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MADISONIAN.
WASHINGTON CITY, SATURDAY, MARCH 2 8. 1940. WHOLE NO. 332
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SPECIE LAW.
Come liat to me for a minute,
A song I'm going to begin it,
There's something aeriona in it,
So pray attention draw j
'Tie all about the law,
That has inade auch a deuae of eclat,
Experience we have bought it,
And now to you have brought it,
Will you or not be taught it,
And aing the apecie law.
C, L, A, W, claw,
la the mainspring of that law.
Chorus. If you're fond of purs vexation,
And are willing to curae the nation,
You're just in ? situation,
To go for the specie law.
When the party had their beginning,
They only thought of winning,
Van Uuren slyly grinning,
The while our cash tliey.draw,
Credit goes on see ssw,
The while out ca-h they driw,
With writs and replications,
Sheriff* and consultations
The people have botheration,
Ijoco-focos loudly jsw.
J, A, W, Jaw,
la the thing for the specie law.
Chorus. If you're fond, Ate.
Business snail-like is creeping,
It tundera us from sleeping,
Leg-treaanrera only reaping,
Tho while our cash they draw.
Look out for the specie law,
'Twill like a blister draw,
Misery, toil and trouble.
Make up the hubhle bubble,
They give .you nothing but stubble,
And leave you ? man of straw.
S, T, H, A, W, strsw,
Is better far than their law.
CiioKiu. If you're fond, Stc.
While loud for gold they're crying,
Our cash is only flying.
And they're sure to take to lying,
If ever you lind a flaw.
And then like any jackdaw,
They pratj of the specie law.
In a rotten stick their trust is,
You'll find the bubble burst is,
And if you dont get justice,
You'll get enough of ilicir law.
C, L, A, W, claw,
Is the object of their law.
Chorus. If you're fond, dcc.
If your life is all sugar and honey,
And fortune is always sunny,
And you want to get rid of your money,
I advise you to go for the law.
Like ice iu a rapid thaw,
Vour cash will all melt away.
We'll go for Hirnsou, therefore,
Without a why or a wherefore,
Reform we have a care for,
And constitutional law.
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah,
For Harriaon and law. '
Chori'd. We'll go for Harrison therefore,
Without a why or a whereforo,
And him we will hurrah for,
Hurrsh, hurrah, hurruh.
SPEECH OF MR. CORWIN,
OF OHIO,
On the proposition to instruct the Committee
of Ways and, Means to report tin appro
priation for the continuation of the Cum
berland Road.
(Concluded.)
House or Repbesentatives, Feb. 15, 1810.
But I come to notice, since I am compelled
to it, one observation of the gentleman, which
1 feel quite certain, on reflection, he will re
gret himself. In a sort of parenthesis in his
speech, ho said that a rumor prevailed at the
time (alluding to the battle of Tippecanoe)
that Col. Joseph II. Davies, of Kentucky,
who commanded a squadron of cavalry there,
was, by some trick of General Harrison,
mounted, during the battle, on a white horse
belonging to the General, and that, being thus
conspicuous in the fight, he was a mark ftfr
the assailing Indians, and fell in a charge at
the head of his men. The gentleman says
he does not vouch for the truth of this. Sir,
it is well that he does not vouch here
for the truth of a long-exploded slander. It
requires a bold man, a man possessing a great
deal of moral courage, to make even an allu
sion to a charge such as that, against one
whose only possessions.in this world are his
character for courage and conduct in war in
his country's defence, and his unstained inte
grity in the various civil offices it has been
his duty to occupy. Did not the gentleman
know that this vile story was known by every
intelligent man west of the mountains to be
totally without foundation ? The gentleman
seemed to appeal to the gallant Kentuckians
to prove the truth of this inuendo. Ho spoke
of the blood of their countrymen so profusely
poured out at Tippecanoe, as if they would
give countenance to the idea that the gallant
Daviess, who fell in that engagement, fell a
victim to the artifice of the commanding gene
ral, and their other gallant sons who fell
there, were wontonly sacrificed by the gross
ignorance of General Harrison in Indian war
fare. Now, sir, before the gcntloman made
this appeal, he should have remembered a lew
historical facts, which, if known to him, as I
should suppose they were to every other
man twenty years of age in Western America,
would make the whole speech to that gentle
man little else than a most wanton intuit to
the understanding of the People and Govern
ment of Kentucky. Let tis briefly notice the
facts.
