In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States to be
hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, the 17th day of March, A.D. 1841, and of
the Independence of the United States the sixty-fifth.
W.H. HARRISON
By the President:
DANIEL WEBSTER,
_Secretary of State_.
DEATH OF PRESIDENT HARRISON.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT.
[From the Daily National Intelligencer, April 5, 1841.]
WASHINGTON, _April 4, 1841_.
An all-wise Providence having suddenly removed from this life William
Henry Harrison, late President of the United States, we have thought it
our duty, in the recess of Congress and in the absence of the
Vice-President from the seat of Government, to make this afflicting
bereavement known to the country by this declaration under our hands.
He died at the President's house, in this city, this 4th day of April,
A.D. 1841, at thirty minutes before 1 o'clock in the morning.
The people of the United States, overwhelmed, like ourselves, by an
event so unexpected and so melancholy, will derive consolation from
knowing that his death was calm and resigned, as his life has been
patriotic, useful, and distinguished, and that the last utterance of his
lips expressed a fervent desire for the perpetuity of the Constitution
and the preservation of its true principles.
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