Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-09-10
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JEALOUSY, INGRATITUDE, AND
"TREACHERY OF GENERAL HAIR.
.. RISON.

JEALOUSY, INGRAIIIUDE, AND
"TREACHERY OF GENERAL HAIR
.. RISON.
The instance of cruel Injustice COM
mitted y HARRISON in throwing the pail
Ofhis report over the name of Col. JOHN
MILLER, who led, what Harrison and his
friends now call the most brilliant sor-
tie in our military annals, was noticed in
a recent number of our paper. Harri-
son, but few days before, had quarrel
led With Col. Miller, and his yet unap-
peaseS resentment was supposed by
Col. Miller and his friends to have in
duced the GeHeral to omit, in the first
recital of the ar2es of the gallant Off
GERS who performed The glorious achieve
ment, that of the leaG4cr OF the torlon
hope, to whose personal courage and
/ Ekilful and judicious conduct Ct the ac-
tion left entirely to his discretIC'r, lis
SUCCESS is attributable. But the casL' OF
deliberate perfdy, to which we woulG
kaoW invite attention, blighting the lau-
rels won by STRIPPING in his army, no
temporary excitement can be even sup
posed to lend the slightest mitigation.
Cold selfshness, enduring for twenty-six
years, characterizes the yet unrepaired
wrong. The injured officer was one who
Y bad volunteered before he reached man.
X hood, to serve Harrison in his Tippeca-
hoe 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 ad-
mirable skill and frmness with which
this body of men were made like a ram
part to cover the camp, and the broken
militia, Harrison and his army owe their
deliverance from total destruction. The
same young hero, whose voice and bear
ing, amidst the darkness and dismay of
Tippecanoe, inspired with invincible cou-
rage the veterans to whom he bore the
orders Of their Colonel, was conspicuous
again in that glorious sortie at Fort Meigs,
which gave some light to the day which
me butchery or captivity of the whole
corps of Kentuckians under Colonel
DUDLEY had clouded with disaster. Un-
der Miller, he led company of forty
men to the assault of the batteries, which
were carried. And there he left his
whOle command, but fourteen men, who
alone survived to return with him to the
fort. But his greatest service was that
lat Sandusky; and it was for this that the
General requitted him with that artfully
practised wrong, which, from the noble
mature of the injured party, and the in
lsidiOus hypocrisy of his cunning adversa-
Try, has, up to this hour, been shrouded
ln mystery. tits our purpose now to dis
Bipate the obscurity, by authentic and
sOng suppressed documents.
II proper to. give brief view of the
tate of things, out of which the secret
history which we propose to open up,
rev, that the partially known and the
Oncealed facts may shed their light on
ach other.
~ The reader should look to. the map,
C6Rd take a comprehensive view with
kowledge Of the design Of both sides) Of
Il 3 scene of action Of the whole cam
pign, which the victory obtained by
OkOeHAN at Sandusky so gloriously open
ed and which the battle fought by Col.
JOHNSON on the Thames, as brilliantly
closed.
ARMSTRONG, the Secretary of War, had
pverruled Harrison's idea of carrying the
INVASION Of Canada aronnd the head Of
he lakes. His plan was to obtain com
pand of the lake by naval victory, and
larry our army into Canada by transports
|uilt for the purpose. The feet to con.
lend for the mastery with the English
vas prepared near Erie, under PERRH.-
Ehe transports were built by JEsUP, al
feveland, and Harrison. whose duty il
las to cover, with his force, these pre-
nations, took post at Seneca. The lake
ands like bow into Ohio, from Erie
Pennsylvania, to Sandusky bay. San
sky rs at the western end Of the arch
RE at the eastern extremity-C -Cleve
and is point on the arch between the
Two. The British force was on the op
pOsite side Of the lake from Sandusky
abay. Harrison, with his army, was at /
transferable distance from the bay, III
HE Sandusky river-Crogban at the DOS
{ Lower Sandusky,, being about nine
niies nearer the bay. The object Of the