The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-30
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THE TIPPECANOE TEXT BOOK.
THE KENTUCKY VIPER, &c.

GEN. GREEN,--I have read with emotions of
gratitude and delight the little work which you
have published under the above title, and when
say it has been written and compiled with
great taste and Judgment, pay but very mea-
gre compliment to the industry and talents of its
editor. And without intending to indulge IN any
extravaganza of commentator, must in truth
affirm, that it is better calculated to advance the
interests Of the cause Of Gen. Harrison, than any
thing which has appeared or been done, saving the
glorious Convention held by the young Wings
on the 9TH of May, instant, since the nominal
ton of the gallant old chief In it we not only
find the sure and unerring evidences of his supe-
rior fitness for civil government, but of his
transcendant talents as a military commander.
In reading its interesting and instructive pages,
have been so forcibly struck with the ample
proofs of his military genius, that when have
contrasted them with the malignant aspersions,
which sinister minds, for base party purposes,
have attempted to cast upon his fair fame, l
have felt myself at loss to determine how it is
possible for any american to be sunk so deep in
infamy-so lost to the impulses of honor and OF
patriotism, as to be capable of an act so mean as
that of attempting to rob an illustrious old gen
eral of laurels gained amidst privation
and danger In all times past, and in all
countries, hitherto, the reputation of the de-
tenders of the nation, have been held sacred,
and looked upon in reverence as the property of
the whole people But it has been reserved for
the myrmidons of Mr.: Van Buren's administra-
ton, from the ssThe Kentucky PIPER" that in
CRATE wretch, who stung the hand of his gener-
Gus benefactor, whose house sheltered him and
his family in the hour of his sickness and power
ty, to Felir Gru,ldy, to pervert all the attri-
butes of Justice, truth and gratitude, in their I'M
hallowed attempt to sustain Martin Van Buren,
in power. As you have convicted the ex-attor-
ney General in his vile effort, through Mr.
Burke, of Cincinnati, to present the hero Of Tip
pecanos to the American people as thing in
leading strings, shall not make any observa-
tons upon the unenviable Light, in which the
Postmaster of Cincinnati was placed, in the cha
racter of n,itte-eues-droHping aoitfess, farther
than to say, that it would have comported more
with the character of minister of the gospel,
had that gentleman done justice to himself,
while on the stand by rebulking Mr.. Grundy
for his impudent attempt to make him lie in his
throat. BY moralists, the suppression of the
truth, is considered equally as enormous as
bearing false testimony, and it affords but little
relief to the veracity of MIR. Burke, that the
falsehoods were uttered by MIR. Senator Grundy,
as he stood quietly by, while the latter pro-
pounded his questions in such phrase, as to i'm
press upon the Convention the idea that he spoke
by the card, and with the authority of Mr..
Burke. aH
For one, feel grateful to you, that you took
the manly and prompt step which you did, to
extort from MIR. Burke the testimony upon which
you so adroitly, so triumphantiy, fixed the
charges of fraud, deception and falsehood upon
the hon. Felir Grau,dy, who, from the date of
your exposition, must stand before the American
people as disgraced man,
I cannot conclude this notice Of your admir-
able Tert Book, without expressing the opinion
that it is fortunate for the honor and fame of
Gen. Harrison, that Niles Register exists, as
I find most of the documents and incidents, are
copied from that truly national work; nor is it
less fortunate, that the writing of his memoir
and the compilation of the documents, fell to
the lot of one so competent as Col. w. Ogden
Niles A few words more and shall be done.
g. To every Harrison man in the country,
| whether he be a member of Tippecanoe Club
or not, and to every Grub, would say procure
as many copies ofthe 1ippecanoe Isrt Book a