In November, 1811, the battleof Tippecanoe
was fought. There Col. Daviess, and Col.
Owens, with other Kentuckians, fell. These,
says the gentleman, (at least he insinuates iu)
were sacrificed by either the cowardly artifice
or by the ignorance of General Harrison.
Now, Mr. Speaker, I abhor the habit of open
| flutery, nay, I do not like to look in the face
of a man, and speak of him in warm terms of
' eulngium, however he may deserve it; but,
sir, on this occasion I am obliged to say,
what history will attest, of the people of Iven
! tucky. If any community of people ever
lived, from the time of the dispersion on the
plain of Shinar up 10 this day, wlio were lite
rally cradled in war, it is to l>e found in the
State of Kentucky. From the first explora
tion of the country by Daniel Boon up to tlie
year 1794, they were engaged in one inces
sant battle with the savages of the West.
Trace the path of an Indian incursion any
where over the great valley of the West, and
you will tind it red with Kentucky blood.
Wander over any of the battle-fields ot thai
great theatre of savage war, and y?u will find
it white with the bones i?f her children. In
childhood they fought the Indians, with their
sisters and mothers, in their dwellings- In
youth and ripe manhood they fought them in
afrihuscades and open battle-fields. Such
were the men of Kentucky in 1811, when
the battle of Tippecanoe was fought. 'I here,
too, as wo know, they were still found, fore
most where life wns to be lost, or glory won ;
and there they wero commanded by Gen. Har
rison. Now, sir, if in that battle Gen. Har
rison had not conducted as became a soldier
and a general, would not such men have seen
and known it? Did Kentucky in 1811,
mourning as she then did ihe loss of one ol
her greatest and most valued citizens, con
demn (as the gentleman lrom Michigan has
attempted to) the conduct of the general who
commanded in that battle ? Let us see how
they teitified.
In January, 1812, two months alter tho bat
tle of Tippecanoe, the Legislature of Ken
tucky was in session. ''In the 7th ol January,
1812, the following resolution passed that
body :
" /Ifsnlred bij Ike Senate and House of Reprirmta
tires of ike Slate of Kentucky, That in ihe late cam
paign against the Indians upon the Wabash, Uuv.
William Henry Harrison has behaved like a hero,
a patriot, and a general ; and thai tor his cool, deli
berate, skillul, and gallant conduct in the battle ol
Tippecanoe, he well deserves the warmest thanks ot
hi& couutry and his nation."
Mr. Speaker, the resolution I have just
read was presented by John J. Chittenden,
now a Senator from the State of Kentucky,
whom to name is to call to the minds ol ^ill
who know him, a man whose urbanity and
varied accomplishments present a model of
an American gentleman, whoso wisdom, elo
quence, and integrity have won for him the
first rank amongst American statesmen. Such
a man, with both branches of the Kentucky
Legislature, have testified, two months only
after tho event took place, that in tho cam
paign and buttle of Tippecanoe, General Har
rison combined the skill and conduct ol an
able commander, with the valor ot a soldier
and the patriotism of an American. Who
rises up twenty-eight years afterwards to
contradict this ? The young gentleman from
Michigan! He who, at the time referred to,
was probably conning Webster s spelling
book in some village school in Connecticut.
But, Mr. Speaker, I must call another witness
upon the point in issue here. On the 1 -2th
of November, 1811, the Territorial Legisla
ture of Indiana was in session. 1 his is just
five days after the baitle. 1 hat Legislature,
through the Speaker of its House of Repre
sentatives Gen. Wm. Johnson, addressed
General Harrison in the following terms :
" Sir : The House of Representatives of the Indi
ana Territory, in their own name, and in behall of
their constituents, most cordi.tlly reciprocate the
congratulations of your Excellency on the glorious
result of the late sanguinary conflict with the ohaw
nee Prophet, and the tr.ibes ol Indians confederated
with nim. When we see displayed in behall ol our
country not only the consummate abilities ot the ge
neral but ihe heroism of the man ; and when we take
into view the benefits which mnst result to that coun
try lrom those exertions, we cannot, fur a moment,
withhold our meed of applause."
