Vincennes Gazette, Volume 10, Number 3, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 June 1840 — Page 1

1J J CJO "TRUfir WITHOUT FEAlt." VOLUME X. VINCENNES, INDIANA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 27, 1810. NO. 3.

The following is the substance of sonic remarks mvle by Gen. Harrison, while at Columbus, Ohio, on his way to Fort Meigs. General Harrison's remarksGen. Harrison said he was greatly indebted to his fellow-citizens of Columbus and Franklin dunty the most cordial hospitalities had at all times been accorded to him by them. So long ago as the lime when lie was honored with the command of the "North-Western

Army," and held his Hend Quarters at Frankliuton, on the other side of the river, it was his fortune to find in the people of Franklin County, not only good citizens, but patriots and soldiers. Their unvarying kindness to him had laid him under many previous obligations, and their generous attendants 0,1 the present occasion he cheerfully and gratefully acknowledged. lie said lie had no intention to detain his friends by making a Speech and he did so in obedience to what he understood to be tiie desire of those whom lie addressed. He was not surprised that publie curiosity was awakened in reference to some things which had been lately published concerning him. nor was he unwilling to satisfy the feelings of his fellow-citizens by such proper explanations a became him, in his present posiiioii before the country. He confessed that he had ruffe red deep mortification, since he had I :n placed before the people as a candidate or the highest office in their gift nay, the most-exalted station in the world that any pottion of his countrymen sh'uild think it necessary or expedient to abuse, vbnder or vilhfy him. His sorrow arose not so much from personal dear as was to him the humble reputa-j tion he had earned as lrom public considerations, lie might draw consolation, under this species ol injury, lrom me revelations of history, which showed that the best of men. who had devoted their lives to the public service had been the vie lims of tradition. But virtue and truth are the foundations of our Republican system when these are disregarded, our free in-titutious must fall he looked, therefore, at symptoms of demoralizations with sincere regret, as betokening danger to 73 ' -- public liberty. A part of the political press, supporting the existing adminislra tion, and certain partisans of Mr. Van Buren, also a candidate for that high ollico to which some those whom he ad dreesrd. desired to elevate him, had invent ed and nronarated many calumnies against him, bt t he proposed on the present occasion to speak of one only of the numerous perveisions and slanders vl;ih tilled the eolunris of the newspapers and misrepresented his character and conduct. He alluded to the story f his famous Confidential Committee," as they called it. "The story goes," said General Harrison, "that 1 have not only a committee of conscience-keepers, but that they put me in a cage, fastened with iron bars, and keep me in that." To one who looked at his bright and speaking eye the light which beamed in its rich expression the smile whiidi played upon his countenance, blending the lineaments of benevolence and firmness who remembered also that he was listening to the voice of a son of old Gov. .irrison, one of 'the signer,1 the pupil of old Mad Anthony,' thn lier.i of Tinneeanoe. the Delender of Fort Meigs, the co iquerer of Proctor the idea of W. II. Harrison in a cage! was irresistibly ludicrous! When the laughter had sibbided the General proceeded, j "I have no committee, fellowcitizens; confidential or other. It is true that I employed my friend Maj. Gwynn to aid me in returning replies to some of the numerous questions propounded to me by letters. X5ut to such only as any .man could answer, one as we'd as another. There is scarcely a question of a political nature now agitating the public :m;-J. on which I have not long since promulgated my opinions by speeches, published letters or offi"iaI acts. A larse majority of letters addressed to me purported to seek my views of Abolition, United States Hank', and other matters concerning which my views were already in possession of .the public. The most suitable answer to these and to well intentioned persons the most satisfactory vr n rrfprence to the documents in which mv opinions already expressed were to be found. Such answers I entrusted to my well-tried and faithful friend .Major Cwynn. I.ctura requiring more oar'.:e d?.-- attention I answered mys,i!f. Feci body wh.) knows Major L,n'--s that he is not one whom I would employ to write a political letter. He is a self-made man- a soldier and a eentieman b it neither a politician nor a scholar. I asked the services of liiin hniiu:n lie was U1V conTided in him and it was plain and simple. Mv habit is to receive, open and read my letters myself. Such as require speca, attention, I reply to myself. Such as mav be easily answered by another, I handed to mv' friend, with an endorsation indicating where the information sought may be found-as thus 'Refer the writer to a speech at Yincennes"-or "The anawfr is seen in letter to Mr. Denny, &c. Rut it seems that MYior fiwvnn was chairthe. Citizens of Cincinnati or of Hamilton County. When the famous Osweeo letter was teceived.it was read, and as usual with such letters,

