The Charlotte Journal

From the Madisonian.

A WORD TO OUR BRETHREN OF THE PRESS.

We have observed with regret the predictions, of some portions of the press, based on the contingencies of General Harrison's health, as reported last week, or the possibility of the event of his death. We beg to assure our brethren of the press throughout the country, and the slightest reflection will doubtless lead them to concur with us, that all predictions of disaster to our cause, in consequence of the lamented death of our late revered Chief Magistrate, are not only impolitic, but without foundation.—While General Harrison lived, the affections of the people clung to him, and their hopes clustered round him. They will still and ever cherish the profoundest respect for his memory, and gratitude for his instrumentality in the hands of Divine Providence, in mustering the freemen of their Government and its institutions while in peril.

But to suppose that the unity and vigor of this compact mass of freemen can now be even impaired by the death of their leader, is a libel, not only on the understandings of the people, but on their hearts. It is against the workings of our nature, as determined by immutable laws, to suppose that disappointment and sorrow at this most afflicted dispensation of Providence, will produce any other effect on the public mind, than to hallow and invigorate those principles which have so recently roused this nation from its slumbers, dissipated its delusions and written ineffaceable convictions on their minds, of the indispensable necessity of one great and united effort to redeem an abused and suffering country from the effects of bad government.

We say with the utmost confidence, that as soon as the last sad obsequies shall have been paid to the remains of the venerable Dead, and the tears of a nation's sorrow shall have paid the affectionate tribute that is due, the Government, as in duty bound, and as we are sure they will be well disposed, will march straight forward in that path which their own judgment as well as public expectation has marked out for them, without a hair's breadth of deviation, without faltering, and with becoming energy. Congress, too, when convened, will perform their high duties with the same unflinching fidelity. No power on earth, and as we believe no event of Providence, is likely to arrest that tide of opinion which has begun to roll its waves over the land. Providence itself gives token of the event, and is sure to work by those invariable laws which govern men's minds.

We say, then, to the press throughout the land, and to the people, so far as our voice can reach them, WE ARE FALLEN. BUT STAND BY YOUR ARMS. SUSTAIN firmly that front you have hitherto presented to the enemies of your peace and prosperity.

us. We are sure, that the people and show, and God and victory will be with the Government will not, cannot falter, though the shock be great and heavy.— Remember the last words of our dying Chief Magistrate, "I wish you to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out.— I ask for nothing more."

Charlotte: Thursday, April 22, 1841.