Here, sir, we have two Legislatures of the
States whose citizens composed the militia
force nt Tippecanoe, grieved and smarting un
der the loss of their fellow citizens, uniting in
solemn council in bearing their testimony to
the skill and bravery displayed by (Ion. Har
rison in that baitle, which the gentleman from
Michigan, with a self-complacency that might
well pass for insanity, now says he has dis
covered, was mai ktd by palpable incapacity
in the commanding General. But, Mr.
Speaker, I must call yet another, nay, several
other witnesses, to confront the opinion ol the
Michigan general.
In August, 1812, about nine months alter
the battle of I ippeciinoe, news ol (earful im
port concerning the conduct of Gen. Hull
reached Ohio and Kentucky. Our army had
fallen back on Detroit, and rumors ol the sur
render of that place to the British, which did
actually take place, were floating on every
breeze. Three regiments of militia were im
mediately raised in Kentucky. Before these
troops had taken the field, it was well known
that bur army under Hull, with the whole fer
ritory of Michigan, had been surrendered to
the combined British and Indian forces, com
manded by Brock and Tecumseh. Our whole
frontier in the Northwest lay bare and de
fenceless to the invasion, not only ol the
British army,but the more terrible incursion ol
a savage foe, hungry for plunder, and thirsting
for blood, led on by ihe most bold and ac
complished warrior that the tribes ot the red
man had ever produced. In this state of peril,
the gallant army of Kentucky looked round
for a leader equal to the imminent and mo
mentous crisis. There was Scott, the then
Governor of Kentucky, who had fought
throuuh tho Revolutionary war, and under the
eye of Washington had risen to the rank ot
brigadier in the regular service. There, too,
was the veteran Shelby, one of the heroes ol
King's Mountain, a name that shall wake up
the tones of enthusiasm in every Ameri
can heart while heroic courage is esteemed, or i
lofty integrity rcniai s a virtue. I here, too,
was Clay, whose trumpet-tongue in this Hall
was worth a thousand cannons in the field.
These were convened in council. I "is, let
us not forget, was about nine months alter the
battle of Tippecanoe. W horn, sir, I as , < i<
these men select to lead their o?n friends and
fellow citizens on to this glorious enterprise .
Their laws required that their uuhtia should be
commanded by one of their own citizens;
yet, passing by Scott and Shelby, and thous
ands of their own brave sons, this council
called General Harrison, then Governor ot
Indiana?ho who had commanded hentuck
ians but nine months before at Tippecanoe?
he who, according to the gentleman from
Michigan, had shown no trait but imbecility
ns an officer?he, against the laws ol Ken
tucky, was by such a council asked to resign
his station as Governor of Indiana, and take
the rank and commission ol Major General
in the Kentucky militia, and lead on her ar
inics in that fearful hour, to redeem our na
i tioual disgrace, and snatch from Mritish domi
nation and savage butchery, the very
I now represented by the gentleman from Mich
i igun. 1 have yet one other wit new to ca
against the gentleman from Michigan. * ir,
if the last rest of the illustrious dead is dis
turbed in this unnatural war upon a living
soldier's honor, and u living putriot's fame, the
fault is not mine. It will appear pr?sently
that the gentleman from Michigan has un
wittingly, it may be?dishonored and insulted
i the dead, and charged the pure and venerated
i Madison with hypocrisy and falsehood. II
General Harrison had been the weak, wicked,
or imbecile thing the gentleman fiom Michi
j gan would now pretend, was not this known
to Mr. Madison, then President of the U.
j States, who gave the orders under whi< h
I General Harrison acted, and to whom the lat
: ter was responsible for his conduct I Suiely
no one can suppose that there were wanting
those who, if they could have done so with
truth, would huve made known any conduct
of General Harrison at the time referred to,
which seemed in any degree worthy ol repre
hension. With all these means of informa
tion, what was the testimony of Mr. Madison
respecting the battle of Tippecanoe ? I will
I quote his own words from his message to Con
! gress about a month after the event. 1 he
message is dated lSlh December, 1811, and
reads as follows :
" While it in deeply lamented that so many valuable
lives have been lost in il>? action which took place on
the 7lh ultimo, Congress will see with satisfaction the
dauntless spirit of fortitude victoriously displayed by
every description of troops engaged, as trell as the col
lected firmness which distinguished ihcir commander on
an occasion requiring the utmost exertions of valor and
discipline."
