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RISON'S CLAIMS TO BE A
HERO" CONSIDERED,
from tho raging whirlpool of par
tv Uisuuci iruiu uic uuuvts men ui cmiur
- a I?.. ... r i. - : . r
poIiiical sect is a large body of quiet cili
zenswuo reau ooui siues, aim ironi uio
snn n n ui uuiiv buiic. ixivuiimiu. un mat-
mu Imln iltfararl frlAf rinH mul m
MTilIIV Y I1UUI UitLIKUl ikfUU. till 11 IL IB 111
biafmR4 in.ii vf? mav bhiriv iriii inn i pi
si We now desire to call the attention
LWKlSiieniry iiauiouu iu mu giory oi oc-
ewr. it w.. mm ...:.i. .i. .
ptweiiuuy i "''wi luvninuiu man
... 1 1 n n .mnrr! i nr n p rt 1 1 1 inp nMi i mn n
v o
raciurer.) iiii3,'-aunuuu wnueii wim
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oieiy to uimerai xiarrison s Military cx
'rr.i r ti. u-r cut mush .. .i.
inifi: rit r.riursc. iiu uari oi mu uuncv wninii
i't IIMIL-UilllUOl
Mter Mie natue, say? tno nistory,
. . . I 1 AH(i . nml inn ipaod Inninnil t i 1 ii.a
iSnes forgot to be consistent."
iSln rcviowinff the first plan of Harrison's
jwii WaII iiinti. it tv:m in inn iopa nt in.
mi) un a ULdiuc. uuu uuu a ttaii iiiiiD. ui
rawn n in nruui ui uiuiiu. wiliiuui setiinn-
i.k-uri iim n i c nnipr!. nn inn rnnnrt nt tim
isrii'ni men on n :iiiii iiiikiiiilv.
auu 111 Vllw iiiuiiiw) iiiuiuii ium aiu vi
Tnilmn (niiril nn tllP W'lhnSM f
Why. doubtless." Bays Marshall's his-
Rnt. in t to nature oi a not act. oruerinir
r ii lii iiiaubiaLii kif ui'uiiMuia iiiuii in it in
mi k;iti3 iiiuii iivifis.
.i .t.:. i
liui listen to uns caunous anu circutn-
niVnrnnni " urlup. i " nlliirdi irreM I am I II v
i front (towards the Indian town)
ly twico that lieighf above a similar
TirairiR in ma rear. liiiiju"ii wiiiuii uuu uvai
the left 1'"lk 1,li3 Solicit of high land wld-
Bned considerably, but became Gradually j
pTrrow in the opposition direction) an at
mie distance of one hundred and fifty yards
WrTrn the right flank, terminated in an abrupt
jpolnt."
i' If the God, whom the Indians adore in
F- I III I. ..I
war." (exc aims marsnaii s nisiory.i uan
Bade a piece of ground for the camp of an
liemy. it was this, and to tins ins worsnip-
KIS UireOlCU uonerai iiarnson. aim vjuu
Kal Harrison, aeeing the kind and quality
glthe ground, and that it ' aflbrid great
tuny to tue appioacu ui Baaa;o, mc ,o-
,y enemy ho had to oppose, most.jiciows
ly, like General Harrison quietly encamps
on the ground without trench or nalisade."
Who does not respond to the following
burst ot indignation after this :
" And this man would be thought a Gen
eral 1 And there are Rimpletons weak c-
nought o'call hint a consummate General !"
We shall hereafter givo further extracts
trom tms History.
in tue same battle, however mussacre,
it has been called there was ouo gallant
action the remembrance of which cannot
bo lost even in Harrison's certificates and
tho. false Lines of his urtscrupulous biogra
piers. Wo allude to tho onset of Col
John P. Boyd the gallant Yankeo, whase
determined regulars, saved tho whole
army, from the almost fatal predicament in
to which, by Harrison's blindness and in
discretion had not room to work out its fa
tal result tho folly of Harrison was arres'
ted by the bravery of Boyd.
