The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-09-04
From the Globe.
Jealousy, lngrati'Hde and Preacher!
Of Gen. Harrison.
From the Globe.

The instance Of cruel injustice committed by
HARKIsoN in throwing the pail Of his report over
the name of Col. John MILLER, who led wha
HARRIsoN and his friends now cali the most brill
liant sore in our military annals, WAS noticed IN
recent number Of our paper HARRISON, but q
few days before, had quarrelled with Col. MILLER
and has yet unappeased resentmen, was supposed
by Col. MILLER and his friends to have induced
the General to omit, in the first recital of the names
of the gallant officers who performed the glorious
Achievement that of the leader of The torlorn hope
to whose personal courage and slfu and iudicous
conduct ofthe action left entirely to his discretion
its success is attributable But the case of delib-
crate peridy, to which we would now invite uten-
ton, blighng the laure.s won by stripping in his
army, no temporary excitement can be sup
posed 10 lend the slightest mitigation. Cold sell
fshness, enduring for twenty years. character
ICES the yet unreparcd wrong. The injured Off
Ger was one who had volunteered before he reach
cd manhood, to serve Harrison in his Tippecanoc
campaign. On the bloody night of the surprise,
he acted as the aid Of Boyd the Commander Of
the fourth regiment; and all know and admit that
to the admirable skill and rmness with which this
body Of men were made like rampant to cover
the camp, and the broken militia Harrison and his
army owe their deivcranGc from total destruction.
The same young hero, whose voice and bearing,
amidst the darkness and dismay of lippecanoe, in
spired with inyincible courage the veterans to whom
he bore the orders of their Colonel, was cOnspicu-
Gus again in that glorious sortie at Fort Meigs,
which gave some light to the day which the butch
cry or captivity of the whole corps of kentucki-
ans under Colonel Dudley had conded with disas-
ter. Under Miller, he led company of forty men
10 the assault of the batteries, which were carried
And there he left his whole command, but four
teen men, who alone survived TO return with him
TO the fort But his greatest service was that at
Sandusky; and it was for this that the General re-
Quilted him with that arliully praclised wrong,
nh'h, from the noble nature of the injured part,
and the insdious hypocrisy of his cunning ADVERSE
ny, has, up to this hour, been shrouded in mystery
1t is our purpose to disSpate the obscurity, by
authentic and long suppressed documents
1t is proper to give brief view Of the state of
things, out of which the secret history which we
propose to open up, grew that the partially known
and the concealed facts may shed their light on each
other.
The reader should look to the map, and take
comprehensive view with a know ledge Of the de-
signs of both sides) of The scene Of action Of the
whole canprign, which the victory obtained by
Croghan At Snndusky gorously opened, and
which the battle fought by Col. johnson on the
Thames as brilliantly closed
Armstrong, the Secretary of War, had overruled
UtN VI INC llNdslOH VI NuIliUu
around the head of the lakes. His plan was to
obtain command of the lake by naval victory,
and carry our army inio Caunda by transports butt
for the purpose, The fleet to contend for the mas
terry with the English, was prepared near File, I'M
der Perry. The transports were built by Jesup, at
Cleveland, and Harrison, whose duty ii WAS to
eover with his force, these preparations, took post
at Seneru. Inc IaEc prnrs me- y BOW INTO uniu,
from Eiie in pennsy vania, to Snndusky bay
Slndusliy is at the western end of the Arch RE
at the eastern MISUNDERSTANDING is point on
the arch between the two. The British force was
on the opposite side Of the lake from Sandusky
bay. Harrison, with his army, was at Il consider
able distance from the bay, up the Sandnsky river
--Croghan at the post Of Lower Sandusky, being
shout nine mics nearer the bay. The object Of the
British was to destroy the preparations for inva-
sion on the lake shores, aud open the whole sweep
Of its arch in Ohio to the dcpredalions of the lndl-
ans supported by the British fleet and sustained by
the land forces us ralIying point in their incur
sions To relieve himself from Iarrison's force,
which he did not doubt would be employed to COW
or Cleveland Proctor made feint Of bcsicgng
Fort Megs second time. This, he supposed,
wonld withdraw Harrison from Seneca westward, |
TO succor Fort Meigs, and leave his designs upon
the boats and store. at Cleveland and the fleet at
Erie, unobstruc,ed. Harrison did not march to the
bay to Sandusty, in the prosecution of his real OBJ
ject. Harrison no sooner heard Of his approa"h
than he ordered Croghln 10 burn his fort and re-
treat, and he had all his own provisions and prep
aratons for the Canada campdi On piled for q con-
hagralon, and retreat into the interior as soon as
Croghan joined him. Proctor would thus have OBJ
tuned, from the fears of Harrison, what hi, fcn
on Fort Meigs was intended to effect, by provoking
his vaor, had not Croghan's courage disappointed
Proctor and saved Harrison. Armstrong, then Sec
rotary, thus sums up, in his notices of the war; the
conduct Of Harrison at this point of lime:
Having on the 10Th, sufficiently assured him
self with reg rd to the number and equipment of
Proror's force, and suspecing that this formidable
array might be directed against his own entrcnch-
ed camp at Seneca he at once determined 80 col
lect and destroy his surplus stores, abandon his
present position and make good retreat to Upper
Sandusky, leaving to the fate that might await
them, the settlements on the southern shore of the
Lake; the boats built aud stores collected at Ceve-
land; and Perry's fleet, then fitting on. and nearly
ready for service, at Pressure Isle But though
willing and prepared TO make these sacrifices he
could not but perceive that a mere presumption of
danger to his own camp, would not Justify the
abandonment of Croghan's detachment, without
some effort on his part, to extend to it the cyentu-
NJ security he sough, for himself On this point,
however, the Generals Of duty was soon
satisfied; forgetting alike the admoniliOn contained
ia his first order to Croghnn, not 10 ha.arda re-
treat in The face Of an Iq3idn Investments and
the fact now perfectly known TO himself that such
Investment did exist; he despatched to that officer
4 second order, for "ap immciigfe re',etr, nj
MI hazards; indicating the route by which he was
10 make it, but taking no step To c0rer. or other ,
wise sustain The Increment. And, as If the task :
hus imposed was not in Itself sufficiently merriam. /