Mr. Speaker, I have no pleasure, in thusre
I capitulating and piling proof upon proof to re
pel an insinuation, which I think is now appa
rent to all has been thrown out in the madness
of party rage, without consideration, and
founded only on a total perversion, or rather
Hat contradiction, of every historical record
having relation to the subject.
Something was said by the gentleman from
Michigan about the encampment at Tippeca
noe. If I understood him rightly, If con
' demned it as injudicious, because it had a ri
ver on one side, and a morass on another ?
Now, Mr. Speaker, I shall give no opinion on
the question thus stated; but it just now occurs
to me that this very subject, which 1 think in
the military vocabulary is called castraincta
tion, admits of some serious inquiry bearing
! upon the criticism under consideration. In
1 almost all scientific research, we find that
1 what is now reduced to system, and arises to
1 the di?nity of science, was at first the product
! 0f. some casualty, which, filling under the no
i tice of some reflecting mind, gave rise to sur
prising results. The accidental falling of an
apple developed the great law of gravitation.
I ain sure 1 have somewhoreseen it stated that
Pyrrhus, the celebruted King of hpirus, who
is allowed by all authority to have been the
first general of his time, first learned to fortily
his camp by huving a river in his rear and a
morass on his flank ; and this was first sug
gested to him, by seeing a wild boar, when
hunted to desperation, back himsell against a
tree or rock, that he might fight his pursuers
without danger of being assailed in his roar.
Now, sir, if I comprehend the gentleman Irom
Michigan ho has against him on this point not
only the celebrated king of Epirus, but also
Iho wild boar, who, it seems, was the tutor ol
Pyrrhus in the art of castranietution. Here,
then, ure two approved authorities, one oi
whom Nature taught the art of war, as she
kindly <lid us colonels, and the other that re
nowned hero of Epirus, who gave the Romans
so much trouble in his time. I hese authori
ties are near two thousand years old, and, as
lar as I know, unquestioned, till the gentle
man from Michigan attacked them yesterday.
Here, again, I ask who shall decide 1 yrrlius
and the boar on one side, and the gentleman
from Michigan on the other. Sir. 1 decline ,
jurisdiction of the question, and leave the two ,
hundred and forty colonels ol this House to ,
settle the contest, " non nostrum tallies com
votiere lites. ,,, ,
Mr. Speaker, I feel it quite impossible to
withdraw from this part of the debate without
some comment on another assertion, or rather
intimation, of the gentleman from Michigan
touching the conduct of General Harrison at
the battle of the Thames. All who have
made themselves acquainted with the history
of that event, know that the order in which
the American army was to attack the com
bined force of British and Indians at the
Thames was changed at the very moment
when the onset was about to be made. 1 his
order of the General drew forth from Com
modore Perry and others, who were in he |
staff of the army, and on the ground at the
time, the highest encomiums. 1 he idea ol
this change in the plan of attack, U is now
intimated, was not original with Gen. Ham
son, but was, the gentleman seems to inti
mate. suggested to him by another, who, it is
said, was on the ground at the time. W ho
that other person is, or was, the gentleman
has not said, but seemed to intimate he was
?ow in the oilier end of the Capitol ; and
thus we are led to suppose that the gentleman
intends to say thai Col. Joh'non the N^ice
President, is the gentleman alluded to. ^ ir,
I regret very much that the gentleman should
trea* historical facts in llns way. I there be (
any foundation for gmng Col Johnson the
honor of having suggested to Gen. Harriot
a movement for which the latter has received |
creat praise, why not speak out and say so
Why insinuate ? Why hint or suppose on a |
subject susceptible of easy nnd pos.me ,
proof ? Does not the gentleman know tli.il
he is thus trilling with the character ol a sol- .
dier, playing with reputation dearer than pro- ,
pertv or life to its possessor ? Sir, I wish to j
know if Col. Johnson, the \ ice 1 resident of
the United States, has, by any word or act
of his/given countenance to this insinuation
It would be well for all who sp.-ak at random
on this subject to remember that there a _ ,
living witnesses yet who can testify tothef f
in question. It may not be ami** to ^ j
mind some that there is exiarU a J . Nia- i
Col. wood, Who afterwards fell ?
gara frontier, l or the ben ( ^ re|a(}un
the'change mad"by ^
der of attack at the J ?*? ?? ^ ^
T,,Cr,r??G ne"[ Harrison by tolun
?TJE?iI!.?
like a many of u?, were officer# who had
not seen a great deal of hard fighting.?