I endorsed it and handed it to Maj. Cwynn. But, it seems, when the answer was prepared it was signed also by

Ins colleagues of the County or City committee. Ol all this I knew nothing nor hi their capacity of Committee, had they any thinj; to do with mv letters. Yet by a little mistake ami much perversion these gentlemen have been erected into a committee of my conscience-keepers and ui.iue to siiul me up m a cage to prevent me lrom answering interrogatories. ' Gen eral Harrison remarked that, had he, indeed, e;dled to his assistance the services of a friend iu conducting his correspondence, he would have had high authority to justify him in the measure. It had been said of General Washington that many of the papers which bear his signature were written by others, and he believed it had never been contradicted, and Gen. Breckenridge, Aid to General Jackson in the late war, had represented himself to be the author of much of Gen. Jackson's correspondence but he had not done so, to any extent or in any other sense than as he had now explained it in requesting Major Gwynn to refer those addressing inquiries to him, to the public souices of information. And he would here say, that in aU his public life, civil and military, there, was no letter, report, speech or order, bearing his name which was not written wholly by his own hand. lie said, to open, read and answer all the letters received by him was physically impossible, though he should do nothing else whatever. To give his hearers an idea of the labor it would require, he said, a gentleman then present was with him the morning he left Cincinnati when he took from the Post-Office 1G letters there were usually half the number at the Post Office near his residence 21 letters per day. Could any man, he asked. give the requisite attention to such a daily correspondence, even to the neslect of every other engagement? True it was, til a t many communications were sent him which were not entitled to his notice sent by persons who had no other ob ject but to draw from him something which might be used to his injury and the injury of the cause with which he wa identified yet there were enough of those which claimed his respectful consideration for the sources from which they came and the subjects to which they referred, to occupy more time and labor than any one man could bestow upon them. Gen. Harrison said he had alluded par ticularly to this matter of the Committee because it had so recently been the occa sion of so much animail version by his political adversaries. But it was one only of many misrepresentations of him, his conduct, his principles and his opinions with which the parly Piess was teaming. He said it would occupy him many hours to discuss them,, if it were necessary or proper for him to do so. He referred, however to the Richmond Enquirer and expressed his surprise at the manner in which his name and character had been treated by that paper. He did so, as it afforded an example of the proposition of the press to party purposes. That paper, which formerly did him mo;e than justice and paid him the highest compliments as a soldier and civillian whose Fditor at one time could designate no other man whom he considered so well qualified for the responsible place of Secretary of War was now lending itself to the circulation of the most discreditable calumnies against him and endeavoring to persuade his countrymen that he was a coward and a federalist. He alluded to the evidence upon which the Enquirer sought to fasten the accusation that he was a black-cockade federalist e. the remarks of Mr. Randolph in the Senate of the United States. Jh said thai the attack of Mr. Randolph was met at the moment it was made and effectually disproved. He passed a high enconiurn upon the genious of that remarkable man, and said that he never gave up a noint in debate or receded from his ground any where. until convicted of error. '1 he fact that ho made no reply to his answer to the charge is proof to any familiar with his character that he himself was satisfied that he had erred. Gen. Harri son explained the foundation of Mr. Randolph's charge, made at a moment of temporary irritation. He said that old Mr. Adams refused to ad opt against France the measures which his party desired, and bowed himself in that re-pect at least, . - . I v Inwtintl It more an American nun was that course of policy of Mr. Adams which commanded his approbation and induced him so to express himself, at the lime. Mr. Randolph remembered the f xpression but probably forgot the particular subject of it, and thus the very fact which proved him to belong to the Republican party of 1800, long, years afterwards, is separated from its attendant circumstances, and used to prove him a federalist. General Harrison expressed himself with earnestness on the injustice which was thus attempted to be indicted on hia character in his native State, in which when truth and virtue and honor had suffered violence every where else, he had hoped they would survive. General arrison alluded to several other instance of gross misrepresntation or absoluts falsehoods industncusly and shamefully propagated by a party press.

