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THE PEOPLE’S TICKET.
For President.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the in
corruptible Statesman—the inflexible Re
publican —the patriot Farmer oj Ohio.
For Vice-President.
JOHN TYLER,
J State Right's Republican of the School of
’98 —one of Virginia's noblest sons;
and emphatically one of America's
most sagacious, virtuous, and
patriotic Statesmen.
For Georgia Legislature.
Wilkes Anti-Van Burcn Nomi
nation.
(ELECTION ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER.
For Senate.
Dr. WILLIAM Q ANDERSON.
(For the Hotfi/e of Representatives.
ROBERT A. TOOMBS, Esq.
Dr. JAMES N. WINGFIELD.
JOHN T. WOOTEN, Esq.
For Congress.
fELtfrrtd* ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN OCTOBER,
1840.]
R. W. HABERSHAM. <f Habersham,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene ,
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup,
EUGENIUS A. NIS BET, of Bibb,
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter, I
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson,
JAMES A MERRIWETHER, of PtA**<m,
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
For Electors of President and Vide Presi
dent.
I ELECTION THE FIRST MONDAY tV NOVEMBER
1 1840.]
GEORGE R. GILMER, of GfifelUorpe,
Gen. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden,
Col. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee,
Mat. JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock,
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark,
SEATONGRANTLAND, of Baldwin,
Gen. ANDREW MILLER, of Cass,
Gen. W. W. EZZARD, of De Kalb, -
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb,
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke,
Gen. E WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
POL.IT I C A L .
Resettled, by the Senate and House oj
Representatives of the State of Kentucky,
That, in the late campaign against the Indians
upon the Wabash, Governor William Henry
Harrison has behaved like a hero, a patriot,
and a general; and that for his cool, delibe
rate, skillful, and gallant conduct in the battle
of Tippecanoe, he well deserves the warmest
(banks of his country and his nation.”^
Legislature of Kentucky, Jan. 7, 1812.
w General Harrison has done more for his
country, with less compensation tor it, than
*ny man living.” President Madison.
I profess to be somewhat acquainted with
the history of General Harrison's politioal,
military, and private life. lam his neighbor,
and live in his county. As to hisj private life,
f know of no stain that for a moment sullies
hinm’ v Dr. Duncan, of Ohio,
Colonel’ Richard M. Johnson, now Vice Pre
sident of the United Slates, said, in Congress;
“Whu is General Harrison ! The son of one
of the signers- of the Declaration of Indepen
dence, who*spent the greater part of his large
fortune in’ redeeming the pledge lie then gave,
of his* fortune; life, and saored honor,’ to se
cure the liberties of his country.
’ • Ofthe e&reer of General Harrison, I need
not speak ; the history of the West is his his
tory. For forty years he has been identified
with its interests, its perils, and its hopes.
Universally beloved in the walks of peace,
and distinguished by his ability in the coun
cils of his country, he has been yet more
illustriously distinguished in the field. Dur
ing the late war, be war longer in’ actual
sefVibe tHitn any other General Officer; he
was, perhaps, uftener in action than any one
of them, and never sustained a defeat.”
Colonel R. M. Johnson to General Harrison,
July 4, 1813, sayS :
“ We did not want to serve under cowards
or traitors ; but under one [Harrison] who had
proved hunselfto bewise, prudent, and brave.”
General Win. H. Harrison says :
“ lu all ages, and in dll countries, it has
been observed, lliul the cultivators of the soil
are those who are the least willing to part
with their rights, and submit them to the will
of a master.”
On the night before the final questiou on the
Missouri restriction was taken, General Har
risott was warned by one of bis associates, that
if he voted against the restriction, lid would
ruin his popularity at the North ; he fearlessly
replied :
“ I have often risked my life in defeno* of
my country —1 will now risk my political po
pularity in defence of the union.”
On the subject of selling white men for
debt, General Garrison Says; in a letter to M r.
Pleasants;
“ So far from being willing id Sell then lot
debts*, which they ure unable to discharge; I
am, and ever have been, opposed to all impri
sonment for debt.”
