The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-19
FROM AN OLD SOLDIER.

may find its way to the public and write on the
subject of politics. to aid in refuting some of the
many ISLANDERS and falsehoods, that, being heap
ed on one of the bsst men that God ever made.
deem it my duty, so far as my influence ex-
tends, to aid in refuting any ISLANDERS that may
be circulated against the man to whom | allude.
| believe it to be the duty CT every good man to
to try to Gtadeceice those who may have been
imposed on by the enemies of the men who have
spent their earliest and best days in defence ofour
country and hope many of the witnesses who
are yet living may take part in defending the
reputation of man who Ito those who know
| him. could never beinjured by any slanderer.
| OF course allude to the ISLANDERS against Gene
raj Harrison, by the hireling presses which con-
stantly TEEN with abuse against him. | am one
| Of General Harrison's old soldiers. was under
him in General tayas5s ain; in 1874 und par
ticipated in the battle at the foot of the Maui
NEE Rapids Doth August of that year. was
also with him at the seige Of Fort Meigs, during
the late war, and k1loso that instead of being
coward and a tory, as his enemies asert, he is
| one Of the BrapeSt men that e0eT IjUed l know
this from having seen him in situations well
calculated to Try the valor of any man, and Gen.
Harrison always proved himself to be prudent,
wise and brave. / have seen a paper, calling
itself the Jackson Democrat in which it is as
terted that 20 dogs are superior in war to 1000
men! Such declaration is unworthy contra
diction but the object of the editor of that print
| is to bring disgrace on all the soldiers Of the
country in order to sink Gen. Harrison in the eS-
timation of the public. But !, as an old soldier,
am not willing that any man calling himself a
Jackson Democrat should publish such SANDER
on American bravery, without being marked as
an enemy to the brave and chivalrous men who
| fought our country's battle in times that tried
mems souls. Gen. Jackson, himself, would
scom any man who would utter snch senti-
ment. Gen. jackson is too noble a man not to
! despise any slanderous abuse of the American
soldiery. | am an original Jackson man, and
have right to speak with freedom on this sub
ject. | was one of the foremost and strongest in
support of the Hero of New Orleans-that sup
port was IN order to perpetuate the principles OF
republicanism for which | had fought In my
youthful days, and to render unto great ana
| good man, an evidence that republics are not UNI
grateful. l am now equally Jealous for the cleo
ton to the Presidency of Gen. Harrison am
aiding in support of the same principles upon
| which Gen. jackson was elected, and | hope
that all true Jackson men will rally with me IN
the support of the man of the people. Van Buren,
has been in Office nearly four years and, instead
of keeping the country in the same prosperous
condition it was when he was elected, every man
knows thathe has disgraced & ruined it. Instead
of full treasury, we find the treasury in debt to
| the amount Of millions. Instead of the people
being prosperous and happy universal distress
| pervades the whole country. Instead OF appro-
I IL.
had while Jackson President, we find appro-
/ priations refused, because Van Buren, and his Of
| fcers have squandered the public monies, and
| are Opposed to western interests Instead OF
the soldier being honored for periing his life for
the liberties of the country, was heretofore the
case, we find Van Buren's underlings slandering
the bravest and best men of the country, and as
sorting that 20 dogs can do more in the Florida
war than 1000 nten!! feel indignant that the
| time -honored name of Jackson should ever be
desecrated to the foul purpose of giving charac-
ter to the ISLANDERS of those who have served their
country so long and faithfully as Jackson, Harri-
son and their soldiers. Why do not these Van
Buree, loco-foco federalists stick the name of
Van Buren, up as their sign Why do they pre-
tend to Jackson democracy, and run counter to
all its precepts The reason is plain They
feel and kHoto that VaSs Buren, never did an act
in his life to entitie him to the esteem of the
| American people they know, too, that he was,
at best, but an eleventh hour Jackson man, and
they are ashamed to fight under his colors; They
keep his name behind the curtain, usual; and,
by CRYING efJaclcSoqe, Jackson, Jdckson,o expect
to elect their little dandy federaist. In this the
Van Buren, party calculate too much upon the ig-
gaorance ofthe people. The fact is, if the Van
ties were not really ashamed OF their Chief they
would have some one newspaper called utter
him; but no! they dare not own his name-it is
odious to the peoJsfe, and they kls0tc it.
The friends OF jackson, when he was a candi-
date, did not have to hide him benind some great
man. They were proud of him, and heralded
his name to the world, and gloried in the support
/ of such a man. The same is now the case with
the friends of General Harrison. They are
proud that at this important crisis in the history
of our country, they have such a man to place m
power They have tried him often, and know
him to be true. His name is not hid behind
that of some other man. 1t is no disgrace to call
newspaper sThe Harrisonian' or sThe Harm
son Banner or the sTippecanoe Banner or
any name that associates with the bravery and
goodness of Gen. Harrison. His friends are all
proud of him, notwithstanding the abuse which
the puny malice of loco-foco federalism has
made on him.
| If / had been Van Buren, man, and found
that the whole party were ashamed of him,
| would have known that that circumstance alone
was evidence that aIe has no merits, (without
ether evidence, of which there is abundance,)
and would have abandoned hiRa.
l am now 81 years of age, and must say that
never before felt the same interest in any cleo
ton that l now feel for the election,ef General
Harrison In the days of the Revolution,
Washington was the only man that could deliver
our country from the expressions of a powerful
| and corrupt aristocracy; and believe that now
Harrison is the only man who can deliver us
from the evils inflicted by an aristocraey in our
own country more dangerous, because protesting
/ friendship than that which was hunlbIed by the
people, aided by the bravery of Washington.
4 my health will permit will attend the gather
| ings of the people at Tippecanoe in May, and
at Fort Meigs in June, and hope that many of
the old soldiers of Harrison and Wayne, will
meet me ON those battle fields where many of
| our friends poured out their blood in defence of
our common liberties, against the combined
forces of the British and Indians. We will these
i renew, ON holy ground, our allegiance to the
principles of liberty-those for which we battled
1 in days now gone by, when led to victory by our
venerable leaders, WAYNE and HARRIsoN We
win then unite in common denial of the base
ISLANDERS which have been heaped upon our brave
commanders, and ourselves, BY those whotry to