Itseems almost incredible, fellow-citizens,

saia ne, but it is true that from a long, speech, filling several columns of a pa per, two snort sentences have been taken lrom different parts of it, the.se two sen tences, separated from their context, are put together, my name attached to them, and published throughout the land as an authentic document." He deplored that state ol public sentiment which could telerate such a system of party action and trusted for the honor of his country and the hopes of liberty that the reforma tion of such abuses would soon be wrought out by the force of a puie and healthy public opinion. "Why, fellow-citizens," said General Harrison "I have recently, in that ouse (pointing to the State House) been charg ed with the high offences against my country, which if true, ought to cost me my lite. i es continued he, "accusations were there laid to my charge which being established, would subject, tne even now, to the severest penalties which military law inflicts for, I have always held that ano.'licer may not escape the responsibilities of misconduct by resigning his commission. These charges are not made by my companions in arms, by the eye witnesses of my actions, by the great and good and brave men who fought by my side or under my command. They tell a different story. Rut their evidence, clear, unequivocal and distinct the testimony of Gov. Shelby, the venerable hero of Kings Mountain, of the Gallant Perry, and of many brave and generous spirits who saw and knew and participated in all the operations connnected with the battle of the Thames the evidence of impartial and honorable men, the concurrent records of history and the authority of universal public opinion, are all set aside, in deference to thereckless assertions of those who were either not in being or dandled in the arms of their nurses! Gen. Harrison said, he acknowledged these calumnies were disagreeable to him. His good name, succh as it was, was his most pre cious treasure and he did not like to have it mangled by such calumniators. Were it his land which they are seeking to destroy were it the title deeds to hi farm they were endeavoring to mutilate he could bear their efforts with pa tience and smile even at their success. But he confessed, notwithstanding his confidence in the justice of his country and the decision of an impartial posteri ty, that tnese ruthless attacks uroii -bis military character affected him unpleas antly. This policy of his adversaries constrained him to consiJer himsell as now on trial before his country. He was not reluctant to be tried fairlv. The American people being his court and jury if his ad versaries hold to these rules of evidence established by common sense and com mon right he feared not the results of the strictest scrutiny and would cheerful ly submit to the decision of a virtuous and enlightened community. He asked but fair dealing and final justice- no more. General Harrison alluded to several oth er instances of gratuitous and unfounded calumny, having no shadow of apology in any fact for their invention and publica tion. He spoke of the battle of J ippecanoe or the death ot trie hrave and lamented Daviess, whose fall had been as cribed to him. He said the whole story about the white horse was entirely false, and that the fate of the gallant Kentuckian had no connection whatever with his own white mare which, by accident, was not rode on that occasion by any one.In remarking upon the slanders connected with the Rattle of I ippecanoe he said, their refutation, one and all, was found in the proceedings of the Legislature of Kentucky, and especially in the extraordinary confidence reposed in him by the gallant Governor and people of that State when they subsequently honored him with the command of their army, composed of the chice spirits of the land, the best blood of Kentucky. General Harrison widi deep emotion of the trust reposed in him by Kentucky on the occasion alluded to, and said the commis sion which made him the Commander of that brave and patriotic Array of Kentuckians, he had always held as the most honorable commission which it had been the fortune of his-life to have conferred. upon him. He referred to a very recent story got up in, his own neighborhood and set forth to the world, corroborated by the sanctity of an affidavit which represented him as confessing to a young man on a stecmboat that he was an abolitionist and that although he voted against restrictions on Missouri, he did so in opposition to the suggestions of his conscience, &c. He sii 1 the narrative bore on its face the proofs of its absolute falsity and when he pronounced it a fabrication, without the semblance of a fact or n 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 seemed to have given up every ground of hope, save that which thev found in vilifying his name. "It is a melancholy fact, fellow citizens," said General iarrison, that the advocates of Mr. Van Buren should so far forget what belongs to the character of an American citizen, and do so much violence to the nature of our free institutions, as to place the great political con