We are told in Duano's Aurora, the load
ing Democratic paper of the country, dur
ing the war, in an article published imme'
diately after this transaction, that Boyd's
gallant band ot Yankees lornied the ral
lying in point and stood tho burnt of sav
age warfare" mat uoyd " was llie man
whose skill and coolness sustained the A
meiican 6lmdard from reproach, and saved
tho western frontier Irom a savage foe, in
stigatcd bv an enemy as savage and remorse
less." The following extract of a letter
wiitlen by tho heroic Boyd himself, when
tin found his clarna slighted, will tell out
the tale itself i
fC70r was it on the plains of Tippe
canoe that I merited disgrace and negltct ?
On those plains where the bommandinz
General, against my express advice, trus
ted to the dissembled honesty of Indians
ana fell into their snare; wnere tne sav
age war-cry burst upon the stillness of the
midnight camp, and the discipline of un
daunted legulars saved tho existence of an
array ? It was a uiilcrent inference I drew
from tho plaudits of the military, bestowed
upon j?ic, awl not upon their General.
There was nothing like reproach in the
tones of their voiees, when the Indian howl
was lust in the distance, ascribing their safe
ty " to those bravo regulars." The thanks
of a Territory, for preventing the desola
tion of a frontier, had taught me to think,
on one occasion, at least, I had not failed in
my duty. But to my government I submit
the decision, if I was mistaken; I wish not
even the poor acknowledgement of having
risked my life for my country: of aiming
at least, at her benefit, if I should have fail
ed m promoting it.
With much consideration,
I have the honor to be, sir,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN P. BOYD,
Boston, January, 1810.
The Battle of tho Thames is another of
the fields on which General Harrison " gath
ered his well-earned laurels !" And how ?
Let tho gallant Johnson speak. Recently,
at Wheeling, Va. Colonel Allen (who is
now travelling through Uluo with Colonel
Johnson) stated that " while Colonel and
his brother James were charging the Indi
ans and British, under Tecumseh and Proc
tor, Gen. Harrison was a mile in the rear."
This was immediately pronounced " a lie"
by the British Whigs, and Col. Johnson
appealed to. He stated " that his friend
Allen was' indeed mistaken; lor General
Harrison was three miles instead of one,
in the rear. tie continued, in reply to
tho questio.i, " Where was Harrison V'
I DO NOT KNOW; I DID NOT
SEE HIM FROM THE TIME HE
STARTED TO THE REAR UNTIL
THE BATTLE WAS OVER, WHEN
HE CAME TO WHERE I WAS LY
ING WOUNDED AT THE ROOT OF
A TREE."
The correction satisfied tho Whigs !
And yet, this man (Hairisou) is called the
hero of the Thames!
The next " victory" for which Harrison,
n d his friends for him, demand credit, is
tho achievement at Fort Sandusky. Never,
in tue History oi any nation, was mere a
case, involving an amount of imbecility,
weakness, and treachery, equal to that ex
hibited bv Harrison on the occasion. We
have, at this present writing, a map of the
whole affair before usj and wo could wish
that every man of common sense were pres
ent to see and judge for himself. General
Harrison lies at Fort Seneca, nine miles
distant from Fort Stephenson, with a
force of two thousand men, and yet does
not reinforce the gallant one hundred and
fifty under Colonel Croghan, then attacked
. .1 . -I , I .1T.I!
oy tnrco tuousanu uriiisu anu inuians, ai
Fort Stephenson 1 He hears the Cannon
ading ho is certain that destruction must
fall upon tho little band and yet, though
distant but an hour and a half's gallop from
Fori Stephenson, he sutlers Croghan to bo
besieged thirty-six hours, and " washes his
liande of the whole transaction !" God of
Justice ! is tlr's man " a hero I" the author
of this business a soldier ? Is this the mall,
in whose behalf the patriotism of the coun
try is invoked ? But more. While Harri
son lay, trembling and cowering, at Fort
Seneca, he had made preparations to fly to
Upper Sandusky, and thus leave, in Cro
gtian's own language, " a smoking frontier
of five hundred miles in extent,'' on which
the tomahawk and torch of the Indian might
do their work 1 Such is the Hcro"of
the British Whigs 1 Freemen 1 is he wor
thy of your confidence T
But criminal as was Harrison's conduct
on this occasion, his conduct afterwards is
still more objectionable, in giving authority
and sanction to a lying accountjof the bril
liant achievement at Lower Sanuusfty.
