Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-06-25
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From the Wheeling Times--June 6.
THE GLOBE AND COL. CROGHAN

From the Wheeling Times-June 6.
THE GLOBE AND COL. CROGHAN.
The Globe on the Cd inst, with the characteristic
industry of Amos Kendall, continues the controver-
sy IN relation TO the Croghan Correspondence
We did believe, that, by publication on the 18th
OF Nsy we had set this subject altogether at rest
The Globe, however, has seen that number Of our
paper, and yet asserts that do not touch upon
the main point In The controversy. The main point
Is this, g Whether General Harrison's conduct to-
wards Colonel Croghan, in relation the affair at
Fort Stephenson, was anything but that of gal.
liant officer or great General" Did we not touch
upon that point did We publish that correspon-
dence SO far either party, Croghan or Harrison
for both can could publish IT, have thong ht pro-
per to make il public 2 If, however, the Globe
wants more OF that correspondence here is the pub
nc address OF the officers ofh army, among whom
is Croghan, in relation TO il.
Owe refer the pablo to the Generals official re-
por, TO the Secretary of War of Major Croghan's
successful defence OF Lower Sandusky. In that
Will be found a statement of our whole dsposabe
force, and be who believes, that with such force
under the circumstances which then occurred, Ge-
neral Harrison ought TO have advanced upon the
enemy must be left to correct his opinion in the
school of experience. On review of the course
then adopted We are decidedly Of the opinion, that
il was such as was dictated by military wisdom and
BY due regard to our own circumstances and to
the situstion of the enemy. The reasons for this
opinion it is evidently improper TO give but we
hold ourselves ready, future period. and when
other circumstances shall have inlervened TO salts
ty every man of its correctness who 10 anxious to
investigate and willing to receive the truth And
with ready acquiescence, beyond the mere claims
OF military duty, we are prepared to obey General,
whose measures meet most deliberate approba-
| ton, and merit that Of bis country.
LEWIS CAss, Brig Gen. U. S. A.
SAMUEL WELLS, Col. IL r. U. S. L.
THos. d. OwISes, Col. % r. u S. T.
GEORGE PAUL, Col. 81 X. U. S. L.
J. c. BARTLETT. Col. and @. NJ. &.
JAMES v. BALL Lieut.. Col
ROBERT MORRISON, Lieut.. Col.
GEORGE ToDD, Mej. l9 X. U. S. l.
WILLIAM TRieG, Maj % Il. U. S. I.
JAMES SMILEY, Maj. 23 X. U. ST..
RICHARD GRAHAM, Maj. IL r. U. S. I.
GEORGE CRoGHAN, Maj. IL X. U. S. /.
l.. HuKILL, Major.
L. D, WooD, Maj. Engineers"
When the letter presented to Col Croghan
b. the Committee, he referred in conversation par
ticuarly to these addresses. Said he, " gentlemen
have expressed my opinion fully in letters and adj
dresses, published at the time, and what can say
morei have no desire or intention to any
thing there said. As the story OF the petcoat,
it is poor base and contemplate SANDER to mo-
| tice." These or very nearly these words were his,
| in the hearing of the members of the committee,
aad in his letter he says: he conceiyes it would
be unbecoming in him public officer, to do or
say any thing that may effect the present political
CONTEST Does that sufficiently settle the
question. Col. Croghan received his sword from
the ladies Of Chilicothe, and at the same time as
Alien asserted, who the originator of the petit
coat story, the iadies Of Chilicothe presented Ge-
neral Harrison with petticoat. Colonel Croahan
must have known il, il such thing had trans pred
nd ha ,ba .la L.. 4
| contemplate 10 be worthy of answer. We there
fore consider the main question at rest Our fur.
Their duty consists in the Wind cation Of Colonel
Croghan from the aspersions of the Globe. We in
ferfed from the appearance OF the notice of the
respondence in the Globe, that the letter Of Colonel
Crosh had been opened. either in this office or
Cincinnati, and proved that such have been
the case unless Col. Crogan had himself furnished
the copy. The Globe in reply holds the following
language:
:" We proclaim the gross imputation involving
the public officers in the post Office Wheeling and
Cincinnati an utterly groundless SANDER Wcdid
not receive our information fLom any concerned
with the post Office establishment. They were ALL
doubtless as ignorant of the correspondence which
passed between the Harrison Committee and Col
Croghan as that committee would have kept all the
world Did il follow that, because the committee
handed their inquirng letter TO Colonel Croghan
privately" the Colonel was bound TO consider
pirate questions pressed on him about public
transaction OF great Importance TO the country al
this moment, and that he was bound to play out the
game of secrecy for the committee. Col Croghan
probably does not consider the system of conceal.
ment the Part of General Harrison and his friends
as one which an honorable and frank soldier is
bound to practise upon"
This IL directly imputing 10 Colonel Croehan the
violation OF what he lays down his duty take
no part that may affect the approaching contest"
The Globe make us believe that Croehan
has stated he would do one thing, and the very mo-
ment does another, is imputed to him by the
Globe. He is too much man of honor, as we be-
lieve, though he be supporter of The present add
mnistration. Moreover, Col. Croghan showed the
committee bundle OF at least fifty letters thar had
been addressed to him by committees and individu-
ais of both parties the same subject. and which
he had given similar replies. Is il probabl, that
Col. Croghan would have selected the letter Of This
committee out of the whole number TO dispatch to
the GLOBE for pubhcaiioni The charge made by |
the Globe against Col oghan is, that he is in
cert with the Globe Editors, and that he will not
answer the questions asked but despatch the infor
nation that they have been asked to a political |
sheet that it may be published, and leave the peo
pie to infer the worst place the worst possible
construction upon his silence The Globe may think |
ths honesty but il is such conduct as few of the
officers Of the army can, with mpunity be charged
with. We exposed fully the gross nature of the
charges in the Globe of the 2sth of May, in last
aud we think this charge equally gross. The Globe
in both instances, seems determined sacrifice the
honor Of Col Croghan, to preserve that OF the te-
deral officers here.
Correspondence Of the Weekly Pilot.
WAsHISGToS, June 8, 1910.
The resignation Of the "heaven.6orn' has occa-