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he world, corroborated ly the sanctity of an atHdavit which represented him as confessing to a young man on a steam boat, that he was an Abolitionist and that although he

voted against restrictions on Missouri, he did o in opposition to the suggestions of his conscience, etCh He said the narrative bore on its face the proofs of its absolute falsity and when he pronounced it a fabrication, without the semblance of a (act or a word for its basis, it was not because he thought it required a contradiction, but to evince the recklessness And desperation of his political enemies, who teemed to h;ivc given up every ground of hope, save ihst which they found in vilifying his name. It is a melancholy fsict, fellow dtiZ2ns,,J said Gen. Harruon, "that the advocates of Mr Van Buren should so far forget what belongs to the character of an American Uizsn and do so much violence to the nature

w our free institutions, as to place the great

( oiiucar contest in which we are now striv

' g, upon an issue such as this. I would not xcept the lofty station to which some of you .ire proposing to elevate me,if it came to me,by

uch means. I would not, if 1 had the4powcr

? prevent it, allow the fair fame of my com

i.etitcr to be unjustly assailed and wounded,

even tor the attainment of that lofty aim of a

noble ambition. Nay, I have often defended Mr Van Buren against what I believed to be misrepresectationsofmy own mist iken friends

and others.

I-ellow-citizens, if Mr. Van Buren be the

better statesman, let us say so I shall he the last man to raise au objection against it or to desire to impose restraints upon the utmost independence of thought and action and the freest expression of feeling and opinion. 1 love a frank and generous adversary such a man I delight to embrace and will serve him, according to my ability, aa cheerfully as my prefes-ed friend. But that political warfare which seeks success by foul detraction and strives for ascendency by the ruin of personal charactcr,merits the indignation of hon

est men, is hateful to every generous mind,

and tends too surely to the destruction of pub lie virtue, au J as a consequence, to the down' tall of public liberty."

General Harrison apologised for occupji.ig his fellow citizens so long. He said, he would

but mention one of th latest slanders which

had come to his knowledge. A German paper published in Cincinnati, almost under his own

eye, puts it fourth with apparent sincerity, that '"General Harrison, now a candidate fur the Presidency of the United States, was many years ago, when a young mtn, an aid to General Wayne during his Indian wars and that,wuen young Harrison found that a battle was coming on, he always ran off into the woods." (Again there was a loud and irrepressible laughter.) The editor forgot, said

the General, when he served up this littVe dish,

mat the onlyjossible secuntary to young Har-1 rison's scalp, on the approach of a battle with the Indians, was in keeping out of the woods! Such a story as this can only excite a smile here, it is true,said General H., but this paper circulates not alone in the United States copies of it are probably read in Europe, where our hi story is less known, and where the contradiction of such false statements may possibly never come. "It has long been proverbial of old soldiers, fellow-citizen," (continued General H.) "that they delight to go back to other days and fight their battles over again. When I beenn this

addess to ymi, I intended only to speak of my far-farmed "Committee of conscience keepers" and the ilron Cage in which they confine me, but I have unwittingly taken advantage ol

your kind disposition to listen to me, and ex-

The People's Ticket Oar cause.it it right oar cause , it is just.

And conquer we CAN and conquer we MUST.

Democratic Republican Candidate For President,

WILLI IIENRY HARRISON

Peisestirtg t rial Rpublicatt principles t"ttgrity of character superior talents and political honesty. For Vice President jon tylcr. ofVi ginia. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. SENATORIAL, JONATHAN McCARTY, of Delaware; JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jefferson ; REPRESENT AT ITS,

1st District, Jon W. Patke, of Harrison;

2d do It. W. Thompson, of Lawrrence 3d do Joseph L. White, of Jeffeson j 4tli do James H. Cravens, of Ripley; 5th do Caleb B. Smith, of Fayette; 6th do Wm. Herod, of Bartholomew ; 7th do S. C. Sample, of Montgcmey; AUGUST ELECTION, 1840. FOR GOVERNOR. Samuel Bigger, of Rush County. FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Samuel IIall, of Gibson County. Senator, DAT ID MOUXT. Representatives, JOILY A. MATSOJv, JAMES COM WELL

Sheriff, JEREMIAH O. ST. J OILY. Recorder, GEORGE W. KIMBLE. Coroner, OTHJS'IEL COLESCOTT. ComV. of 2d District ROBT. TEM PLE TO.Y. Com'r.ofSd District. JAM ES WEBB.

