Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-06-02
MIR GRUNDY's SPEECH AT BALTI.
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Mr.. Felix GruBdy. senator OF the L States
from Tennessee, and late Attorney General
Of The United States. was present at the recent
' an Buren, Convention at Baltimore. and is
represented BY the Globe to have made the
following remarks respecting Gen. Harrison:
They have shut him mp" said he, ~ will
not say in a cage, hut he nigh, as well DO in
one. and will not let him have the use Of pen,
ink and paper, while his confidence keepers
say that he shall neither speak nor write, and
they will not do II for him. Now | ask this
Convention, as sober, rejecting men, if this
IS the way TO make a President for the Peo-
pie of the United. States. want 10 push
this matter a little further. Mr.. Burke, the
Postmaster at Cincinnati Is here, and ] intend
before leave this place, 10 ask him TO state
whether this committee does not regularly
attend their candidate to the Post Office, when
he goes for letters, to see that be gets none
that are not such as they are willing that he
should receive. Ii is true, that there are
many wags in this country, and that some of
them may probably write hoaXiug letters TO
the old gentleman. and his Wing advisers
may wish TO save him the modification oil
reading them, as they may wish to save post
age, as the postage is always refunded on
returning such letters to the post Office. But
they open all his letters for him: and where
there is nothing 10 be said in reply, they ans
wer them, though when there is, they will not
answer them at all"
These absurd charges and insinyations
have been brought home to their author by
Mr.. Duff Green, editor of the Baltimore Pilot,
who addressed a note to Mr., Burke, the
Postmaster alluded to, before he left the city,
and was informed in reply, that Mr.. Grundy's
were not only wholly unauihor-
ised by him, but were entirely false and
groundless.
Duff Green ihereupon addressed a long
letter to Mr.. Grundy, in relation TO this mat
ter, through the medium of the Pilot, in which
he talks to this eminent Locofoco as follows:
81 am now enabled to say that upon rea-
ding my letter, Mr.. Burke said that you had
no authority to refer TO him; that you had
done mrong in doing so, and that you must
correct your statement. That SO far from the
Cincinnati Committed attending Gen. Harri-
son to the Post Office, and opening bis let
tiers, before they are permitted to pass into his
hands, General Harrison receives his letters a.
other Gentlemen do; sometimes by the hanc
of a friend, sometimes himself, and sometime:
by a servant; and that so far from his beinl
attended by a committee, as you assert, ht
knops nothing Of any such committee excep
what he has seen in the papers, and that Mel
hare ncCcr in a single instance, attended nm
10 The Office as you represent.
Here then you are convicted by the moutl
ofyour own witness; and you must stand be
fore the world as prostituting your high char
acter and your official station, to bolster M
the cause ola corrupt administrator by means
unworthy ola petty bar-room politician.
There is but one consolation in this painful
exhibition. 1t is a proof of the desperation o
your party, and gives evidence that the day
of this pro0iga,e administration are numbered
The Cincinnati papers state that Mr.. Burke
the postmaster Of that city, is a minister O
the Gospel, and a person highly respected i
all the walks of life. what viH Mrs. Grun
day say