BY ROBERT WILLIAMSON, Jr.
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Extract from the speech of Mr. Benton
on the 'Fisca! Corporation," in the Sen
ate, Aug. 25, 1811.
uui, v ii-uuii id inn (in muni; i)i juni
ors and exclusives: what is it with which
we are charged? That measure which is
ihe king of measures in the eyes of the
Federal parly that measure for which the
'Session was called without which we are
Hot allowed to separate for balking which
the 1'resident is to be unhorsed and which
(change its name as you please.) is still the
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r-rtlllC llllll IM J.1 W MJlUl JLIU'tli IU TUI.C illC
JJcmocracy. to plunder the people, and
hind lis to England.' This great measure
is committed to this young Committee
..mi a ii'-" iiaum upon id mit uiaru iwic-
-Iiead. It baa a name-as long as the moral
law half Sub-Treasury and half Bank.
It is called A bill for the collection, safe
keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the
public moneys, by means of a fiscal Cor
poration of the United States of America.
i lo-tro,. u,!,,) .. ,,.! If .;tl
J'coplc cannot go through . all that. We
must have something shorter something
that will do for every day use. CORPO
ROSITV" I that woM bo a groat abridge
ment; but it is still too long. It is five syl
lables, and people will not-go above two
syllables, or three at most, and often bang
:il one,, in names which have to be incon
tinently repeated. They are all economi
cal at that, let them be as extravagant as
. they may be in spending their money.
They will not spend their breath upon
Jongnames which have to be repeated eve
ry day. They must have something short
and pointed; and, if you don't give it 'them,
.lheywill make it for themselvas. The
defunct Fiscal Batik was rapidly taking the
title of fiscality ; and by alliteration, rascali
ty; and if it had lived, would have- been
compendiously and emphatically designa
ted by some brief and significant title.
The Fiscal Corporation cannot expect to
Itave better luck. It must undergo the fate
of all great n.en, and of all greil measures
overborthened with titles it must submit
'to a short name. There is much virtue in
a name; and poets tell us there are many
on whose conception Phoebus never smil
ed, and at whose birth no muse, or grace,
was present. In that predicament would
seem to be this intrusive corporositv-, which
-we have received from the other House,
-.ml Rpnt to vonr vounr committee, and
which has mutation, of title without altera
;..n nf snhstnnce. and without accession of
euphony, or addition of sense. Some say a
name is nothing that a rose by any other
r.ame would smell as sweet. So it will;
and a thorn by any other name would stick
as deep. And so of these fiscal?, whether to
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be called nanus or corporations. 1 ncy
will still be the same thin a thorn in our
side but a short name they must have.
This corporositv must retrench its extrava
gance of title.
Mr. WOODBURY said, call it the Botts
Dank.
Mr. BENTON! Very well; any thing
?o it is short. I go for short names, ami
will give reasons for it. The people will
have short names, although they may spoil
fine one: and 1 will give you an instance.
"There was a most beautiful young lady in
1Ipw Orleans some years ago, as there has
always been, end still are many such.
febo KM 9 Creole, that is to say, born in
the country, of parents from Europe. A
gentleman who was building a superb
Meamboat, took it into his head to honor
his youg laby, by connecting her name
with" his vessel; so he bsstowed upon it
the captivating designation of La Beli.k
Creole. This fine name was painted in
golden letter on the side of the vessel and
away she went, with three hundred horse
rower, to Kentucky and Ohio. The ves
sel was beautiful, and the name was oeau
liful. and the lady was beautiful; but all
the beauty on rarth could not save the
- nomo frum the enlrietmnhe lO W hich all
long titles are subjected. It was immedi
ately abbreviated, and, in the abbreviation
sadly deteriorated. At first, they called her
the bell nut the French belle, which sig-
nifios fi:ie or bsautiful but the plain Eji"--lish
bell, which in the Holy Scriptures,
was defined tube a tinkling cymbal. This
was bad enough; but worse was comino-.
It so happens ili.it the vernacular pronunci
ation of crcole, in the Kentucky waters, is
crc-owl; so they began to call this beautiful
boat the cre-owi ! hut things did not stop
liere. It was too exiravagant to employ
two syllables when one would answer as
well, and be so much tnore econimical; so
the first half ofihe name was dropped, and
the last retained; and thus La Belle Creole
the beauiiful creolo sailed up and down
the Mississippi all her life by the name.
style, titW-: ,aud .description of, . The
4'. i " 1, ti el i- .1 sT"
W,l! (K,0arS of lauglling in the Senate,
wiui exclamations irom several, that it
was a good name for the bank that there
was an Owl (reek Bank in Ohio once,
now dead and insolvent, but in its day, as
good as the best.)