In a letter, on the same subject; to the Editor
of the Cincinnati Advertiser, he says:
“ Far from advocating the abominable prin
ciples attributed to me by your correspondent,
i think that imprisonment for debt, under any
circumstance but those where fraud is alleged,
is at Ural with tllb best principles of our Con
stitution; tltid tJUgllt to be abolished.”
lit A speech at. Cheviot, Ohio, on the foilrth
of July, 1833, General Harrison, speaking of
the abolitionists, sßys :
“ THe Schemes of the abolitionists are fraught
with horrors, Upon which an incarnate devil
only could look with approbation.”
In a letter to the Hon. Sherrdd Williams’
dated “ North Bend, May 1, 1836,” lie says :
“ I have before me a newspaper, in which 1
am designated by its distinguished editor,
1 the bank and federal candidate.’ I think it
would puzzle the writer to adduce any act of
my life which warrants him in identifying me
with the interests of the first, or the politics of
the latter.”
The Electoral Ticket.
JUDGE DOUGHERTY’S REPLY.
Athens, 9th July, 1840.
Gentlemen :—I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your letter, of the
25th of June, as a committee; informing
me of my nomination by the Convention
held in Milledgeville, on the first Monday
of that month, as one of the Candidates for
Electors of President and Vice President
of the United States, at the approaching
Presidential election. Also, that by a re
solution of said Convention, II is expressed
that myself und the othel 1 gentlemen,
whose names are placed with mine on the
electoral ticket, were nomirtillbd with a
view to the support, of General William
ft. Harrison, of Ohio, for the office of
President, and John Tyler, of Virginia; for
the office of Vice President of the United
States. In full view of such object of the
Convention, I cheerfully accept the nomi
nation.
You, gentlemen, have expressed an eh
tire assurance in my coincidence With the
Convention on the subject of supporting
General Hairison and Mr. Tyler fdr the
two highest offices known in the Constitu
tion of our Country. In this assilrtlhce
you are not mistaken. An unhesitating
conviction of duty to our common Coun
try, prompts me to tender you my heart
and hand in the pending contest foi* the
Presidency,
I shall be pleased to see a President
come into office bv the unbought suffrages
of the freemen of the Union ; and not by
the power and patronage, if not appoint
ment of his “ illustrious predecessor:”
I shall be gratified to see a President
elected on account of his long and merito
rious services to the country, and not one
whose chief claim rests on his subservlehcy
to his predecessor. I desire to see elected
a man .who will be President of the Coun
try and not of a party.
I wish to see elected a President who
will consider the offices of the government
established for the good of the whole peo
ple, and not as spoils wherewith to reward
unscrupulous partizans.
I am anxious to see elected, the man
who will be content to exercise the powers
delegated bv the Bonstitution and laws,
and then only because they are necessary,
and not one who seeks on all occasions,
and by all means, to enlarge these powers,
and to use them for the purpose of getting
or keeping office,
I seek to have elected the man who I be
lieve will exercise or bestow the patron
age incident to his office, on the honest,
capable, nnd faithful,and not use it to con
trol or influence the suffrages of the peo
ple.
I shall rejoice to see elected the man
who will wage no war against the labor
and credit of the country ; who will cease
to destroy the energies of the people by a
continued experiment on the currency of
the country, and who will consider the
government instituted for the benefit of the
citizen, and feel himself bound to aid and
relieve the people in all cases when that
can be legally and constitutionally done ;
and not the mao, who seeks to redoce the
Washington, (Wilkes county, Ga.) September LO* 1840.
price of labor; by destroying the credit
and trade of the Union, and to urge a po
licy of finance calculated to make the
poor poorer, and the rich richer ; and who
thinks the people expect too much of the
Government—and says the government
must take care of itself, and the people to
take care of themselves.
And above all, I shall be happy to see
elevated to the Presidential Chair, the man
who will rfedutfe the expenditures of the Go
vernment to an economical standurd; and
cease to draw frtnh the Common mass; to
bestow on favorite partizans.
These are some of the benefits to the
country 1 hope for, and the principles I
expect to advance, by the election of Wm.
H. Harrison and John Tyler. And there
are many principles I desire to rebuke in
the rejection nl the present incumbent:
I shall expect, in the success of Harri
son uud Tyler, to see the country taught
once more to look to Congress and not to
the Executive lor ail law—-to hope for dis
tinction by virtuous, honest, and indepen
dent action; and not rely alone on Execu
tive favor lor public promotion.
That among my fellow-citizens there
will he a diversity of opinion, I am ready
to admit ; and all i ask Is a concession of
honesty ol purpose on my part. I ask no
thing bdt What l grant to others.