From (AejJWte York Log Cabin. i SHOULDEIl TO SHOULDER! Frienes of Harrison and Tyler! a most glorious, beneficieut victory or a disgraceful, calamitous, irretrievable defeat i before vou; less than five months remain in which the issue is to be determined; choose ye triumph or disromfeiture. On your choice depends the portentous result! We speak not to alarm but to arouse you; we address you not in the spirit of apprehen-

sion out oi sirenginemng confidence and abounding hope. We speak in the most per

fect conviction that twenty of the twenty-six

States, B 2C0 cf the 21)0 and 94 Electo-

rial Votes, and fully one hundred thousand

majority of the whole People of the Union are with us on the side of National Reform. We

speak in the most undoubting confidence that with unceasing vigilance and exertion on the part of their friends, every State but four in

the entire Union may be induced to cast their

votes tor tiarnson ana J vier. All this we

feel, and see, and know. Bui we know also the resources, the tern

per, and the desperation of your adversaries.

V e know there are thousands after thousands

of them m hose all, whether character or fortune, is staked on this issue. With them the result desides whether they are to be Caesar or nothing.' Their ambition, their avarice, their luxury, their pride and their misdemeanors .are (all involved. Many of them have heavy peculations to conceal, which cannot escape detection, if the Administration is

changed. Many have been guilty of practi

ces which, though they try to consider them innocent, they would not have exposed for a fortune. All of them feel that a defeat would be the extremity of disgrace and disaster. Think you that these men will tamely surren

der powert Think vou that he who has

tended my remarks to other, though kindred t filched half a million from the Treasury will

topics. I win only add mat, although they not take more, and use it in the way most

L . 1 : 1 1 1. . ! a . ... . - .

naie ninue nnuic misiaite muo mane me 10 lilce r lO ore Ten I it defection? think mi

m j thatnhe District Attorneys, and Collectors and Land Office Receivers will not disgorge

a share of their past gains in the hope of

1 please call it, is forme J in year neighborhood. 1 r il -.L ...... e . !

liunuw uiK uo not wan lor some great man

to take the lead, or to see what others will do. Just go right round the first hour you can spare from your business, and ask your Har

rison neighbors to loin in forming a Club. II

any have objections, b sure to obviate them if possible. Limit the duration of your Club to the last day of Election if advisable. Many are opposed to permanent political societies we are of the number. Keep i( away from taverns or the like if you can fiud a good convenient place elsewhere. If you have none,just throw fup n Log Cabin. It will take but a day; it will call out and harmonize your friends; and it will give them practically to understand that, if we are to succeed, we

must all work for it, and pull together. This

is a lesson too many of us need.

Oar enemies lie basely in their bug-bear

stones about Hard Cider revels, intemperance,. &. Let us expose their falsehood in all our doings. If any must drink liquors fan

unlikely practice at best) let them choose some other lime and 'place than such as is afforded by our Harrison meetings. When n Club or other organization is once formed, on that simplest and readiest plan possible, let there be regular meetings at staled periods. In these invite competent friends to deliver short, pungent, pithy addresses oc-'

casicnaily, but do not depend on getting lawyers and trained talkers. ft is not necessary. There is hardly a man among us who has read the History of the U. States or of the Last War, who is not able to say a good word for Old Tippecanoe. There are ver) few who have read even a Loco Foco newspaper only for the last five years, who cannot relate a siring as long as your arm of broken promises and swindling professions made and falsified by the demagogues in power. This will be . II.! .1 mmr.

mining iu uic purpose. nen no one cares to speak, let a good reader favor the company

Willi some ;oi tne best articles in the latest

Harrison Journals. Some of the Speeches in

Congress are admirable thought rather too

long. A good, spirited, patriotic song at intervals will do nobodv any harm.