Mr. B. continued. I do not know
whether owl will do for this child of long
name, and many fathers; but we must
have a name, and must continue trying till
we get one. Let us hunt far and wide.
Let us have recourse to the most renowned
.Esop and bis fables, and to that one of
his fables which tenches us how an old black
cat succeeded in getting at the rats again
after having eaten up too many of thcm,and
becoming too well known, under the prop
er form, to catch any more. She rolled
herself over in a meal tub converted her
black skin into while and walked forth
among ihe rats as a new and innocent ani
mal that they had never seen before. All
were charmed to see her! but a quick ap
plication of teeth and claws to the throats
and bellies of the rats let them see that it
was their old acquaintance, the black cat;
and that whitening her skin did not alter
the instinct of the animal, nor blunt the
points of its teeth and claws. The rats,
after that call her the meal-tub cat, aud the
mealy cat. May we not call this corporosi
ty the mealtub Bank? A catish name would
certainly suit it in one particular; for like a
cat it has many lives, and a cat you know
must be killed nine times before it will
die; so say the traditions of the nursery;
and of all histories the traditions of chil
dren are most veracious. They teach us
that cats have nine lives. So of this Bank.
It has been killed several times, but here
it is still scratching, biting and clawing.
Jackson killed it in 183a;Tvler killed it
last week. But this is only a beginning.
Seven times more the Fates . must cut the
thread of its hydra lite before it will
yield up the ghost.
The meal-tub! No insignificant or vul
gar name. It lives in history, and connects
its fame wilh kings and statesmen. We
all know the Stuarts 'of England--an hon
est and bigotted race in the beginning, but
always unfortunate in the end. The sec
ond Charles was beset by plots and cabals.
There were muiiy attempts, or supposed
attempts to kill him many plots to kill
him, and some very ridiculous- among the
rest, one which goes by the name of meal
tub plot -because the papers which discov
ered it, were found in the meal tub wl.rc
the conspirators or their enemies haL hid
them. Now, between the meal tub plot in
Kmc land, and ibis corporositv conception
in America, there may be a similitude, and
a striking one, (if you will pardon a pun)
in this, that w hereas, each had killing for
their ohicct! the English to kill a King
the American to kill off a President! If so,
I hope the American President may have
as good luck as Charles the second. I am
sure be deserves better and escape all the
machinations of a meal tub, or corporations
conspirators, whether the design be to kill
him off. or to chain him to a bank car.
Sir, 1 have given you a good deal of meal
this morning; but you must take more yet
It is a fruitful theme; and may give us :
good name before we are done wih it.
have a reminiscence, as tiie novel writer
says, and I will tell it. '-en 1 was a small
boy, I went to school .a a fcotcn irisu
neighborhood, and learnt m-my-worus ami
phrases which 1 have not met with since,
but which were word- of great pith and
power; among the rest shake poke. (Mr.
Archer, 1 never heard that before.) Mr.
Benton: you have heard of poke. You
know the adage; do not buy a pig in poke;
that is to say, in the bag; for poke signifies
ba.r nr wallet, and fs a phrase much Used
inhe North of England, . and among the
Scotch Irish in America. A pig is carried
to market in a poke, and if you buy it
without taking it out first, you may he
taken in." So corn is carried to mill i"
a poke, and when brought home, ground
into meal, the meal remains in the p ke, in
the house of poor families, until it is used
up. When the bag is, nearly empty it is
turned upside and shakcn;and the meal that
comes out is called the shake poke, that is
to sav. the last shake of the bag. By - an
easy "and natural metaphor, this term is also
applied to the last child that is born m a
family; especially if it is puny or a rickety
concern. The last child, like the Ijsi
meal: is called a shake poke; and may we
not call this fisculous corporation a shake
poke also, aud for the same reason! It is
the last the last at all events for the ses
sion! it is the last meal in their bag their
shake poke! and it is certainly a tickelty
concern.
