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Thames over the allied British and Indians com- 

 manded by General Proctor and Tecumseh. Jhis 

 battle, in which Tecumseh was killed and nearly the 

 whole British force surrendered, was decisive of the 

 war in the Northwest, and the two victories gave 

 General Harrison a military reputation second only 

 to Jackson's. In 1816-1819 he was a member of 

 Congress. In 1819 he was chosen to the senate of 

 Ohio, and in 1822 was again a candidate for Congress, 

 but was defeated because of his vote against the 

 admission of Missouri to the Union as a free state. 

 In 1824 he was chosen to the United States Senate, 

 in 1828 President Adams sent him out as minister 

 to the United States of Colombia, and in the follow- 

 ing year he was recalled by President Jackson, and 

 retired to his farm at North Bend, near Cincinnati. 

 He was a good soldier and a thoroughly upright and 

 trustworthy man. Upon the political questions that 

 were dividing Whigs from Democrats in 1836, he had 

 done little or nothing to commit himself, and in nomi- 

 nating him for the presidency the Whigs sought to 

 turn to their own uses the same kind of popular 

 enthusiasm by which Jackson had profited. But the 

 ill-organized opposition had no chance of winning a 

 victory over the solid Democratic column. Many 

 votes were thrown away. South Carolina, still fight- 

 ing her own battle, voted for Person Mangum, a 

 State Rights Whig. Massachusetts voted for Daniel 

 W T ebster. Mr. White obtained the 1 1 votes of Georgia 

 and the 15 of Tennessee, for the latter state, in spite 

 of her reverence for Jackson, did not approve his 

 policy of coercion and could not be induced to sup- 

 port Van Buren. General Harrison carried Vermont, 



