Show MAN WHO KULtD I TBOUMSBH X lion il dire frnhlmt Inlnor loll rrrlnl Hi the tepltl While nearly everyone has bear of the famous Indian lender Ttcutneen there are many who are not aware of the fact that his death wee due to the bravery of n man who afterward became be-came the vice preeldent of the United States To lilts patriot and warrior la to te erected n nttlng memorial In the hulls of congress Tho work was done by James Voorhen awn of the I en u < r of that name and was due to a reeolu lion linseed by the ornate that the busts of all the vicepresidents who had presided pre-sided over that dignified body lie plire In the hall to overlook the former scene of their political labor Johnson was n nathe of tho lllue Crass state and that fart may account for lute fondness for a fight lie 1 WM born In 1781 tOIle Washington was still nllve The while man ruled only In the east and out on the prairie In the went roamed the Indians and tho Millers on the outskirts out-skirts of Dilation never knew M what moment they might be attacked and destroyed Such continued to bo the state of affairs for some years and 1 G DIRT OP ItlCIIAIin M JOHNSON when Johnson was In congress In Ull and the linglliili and Indians had combined com-bined to attack the new republic Johnson John-son went homo to Kentucky flout ralwil a bntullon of three companies and after they had been consolidated n regiment was made the colonel nod nerved for ten month lie returned for n abort space to his tnngrcsslonnt Julie Ju-lie but nt tho command of tho secretary secre-tary of war won raited n regiment of 1000 volunteers and went to attack the enemy In the west Joining his form to that of Oen William Henry Harrison who was then governor of Indiana and the leader of tho American troops It was then on Oct C 1813 occurred the famous battle of tho Thames tho Americans Amer-icans being victorious Tecumsch Will found on tho field drad and It was asserted as-serted tlmt Johnson wan tho ono who shot him na ho was killed by n man nn horseback and Johnson was the only ono mounted his command being Infantry In-fantry It was also known that Johnson John-son had been engaged n handtohand fight with one of Inn most desperate chiefs and It was thought that Te cumuli would be tho > cr > ono to single out the leader to meet his tomahawk a foo worthy of his steel Johnnon Mm tclf was bully wounded When Johnson John-son returned to congress ho was still too sick to walk and his way up tho street was n triumphal procession while n Joint resolution of thanks was pasiwd by tho body Afterward ho como to tho senate and then ho was chosen at lccprcsldcnt on the ticket headed by Martin Van Ilurcn No election was made by tie electoral college thus falling fall-ing In an election b > this nunni John ton was choKcn by the senate to that high position |