Hut let it never be forgotten that the Club

is formed not so much to enlighten its mem

bers as omers. L.et (thcient. constant, un

wearied efforts be made to disseminate Lieht

and Truth every where. No matier if a

man's table is covered with Extra Globes and Rough Hewers; it is a good deal to the purpose if he has begun to read and think about the causes of our National disasters at all. Let neighbor calmly reason with neighbor, friend with friend, and let each borrow and read the papers of the other, discussing and comparing their contents with candor and without passion. If this course is only pursued faithfully, each particular slander on

Gen. Harrison in the Globe and Argus will help him a thousand votes. Friends of Harrison and Tyler! we cannot suggest to you all that you ought to do; but we can entreat you to do ail in your power,

guided by the spirit of Patriotism and Truth.The destines of the Republic are in vour

hands: 1 ou will prove yourselves worthy of

me sacrea responsibility, un, then, to the rescue of your couutry from the bonds of her

betrayers and spoilers! The avenging hour is at hand!

voting fur a rule which bears onerously on us,

he avoids responsibility by retiring from Con-! gress. Again, Mr Howard voted against the insertion of the word "lawful" before the word I

"votes" in the New Jersey contested election, and deprived us of several firm friends, to the Cumberland Road, and now wheu it is proved before the Committee of Elections that two and it may be three of the gentlemen ex

pelled are certainly entitled to seats, Mr How

ard withdraws from Congress leaving us to fight for the Road, and refuses us his aid in reinstating men who would vote directly an appropriation for the work. This is cetraiuiy treating his colleagues quite unfairly, for on the last vote on the Cumberland Road question e only wanted,! believe, three votes to assure success. The people of Indiana may however depend on my unremitting attention to her interests. We will do a' I iu our power to obtain the grant of lands so important to

the state and to the people of the Wabash in particular. I hope the yeomanry of Indiana with that good sense and sound discrimination whici. are so pcucharly their characteristics, will see through the jugglery c f this political scene-shifting nod parly management, and take their own interests into their own good keeping. I have implicit confidence in their judgment. Yours truly, GEORGE II. PflOFFIT.

Cincinnati, June 22d.

General Harrison arrived in the city from . r .m. ...

nis tour 10 rori Aieigs, and the towns on the . I i i : J t

Liakc, mil ruuajr ercniue. lie was accom

panied by General Solomon Van Rensselaer, of Albany, New York, who met him at Co

lumbus. General Harrison is in as good health as we recollect to have seen him for many years. He left for North Bend on Saturday morning. General Van RenssclaerJ remains at the Broadway Hotel for a few days. He has received numerous calls from our citizens, to whom he has been introduced. This is" his first visit to Cincinnati ince the year 1797, at winch time, as captain of a company, he marched his men, as he informed us, frequent- .. .i i. .i i.-. .

ly uirougu me uncuiuvted land which now designates our beautiful city. General Van Rensselaer is only one year the junior of Gen Harrison, and ;iike the latter in his old age, retains the vivacity of youth to a remarkable degree. His fame is identified with the history of the country, as one of her noble defenders, and the many scars he has received, are the best evidences of the perils encountered to secure the blessing of civil and religious liberty which we now emov. May both the

time honered pariots live to enjoy many years

oi peace, anj witness the country restored lo .a a a. a . "

tne neaiihiui condition of otner days. Cm.

LrOT.

AN INCIDENT. OUKIOn IIS THE FATK OP THE L0 0i. "H'hitt a fall was Uiere, my Counlrytntn r' At the Convention held at Frederick tl 8th June last, at the very insUiit that Fel't Grundy was pronouncing Die name of Genr. al William Henry Ilanison, and was about saying that it was a long name, and notmur!

in it," down came the whole stand. &nri u

that were on it. with a most tremendous crad "In Felix O ! semper!1 The -horn vetPr,'

Felix Grundy. for once prostrated! Whaf

condition for the "Deroocrno" to Lp int

Looking cp, indeed, because they were liter, ally and physically, flat on their backs, an could look no other way! The platform on which they stood, like the foundations on which their arguments were based, wa. to,, weak, and hence, with an alarming eras, came tumbling down. "The ponderous ruin fils. Tumbling with many a whirl, with tiiunderi.- r ound, ' Down, headlong on its friends, and smokes . long the ground:" . At length, from the deep (merging, M, Satan of old, from the gulf in which he h,A been hurled, and cautiously examining to ft 1 1 himself, if uninjured, this junior paitner f the much celebrated old firm ofuHolmi,, Grundy and the Deri I," casting his baled i glance around, with voire thick with emotion exclaimed "My fellow-citizens, you see tl, power of Democracy crushes every thing btfore it," and uever did ho utter a greater truth: for what he calls J4 Democracy," bat what others call Loco Focoism, of the

grossest character, does crush every thing befoie it; the hopes, the interests, the curren

cy, and the prosperity of the conntry, arc all

alike crushed and degraded before it.

tredi.rick Herald.