X. C.V
I do not pretend to impose a name upon
this bantling: th,at is a privilege of paternity,
or of sponsorship, and I stand in neither re
lation to these babes. But a name of brevi
ty of brevity and significance -it must
have; and, if the father and sponsors do not
bestow it, the people will: for- a long
name is abhorred and eschewed in all coun
tries. Remember the fale of John Bare
bone, the canting hypocrite of Cromwell's
lime. He had a very good " name, Joi n
Bone, but the knave composed a lon? vcr;a
like scripture 'to sanctify himself with it,
aud entitled himself thus: "Praise God
Barcbone, for if Christ had not died for
you, tom U'Oltil be ituutneJ, JurefjoriiiS'
Now, this was very sanctimonious; but it
was loo long too much of a good thing
and so the people cut it all off but the last
two words, and called the fellow "damned
Iiarcbone." anil nothing else but damned
Bnrebone, all bis life thereafter.. So let
this Corporositv beware: it may get itself
damned before it is done wtih us, and Ty
ler too- . . .
But, enough. Let us give over names,
and talk over the news. Have you heard
the news, Mr. President? If not, 1 am
but a poor hand to tell it to j'ou; for I bear
nothing but what I meet on the pavement
as I walk backward aud forwards from the
scfiool ro'i, ) of my children to the Senate
Chamber of the U.S. 1 hear but little but
that I will give you. It runs thus: Col.
Drayton is out of the Jianfe. lie is out!
and you know how much sorrow I ex
pressed that a South Carolina gentleman
had gone into it. Near three months ao,
in my first speech heie, 1 expressed that
sorrow. He is gone! Jiiddle is in! not
corporeally for that would injure the cor
poration. But he is in, and Samuel Jau
don was here, and helped to write the char
terof this'Corporation Fiscality,& it is all a
Biddlc Bi'-nk concern!!! Look at the sub
scribe' for the stock, that are to be: See
section 1, line 10. Corporations! they
are to subscribe! and the Biddle Bank, and
its affiliations, are to take the whole. In
plain English, we are rechartering the de
funct U. States Bank, making it worse
than ever, and giving it a charier for noth
ing, which might be sold for five millions
in open market. This is the news, Sir!
and here we all are, beset and besieged by
Kiddie's Bank! a thing too weak o pay a
dollar to a creditor; but strong enough to
imprison the Senate to gag the House-
to menace the President with expulsion
from office and to hold Congress together
until it again takes the vote upon its impe
rious demand for a.charier!
And now, Mr. President, I have but one
word more to say, that is, to comply with
my promise, to show the propriety of con
stituting this Committee, to whom we
have committed this Fiscal Corporation,
on the same principles on which was con
stituted the Bank Examination Senatorial
Committee of 183 1. The propriety is in
this: Both Insiiitiiions are the same.
They are both the same thing Biddle
Banks and .both require the tender care of
kindly friends !
From the Baltimore Republican.
ASSERTION'S AND PROOF.
During the late political campaign, it
was boldly asserted from stump and press
from cast to west north and south, by
men who professed to have respect for hon
or and truth from Daniel Webster down
to the Buckeye Blacksmith; from the Log
Cabin Advocate down to the Baltimore Pa
triot that the affairs of the nation were
conducted on a scale of extravagance and
waste that would bankrupt the (iovern
nient, ruin the counlry, and crush the peo
ple ; and if the people would only be so
kind as to extend to them their 'generous
confidence,' they would not only make
good their assertions by proof, but speedi
ly set about to correct the enormous abuses,
which they had succeeded in deluding the
people into a belief actually existed. A
member of Congress even went so far as
to pretend to entertain fears lest the late
Postmaster General should cause the Gen
eral L'ost oirice-10 liu fired, m Jiidc ihe cor
ruptions and abuses in that department.
Well they have succeeded in reaching the
reins aud have appointed cyphering com-initi?-s
and committees of investigation;
tbev have ransacked the Departments, the
Custom-house, and the President's dwel
ling, from the sink to the garret, and instead
of these great frauds, startling indebtedness,
and immense corruptions, they find all fair
and honest. Thev can't lav a finger upon
a single abuse on the part of their prede
cessors while in ollice, and must now stand
forth before the world branded with indeli
ble marks of ihe grossest falsehoods and
blackest infamy. In the' course of his re
marks on the 19lh inst., Mr. Benton said,
the Democratic administration, if it bad
continued, would have gone through ihe
year without an additional dollar, appealed
to Mr. Woodbury, who confirmed it, oid
gave him a written statement to that ef
fect. . . ' .
jow, contrast unswitn me policy pr
sued bv tliis economy and reform party
these patriotic immaculate Whig gentry,
and mark the difference. Immediately up
on the prossession of -power, they intro
duce a bill to distribute the annual proceeds
SEPTEMBER 22, 1841.
