Tliat list included the repeal of the Independent Treas- !
ury^ct, the establishment of a new national bank, the '
raismg of a tempo rarx loan, t he laying of permanent i
tariff duties to supply the government witTTtunds, and ;
the distribution among the Sta tes of the proc eeds of t he

sales 61 public lands. General flamson was ;
General an earnest, straightforward, ingenuous man ot '

Harrwon. ^j^^ people ; he enjoyed some military renown, '
and he had had some training in civil office. He was a
sincere Whig, too, and thought that he had been elected
to preside over Whig reforms. Mr. Clay's programme
would probably have won his approval and support.
But a sore disappointment was in store for the party.
General Harrison was an old man, nearing his seventieth
year; the campaign had been full of excitement and
fatigue for him ; and when he came to the presidency he
shielded neither his strength nor his privacy, but gave up
botW* to the horde of office seekers and advisers who



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^ crowded about him. Even his vigorous and toughened
frame could not endure what he undertook ; he suddenly
' \ sickened, and exactly one month after his inauguration
I he died.
; 68. The Vice-President succeeds a841>.
For the first time in the history of the government
\ f the Vice-President succeeded to the office of President.