But I sat dolVn simply to signify my ac
ceptance ol the nomination which the par
tiality of friendship offered; and notto give
reasons for my future conduct, ahd hopes
Or feats on my part. The interest in
volved, however, has produced this train
of reflection; and 1 have yielded to its
hearty expression:
1 am, gentlemen, respectfully, your fel
low-citizen, C. DOUGHERTY'.
To Hon. Thaddeus G. Holt; Miller Grieve,
Geo. R. Clayton, Williams Ruther
ford, M. Gonder, H. C. Culver, Irbv
Hudson, jr-, H. Lockhart; and Joshua
Hill, Esqrs., Committee:
GOV. GILMER’S REPLY.
Lexington, 15th July, 1840.
Gentlemen: —Absence from the State
for the last two months, has prevented my
receiving and answering your communica
tion, informing me ofthe nominations made
by the State Rights Convention lately as
sembled in Milledgeville, of candidates for
Electors of President and Vice President
of the United States. Concurring en
terely with the Convention in the prefer
ence given by it to Gen. Harrison and Mr.
Tyler for the offices of President and Vice
President over Mr. Van Buren and the ma
ny candidates for the Vice Presidency, the
nomination; so far as I am concerned, is
accepted.
The Constitution ihtrusts great power to
the President to provide against the ineffi
ciency common to popular .Governments.
The abuse of that power; is the danger
which most threatens to destroy the bene
ficial operation of our free institutions.—
Mr. Van Buren and the leaders of the par
ty who brought him into office, and who
are tioW seeking to re-elect him, have abu
sed that power in a manner hitherto unex
ampled in this Country, by turning out
faithful; independent officers; filling as far
as possible all Vacant appointments with
servants of the party instead of servants
of the Country; giving the publication of
the laws arid other profitable employments
to newspapers advocating the course of
the Administration right or wrong, excit
ing the active Seal of all those who prefer
living out ofthe public treasury to honest
labor, by the certainty with which they
have rewarded partizan support with pub
lic employment, and by extravagant ap
propriations and the slight responsibility
imposed upon those intrusted with their ex
penditure. It is characteristic of such an
administration of Government that the e
vils attendant upon it increase in rapid prm
gressloh with toleration!
The questions involved In the present
Contes’ for the Presidency und compared
with which indeed all others are Insignifi
cant; are Whether Mr. Van Buren and
the leaders of his party shall be rewarded
by the people with the highest honors and
emoluments in their gift for doing the great
est possible injury? Whether the people
can be so misguided and deceived by the
acts and misrepresentations of those in of
fice, the agents of the Government and
those expecting advantages from its ad
ministration as to continue their trust in
in those who have most grossly betrayed
their confidence? The consequences of
the professions and practices of Mr. Van
Buren and his party may already be seen
in the degradation of the Judiciary aud
Legislative Departments-—the declension
of public spirit and the regard for the sa
cred obligation of law and morals, and
the uproar and turmoil which disturb the
quiet of society, They have made Con
gress the perpetual scenoe of the most dis
graceful the Post
Master General into the Editor of an Ex
tra sheet of the most sourrilous partisan
newspaper, and the highest official digni
taries into the distributors under their frank
of Amos Kendall’s insidious productions,
and have brought Mr. Van Buren and Mr.
Calhoun into the arms of each other with
no common feelings or opinions, and ha
ting each other with all the bitterness of
mqtual injury and intuit.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
But one measure of public policy owes
its adoption to the ascendency ol’ the Van
Buren. party. Whether the benefits of the
Sub-Treasury will ever compensate the
country for all the mischiefs inflicted upon
it to secure that ascendency is yet to be de
termined- The Sub-Treasury has ulreu
| dy been partially in operation for the Irtst
two years. Commercial credit and gene-
I ral confidence have ceased to exist, and
| distress and emberrassment are felt every
where.