test in vmich wo are now striving, upon

an issue such as this. I would not ac cept tht lofty station, to which some o you are proposing to elevate me, if it came o me by such means. I would not, i I had the power to prevent it, altow the fair fame of my competitor to be unjustly assailed and wounded, even for the at tainment of that lofty aim of a noble am bition. Nay, I have often defended Mr Van Ruren against what I believe to be the mirepresentations of my own mista ken friends and others. FeIlowcitizen. if Mr. Van Ruren be the better statesman, let us say so I shall be the last man to raise an objection against it or to desire to impose restraints upon the utmost inde penitence of thought and action and the freest expression of feeling and opinion. I M.'o a iratik anu generous adversary such a man I delight to embrace and will serve mm according to mv ability, as cheerfully as my friend. Rut political warfare which seeks success by the foul detraction and strives for ascendancy by the ru'.n of personal character, merits the md'gnatton of honest men, is hateful to every gnrous mind, and tends too surely to the destruction of public virtue, and as a consequence lo the downfall of public iberty." (icnrral Ilrrion apologized for occupving his fellow-citizens so lone. lie aid he would but mention one more of the latest slanders which had come to hi knowledge. A (lermrin paper, published in Cincinnati, aim st under his own rye, puts it forth with apparent sincerity, that ''(lerieral Harrison, now a candidate for the PrcbiJency of the United States, nas, many years sgo, when a younj iiun, an Aid to (Jen. Wayne during his Indian wars and th itwhenever young Harrison found that battls was coming on, he alway ran off into the woods." (Again there was loud irrepressit.le laughter.) The editor forgot, said the (ieneral, when he served up this little dish, that the only possible security to young Harrison's scalp, on the approach of a battle with the Indians, was on keening out of the woods ! fnich a story as this can only excite a smile here it is true, said Gen. If., but this jiaper circulates not alone in the United States copies of it are probably read in Europe, where our history is less known, and where the contradiction of such silly falsehoods may possibly never come. 'It has long been proverbial of old soldiers, fellow-citizens,' (continued (Jen. II.) 'that they de. light to go back to other days and fight their batlie over again. When I began this address to you, I intended only to speak of my far-famed "Committee of conscience keepers," and the 'Iron Cage" in which they confine me, but I have unwittingly taken advantage of your kind disposition to listen to me and extended my reinnrkj to i-t'.icr, thc-jh kindreil topif". 1 will onlv add that, although they have made a wide mistake who make me dwell in an ' Iron Cage, the unlucky witrht who pot me into a Log-cabin was a little nearer the truth than he probjbly sup. posed himself to be but as to the Hard-cider (the laughter which followed the allusion to the Hard-cider" branch of the btory drowned the voice of the speaker.) Dut, said (Jen. Jlanison, admonished by the proverb, tint you may ascribe my long speech to the common infirmity of the old soldier, ami brine me under the suspicion of the loquacity of age, I will concludejthese hasty and unpremeditated remarks, by thanking my fellow-citizens of Columbus for their politeness on the present occasion as weir as for the friendly feelings of whldi they have uniformly and often heretofore given mc so many gratifying proofs." The General retired leaving the crowd, which had continued to accumulate while he spoke, de lighted with the prompt and satisfactory manner in which he had met the wishes of the ci'izens. The uppermost idea in the mind of every one with whom the writer interchanged a thought, was the wish that cveiy man in the Union had heard that unpremeditated and extemporaneous address. Upon every candid mind it impressed ihe conviction that the opposition candidate for the Presi dency was the last man in the world to be made the instrument of a committee of "Cor.scicnce. keepers." or to conceal his opinions of public measures from sinister motives, when the disclosure of them was called for by the propriety and fitness of things. From the Chilicothe Log Cabin. Advocate. Messrs. Editors: I have became in - f , f - r . . possession ol a lunu oi lniormauuu which cannot fail to be interesting to every one who feels anxious to know the present condition and the luture destiny of his country. It is in the lorm ot a manuscript Bible, containing an account of "things past, things present, and thinsrs to come," lrom which I purpose sending you for publication occasional extracs. The following is the 10th chapter of the 2d Book ot the Chroniclers of the Executives of the Republic of North America. W. M. S. CHAPTER X. Now it came to pass in those days, that Andrew the Vetoite, being old and well stricken in years, ceased to reign. 2. Then the People gathered themselves together, and called upon Martin the Magician to come and rule over them. 3. Now these are the generations of Martin the Magician. 4. There came of the tribe of Fornication Rhodamanthus, the friends of Ananias and Rhodamanthus the friend of Ananias, begat Baron Munchauson which is the father of all such as minister unto Martin the Magician unto this day: 5. And Baron Munchauson, which is the father of all such as minister unto Martin the Magician unto this day begat Ungodliness, Superstiticn, Bigotry and their brethren: 0. And Ungodliness, Superstition, Bigotry and their brethren begat Andrew the V etoite. 7. And Andrew the Vetoite begat Lo-

cofoco, which came of the harlot False the land of bUad habit, rerde-e.l him an object Democracy and fiocofoco which came of Peculiar regard to a tory Executive, who of the harlot False Democracy, begat the vrou''1 tts son have made bun Governor of Conowner of the jaw bone with which Sam- necticut in 8Pite of t,lp people had he the power son slew so many men- t0 do Srt' as ta liave given him a llir-r sHtion in 8. And the owner 'of the jaw bone'S'ln '1,'"mcd 'y ho with which S,, .1-,. , .,..J..i m Tere'?? JU,1sC .f .a!1 P.ub,,c A"!"13 .vorthy