Do we do him wrong ? To ihow that
wo do not, we refer to Colonel (Whan's
own letter to Harrison, a copy of Which is
subjoined. It appears, for tho firs jtime, in
connexion with others from the sairi source,
in a late number of the Globe. jWu ask
ask tho attention of every man to tiis burst
of indignation from a brave but iujired sol
dier, who writes from his heart, burning un
der the insulting ingratitude of this trans
cendent British Whig "Hero." If this
does not open tho eyes of hundreds of those
who now think Harrison a hero, then have
we mistaken the power of truth :
Nev Oiueans, May 2.-1, 1825,
Sin: I unwillingly renew our correspon
dence, which I had thought finally closed
with my loiter of the 13th August, 1818,
and that I do so will be received by you as
an oviuenco mat my teefing-s towards you
are at least not hostile. You will call to
mind the particulars of our recent conversa
tion at Washington City, and onnnot tneto
foro be surpristd a ly entering without
circnnilocution,upon the subject which then
occupieu us. otnet justice has never yet
Deen none to tue nrave men who served
with me at Lower Sandusky, and I require
it for them at your hands. It would be
needless for mo to point out in what par
tieulars they have suffered; to you, at least
it should be enough to be referred to Mc
Afee's History of the War in tho West, and
your own biography, recently published in
Cincinnati. What is said in either of these
books, calculated to placo the transactions
at Lower Sandusky in a higher point of
view before the world than is claimed for
the most insignificant affairs of that day?
Your aubwer must bo that of every other
reader nothing. I auk no more for myself
General Harrison, than 1 havo a rif'ht to
claim for every soldier who served unde
mc. But might I not ask for more at your
hand? If you have ona spark of grateful
recollection, you will answor yes more
much more. Did J not literally sacrifice
wyself to save youi Juid 1 not at a mo
ment when the excitement against you
throughout the ffholc slate ot uhio, a
mounting to general clamor, when there
was almost mutiny in your very camp at
Seneca, do every thing that you and your
Jriends required of me as necessary to
.. i i.
rcinmu'i: i in fjiwu uwimwi vi trie
ueoje and of the armyl Tho success of
our army reqaireu mat you, tne general m
chief, should have the confidence of all; and
to insure that,l signed addresses, without
idins them, because I was told that it
was necessary, wrote letters approvn
ihroughout your conduct, aud subject to
your corrections, without asking what
they mew oe, oecause i was assured ay
members of your family hat you yourself
believed thai on my, expressions in rem
tion to you much depended. But of what
I did for ou, enough ot what you have
done for me, there is nothing to bo told,
You have personally nledgod yourscll to
correct any false impressions that may have
been created by the publication of the two
works above mentioned: in a word, to speak
of all things in relation to the transactions
in Sandusky ae they deserve. t
We are told in McAfee s History, "Gen
cral Harrison, discoverins from the firo of
tho enemy that ho had nothing but light ar
tillery, winch could make no impression
upon the work, felt not a moment alarmed
for the safety ef the garrison, well knowing
that a breach could not be affected, and that
without afl'ecltng a breach every attempt at
escalade could be successfully repelled."
General Harrison, is this the fact?. Did
you not, during the whole of'lht bombard'
ment ot tlnrni-six hours, evince more e-
motion than could have been induced by a
belief that the garrison was not in dan-
ffer? Did you not, m the extremity of
your apprehensions, cry out. "THE
BLOOD BE ON HIS -.OWN HEAD; I
WASH MY HANDS t)F IT?" And
was there one man of all your camp at Sen
eca (the gallant Wood excepted) who be
lieved that, without the most despcute re
sistance, the garrison could prevail against
tho attacks of the enemy? Answer these
queries, and fairly, 1 demand it of you as
right. If the statem'eut in McAfee's book
be correct, then where is the merit of tho
defence of Sandusky? State candidly tho
facts, without culogium on any of us; for
each one who served there would bo judged
by his works. Tell to the world that,
when you fell back on Seneca, leaving, as
a garrison for Sandusky, but 150 men,
the works of the place were measurably de
fenceless that tho picket which connected
the block houses were so loosely planted,
that the elforts of a siuglo man could pull
many of them Up that there was no ditch
about the work, nor any outward defonce
to oppose to an assailing force that' but
few entrenching tools were left behind, and
thoso unwillingly and to all t'iis,tliai thcro
was spared to uo scarce 40 rounds of mus
ket catridge per man without a single pro
pared, catridge or ond ounce of powder for
tho only piece of artillery in the placo.