01 the public lands among the States ;
which is notning less than carrying out the
nisiies.nl a set ot foreign Bankers aiiil
stockjobbers lint they may be paid at the
expense of the people and iIip conse
quence of such an abstraction from the
Treasury of a part of the means of carry
ing on the Government, a loan is to be
made from these self same bankers of
twelve millions at bix per cent, thus pay
ing them doubly for the loan of money,
which Iras been squandered by the States,
without any earthly benefit to the puopie
-but on Ihe contrary, being a source of
deep and lasting injury, encouraging'a spe
cies of gambling with ihe public moneys,
alike destructive -r .-..
Wnen we announce these things, we do
not do it upon our mere assertions, like the
Whig presses, but upon ihe proof produc
ed in the Legislative Halls of the country.
which have not and cannot be denied.
We have Mr. Benton ami Mr. Woodbury's
word, (based upon figures and facts) for
saying that had the . democratic adminis
tration continued it would have gone
through the year without an additional
dollar. In the place of this we now have
nothing but one continual cry from the
present Administration party in Congress,
and that is money ! money ! money !
help us, Casius, or we sink ! All of which
money is to be repaid by the sweat of the
poor man's brow by the producers the
farmers, the mechanics and laborers ! Let
ihe people look to the extravagant demands
of their servants before they render the;na
tion bankrupt and barter away the liber
ties of the country for foreign gold they
have already dimmed the lustre of our na
tional honor, let them be checked before
they further disgrace us, by making us the
slaves of foreign Bankers, stockjobbers and
money lenders for it is as true of govern
ments as individual that the borrower is
slave to the lender.
,Vom the Globe.
Mr. Van Buren's Letters does him
great honor. It is just such a frank, high
minded reply as we should expect from a
statesman, who, having nioyed the high
est honors of his counlry, watches, www .
feeling of fraternal interest, over its desti
nies: s
New York, Aug. 28, 1841.
Sir: In accordance with a resolution of
ah immense Democratic Convention, held
In the Ninth Ward of this city, 011 Thurs
day, the 21 inst. we have the honor to
transmit to you the enclosed copy of their
proceed ings.
The Democracy, in honoring John Ty-
lc r for his independent conduct in the veto
of the "Fiscal Bank bill, decidedly con
demns the repeal of the great measure of
your Administration, the Independent 1 rea
sury System." That system, your Demo
cratic fellow-citizens regarded as one of the
chief means of sustaining, in its purity, the
Constitution of the country. It is no lon
ger the law of the land. This we most
deeply deplore. Although our opponents
have erased it from the Statute Book, that
fact detracts nothing from the fame of its
author, or the gratitude of the people to
him, for his manifold services in the great
cause of equal rights.
In behalf of the immense assemblage on
Thursday night, we beg leave to assure
you of the high respect which is enter
tained for your person and characther by a
grateful people.
Rcspectlully, your ob t servt s,
GAIHHT GILBERT, Pres't.
ED W AUD PATTERSON, Secy.
Hon. Martin Van Buren.
Kinderhook, Sept. 4, 1811.
Gentlemen: I have received with much
satis faction your letter communicating to
me, by the direction of a Democratic Con
vention, held in the Ninth Ward of the
city of New Yotk, a copy of its proceed
ings, in which the conduct of Mr. I yler,
in placing bis veto mi the Fiscal Bank bill,
is highly approved, and the reppal of the
Independent Treasury system decidedly
condemned.
The compliment paid to Mr. Tyler by
the convention for what has already been
done was weH deserved, and if, as there
seems to be good reason to hope, he shall
complete the work so wisely begun, by dis
approving the, bill for the creation of a Fis
cal Corporation, he will be entitled to the
thanks of the country.
No one cm fail to see that the pi .vis
ions of the new charter are not only in all
respects as objectionable as ihose of the
former, but have in addition been matte to
assume a form infinitely more offensive to
a sincere State Rights man. That the in
stitution proposed to be established by the
first bill would have bepn a corporation, as
mil oil crt go that embraced in the second, is
pertain Whv then, it msv be asked, wa
the name changed from a "Fiscal Bank"
to a "Fiscal - Corporation. if it wpre' not
to meet the constitutional question more
fully in the face, and to assert, in broader
and less equivocal termsthe general au
thority of Congress to establish corpora
tions, wilh nowtr to operate in the States?
