had been lost by Hull's disgraceful surrender. They now had complete control of the chain of lakes above Erie, and the savage foe in the northwest was defeated and humiliated. Harrison's name was in every mouth, his praise sung by the entire nation. Congress afterwards gave him their cordial thanks and caused a gold medal to be struck commemorative of his valuable services. At the same time was struck a medal in honor of Governor Isaac Shelby, of Kentucky, who, as a volunteer in command of the Kentucky militia, did valiant service on that day. In his message to Congress, on the seventh of December, 1813, President Madison spoke of the result as "signally honorable to Major-General Harrison, by whose military talents it was prepared." Mr. Cheeves, in a speech to Congress, thus alluded to the subject: "The victory of Harrison was such as would have secured to a Roman general, in the best days of the republic, the honors of a triumph. He put an end to the war in the uppermost Canada." In his message to the legislature of Pennsylvania, Governor Snyder said: "The blessings of thousands of women and children, rescued from the scalping-knife of the ruthless savage of the wilderness, and from the still more savage Proctor, rest on Harrison and his gallant army."

After securing the results of the victory, there being no further demand for an armed force in this part of Canada, Harrison dispatched his troops to Niagara, whence they were ordered to Sackett's Harbor for the defense of that place. Having no command in that department, General Harrison proceeded to Washington, where he remained but a few days, the President deeming his services of greater value in raising troops and devising means of protection for the border settlements of Indiana. General Armstrong, at that time secretary of war, in planning the campaign of 1814, provided no command for General Harrison, who thereupon tendered his resignation, which, in the absence of President Madison, was accepted. In the summer of the same year he was appointed by the President, in conjunction with Governor Shelby and General Lewis Cass, to treat with the Indians of the northwest, and when, in the following year, the treaty of Ghent provided for the pacification of several important tribes, he was placed at the head of the commission.

The duties connected with this commission being successfully terminated, General Harrison returned to his farm, near Cincinnati. He was not long permitted to remain in obscurity, the district in which he lived electing him, in 1816, a representative in Congress, to supply a vacancy; he was afterward elected for the full term, After taking his seat in Congress, his conduct while in command of the northwestern army was impugned by a contractor, whose source of profit was cut off by order of General Harrison. Full investigation into the case resulted in compietely exonerating him from all charges brought against him. His service in Congress was marked by two important measures. The first providing for reform in

the militia organizations of the country, met with decided opposition in the House and failed of passage. The other, for the relief of veteran soldiers of the Revolution, as well as those wounded or disabled in the last war with Great Britain, appealed to the sense of justice of the Nation and was immediately passed. It was during his term of service in the House of Representatives that Congress passed the resolution providing that gold medals be struck off in commemoration of the services of himself and Governor Isaac Shelby in the battle of the Thames.

After three years' service in the House, in 1819 General Harrison was elected to the senate of Ohio; and in 1824 he was chosen one of the presidential electors of the state, and in the electoral college cast his vote for Henry Clay. In 1824 the legislature of Ohio elected him to a seat in the Senate of the United States, and he succeeded General Jackson as chairman of the committee on military affairs. He was a firm supporter of the administration of President Adams, who appointed him, in 1828, minister plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia. There he was cordially received, but his residence abroad was terminated immediately following the inauguration of President Jackson. Returning to Ohio, he lived in retirement on his farm at North Bend, on the Ohio river, a few miles below Cincinnati. His public services had not been such as to add to his pecuniary resources, being marked throughout by the strictest integrity. Pride of station was not an element in his nature, and when came the offer of the clerkship of Hamilton county, it was accepted with the same spirit he would have exhibited had it been an election to a high office in State or Nation. There he remained ten years, performing the duties connected with his office with the same fidelity that characterized his every public act.

In 1835 meetings of the people in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and other States, united in the nomination of General Harrison as a candidate for President, to succeed Andrew Jackson, whose term was approaching a close. His opponent was Martin Van Buren, who was then serving as Vice-President. The opposition to Van Buren was not united on Harrison, Daniel Webster, Hugh L. White and Willie P. Mangum receiving many votes in the States in which they lived. Without concerted action on the part of his friends, Harrison received in the electoral college seventy-three votes. Mr. Van Buren received one hundred and seventy votes in the electoral college and was elected President.

The national Whig convention assembled in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, December 4, 1839. The names presented to the convention for their consideration were Henry Clay, General Winfield Scott and William Henry Harrison. After a free interchange of views as to the merits of the respective candidates, General Harrison received the nomination for President. For Vice-President, John Tyler of Virginia received the vote of the

convention. Then followed the exciting presidential contest, since historically familiar as the "hard-cider" campaign. This name was given it as descriptive of the house in which lived the candidate for President. The eastern end of the Harrison mansion at North Bend was formed of one of the original log cabins built by some of the early settlers, and which was afterwards clapboarded over, when a larger addition was constructed. Soon after his nomination the partisans of General Harrison started the story that he lived in a log cabin, the latch-string of which was always out so that travelers might readily enter, and a mug of cider was always ready for the thirsty wayfarer. Great mass meetings were held in various places, at which a prominent feature was a log cabin, in front of which were placed barrels of cider for free distribution to the thirsty crowd. The demoralization that attended these meetings was great, and many young men and boys formed the habit of drink that produced untold misery in after life.

PRESIDENT HARRISON'S RESIDENCE AT NORTH BEND.

The vote in the electoral college stood: For Harrison, two hundred and thirty four; for Van Buren, sixty. The effect of the election of Harrison was the triumph of principles of reform in correcting the abuses of the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren. The final outcome was a continuation, in a slightly modified form, of the principles of the twe previous administrations, by Mr. Tyler, the Vice-President, who soon succeeded President Harrison in office.

An immense concourse assembled in front of the capitol at Washington, on the morning of the fourth of March, 1841, to witness the inauguration. of William Henry Harrison as the ninth President of the United States. John Tyler had already taken the oath of office as Vice-President. After