In barbarous times, when tyranny and
misrule directed the conduct of Govern
ment; it was the practice of kings, when
fearful of making further direct exactions
of the people, to enlarge the means of ex
travagance by mixing cheap metals with
gold and silver and compelling the people
to receive the base currency at the value
of pure coin; Our rulers by the Snb-
TreaSUry are compelling the people to pay
their taxes and other demands of the Gov
ernment in monfey of greater value than
what they use in their dealings with each
other, in order that the Salaries of public
officers and perquisites of all who are in
the employment of the Government, may
be increased and have their means of ex
penditure enlarged. These measures a
grefe in this, that each benefits those in
power at the expense of the people. The
operation of the Sub-Treasury will be bet
ter understood when the people pay to their
merchants the increased price w hich must
bo ebafged upon their goods to compensate
for the high rath of exchange upon New
York of Charleston. No one doubts but
that the fnoriey of the Government can
be kept and disbursed inure sal’elv and e
conomically by Banks than Sub-Treasur
ers. And vet; some patriotic citizens have
favored the Sub-Treasury because they
are of opinion that the party in power can
exercise lesscorrupt influence through the
Sub-Treasury than by the employment of
Banks. Will such persons remember,
that the party who have adopted the Sub-
Treasury, understand the efficiency of cor
rupt influences far belter than they do,
and are unscrupulous beyond all example
in this country in the employment of them?
The administration of Mr. Van Buren
has been extravagant to a degree previous
ly unknown to our Government, und is as
insufficient as it has been extravagant. —
Between thirty and forty millions of pub
lic money have been annually spent. How
could this be otherwise? An administra
tion which employs agents not on account
of their honesty aud capacity, but because
they bring voters to it, cannot turn out in
competent and dishonest agents, because
votes would thereby be lost.
An agent of the Government employed
to examine the land offices, informed thdt
Secretary of the Treasury, that a receiver
of the public money had pocketed a large
sum, but advised him to treat this default
er indulgently, that he was a democrat,
and had many very influential friends who
were democrats*. Did Mr. Woodbury dis
miss his agent as a knave lor thus insult
ing the head ofthe Treasury Department
by the imputation that he preferred secu
ring votes for his party to discharging his
duty to the country? or did he act kindly
and confidingly towards this defaulting
democrat with numerous influential demo
cratic friends ?
A large portion ofthe revenue of the U;
States is derived from the duties received
upon goods imported into New Y'ork. If,
therefore, the administration makes its of
ficers responsible at all, gliards the public
money with any vigilance, or enforces the
revenue laws with any effect it was to have
been expected that the collector of New
York would have been made to do his du
ty. That officer filched from the Govern:
ment Upwards of two millions of dollars
because the laws wfere not enforced. If
the colleetol* of the port of New Y'ork act
ing almost immediately under the eye of
the President, and over whom the public
interest required such strict guard, was
held to so slight a responsibility, no ohe
can wonder that thirty or forty millions Os
dollars should be requisite for their expen
ditures by the one hundred thousand agents
in jhe employment of the Government:
Between twenty and thirty millions of
dollars have been expended by the Ad
ministration of Mr. Van Buren in the’ at
tempt to subdue a small band of Seminole
Indians. The late murders in the imme
diate vicinity of Tallahassee and St. Au
gustine show for how little purpose.
These and many unmentioned matters
concur in rendering Mr. Van Buren un
worthy ol re-election. A majority of the
people of Georgia were opposed to him
when elected; I was among that• number.
Without any prejudices against Mr. Van
Buren, I considered the means used to e
lect him, highly dangerous to the purity
and perpetuity of our Government, and
that the leaders of the party organized for
his support rendered it certain, that, if e
leoted, his Administration would be selfish
and corrupt. The result has fully proved
the correctness of that opinion.
It has been said that the present Admin
istration steals und plunders, and that those
opposed to it, will when in office, do the
same. If those who entertain this opinion
mean thereby that those who steal and
plunder, ought not to be turned out of of
fice, there cannot be a greater mistake.—
Thro form of our Government requires
that every citizen, however hdrnble, should ,
sit in judgment upon the conduct of can
didates lor the Presidency- He presumes j
that he Understands his rights and interests j
and will protect them by refusing to give
his vote Ibi* Ohe Who has either neglected j
or violated them. This is the highest pre
rogative which belongs to a citizen of this
country ; upon ns proper exercise depends
the continued preservation of oiir invalua
ble privileges. If the people in turnihg
out one administration for stedllhg and
plundering, bring into power one equally
dishonest; they should turn it out, aud
thus, by the certainty with which they
bring punishment and disgrace upon utl
faithful servants make even knuVes act ho
nestly.
