Rutland Herald

Thrilling Incident. We extract the following incident from the 'Lancaster Gazette.' It transpired at a great meeting of the people of Fairfield county, who were favorable to the election of Gen. Harrison. 'Liberty' and Reform. There were more than a thousand persons present. Henry Stanberry addressed the audience, and was repelling the charge of cowardice urged against Harrison by the Van Buren party, when he emphatically asked, whether there were not present those who fought with the gallant General?

This call was responded to by a venerable patriot, bending under the accumulation of seventy-five years. The old man trembling under his infirmities of body rose-his now sluggish blood became warmed-his dimmed eyes kindled with indignation- and with a voice braced up by the law of truth and justice, the old man said: Forty-two years ago, I served with Harrison under Mad Anthony in fighting and whipping the Indians, and I saw him always where danger was thickest, and where duty called. I know him to be brave, and he who says otherwise says false. And yet another aged soldier rose up to bear testimony to the bravery and patriotism of this venerated patriot in arms. I too fought under Wayne forty two years ago, side by side, with the brave and gallant Harrison, who was then little more than a stripling boy, but a full grown man in deeds of daring and of valor. I know him to be a soldier and the soldier's friend; and how well I may have served my country on that occasion let this tell. The venerable old man here pointed to a scar left by a wound received in that campaign. The effect was electrical-a thousand voices responded to the statement of these venerated soldiers, and gave a pledge of their confidence in, and attachment to the bravery and patriotism of Gen. Harrison.