Then state the appearance of the defences,
on your coming down immediately after
the defeat and flight of tho enemy. The
brave men who toiled there during ton davs
and nights (o put themselves in a posture of
aeiuncc, aro as much entitled to credit for it
as they are deserving of praiso for their
gallantry after the coming of the enemy.
Having enlarged on these points as far
as may bo due to the truth, I would then
have you speak of every other circumstance)
in relation to tho aflfair of Sandusky (both
anterior aud subsequent) calculated to place
it in its proper light. I havo been told it
already occupies its proper place that ev
ery thing in relation to it is well understand
anu uuiy appreciated, uan you join in
any expression of this kind? Surclv you
A. .. 1 1 '
cannot, lor you icnow too wen what was
done on that frontier, and how much imme-
If . I . . i i t .
uiatciy arounu oanuusny, that has never
come to light. If my services had been
duly appreciated, then truly have I been
resting too contentedly upon what I have
.i f . i
uoue, tor no puonc expression, conveying
an assurance oi tno gratclul sense in which
my services are held, has ever vet reached
mot You may say that I received a sword
from the ladies of Chillicothe, and that I
was also breveted by the President; for the
first I feel as a soldier ought to feel for a
gift which ho should prize as his life; as for
tne latter, 1 regard it as a thing of no value
and not to be considered, for brevets had
been dealt out by the dozen, and often
times to mose wno nau never seen an enc-
mv.
My name wa onco boforctCongress
for a vote of thanks, and it was rejected
as unwortny an expression ot its approba
tion.
When I was thus so flatteringly passed
upon, was Congress, in your opinion, in
formed of all that I had done in the North
West? You will say that it was not. And
when, at a very recent ycriod, too, I tvas
compelled, by my necessities, to ask a
place, and an unimportant one, and found
difficulties and vexations when I had ex
pected every thing the reverse, had I not a
right to believe that my claims to prefer
ence were considered but of the same rank
with those of every other applicant for office?
1 ha world knows that there was a repulse
of the enemy at Lower Sandusky; but what
further does it know calculated to enhance
it above the most trival affairs of tho war?
Does it know that I disobeyed your orders
to abandon the place, and that this disobe
dionce SAVED YOUR ARMY FROM
A PRECIPITATE RETREAT and per
haps the WHUL1S FRONTIER FROM
THE INCURSIONS OF A SAVAGE
FOE? A council of your general and field
officers decided upon the propriety of fall
ing back upon Upper Sandusky; every ar
rangement was made for a precipitate re
treat, and the signal of departure was to be
given at the moment of my joining. I car
ed not. Your order ivas disobeyed, and
you were thus saved from the danger of a
retrograde step, ihe consequences ot
the repulse of the enemy at Lower San
dusky were, as you have long known, more
important than can bo conceived by any
one acquainted with the topograph) of the
section of counlty under view, and (he po
sition of the opposing forces. How you
would have fared hud I been caplured.you
can best conjecture; at all events, it did ap
pear that, at tho time, you believed tho en
emy more than a match for you. And
what would have been the consequonces ot
your defeat? A smoking frontier of moie
than five hundred miles in extent. What
saved tho boats and the immense stores
concentrated at Clcavcland under the direc
tion of Major now General Jesup? What
also prevented a combined attack of land
and naval forces upon the fleet of Commo
dore Perry at Erie, at a time when its de
struction must have been certain? My dis
obedience of your orders my subsequent
defeat and repulse of the enemy at San
dusky. Gen. Proctor, on leaving Detroit
in July, 1813, had no other object in view
than the destruction of the fleet of Commo
dore Perry, at Erie, and ot the military
stores aud boats at Cleaveland. He block
aded Fort Meigs merely as a cover to his
real intentions, anu to allord turn an oppor
tunity of ascertaining what reinforcement"
were marchinc out, that ha might bo assur"
ed of the safety of Detroit during his ab
sence. Satisfied of this, he left Fort Meigs
with a force of at least 3,000 (Indians inclu
ded) in futherance of the grand objects of
tho expedition. On reaching tho poiht of
crossing, at the entrance of Sandusky bar,
his Indian force refused to go further on tho
lake, without first taking the scalps and
plunder at Fort Sandusky Gencrel Proc
tor, from his own Xvrittcn statement, (now
in your hands,) unwillingly indulged them:
An attack was made it failed and witn
heavy loss. The Indians deserted to a man
and thus an expedition originally well
planned, and fraught with deadly conse
quences to our cause, was completely de
feated by a force of 150 men, of whom no
thing was expected, and for whom nothing;
further in praise has been offered than wad
extractad from McAfee's History of the1
War in tho West.