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S-k A 1 . . - . . them and took unto himself Humbug, the daughter of Thomas the Expunger, to wife. 11. And the Lord caused Martin the Magician to be exceedingly fruitful, and to multiply an hundred fold, that it u i..ir.n.i ...t.- i. . j mitiii uc iuiiiucu which was wriiicn, "jvuu I i i ii n t r , ln the latter ilavs shall timirish manv C. an J ""J " prop:if;s. 12. And theseare they which dwell in palaces, which iccline upon sofas, and are the haters of Cabins unto this day. 13. And he forsook the commandments of the people to Retrench and Reform, but builded many high places, both in t ie Seaports and in the villages of the West. 1 I. And he nlaced therein officers of the tribe of liaron Munchauson, and of the Teople, which were corruptible and often fled away. 15. lie has also pilfered many orna ments from the Temple of Liberty which the servants of the Loid erected for this Peopie during the Revolution, and at tempted to carry away the Legislative pillar and leave the Executive pillar to support the whole. JG. And he put a yoke upon the Peo ple which was exceedingly hard and grevious to be borne. 17. Then did the People gather them selves together unto him, spying, IS. Andrew the Vetoite made otir yoke grevious now ease therefore the grevious servitude of Andrew the Vetoite, nnd the heavy yoke that he put on i i i us, and we win serve tnee. 10. But he spoke harshly unto them. saying. vu nre npt to Iook to government or too ::i .; Andrew the etoite made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto; Andrew the etoite chastised you with credit hostility, but I will chastise you with credit destruction, and the eternal ruin of the poor. My little finger shall than Andrew the Vetoite's be thicker loins. !20. And when the people saw that Martin the Magician would not hearken unto them, they answered him, saying, What portion have we in Martin the Magician? and we have none inheritance in the son of the owner of the jaw bone w ith which Samson slew a thousand men: every man to your Cabins, O Republicans; and now, Martin the Magician, see to thine own house. 21. Then the Republicans began to call upon Bill, the son of Ben, and tribe of Independence, to save them from the hands of the Spoilers. 22. But as for them the tribe of Baron Munchauson, and all those that dwell in palaces and fatten upon the spoils of office, they yet clave unto Martin the .Magician. And they went up to battle one with another the armies of Bill on the one side, and those of Martin the Magician on the other. 24. And the Lord prospered Bill and his people, and they smote that day all the armies of Martin the Magician that did not flee awav to the waters of Salt River, where they became the portion o Foxes. 25. Now the rest of the acts of Martin the Magician, how he warred, and all that he did, are they not recorded in the An nals of InfamyFrom the Buffalo Commercial Journal. TORYISM. Many ef the friends and supporters of the fed cral administration complain ot ill usage wnen their party U designated by the name that most aptly expreer" both Us principles and its practi ces. If wc look at the head man of the party, does not every public act of his life verify the fact, that he is both by nature and unitorm halut a Tory in every iust sense of the word? The essence ot tory ism consists in advancing the interests of a favored few, at the expense of the many in assuming" the right to disregard the will of the people, and to elevate to place, and power, men who are willing to serve the Crown in onnosition to the popular voice. It is the aris tocratic nature, the inbred toryism of Mr. Van Bu ren, that prompts him to take into his conh Jence and his Cabinet every unworthy man, whom the people have 'weighed in the balance and found wantinn." A few months ago, Mr. Selden of Richmond, Virginia, asked the people for a seat in Congress, and they repudiated him as unworthy of their confidence. This rejection by the people renuered him a fit instrument to be used by a tory t resident. Accordingly Mr. Selden was immediate made Treasurer of the United States. Mr. Bronson of JefTerson county in this state, made a similar appeal to the suffrages of the people, and was alike condemned by those who knew tha man. He too was taken up by ur ultra to y President, and made a Territorial J udge in Florida. f The notorious Cambreleng of -Sew 1 ork, atter being rejected as an unworthy public servant by "the people, is now rewarded with a mission to Russia. John M. iN'iles tried his utmost to persuade the people of Connecticut to elect him Governor of their State. His merits were put into an even balance, a . ! the beam. This signal con. demnation by the largest majouty ever given in

U. Arid Alartm the Magician did that vulgar electors, makes him Post Msstrr Genewhich was evil in the sight of the Lord, ral ;pniral Washington had such a profound above all that had gone before him. jad just regard for the public act- of the People 10. And his heart was led astray by ,r' he ma'le h lTT nevcr t0 F,1CC ilx n r,v51 . ii owiee a man who had been condemned bv tht strange women, and he went in amon-st nonilUr Vrti e" f 'T"r 1 th