A grant of power to Congress to establish
corporations, was, it is well known, in
express terms refused by the convention,
rihtirdfHtly,th flmbllnltmeni of I hrir yotctr."
and the absence of such a power was dis
tinctly urged by Mr. Jefferson, as the pro
minent ground of his opposition to the esta
blishment of the first Bank. To meet the
otherwise unanswerable argument founded
upon the recorded fact of ihe refusal of the
convention to grant this power, it was
urged by the Federal school that, in con
struing the Constitution, they were not to
be controlled by the intention of the con
vention which framed and the people who
adopted it, but were at Jul! liberty to put
upon it any interpretation which the
words of the instrument would, in their
opinion, justify. A belter device to
s.Vrl!ff.,'i,!.n t,,is heresy, so anti-Republican
just rights nt the people, could not "well
have been conceived than that which is to
be found in the phraseology of the second
bill.
It would doubtless have been eminently
advantageous to the country' if there had
also been a concurrence in sentiment be
tween the Chief Magistrate and your Con
vention, in respect to the Independent
Treasury and othtr important measures
which have been acted upon by the two
Houses fat the present session. But in
expressing their approbation of the good
which he has done, and in regarding with
indulgence his conduct upon points in rela
tion to which the Convention differs from
him, the members have only given effect
to the principles by which the Democracy
of the United Stales have ever been gover
ned. Every public servant whose intentions
are pure, can always rely upon receiving,
at their hands, respect for his motives and
a just credit for his acts, whatever may be
the character of their political relations
with him, and however much they may
differ fro.n him in other respects.
For the avowal of approbation, respect,
and regard, which you have communicated
to me in behalf of the Convention, I return
my sincere acknowledgment, and am, gen
tlemen, with unfeigned thanks for the friend
ly spirit in which you have discharged the
"duty assigned you, very sincerely, your
friend and obedient servant, .
M. VAN BUREN.
To Garrit onvrt, esq. President, aud
Edward Patterson, ea.
Secretary of the Convention.
McLeod While the English papers are
very fond of talking of "McLeod in irons,"
with all the pioper rhetorical flourishes,
the facts are, as thus stated in the Utica
"Friend of Man."
"McLeod is now in jail, not a hundred
rods from our office, in the rjtiict village of
Whitesboro; and we can ass n re the Lon
don Journal that, so far is he from being in
heavy irons, that he is not even confined
to the jail rooms. lie spends most of his
time, and receives company, in the parlor
of the jailor's house. On almost any plea
sant morning he may be seen enjoying
himself in a promenade upon the garden
walk. Indeed, he is spending his time a
mong us as one of our 'first gentlemen of
leisure.'"
The directors of three of the branches o
the Bank of the Stale of Arkansas have
borrowed nn iheir own notes $181 871 00
As security - - - 290 253 00
Total amount borrowed - $475 127 00
Pretty good financiers, considering their
youth and inexperience ! Arkansas is fur
nishing good evidence of possessing quali
fied spirits to take charge of a branch of a
National Bank.
From the Index.
NATIONAL OMENS.
The American people are a peculiar peo
ple. Their fathers laid the deep founda
tion of their mighty republic in the win'.er
snows and on the lempest-beateti shore
of the dreary ocea! The wilderness and
the solitary places gave them a shelter,
and the cold biast from the iceberg of
I l I... t !l I .1. . . I ...mn
from merry England. They had left be
hind the smiling village and the crowded
mart, the lazy lord and the persecuting
biggol, the gothic tower and the long
drawn aisle, the King in his tapestried
chamber, and tins laborer dying with hun
ger upon the soil which his own hand had
tilled, antl from which a plentiful harvest
hail been reaped, to find a last and an abi
ding resting place in a land of savages in
a counlry covered with the foresis of centu
ries, and teeming with perils. The sword,
the rack, and lire, were behind them, and
an ocean roared in solemn majes'V before.
Like the Israelites, Vey crossed the deep
and journeyed in the wilderness; and
like them, the fathers saw not the promised
land which the children-now behold in that
Canaan which stretches itself in beauty and
fertility from the nwky shores of the Bay
of Fundy to the banks of the vine-clad Sa
bine. And had they no pillar of fire by
night no cloud by day to guide them
amid the desert, and to hover above their
resting places ! Was there no special
Providence manifested in the Pilgrims
march to glory? The finger of God
marked the ir path, and the roobt sceptical
VOLUME V, NO 1?,
among the nations of the earth . pronoun-1
ces them to be a peculiar people. .
Here rest the last' hopes of liberty
Here burn the altar-fires of freedom, lighted
up by the torch of religion, and fanned by
the breath of persecution. ' The blootl ..of
martyrs sprinkled the table of sacrifice, ttm
the tears of the oppressed watered the roots
of the tree of shelter - ' ' .