Are the loco focos furious because the log-

cabin boys have colebrated Gen. Harrison'

victories at Tippecanoe and Fort Metes?

Thn let them, by way oft.ffict, get up afrj-

tival upon the anniversary oi the day which

Mr v an Uuren voted for negro suffrage.

Ldm. Jour.

dwell in an "Iron Cage," the unlucky weight who put me into a Log Cabin was a little nearer the truth than he probably supposed himself to be. It is true that a part if my dwelling house Is a log cabin but as to the hard cider (the laughter which followed the allusion to the "hard cider'" branch of the story, drowned the voice of the speaker.)

But, said Gen. Harrison,admonished by the proverb,that you may inscribe my long speech lo the common infirmity of the old soldier, and

bring ms und?rlhe suspicion of the loquacity! of age, I will conclude these hasty and unpremeditated remarket, by thanking my fel-iow-cititens of Columbus for their politeness, on the present occasion, as well as for the friendly feelings of which they have uniformly and often heretofore given me so many gratiiying proofs." The General retired, leaving the crowd, which had continued to accumulate while he spoke, delighted with the prompt and satisfactory manner in which he had met the

ttishes of the citizens. The uppermost idea

in the mind of every one with whom the writer interchanged a thought, was the wish that every man in the Union hod heard that unpremeditated and extemporaneous address. Upon every candid mind it impressed the conviction that the opposition candidate for the Presidency was the last man in the world to be made the instrument of a committee of

"Conscience keepers," or to conceal his opini

ons of public measures from sinister motives.

when the disclosure of them wm called for by Ihe propriety aad filnett of things.

Fromt he Indiana Journal,

The following letter it from the Hon. Geo.

II. fRorFrr, to a gentleman of this place:

Washington City, Uth June, 1840. My Dear Sir: Mr Howard, the Van Bu

ren candidate for Governor of Indiana, left

this place today, after asking leave of absence

lie will not return here, and will resign his

seat in Congress on reaching Indiana. This

political move was entirely unexpected to ma

ny, but not so to me. His circular to the people of Indiana, in which he said that he

would not resign until the adjournment of

i Congress was a mere ruse, and will now hp

doubling Ihem in future I Think you that Ihe so understood by the people. 1 know that he

FOLL ANSWER TO TUB ChaRQR OF AbOU

TI0NISX If ADR AGAINST GxN. HARRISON. At a

ate meeting'of the New Hampshire Anti-

Slavery Society held at Concord, on June 3,

04U,lhe following resolution, having under

gone discussion, was passed:

Resolved, That M artin Vanburen and Wm

Henry Harrison have both shown themselves

so thoroughly subservient to the interests of

slavery, and so utterly hostile to the equal

rights of man, at to have forfeited all claim lo

the name of Democrat or Whig, and the political support by any man worthy the title of

ireemen.

The proceedings are signed Albe Cada Re

cording feecretary,and arc published at length a a arv mm -

in me concord Herald ot Freedom of June

13,1840.

OrtNtONS or a Neutral. The New Orleans Sun, a neutral paper says, "people want a ckangt aad all the writings of oar editorial Whig friends cannot advance it, and the ablest essays from the Locofoco editors cannot prevent it. The edict has gone forth,Wm. Henry Harr!on will he our next President, whether for good or for evil "time can alone disclose.1

Florida army contractors and the Indian land

robbers are not wide awake? Know you not that the Central-Power at Washington has its sentinel in every lighthouse, its Garnon in every Custom House, its acouls and spies in every weigher, guager, and open and secret

inspector? Do you not realize that its twelve

thousand rest Unices, mainly filled with ac

tive, ardent, blindly devoted partisans, thickly dot' the whole surface cf ihe land, and thai is five thousand chosen emissaries, under the guise of census takers, and soon to be sent into every dwelling in the landt How can you hope, then, for an easy, indolent, inglorious victory? No, Friends of Harrison and Tyler! net such is the battle that we are called to fight.