On this re(Kirt the order of attack first intend
ed was founded, bu:, before the troops were
ordered on to the attack, Colonel Wood was
sent to examine and report the extent of front
occupied by tho Driuah troops. Colonel
Wood's military eye detected at once what
bad escaped the unpractised observation of
thu others?that is. that the British regulars
were drawn up in open order?and it was on
his report that at tbe moment, the change
was made by General Harrison in the order
of the attack?a movement, which,'in the es
timation of such men as Wood, and I'crry,
and Shelby, was enough of itself to entitle
General Harrison to the highest rank among
the military men of the age.
Mr. Speaker, when I review the historical
testimony touching this portion of Gen. Har
rison's history, I confess my amazement at
the Quixotic, (I pray my friend from Michi
gan to pardon ine,) but 1 must call if the
Quixotic exhibition which he has made of him
self. Sir, the gentleman had no need to tell
u* be was a General of militia. His conduct
in this discussion is proof of that?strong even
as is his own word for tho fact. He has
shown all that reckless bravery which has al
ways characterized our noble militia, but he
has also, in this attack, shown that other
quality of militia troops which so frequently
impels them to rush blindly forward, and often
to their own destruction. I should like to
bear many of the brave men around me speak
of General Harrison. Some there are now
under my eye who carry British bullets in
their bodies, received while fighting under the
command of General Harrison. I should be
glad to hear my whole-souled and generous
hearted friend from Keutucky, (.Major Butler)
who agrees with the gentleman from Michi
gan iu general politics, who has n<?t merely
heard of battle, but who has mingled in war
in all its form*, and fought his way from the
ranks up to the head of a battalion?I say I
should be glad to hear his opinions of the mat
ters asserted, hinted at, and insinuated by the
genth-man from Michigan.
Why, I ask, is this attempt to falsify the
common history of our country made how,
and why is it made here 1 Is is vainly imagin
ed that congressional speeches are to contra
dict nccrcdited long-known historical facts ? ?
Does the fierce madness of party indulge a
conception so w ild ?
Sir, I repeat. th:it I feel only amazement at
such an attempt. 1 could not sit still and
witness it iu silence. Much as I desired to
speak to the House and country on the ques
tion touching the Cumberland road, I should
have left it to others had I not been impelled
to get the floor to beir my testimony against
the gross injustice which I thought was about
to be done to a citizen?an honored, cheiish
ed citizen of my own Stnte. 'ibis House,
Mr. Speaker, knows that I nm rot given to
much babbling here. Yes, sir, you all know
that, like Balaam's ass, 1 nev?r speak here
till I am kicked into it. I m;?y claim credit,
therefore, lor sincerity, when I declare that a
strong sense of justice alone could have call
ed me into this debate. Let me now remind
gentlemen who may be tempted into a similar
course with my Iriend Irom Michigan, that all
such efforts must recoil with destructive effect
upon thoje who make them. Sir, it has been
the fortune of (Jen. Harrison to be identifiei
with the civil and military history of this coun
try for nearly hall' a century. NV hat is to be
gained, even to party, by perverting that histo
rv? Nothing. You may blot out a page of
his biograp iy here, and tear out a chapter of
history there ; nay, you may, in the blindness
of party rage, rival the Vandal and the I urk,
and burn up all your books, and what then
have you effected ? Nothing but an insane
exhibition of impotent party violence. (?en.
Harrison's history would still remain in the
memory of his and your coteinporaries ; and
coming events, not long to be delayed, will
show to the world that his history, in both
legislation and war, dwells not merely iu tho
memories of his countrymcn, but is enshrined
in their gratitude and engraven upon their
hearts.
Mr. Speaker, I come now to the discussion
of what is really the question before the
House, and, with the hope that I may be en
titled to the floor ou "Monday, I will, il it bo
the pleasure of the House, tiive way lor a
motion to adjourn. 11 I can obtain the floor
on Monday, I promise the House that nothing
shall tempt me to wander from' the question
touching the appropriation lor tho ( umber
land road, a work which, il it be not crushed
by the wretched policy of this administration,
will reflect as much glory upon your civil
history as the deeds of the great and patriotic
citizen, whose conduct I have been compelled
to notice, ever did upon your military annals.
On motion, the House then adjourned.
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