The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-09
MR., GRUMPY AND GEN. HARRISON.


The cause of the administration must be des-
,,erate indeed when MIR. Grundy can descend to
make the declarations contained in his speech
delivered before the ofice-holders caucus, as
renorted in the Globe of yesterday. He is re-
,oorted to have said of the central committee at
Cincinnati =
"Mr. Burke, the Postmaster at Cincinnati, IS
here. and intend before we leave this place. TO
81 him 10 state whether this committee does not
,ooplarlv attend their candidate to the post OF
ce when he goes for letters, TO see that ne gets
none that are not such as they are Wiling tha'
he should receive" eThey open all his letters
Co. him Continued Mr. Grundy) ard when there
is nothing to be said in reply they answer them;
5boupb when there is they will not answer them
at ALL"
Now we would have the intelligent reader note
the pbraseology which we have quoted.
g Mr.. Burke, the Postmaster at Cincinnati, Is
here and intend before ace lsare this place, to
asl, him to state whether this committee does not
regularly attend their candidate to the post
office, Sc"
The purpose of this declaration was to charge
that Gen. Harrison was thus attended, for says
Mr.. Grundy-
g They have shut him up Il will not say in a
care, but he might as well be in one) and Will
not let him have the use ofpen, ink and paper,
while his conscience-keepers say that he shall
neither speak, nor write, and they will do 1t Tor
him"
Now, note the language. If the statement had
been true, or if Mr.. Grundy had believed 1t to-
be true, he would have made the inquiry OF MIR
Burke, and would have, if true, made the charge
direct, but he knew that the statement was
untrue, and he therefore preferred to insinuate
the falsehood
Nine tenths of those readers of the Globe who
have any confidence in Mr. Grundy's veracity,
will believe that he has asserted that the fact is
So While he has carefully so guarded his Ian
suage, that instead Of becoming responsible for
he calumny which he thus puts aAoat, he can
compromise with his conscience by saying 81
did not make the charge. All that said was,
that would ask Mr.. Burke if it was So"
1t is not so, MIR. Grundy, and you know it was
not so,-and we are grieved to find that a man
of your elevated station in society-one whose
hairs are blossoming for the grave, should so fan
forget what is due to the position you occupy as
t. perpetrate so vile calumny. There is some
thing degrading in the manner in which it is
propagated Doeter Duncan would have made
the open declaration. He would have suited his
words to the charge intended to be made but
you prefer to do by insinuation what he would
have done directly. You are equally guilty,
and your insinuation deserves to be denounced
no less than direct falsehood.
But you draw contrast between Gen. Hari
son and Gen. jackson, and say
tIt was different in old times, when Andrew
jackson was put up for the Presidency. won
der if any man, or set of men, opened and an
swered his letters for him.
Here again you assume the inuendo to suggest
falsehood. You would have thepublic to believe
that the Central Com. atCincinnati, were appoin
ted for the purpose of opening s answering letter:
addressed to Gen. Harrison, and that no such
committee as that at Cincinnati had been organ
ised by the friends of Gen. jackson, while he
was a candidate. You insinuate also, that
Gen. Harrison is prevented by his committee,
from opening and reading letters addressed to
him, while Gen. jackson opened, read, and an
SWered all letters addressed 10 MIN, upon tne
subject of the Presidential election.
We have already demonstrated from the
tenor ofyour remarks, that the charge which
you wished to insinuate untrue, and that
therefore you said that you would thereafter ask
Mr.. Burke if it was not so instead of saying that
you had ashed him, and that it was so. If that
chargeis admitted to be untrue, it follows that
the insinuaton that the committee was appoin-
ted for that purpose is equally So
But your insinuation goes farther, and would
deny the appointment of such committee by
the friends of Gen. jackson You seem to have
forgotten the record. We have before us, letter
of the tsNashville Committee and signed by
JNO. OvERToN, Chairman.
r. G. FOSTER, DANI.. GRAHAM.
r. WHITE, JESSE WHARTON.
JOHN CATION, ISAIAH MICHOI..
G. w. CAMPBELL, EDWARD WARD,
TIL. CLAIBORN, WIN. B. LEWIS,
F. x. ROBERTSON, VIM. L. BISHOP,
in. PHILIPS, WIN. WHITE,
JNO. SELBY, ALFRED BALCH.
DANIEL GRAHAM, Sec'y.
Such are the facts. And is it not melanchol,
to think that such declarations could be made b,
YOU upon such facts?
Many vxe 1t 4 loss to know for what purpos
the caucus 81 which you bore SO prominent a part
assembled n ibis city. That object is now man
fest. 1t was to SANDER Gen Harrison, and 20
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