The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-29

protesting to speak of facts, should be accomPa-
MED BY the name of the writer respectable
reference.
THE CINCINNATI COMMITTEE.
When Mr. Grundy so far forgot what was due
to his own character, and the elevated station he
occupies, as to introduce into the federal caucus,
the statement that the Cincinnati Committee
would not permit Gen. Harrison to use pen, ink
and paper, and that they regularly opened his
letters before they passed into his hands, we fore
saw that this falsehood was to constitute one OF
the chief engines of the federal canvas, and there
fore, in our letter to MIR. Burke, we nailed the
base counterfeit to the counter.
As we foresaw, and predicted, Mr. Amos Ken
dali has put his agents to work, and every nerve
is exerted to make the most political capital out
oft And accordingly, the Globe contains GER
tifcates to prove that Gen. Harrison has said,
that be does not know who the committee are,
and another letter from the committee, in which
they assume that in consequence of the numerous
letters addressed to Gen. Harrison, on the subject
of the Presidency, many, by persons disposed to
pcrvert and misrepresent whatever he may say,
he declines TO answer such interrogatories, and
refers all SUCH to his opinions heretofore publish
ed and recorded.
No man understands better than Amos Kendall,
how to get up dust and to make the most out
of nothing.-Gen. Harrison refuses TO crafty the
Impairment interrogatiyes, and refers to his
known opinions -instead of turning TO those
opinions as they on record, and showing
that they do no. meet the case, or that they are
unsatisfactory, Mr.. Kendall gets up clamor
about his refusing to answer, Now this IS not so.
Gen. Harrison does not refuse to answer any in
terrogatory which has been put to him in pro-
per manner, or by persons whose relations to the
Presidential question, and to him, are such as to
authorize them TO interogate him. So far from
this, he has answered all, and every enquiry in
these letters of the Cincinnati Committee, by re-
ferring all persons to his published opinions on
the very subjects which he is Intercepted,
and, which opinion, as published, he re-afir1ns,
by thus referring to them. More than this he
could not do. And this being done, he has done
every thing that he should do. 1t viii be time
enough for him to answer interrogatorics when
he shall be addressed by persons entitled to re-
ply on subjects connected with the election, and
on which his opinions have not been fully given
and placed on record.
With view to meet this very case, made an
arrangement with Col. Niles, the late editor of
Niles's Register, to compile from that work
short biographical sketch of Gen Harr;son's life,
and to embody in condensed for1n the official
notices of his public life, and such speeches and
letters as will enable those who seek for TRUTH to
ascertain what his opinions arc; ard especially
on the subject of the banks and abolition-the
very questions about which he has been so much
slandered, and about which it is pretended he
wishes TO conceal his opinions. Col Niles has
accomplished that task, and no man can read
these extracts from the history of the country
without being perfectly satisfied that Gen. Harri-
has already said all that is necessary he
should say on these subjects; and that KcndalPs
clamor in relation to the Cincinnati committee is
nothing more than attempt to divert public |
attention from the corrupt, Standardization of
the party in power, and place in the hand of the |
pensioned press and hired demagogues, an argu-
ment founded on the assumption of these false |
hoods, to keep the party rallied
The Text Book is for sale in this city, and in
Philadelphia, at the low rate of ten dollars per
hundred. The Harrison Association in Philade-
phia, have purchased five thousand for distribu-
ton; and the State Central Committee have
passed resolutions, recommending the Clubs and
Associations throughout the United States, to
adopt measures to have it placed in the reach of
every voter. It is stereotypcd, and any quantity
can be furnished 70 order.
But the price is so low, that the money must,
III all cases, be paid in advance; and it will be
necessary that Booksellers and Clubs and Asso-
Citations, who wish to purchase, should make
mttances through some merchant, in Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York, through whom the
copies could BE- furnished
Bu. that the regular sale and distribution may
Be, In some measure anticipated, Ipropose to pub
lish in sheet double the size Of the daily Pilot
the biographical sketch of Gen. Harrison, pre-
pared by Mr. Miles, illustrated by four wood cuts,
and other extracts from the Text Book, giving
his opinions on the subject Of the bank and Of
abolition; also his celebrated letter to Bolivar
making IN the sheet with The extracts, except SO
much as viii be necessarily occupied by my adj
dress to Mr.. Grslndy, and my letter to the Rev.
Mr. Burke, and short Biographical notice o
Amos Kendall, whose life Is full Ct incident, and
fruitful source for grave reelection. know
much Of my own knowledge, but win be indebt
ed to others for hints and suggestions, especiail,
npon the following heads; Early life; migration