Our very existence is a miracle -0 of h'S
tion is an anomaly on the page of history.
Let no one, then carelessly mock the preg
nant signs of the times. Before Jerusalem
was battered down by the cohorts of Tims,
lliR son of Judah, as he at uru the porcl
of the holy temple, ami looked towards the"
him io"Ur'aciructfoh''iriW iilrve vnrttM
of liberty in this year of wonders this day
of death to the mighty of a destruction to
the high hopes of the proud. The evening:
before the battle of Lexington a knight iri
sable armor, wilh a while plume streaming
from bis crest, mounted upon a coal-black,
charger, galloped through the streets of
Boston, shouting in a voice whose sepul
chral tones sent a chill of fear to the breasts
of. the startled ciiizens, "To arms!. to
arms !" Soon the tramp of hoofs died
away, and the horse and his rider were
gone, but wilh the blush of dawn came
pealing upon the ears, of the puritanic" sleep
ers the morning gun of the Revolu
tion. When we hear the death-watch ticking -in
our chambers at midnight, who among
us is not startled? When our business
leads us to journey on Friday, who does
not endeavor to put it off until the next
day ? When the strange dog howls at
midnight beneath our windows, or the
tillage bell tolls in the night Dreete, or tno .
cornsfi lights dance amid the tombs of the
church-yard, who can hear or see them
without feeing a Utile asTiamcd 01 tne lore
bodinirs that shadow the future ? Man is a'
superstitious animal by nature. There is a-
fearful inyitery about nim. lie lears io
penetrate the arcana of the fnturts and ar
he walks abroad in the sunshine, he hears
the rustling of the wings of the angel of
death in the sound of the falling leaf, and
mourns a friend by the side of the dying
flower.
We are not superstitions, hut there are
sometimes circumstances in the life of art
individual as well as of a nation that lead
us to think of the days when omens wero
regarded as indexes of the future, and to
excuse the men of olden time for their
credulity. - . . . .
This year has been an epoch of wonders.
The political strifes of a mighty people
have stirred up society from its dregs, and
shown us what elements are within 11s to
make a second revolution, when the foot of
the money god shall stamp in dust the neck
of the poor and the ignorant, and the mer
chant princes shall measure jusiico with a
pedlar's y ardstick in the high places of the
land. Had the hot blood of party beenr
spilt in any portion of our country, prior l!
the 3d of March last, how would the raeleo
have ended? Who would sleep quietly
now in his bed nor see armed men upon
the night watch, nor hear the cry of the
sentinels by the Capitol.
Since the commencement of this year tlio
head of our nation the idol of a party
colored party has been removed by death',
in such a manner as to cause the whole
people at the command of a successor to
fast and pray, and the Senate Chamber and
the cloister, the pulpit and the halls of
learning to echo to the strains of eulogy and
the dirges of sorrow.
We noticed some time since a few of tha
most prominent omens which marked tho
advent and the event of the hero of the.
North-wesi, but since then others equally
interesting and equally marvellous luv
occurred, and demand a passing notice at
our band
r 1 TT !
i P. nr in tiie election oi general nanismi
last fall, he was invited to address a iiks
meeting at Zanesville, Ohio, and wnner
wailing for the hour to arrive when he was
to commence speaking, a sterrible thunder
storm settled upon the village. Upon a
liberty pole ol inimeiiM- nng.R "
lorr rabin the American flag was floating
eaUantlv, bearing upon its surface the su
perfluous mono of "Tippecanoe, when a
vivid stream of lightning descended upon
the symbol of party, tore it inio a thousand
pieces, and shivered the flagstaff from,
Lst-hcad to step. General Harrison an.t
his friends started from their festive boarJ
as the terrible crash shook the logs around
them, and approached the door. At tin
moment a Stress dashed inm the entry
and banded the General a letter informing
him of the sudden death of his son. Soon
af er this a man in Philadelphia by the
name of Hague published aJioroscoper. iri
which he stated that .."V
Harrison or Mr. Van Buren would be Pre
sident of the U nited Slates for the ensuing
term, but ihat the office would be filled by
one who had not been named for. it, and ,
whose acts would disappoint both pant?.
This was popsidered as an idle prediction
by many at the time, and scarcely any on
ave heed to it : but what was the result r
the fulfilment of therediction to the letter.
1 Mr Van Buren went into retirement fcov.
Wwilh honor, General Harris., fog