Do not be misled by the inspiring truth that, Tram the day of the Harrison Nominations to

the present, we have but rushed from victory

to victory, n e have indeed nobly triumphed. We may seem to have won the main bailie; but the Office Holders have just begun to fight' Henceforth they are in the field openly in the field, for life or death! The ablest of their number has dismounted to as

sume personally the command of their waver.

ing battalions ;and his manifesto gives earneslof

the temper in which the battle is lo be waged. They neither give nor expect quarter.

mends ol Harrison auo Keform! we can beat them utterly, and tie will! But it cannot be done without sacrifice without untiring, systematic exertion. The great mass of People are with us, and on them must be our reliance. Put aside th e office holding interest, and our majority would be overwhelming.In defiance of that interest, it will be

abundant if we do our duty. We must doil

we will'.

We must oruakizb. We must do it effectually and at oncev Reader, will you see that a Tippecanoe. Clgbj or whatever you

New York. A Whig State Conventiou

is to assemble at Utica on the V2ih of Augit next, for the nomination of President Elec

tors, and also lo select candidates for the offi

ces of Governor and Lieut. Governor. Coun

ty conventions for Ihe election of delegates to the Slate Convention are to be held on the 22d of July Ball. Pat.

A Definition. The president of a deba

ting society ia the west lately decided that

"the milk of human kindness," literally meant

milk punch with a little nutmeg in it.

LENT (to a gentleman aa I then aupposed) . some four or five weeks aso a steel mixed over

coat oriaige i2e which waa to have been returned in a Tew daya tbia baa not been done I witb to avoid names, thia to a borrower ought to be say

ing enough, to mduce an honest man to return the borrowed coat- 1 hspt my coat will be returned

abortly. DANIEL HOFFMAN.

June 30th 1840. 27-3.

in that circular talked about the importance of his district being represented. 1 know he

said that important questions involving the in

terests oi the Mate would require his constant attention, but I always knew that if the inter

est of tut party required his return lo Indiana,

and if the party insisted upon his leaving Congress, that he would at any lime obey the

voice ofhls political associates. 1 made these

predictions on the day that his circular a pcared and they have been fully verified.

aince the news ot the immense gathering of the people at Tippecanoe reached this City, dismay and consternation are depicted on the countenances of the administration party; and notwithstanding that the claim of Indiana lo the Wabash lands is pending in oui House, and will lequire every vote and every

exertion ol the Indiana delegation ; notwith

standing that the Cumberland Road has vet

a hope of obtaining an appropriation; notwithstanding that other questions of vital im

portance to the state are yet anxiously looked to by our people,-Mr Howard has (eft his district unrepresented at Ihis important crisis,

thereby jeopardizing the success of these all absorbing and interesting measures but it

was requried of him to return home and he

has obeyed. 1 should not complain of this if

Mr Howard had not voted a few days before

he left to cive the majority (his vartv) the

power to suspend the rules and to eo into

committee of the whole whenever they saw fit pon any bill favored by the administration,

uiereoy excluding private bills from consideration, (the Wabash Land Bill among oth

ers.) Alter (giving this vote and depriving

myself and others of our rights as a majority to call up the favorite measures of our State, he

has thought fit to relinqush his influence with the administration majority with which he

acted, and to return home. This I consider

ins unkind :md anjost in the extreme. After

Slant Ttco Jackson-Van Buren editors out

for Hart won. The Beaver City Chronicle,

(Fa.) and the Geauea fOhio) Farmerboth

of whose editors were quite recently JacksonVan Buren men have hoisted the flae of

"Harrison and Reform." Both eJitors have

renounced the support of the present Admin

istration, upon conviction that the policy which it pursues is detrimental to the peace, happiness and prosperity of the country. Thus thinking, it became Ihem as honest men

to go tor a change; and having every confidence in a man who has been so faithful and well tried as Harrison, they enter heartily into the people's cause, and support the log cabin candidate, against him of the palace. Balt.Pat.

ftXansioa Douse.

