and painful Modification.
give any old-line Wing Harper for In
stance. OF the Raymond Gazette,) fun leav
20 Imagine our discontinue. and chuck
ovrr 10 their hearts content.
pass over Cumberland. Uniontowp
Washington, PA where we had appoint
ments, with the single remark that our par.
" did not dra'o as against "Tippecaaoe ane
Tyler too" and come to Wheeling. Her,
We were 70 have had a grand receptiop
All along the line we were told of the r,ui.
titudes that were to meet us. The meetipe
was on an island nearly opposite wheeling
In the Ohio river. and. OF course, nearly ON
the line between Virginia and Ohio. I'm
agine my surprise, when instead OF meet
ing an audience OF flfteen thousand. as We
had been assured would be there, we had a
/ spiritless audience of not exceeding ffteen
hundred. Allen was pluck TO The last. Ills
! spirit and pluck did not let down. lie had
evidently expected his constituents to give
him and the party OF which he was the re-
eognized head hearty welcome. They
wholly failed. To say that the reception
was cool, does not eX press the idea. II Wa
freezing. But il was on that little island
opposite Wheeling that heard tie first and
last authentic account Of the
KILLING OF rEcUMsEu.
Ii came out in this wise: Senator Allen.
standing on the border OF his own state and
expecting TO meet his admiring and eafbp-
sidstic constituents face 20 face. which a.,
Jailed TO do, was put forward by unanimous
consent TO make the opening speech. Al
the conclusion of his speech the Senator in
troduded the Vice President. with what a
Frenchman would call grand aourisb.
After an appropriate eulogy on the Vice
Presidents military and civil services e.
the country, and an eloquent comniends-
ton of him as pattern OF propriety To
young men, he suddenly turned and
taking the old mans crippled hand. said
This is the hand that slew Teeumsrl and
rescued the West, and especially Ohio. from
the Internal rule ct the tomahawk ana
scalpng knife.
The effect was expected to be electrical
bat it wasn't. 1t was very evident that the
mind of the audience was with "Tippe-
canoe and not with the SLAYER of Tecumsrh.
But It gave " old Dick" as we used TO
call the honest, unsuspccting Vice Presi-
dent, an opportunity to state in his plain,
way, all he knew about
WHO DID KILL TECUMsEH.
The Vice President was a singuarly
modest man. And, like Jackson, Harrison.
Taylor, Grant, and other great soldiers, lac
= was no orator as Brutus was" He opened1
his speech with a brief statement Of what
occurred Immediately preceding the fight !
and then said rerJ0tiHl, ~ near as my recol- |
lection serves me:
The Indians were ambuscaded. We were |
accommodating Ola sudden we received a
Calling fire. Falling back a short distance |
we held hasty council of war. The In |
dians supposed we had retreated and adj |
vanced, led, as we afterwards understood, |
10y Tecumseh in person. We had but one |
Of two things to do-rotreat and give up |
the field to the Indians or charge them i'm |
their stronghold. With little time for de-
liberation, we chose the latter course. In
an instant we were in the midst of their
OF course there was not much
order in the charge. suddenly found my
self confronted by an exceedingly fine
looking Indian ia the garb Of "A Chief At
that instant there came "A volley from an
directions. Ny mare, splendid Kentucky
animal, was fatally wounded, and / felt her |
sinking under me. | pricked her sharply |
in the sides with my spurs, and at the in !
slant attempted to draw my holster with |
my right hand, but finding that hand dis |
abled, | used my left. Resting the pistol |
on the mares wthers l fired. and the In |
dian, with his tomahawi pointed, threw
up his arms and fell back. After that |
was insensible and can say nothing more
Of my own knowledge. Ny men told me
after was restored to consciousness. that
they bore me from tile field wounded in the
side and il the hard, and that the Indian
who fell on the firing of my pistol was
Tecumseh. Whether they were right or
not do not know, and 10 not care. have
AN inward conviction that / did my dIty.
If the Indian that / killed was in truth
Tecumseh, then am entitled TO the credit
Of killing Tecumseh. II it was some other
Indian, think myself entitled 70 just ~
much credit. for II IL had been Tt, umsoh
the result would have been the same"
This is the story of killing Tecnmseh as
| heard it from the lips OF Col. r. NJ. John
son, under circumstances well calculate 10
impress it upon my mind.
After leaving Wheeling orr programme
led u through st. Clairsville. Columbus
and so on 10 Cincinnati. After leaving IT.
Clairsville the spirit Of our Congressman
gave out, and he announced his intention
to take the stage for homo. Our meeting
had been splritlcss. On the other hand, the
Wings were not only buoyant, but eathu-
siastic to the last degree. On every side
the weIkin rang with shouts for " Tippe-
canoe Whereas, the personal presence Of
the victor over Tccumseh ELECTED the least
imaginable amount Of popular outburst.
pass over all that occurred from the
time that we left st. Clairsvile until we
reached Vicksburg. When the boat landed
at night crowd came aboard, and among
them a mum Der OF leading Democrats. This
latter soon surrounded our Representative,
and almost smothered him under an ava
lanche of questions as TO our prospects in
the West. He evaded as far as possible
until we were fairly ashore. Then stop
ping suddenly, he asked: Gentlemen,
what have you done to meet the storm that
Is setting on from the West and win be
upon you in less than a month"; Moth
lug: we are safe Then you are beat
The result is known.
ONE OF OTHER DAYS.
A reporter for a Western paper, speaking
of certain fair creature, remarked THAI