PRESENTATION OF THE TIPPECANOE


FLAG.

TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.


New York, May |, l84l.
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In May last, on the Tippecanoe battle
ground, in presence of some thirty-thousand
people, was interested by the surviving SOL
ders of that memorable field with the flag
that was in the midst and thickest of the strife,
whichI was commanded TO take to this COM
mercial metropolis, TO be displayed here, be-
fore our follow-citizens, as living, speaking
emblem Of the valor of their old commander,
and of the perils he had undergone. When
the political contest was over. Tin which his
courage had been questioned,) and the People
had seated him as President in the White
House at Washington, / was also to bear it
there. and. in the name of his feow-soldiers,
request him 10 6eposite it among the honored
trophies of the Republic. T'pron1ised on that
ground to execute this commission, and with
an earnest conviction of coming success-that
the forty t,oo FOUNDER of the Empire State
should herald its arrival there; but, in the
midst of scenes so eventful as those of March.
put off the duty, in the hope of more quiet
day, when, now, alas! there is the quiet of the
gravet


| see, therefore, no way so proper to obey
the orders of the brave men of Tippecanoe as
to lay this flag before you, the successor, foI
whom were the dying injunctions of their