THE undersigned have fitted up, in a very neat and comfortable etrle. the Ion? ertablisbed

Hotel, on Main at. near tka Canal, known as tbt Mansion House. They have at considerable expense, placed in it entirely new Furniture, and otherwise furnished and refitted the establishment, aa to render it a pleasant and convenient resort for travslera and buaineas men, from a distance visiting the city. Having attentive servants, and a choice selection of liquois for their customers, they coufidently anticipate, by prompt attention to tbir burineas, to secure a abare of public patronage. CAKMICHAEL As CARKCKOSS.

June 27, Cin. Gaz. 27-3rao.

A Brothers Struggle to Save a Broth

er The Natchez Free Trader of the 2Glh

ult. has the following paragraph descriptive of "a brother's struggle to save a brother,"

during the late lenrlul tornado at that n ace:

Mr Wm. Hendry and his brother, owners

oi a Uatjboat at ISatchez Landinc, from Parke

county, inaiana, were on hoard their boat at

the time of Ihe storm. William was Struggling to save his brother, who was apparent-a-J r It

ly oyingiro.-n oiows received Irom missiles sent by the wind, as both brothen'were whirl-! ed from boat to boat. At length'the boat on which they clung to each other sunk beneath1 them, the wounded brother being engaged at the same time in begging William to drop him and save himself. The latter at this time several yards from shore, was sepcratcd from one whom he shall nevermore see in the land of the living, wafted down the stormy torrent, and although not a swimmer, managed to get ashore far below Natchez at the foot of the

bluffs. He came back and found his friends

on the levee lamenting over the suDnoscd

dealh of both brother. In his trunk jon board

bis boat, William Hendry had $2,000 in mon

ey, and lost about $ 5,000 more in valuo of

pork nnd lard.

OSrThe loco foco editor of the Richmond la. Jefiersonian was dreadfully thrashed a few days ago for lying. During tne operation he stood still and hollowed "rmirdcrv" Jour.

BRANDRETITS PILLS. LIFE AND DEATH. Every living being hat too distinct pmuiplet in lis nature one the Principle of Life, the other the Principle of Death. , SO long as the principles of Life predominate!, health is enjoyed; when the Principle of death,

aickness takes place. By the principle of death it meant the principle ef decomposition or decay, which is each hour going on in the human frame, from the bour of our birth to that of our final exit-

While the natural outlets, the pores, the bowels and all the other excretoriea of the body, discharge

these decayed particles as faat as tbey Ve genera

ted, we are in a state of health we are tree irou. the presence of disease. How ahall we counteract the principles of death!

Howl Puree Yee, Puree! The maeic in that

word shall vet be understood hv the whole woblb

Yes. Puree. Be the nuin in the head, the bck,i

the bowels, the foot, the stomach, the side, tin throat; does it arise from internal or external caufv

still puree! For know this 6elf evident tD

that pain cannot exiet save by the preesure of somej impurity, some deposite of decomposed particH

upon tbe orean or part where the pain is seata.--i Puree witb what! With oekuihb Brandreth,

Pills! which can be obtainrd only from persona r

eularlr authorized to sell tbe same by a certinc9

or Aeency signed by Brandretb.

beware or cocktefeits!

All Pills purporting to be Ilr. Brandretb'f , ClH

sold by persons without a certificate as above, "l

CODRTEEPKITS. Th followine oersons have been ancoinud A

gnats for the tale of Dr. Brandreth's Gosfi Vi

orrtBLE Uriveksai. Pine, m tbeir respM'-M places; there is no need of beine imposed upon bj

tbe Counterfeits, if you only remember to atk i"i the certificate of Agency. Never tuy of ped!'H

for in no instance do tbey ever have tbe genuine tide. ' . BUN A DBVO STOKE At TOO WOULD F0IS09, for if tou nurchase Dills of them m hich tbey

you are Brandreth's, you are aa certain as death tf

get a WORTBLCM COVlfTKRI-CIT AETtCXS: The folloowing are the only authorised Agn

in r ranaiin (Jounty.

It. 4c S. Tyner -Joel Palmer ' Z. A. Nye fixekial Tyner 4r Co Cooler Kg Petty Ward & Kosebfrrj

r Drookvilla Somerset! - NewTrentor. Metan" ttiiriit&iet