Respectfully, G. CROGHAN.
Gen. W. H. HAnniso.v,
Cincinnati, Ohio;
From the Pcnnsylvaniari.
Wo have some knowledge of political
struggles, yet we remember none which
haye been marked by the peculiar charac
teristics of tho present. The deraocratio
party presents the same front and avows
the same principics that secured its triumph
more than forty years ago. Those princi
ples are precisely those, which during all
that time entitled it to the fierce hate ani
unmeasured denunciations of any and of all
the fragments of opposition that happened
to be floating upon the political ocean.
They are few, but they aro vital to tho sys
tem under which we live. Tho surrender
or overthrow of any of them would bring
wim h a thorough anu radical change in
the distinctive features of our Government.
While their ascendancy is complete, tho
substance as well as the fofms of freedom!
remains. The moment they cease to con
trol tho destines of tho country the coun
try would be converted into an oligarchy or
something equally as bad, and as anti-Re-publicam
We have said that theso principles' were
few but vital. They are as we under
stand then a strict construction of tha
constitution of the United States state
rights in their fair extoiit no national im
provements without the consent of tho
states equal rights and to secure these
suffrage only limited by birth, age residence,
and taxation the right of instruction in
tho people and by the people who aro tho'
fountain of all power.
Now tho opposition which is a combina
tion of the worst elements, for the worst
purposes in other words a temporary and
Hccidental confederacy to affect an auti-Ro-publican
object avows no rruNCirLES
bnt deny and denounces all those. They
have contended, and if clothed with power,
would contend again for the doctrine of,
implication in other word's for the right of
altering tho constitution to suit their purpo
ses. They aro the enemies of state rights
and particularly of the right of suffrage,
which they have always endeavored to
narrow down to a properly standard.-
They treat the doctrines of the right of in
struction with tho utmost contempt, and
thus placo the representative above tho con
stituent. They give tho aeant not only tho
power of the principal but more: .
x he people m tho approaching election
have therefore to choose between a ect of
democratic republican principles which se
cure their dignity and freedom, and tho
wild anti-republican notions of an opposi
tion compounded of all parlies, and possess
ing tho merits of none. We await the re
sult in confidence. The opposition aro full'
of hope let them enjoy the pleasing delu-'
lusions' Their dream will be short. J. hoy
hurry on
Regardless of the sweeping whirlwinds' axvay,
That hushed in grim repose, expects its evening
prey.
People are much more liberal w'itU the!
advice to editors than with their money.Ad
vice costs nothing. Money is money.
Editors can have an abundance of advica
gratis. Subscriptions would be mush more
acceptable, and by no means so annoying.
A little less of the former and a considsrablo'
more nf tho latter would not corns amiss in'
these hard times.
Absent Mindness.-Tho last case of this'
kind, that has come to our notice, is tho
unfortunat. belief of the Whigs, that Indi
ana and Kentucky are tho whole Union,and
elsct the President of the Unitsd Slates
"solitary and alono." We predict they
will recover from the illusion r.bout tho 4th
of March 18U, when Mautin delivers his
second inaugural address perhaps eoonsr,
Mogiciam