As the great body ofthe people can haVfe ;
but little participation in bringing candi
dates for the Presidency belore ‘.hem, it is
fortunate that iu the present contest, the
selection should have fallen upon General
Harrison.
He is honest; as is proven By the con
curring testimony of rhen of all parties.
A long lile devoted to the service of his
country, testifies to his patriotism.
He has ample experience, having filled
many ol the highest civil and military offi
ces ol the territorial; Stale, und General
Governments.
His leetin'gs; habits and interests, are
in unison with the great body of the peo
ple, being and plain; kind-hearted, working
farmer of moderate fortune.
He is a worthy son ol’one of tHd signers
of the declration of independence, whose
fortune was sacrificed in the war of the
Revolution.
He is thecaudidute of the people, and
not of professional politicians, or any or
ganized political combination.
He has pledged himself that if elected
lie will not be a candidate for re-election,
and that he will Confine himself to the dis
charge of the proper duties of the Execu
tive Department, thereby ensuring to the
country, as far as possible, that faithful
men will be appointed to appointed to office,
and members of Congress left free to at
tend to the interests of their cofistiuents.
Born, educated and reared to manhood
in a slave-holding State, with the feelings,
attachments, and prejudices Common to
Southern men—his relations Virginians
and large slave-holders—the Southern peo
ple will have in the election of Gen. Har
rison a security against the efforts of the
Abolitionists which none but a native Jlave
holder can give; confirmed by his firm
ness in voting with the Southern members
ol Congress upon the Missouri slave ques
tion: At the same time, his marriage, his
long residence, property and citizenship
in a hon-slave-holdifig State will secure
the non-slave-holding States against any
disregard of their interests. Whilst the
storm which threatens ohr country, upon
the question of slavery, Withholds its fury,
it should be a subject of Common gratulu
tion that we have yet an honest, patriotic,
and eminent citizen Upon whom all sec
tions and all parlies mnv unite once more
in making a President of the Union.
For myself 1 shall consider it a high ho
nor, if the people of Georgia shall autffo
thorise me to express by my vote ns tin
Elector, their decided preference Os GSh.
Harrison for Presidehf to Mr. VaH Buren.
I regret that circumstances which I could
not very well control have delayed an’ an
swer to your letter until this time.
Please accept the dssiirahce of riiy high
respect, &c.
GEORGE R. GILMER.
To Thaddeus G. Holt, Miller Grieve, Geo.
R.. Clayton, William Rutherford, M\
Gohder, II: C. Culver, frby Hudson,,
Jr., H. Lockhart, Joshua Hill, Central
Coitimittei.
GENERAL WIMBERLY’S REPLY.
Twiggs County, July 17, 1840.
Messrs; Thaddeus G. Holt, and Others :
Gentlemen :—Several causes haVe de
layed my reply to yodr letter; notifying
me of my nomination upon the Harrisdh
Electoral Ticket; until the present mo
ment.
1 cheerfully acquiesce in the use made
of my name by the Convention of our
political friends in June last. If public
services, both civil and military, of the
most distinguished character, entitle an
American citizens to the gratitude of his
country, in my estimation, to no man liv
ing are the people of the United States un
der such deep obligations for disinterested
and patriotic sufferings and sacrifices, as
to General William Henry Harrison. I
yield him iny support, the more readily
too from the fact that he is a Southern
man by birth, and a Southern man in
principle, upon the most vital ofali ques
tions. If I mistake not the evidence be
fore and around us, since the days of
Washington, the hearts of the people ne
ver palpitated with such fervent enthu
siasm for the success of a candidate for j
offico, as is now exhibited throughout this
land, yet free ; in the gatherings of the
good and virtuous and patriotic, in a com
mon effort to honor him, who by his pre
oepts and practice has ever honored the I
“ Father of his Country,” and by whom I
he was honored. I have entire confidence
in the republicanism of him who bad the
confidence of Washington, Jefferson, anid
J. KAPPEL, JPrinier.
Volume XXVI.
Madisoh. Let calumny do its most—it
cannot rob General Harrison of the testi
mony of.their approbation. ~. f
1 will again give, with great pleasure, iT
an Elector, my hearty support to John
Tyler, (another Virginian by birth,) for
the Vice Presidency.
Y our obedient servant,
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY'.
GENERAL CALL.
