Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-09-10
NEW sERIEs-VOL l. NO. 6.

ceived by you as an evidence that my
feelings towards you are at least not hos
tile. You will call to mind the particu.
lars OF our recent conversation at Wash
ington City, and cannot therefore be sur
prised at my entering, without circumlo-
cution, upon the subject which then oc-
cupied us. Strict justice has never yet
been done TO the brave men who served
with me at Lower Sandusky, and | re-
quire it for them at your hands. /.
would be needless for me TO point out in
what particulars they have suffered; TO
you, at least, it should be enough 10 be
referred 10 McAfee's History of the
War in the West, and your own biogra-
ply, recently published in Cincinnati.
What is said in either of these books
calculated TO place 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 answer must be that of eve
ry other reader-nothing. | ask no
more for myself, General Harrison, than
| have a right to claim for every soldier
who served Under me. But might | not
ask for more at your hands? Ifyou have
one spark of grateful recollection, you
viii answer, yes-more, much more
Did not literally sacrifice myself to
save you? Did not, at moment when
the excitement against you throughout
the whole State of Ohio, amounting to
general clamor, when there was almost
mutiny in your very camp at Seneca, do
every thing that you and your friends re-
quired of me as necessary to reinstate
you in the good opinion Of the people
and of the armyl The success of our
army required that you, the general-in-
chief, should have the confidence of all;
and to insure that, | signed addresses,
without reading them, because | was told
that it was necessary; wrote letters ap-
proving throughout your conduct, and
subject to your corrections, without ask
ing what they might be, because | was
assured by members Of your family that
you Yourself believed that on my express
sions in relation to you much depended.
But of what l did for you, enough-of
what you have done for me, there is moth
ing TO be told. You have personally
pledged yourselfto correct any false i'm
pressions that may have been created by
the publication Of the two works above
in a word, to speak of all
things in relation to the transactions in
Sandusky as they deserve.
We are told in McAfee's History,
"General Harrison, discovering from the
fire Of the enemy that he had nothing but
light artillery, which could make no i'm
preston upon the work, felt not mo-
ment alarmed for the safety of the garri-
son, well knowing that a breach could
not be effected, and that without effect
ing breach every attempt at escalade
could be successfully repelled." Gener-
al Harrison, is this the facts Did you
not, during the whole of the lombard
ment of thirty-six hours, eVince more
emotion than could have been induced
by belief that the garrison was not en-
Did you not, in the extremi-
ty of your apprehensions, more than once
CRY out, "The blood be on his own head
i wash my hands of it?" And was
there one man of all your camp at Sene-
ca (the gallant Wood excepted) who be-
lieved that, without the most desperate
resistance, the garrison could prevail
against the attacks of the enemys An
swer these queries, and fairly. de-
mand it of you as right. If the state
ment in McAfee's book be correct, then
where is the merit ofth defence of San
dusky? State candidiy the facts, with
out eulogium on any of us; for each one
who served there would be judged by
his works. Tell TO the world that, when
you fell back on Seneca, leaving, as a
garrison for Sandusky, but $50 men, the
works of the place were measurably de-
fenceless-that the pickets which con-
nected the block houses we're so loosely
planted, that the efforts Of single man
could pull many of them up-that there
was no ditch about the work, nor any
outward defence to oppose to an assall-
ing force--that but few entrenchlnlg
tools we're left behind, and those unwil-
lingly-and to all this, that there was
SHARED to us scarce 40 rounds of musket
cartridges per man, without single pre-.
pared cartridge or one ounce of powder
for the only piece ofartiliery in the place.
Then state the appearance of the defen,
ces, on your coming down Immediately
after the defeat and flight of the enemy.
The brave men who toiled there during
ten days and nights to put themselves in
a posture of defence, are as much enti-
tied 10 credit for it, as they are deserve
ing of praise for their gallantry after the
coming ofthe enemy.
Having enlarged on these points as
far as may be due to the truth, | would
then have you speak Of every other cir
cumstance in relation TO the affair Of
Sandusky (both anterior and subsequent)
calculated to place it in its proper light