The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-09

| to be distributed throughout the Coun'y ul'ii az
ter the Presidential Election. The most Proml-
nent idea of this Prospectus is that colhIhlt'ee
in Cincinnati, have written in reply to letter.
addressed to Gen Harrison, saying, that mas
u,ncb as the Convention at Harrisburg deemed
il inexpedient to make new issues, before the
county. Gen Harrison, under the advice OF ms
friends. had resolved to leave his nomination 10
rest ON his well known public services ana
therefore would decline answering all letters IN
tended TO call forth am expression oil OPINION
which might he used as means of divorting pub
lie attention from the issues now before the peo-
pe: and argues that because he refuses to answer,
and has made this committee the channel OF ma
king known his determination, he is incompe-
len,-and therefore unfit to be President.
The use made of this letter, proves two things
first. that Gen Harrison has acted wisely in
refusing to answer the many letters, which 9TH
erwise would have been addressed to him. The
whole matter as exhibited Dy the Globe, shows,
that it was an attempt to practice deliberate
fraud upon him.. A person protesting to act as
The secretary of an association, friendly 10 his
election, but ia fact opposed 10 il, addressed
letter to him asking his opinions, intending to
use any answer he might give to his prejudice.
The proper notice of such letter, would have
been to refuse an answer.
And next, it proves the Convention acted
wisely in selecting Candidate against whom
the inventive Editor of the Globe can ind no
stronger objection than that he, instead Of re-
fusing to answer this impertnent letter, hand
ed it over to a committee OF his friends,
organised for the purpose of general cores
pondence with those who may wish to address
him or them on them on the subject of the Presi-
Dental Election.
The Globe gives great prominence, and great
importance to this fact and argues that this COM
mittee have been appointed, because Gen. Har-
rison, is incompetent, tie write himself Is there
any one throughout this wide spread Republic,
who can be made, even by the force of the party
drilling, to believe this? He has made many
treaties he has written many letters; ne has
delivered MANY speeches-he has given many
General orders, he has written many public re-
ports in which are to be found multiplied evil
dences of his ability. Who then can be made
to believe that he is incompetent to wIite, II 1t
were proper that he should write? No one, no
not one.
A due regard to the character of the high Of
fee for which he has been nominated, Imposes
restraint upon him; and his friends in Cincin-
natti, following the example of the friends oil
Gen. Jackson, in Nashville, who in 1927 organ
hauo mod ha q
Dor of answering letters upon the subject Of the
Election. And if we admit that they have in
this instance been imposed upon; that they have
written foolish letter, does that prove that Gen.
Harrison would have done the same thing, if he
he had written the letter ? We may well admit
the letter to be all that it is charged to be- (ridi
| culous, and foolish if you please) and yet it
amounts to nothing more than this. That for
rant of any stronger objection to GEN. Harrison,
the Globe insists that he should not be elected be-
cause-he has three indiscreet friends.
Now to all this, we would say, as the people
themselves will say, if that be the strongest OBJ
lection that can be urged against Gen. Harrison,
| land it is manifest that the Globe thinks it to be
So from the prominence given to iD the best an
swer to that charge is to be found in the letters
! and official documents, which all admit to have
been written by Gen. Harrison himself. The
country will Judge of his qualification by his own
letters and not by the letters of any friend who
ever he may be; and we do not know that we can
better conclude this article than by quoting al
large, Gen. Harrison'S note in reply to the Sian.
derous imputation that he was in favor of selling
white men.
| This letter was written many years ago, and
is the best answer that could be given to the
SANDER o.industriously propagatedin these parts
while it shows that in this, as in every Other
case, where an attempt has been made to assai
him, the charge recoils upon its authors, BY
presenting in holder relief those qualities O.
the mind and ofthe heart which entitle our can
didate to the affection of the people. The let
| ter is as follows:
To The Cincinnati advertiser,
| SIR In your paper of the 18th instant,
observed most violent attack upon eleven o.
Their members of the late Senate and myself, fo
a supposed yote given at the last session, for &
passage of law to ''seH debtors in certain CO.
ses.'' Ifsuch had been our conduct, acknow-
ledge that we should not only deserve the cen
sure which the writer has bestowed upon us
but the execration of every honest man in So
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