Gen. Call, late Governor of Florida,
and a special favorite of Gen. Jackson,
has United himself to the Whigs. At a re
turn pubiic meeting in Philadelphia, he
suid:
“So soon as Mr. Morris concluded, Gen-
Call was called upon and addressed the
assembly. He commenced by endeavor
ing to impress upon the Whigs the impor
tunce of constant, unrelaxed, and vigor
ous action. They had numbers upon their
side but they hud a well organized, a tho
rough disciplined, and an ever vigilant
band to contend with, a band well supplied
too, with all the munitions of war from
the treasury.
‘‘He spoke then of the practice of the
Loco Foco party deuouncihg evehy mah
as a Federalist, atld an enemy to Andrew
Jabkson, who Would not support Martin
Van Bur Ch. This charge every man in
the room; he said, knew to be false, he
himself pronounced \l false. The first breath
he ever drew was democratic—the son of
a revolutionary sire, he had been nurtur
ed in democracy from his infancy—he bad
ever been, and was now, n democrat.—
To charge him and others like him with
federalism, was u libel. He said that e
qually false und calumnious was it to say
that he was the enemy of Andrew Jackson.
An orphan, at the age of eighteen he lefi
school and entered the army under Jack
son, who had been his patron and friend ;
he was now his friend ; he had been with
him in every buttle he ever fought save
one; he had seen him and been with him
under the most trying circumstances, and
such was his loVe and devotion to him,
thut were his life to be purchased or sav
ed by giving his fc'wn, he would unhesita
tingly make the sacrifice !—and, said he,
indignantly, will they charge me with be
ing an enemy to Jackson ! He spurned
the charge us false and those who made
it ns bait calumniators, who were them
selves no friends of General Jackson, but
only deJireto turn his deserved popularity
with the people to account, and make po
litical and pecuniary profit by it.” Gen.
Call then went On to show how inconsist
ent Were the measures und acts of Mr. Van
Burch with the genuine principles of de
mocFaby, und that he had taken to his em
brace and confidence every ultra federal
ist in the United States that could bfe in
dttced td become his friend and sijppbffet*,
and instaficed every distinguished fedbrilt-.
iSt who were opposed to the last *.vur, anfl‘
rejoiced at the victories ol bur enemies, or
like Mr. Van Buren, only Supported it, if_
at all; by talk, not hy tailing arms and
exposing their person's; Ho asked whbre
Mr, Van Buren was'during the War?—
He was then a man of influence enough to
have obtaihed a edmffiisSion—lie lived
where; from his hbuSe top, he could al-’
most see tho eherrly’s Cdmp fires and hear
the roar of his artillery—did he take part
in it? Did he volunteer? Did heshowa
disposition to fight his country’s battles
and drive the enemy from otir soil? Oh
no, not he—he did not like the smell of*
“villainous gunpowder,” and therefore
staid at home, took good care or his per
son, and, if he supported the war at all,
only did it by talk—there was no “fight”
in him. But where was the gallant old
Tippecanoe all this time? Did he support
the war by talk ? No, he was in the field’
fighting lor his country and driving back
her foes. Gen. C. said he was too busy
himselt at the South tb tuke much noticb,
at the time; ofthe movements of (laH-ison*
at the Northwest; but he had u brother;
now no more; with him at the battle df
the Thames, ahd frdm him, as well as
trdm the rhouths of others, he had heard
of the skill and bravery of Gen. Harrison !
And this is the man, said Gen. C., they
denounce ns a federalist and a coward!
Blistered be the tonge that can utter such
a slander. It was never uttered by a
brave man ; no brave man ever slandered
a gallant soldier, and if any one should
say that Harrison was a coward or lacked
skill, ask him if he was present, said Gen.
C—ask him if he heard the bullets whis
tle, and if he met the enemy?—and if he
tells you he did, I say he tells a falsehood.-
No man ever fought under or with Har
rison, but will testify to his bravery and
his skill as “General.”
Vawi of Locofoco News.— VVe learn
from the Louisville Journal, that a few
days ago, Messrs, foster and Johnson,
Electoral candidates in Tennessee, had an
appointment to speak at Kbsselville in that
Stale, but for certain reasons failed to vi-,
sit that place at all. A loco correspond
ent of the Knoxville Argus, however, not
knowing of their failure, and supposing
that they had spoken according to their
appointment, wrote of their pretend
ed speeches, and stated that eight Whigt
had been converted to the administra
infaith by the discussion.
