Willie Harrison, the President ... more or less

Centerville National Patriot, Oct 28, 1840

YOUR COUNTRY demands your services as well as your vote. Your individual prosperity as well as the liberty and honor of our country demands your services. The ballot box is your palladium of our liberties. It is there that the poor working man can rebuke aristocratic and pampered office holders, Next Monday, don't forget the time. If Martin Van Buren is re-elected, the galling of political slavery will be fastened upon you. If we can rout him and his band of office holders, and elect the patriot and statesman William Henry Harrison, the permanency of our republican institutions will be reassured and tyranny will be made to tremble on their thrones. One charge along the whole line and victory will be ours.

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Leavenworth, Crawford County, 14 January 1841

PRESIDENTIAL SAGACITY -- The N.Y. Evening Post, in June last, after making a calculation about the relative political strength of the different states, concludes as follows:

"We do not think that Gen. Harrison is certain of but two states in the Union -- Vermont and Rhode Island. We stake our reputation for political sagacity when we predict that General Harrison will receive the smallest electoral vote ever cast for a federal candidate in the United States. Mark the words."

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Indiana American, April 9, 1841

HEALTH OF THE PRESIDENT -- We mentioned yesterday the fact that President Harrison was taken with a severe attack of pneumonia on the 27th (of March). We received yesterday the National Intelligencer of Thursday morning, the 1st (of the month) which represents him as slightly better the preceding evening and through the Cincinnati Chronicle of yesterday afternoon, we have the following:

"We learn by a letter from John D. Thorpe at Wheeling that he left Baltimore on the afternoon of the 1st at which time the cars had just arrived from Washington, bringing the painful intelligence that the President was much worse."

This is later intelligence than any received by the mail. The President had been pronounced better but on the afternoon of the 1st, his disease assumed a worse form. This news was received at Baltimore after the papers that day were published.

-- Cincinnati Gazette

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Indiana American, April 23, 1841

THE DEATH of William Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, so soon after his election to that high office, is a bereavement peculiarly calculated to be regarded as a heavy affliction, and to impress all minds with a sense of uncertainty of human things, and of the dependence of Nature, as well as of individuals, upon our Heavenly Parent.

-- John Tyler, who assumed the office