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Image 1 of General Harrison in Congress.- Date: 1840
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Image 2 of General Harrison in Congress. ^TOt iLlBRARYOFCONaRESS.I I [FORCE COLLECTION. J {UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- Date: 1840
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Image 7 of General Harrison in Congress. GENERAL HARRISON IN CONGRESS. In discussing the qualifications of the Whig Candidate for tfie Presliffii 7, his merits as a Piuneer of tlie West, as a Soldier in the wars of the...- Date: 1840
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Image 8 of General Harrison in Congress. General FIarrison took his seat as a member of the House of Representatives on the opening of the Second Session of the Fourteenth Congress, (December 2, 1816.) On the 3d, tlie Annual...- Date: 1840
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Image 9 of General Harrison in Congress. ,eral Harrison would doubtless have been made chairman, but that General Bloomfield, much his senior in years and in date of service, a soldier of the Revolution, (as well as of the...- Date: 1840
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Image 10 of General Harrison in Congress. 4 In tracing the events of this great man s life, we find in him that consistency of conduct which is the more to be admired as it is so rarely to...- Date: 1840
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Image 11 of General Harrison in Congress. tages of numbers, of tactics, of discipline, and inexhaustible resources, the combined despots had secured a faction in the heart of Poland. And, if that country can boast of having produced its...- Date: 1840
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Image 12 of General Harrison in Congress. The object which appears to have laid next nearest to his heart was to give efficiency to tlie Militia of the United Slates. This was a subject which had at- tracted his...- Date: 1840
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Image 13 of General Harrison in Congress. This was the plan which resulted from the deliberations of the committee. It is the report which accompanied that bill, iiowever, to which we desire to invite the attention of our readers;...- Date: 1840
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Image 14 of General Harrison in Congress. 8 to theirs, and which, by the happiness it diffuses, affords an eternal satire and reproach upon their conduct. Whatever security there maybe derived from their policy, none can certainly be expected...- Date: 1840
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Image 15 of General Harrison in Congress. than is to be met with in the subjects of a monarchy. The spirit frequently manifests itself even in a career of military services, where the high interests involved, and in which...- Date: 1840
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Image 16 of General Harrison in Congress. 10 is calculated to produce an important change in the n anners and habits of the nation, will be re- ceived with caution and distrust by a people jealous of their liberties,...- Date: 1840
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Image 17 of General Harrison in Congress. 11 18\8, Ap7-ll 18. General Hahhisox renetved a nwtion which had been made to sit to-mor- row (Sunday) the next day having been fixed as the day for ending the session. This...- Date: 1840
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Image 18 of General Harrison in Congress. 12 called. That act changed the mode of commuting ihe per diem pay of Members of both Houses of Congress to a salary to each Member of fifteen hundred dollars a year....- Date: 1840
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Image 19 of General Harrison in Congress. 13 his great speech on the general subject of the Seminole war a speech distinguish- ed by candor by respect for the freedom of inquiry by a jealous regard for the general...- Date: 1840
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Image 20 of General Harrison in Congress. 14 repetition of the same appropriations was all that was requireil. Now, to come at these results, a thorough investigation was necessary but, according to the doctrine now contended for, this could...- Date: 1840
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Image 21 of General Harrison in Congress. 15 The resolution reported by the Military Committee, upon which this debate took place, was in the following words: Resolved, That the House of Representatives of the United States disapproves the proceed-...- Date: 1840
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Image 22 of General Harrison in Congress. 16 just ended, Gen. H. advocated a liberal polic} In discussion of a bill upon the subject, in January, 1817, lie took llie ground tliat compensation ouglil to be ex- tended to...- Date: 1840
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Image 23 of General Harrison in Congress. 17 the comforts of which he had spoken had fled, or that the means of procuring them were ob- tained by the personal exertions of the lady herself. From my knowledge of...- Date: 1840
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Image 24 of General Harrison in Congress. IS public service should be provided for by the public, had been recognised by the best men and the oldest Governments, and by those particularly to which ours bore the nearest resemblance;...- Date: 1840
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Image 25 of General Harrison in Congress. 19 present, when the want of punctuality was produced by events which those who were subject to pay it could not control. On every other occasion which presented itself, General Hakrison appears...- Date: 1840
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Image 26 of General Harrison in Congress. 20 mittee on the Militia. The duties of these prominent stations gave him much oc- cupation. He devoted himself with exemplary assiduity and conscientiousness to the discharge of them; and he was...- Date: 1840
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Image 27 of General Harrison in Congress. 21 Army, an evil which had grown to such a height that it had become impossible to keep the ranks of the Array full enough to be in any state of eft...- Date: 1840
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Image 28 of General Harrison in Congress. 22 this, it is a little singular that so little has been done for them in our service— and it is the more singular, considering the nature of our Government the grade...- Date: 1840
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Image 29 of General Harrison in Congress. 23 of Congress. But neither the precepts of Washington, the recommendations of his Secretaries who had been Generals of the Revolution, nor the solicitations of later Presidents, Secretaries, and Generals to the...- Date: 1840
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Image 30 of General Harrison in Congress. 24 his death-bed by a large family a wife, who was entitled to all his tenderness, and children, who justly merited his affection. In such a scene, on such an occasion, it...- Date: 1840
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Image 31 of General Harrison in Congress. 25 est, unsophisticated opinions of the American people. Follow the family of General Browx to their home no, sir, they have no home not a spot of earth upon the globe which...- Date: 1840
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Image 32 of General Harrison in Congress. 26 had spoken on the subject had avoided bringing into the discussion any thing relating to the constitutional power of Congress on this subject. The Legislatures of the States through which this...- Date: 1840
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Image 33 of General Harrison in Congress. 27 bill was supported, however, by the chairman of the Committee on Commerce (Mr. Lloyd, of Massachusetts) on its true ground; that of the advantages which would result to the commerce of...- Date: 1840
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Image 34 of General Harrison in Congress. 28 high prices, and with increased rapidity. The General Government were gainers in this bargain also. He would allow that there were also lands allotted for schools in the Western States, bitt...- Date: 1840
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Image 35 of General Harrison in Congress. 29 The effect of this fatal security was immediately felt by the army. The amount of its supplies, before scanty;. -Dartial and inefficient, was now almost entirely suspended. It is most fortunate...- Date: 1840
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Image 36 of General Harrison in Congress. ^30 One of the great questions ef public policy, on which General Hahrtsot was called upon to ■make manifest his opinions during his service in the Senate, was that of the graduation...- Date: 1840
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Image 37 of General Harrison in Congress. 31 the Navy (including a plan for the establishment of a Naval Academy, and for the erection of Dry Docks) that General H. distinguished himself by a series of arguments which would...- Date: 1840
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Image 38 of General Harrison in Congress. 32 inanoftalpnls, 1 answer thai Marlborouqh was not Imushl into orposilion to that ereat captain until a late period of liis career, when lie had acquired a hii;h degree of skill and...- Date: 1840
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