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' . I ""Vll i i- --.'v. .iv v ! ii 'iaivuni iipuilican, and sought to administer our republican system of government in its true spirit of obedience to enlightened public opininn4 Mr. Van IJuren and his confidential friends arc heartily sirk of the order of things as they were established ! y fhe immortal Washington and his compatriots, anJ as they have existed for the last half ccnti: rri..,., , . , . -1 ney profess ulfrfx-tfcfTiocrocij, but urge the a'lon- , J s i huh oi ine most oiliou j system 01 the twrntrtwo Despotisms of Europe, upon the ruin of our own republican systems. They profess nn rxtraI ordinary regard for the dear prrjJr,- but depend lor success entirely on base intrigue, and still baser corruption. As an evidence of intrigue, mark the told hearted treachery displayed in throwing the bravo Col. Johnson over hoard, at the Daltimore Convention, if the President was worthy i f a reelection. Was not the Vice President worthy of at least a nomination? And as evidence-of matchless con uption trace out the uses to which the tories have applied over one hundred and eleven millions ol the. people' money in the little space of three jeirs. TonirisM, the world ovri, puts its trust in money nnd the corruptibility ot the human heart. Hence every politician discarded by the people i taken at onre into the pay of the tory Dynasty at Washington. But we do not despair of the Republic. The day of a na'ion's delivrranrp ij close at hand, and millions vill soon rejoice ith devout gratitude to Heaven at the event. The ladies, God bless them, ore ahray right, and in nothing more so, than in their politics. You can scarcely fm4 one in the Mississippi valley who is not a warm advocate of old Tippecanoe. When the whigs were cutting the loss for the cabin on Saturday last, on the bank of the river, an wading in the water three feet deep, the steamboats which passed, run up their llatrs and cheered them at their labors-. Aumnj the male passengers there were of cmrse a lW dis. senting voices, but there were none among tho fairer portion. There was am ng them an unanimous waving of handkerchiefs, in honor of the old Hero, and one fiir damsel on (he Emperor, who had cone out on the guard without iliat useful appendage, tore the snowey scarf from her nek and waved it on high in honor of Tip and Tyler. It is lucky for that forest of cotton-woods that we were not there, for if we hid it would have, "suffered some" for the next hour or two, certain . Vickthu rg ii "jr. 9 From the Tippecanoe Jlcnnrr. The following letter from General Harrison in answer to a committee of litfriends in Louisville, u ill s;iti-fy everyreasonable man ol either of the political parties, in relation to the truth of theebnvr that has been recently raised by the Van Buren prints, cf General Harrison's br ing under the guidance and keeping of a committee of three at Cincinnati. It will bo seen by this letter that his opinions and sentiments upon the important questions that now agitate the public mind, remain unchanged, and consequently no necessity exists for ('eclaring his principles over again, when they are already before the public. It will not avail tho enemies of CJeneral Harrison to say thai he has not, declared his principles.' The reading public know better. Here is tl e letter: "North Benp, Ju.xn 2d, 1310. "Gentlemen: In answer to your inquiry 'Whether the letter and speeches which have been published in my name by my political friends, particularly those contained in a pamphlet lately published in Cincinnati, by. Col. C. S. Todd and Benj. Drake, Esqr., contain the sentiments and opinions which I at present entertain,' I repeat what I have latlely written to a committee of my friends in New York, that I should not consider myself an honest man to stiller these letters and speeches to be thus used without contradiction if any alteration had taken place in my opinions. I am, very respectfully. Your fellow-citizen, W. II. HARRISON." "To ClIAKLKS M TlIRUSTON, IIentv Pirtlk, G. W. Anderson, Louisville, Ay." A compauison on two. A country gentlemen thus speaks of his Amelia: "Her two bright eyes, Are round as pies; Her raven hair, Kurls without kurlin tongs, I swear. Her precious nose, Is like our Joe's; Her mouth by Gum, Is a sugar plum! Her smile is sweet, her kiss is sweeter. Oh! she's so pretty I could eat her. xe Jean Paul says love may slumber in a lady's heart, but it always dreams. In a French work on the uncertainty of the signs of death, and modes of burial, a fact is brought forward of a man, now alive, who has been buried twice. It is said that a piece of anchovy almost instantly restores tho just tone of voice to any one who has become hoarse by public speaking.