The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-03-14
Correspondence of the Madisonian.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 4, 1910.


Thomas Allen, Esq
Dear Sir AN article in the Globe" of February
9Th, entitled J" Federal Convention in Ohio" has
induced me 10 put you and your readers in posses
sion of the following facts The substance of that
article is taken from the Ohio Statesman, the Lo-
co-toco organ in this city.
The editor Of wallpaper, (who is also State prin-
ter and has as great an adherence Of the truth as
The editor Of the Globe previous to the assembling
of the Convention, procured the name OF every
Wing lawyer o6fceAolder, banker, merchant, &C. in
each county In this State. He even went so lar as
to procure the name Of every justice Of peace who
happened to be Wing. II is we'll understood here,
that the principal clerk IN tie post oce Of this place.,
who receives salary of twelve hundred dollars per
annum, was very efficient in aiding the editor Of The
Statesman in procuring the names and preparing the
list On the evening Of the Odd, the names thus OBJ
tained published without any regard 10 the TACT
whether the persons designated were delegates or
not. The list papaby false that the delegates
rushed TO the Statesman Office in order to procure
copies Of he paper The editor then discovered his
error and tearing that his falsehood might be used
the prejudice Of himself and party, suppressed the
paper and refused to furnish any additonaloolies-
He was offered quarter of dollar copy for 4
hundred, by gentleman in Chillicothe, and he re-
fused 10 supply them. He also offered, in seve-
raj instances, one dollar for single copy.
The delegates from many of the counties were Sc
lecled from the farmers mechanics and loborers and
every professional man. banker and office holder was
struck from the list. The editor Of the Statesman
was perfectly aware that his statement was false but
it was made under feelings of excitement, alarm,
and apprehension He adopted that course TO coun-
teract the influence which the Convention would ex-
ert. Neither he nor any other person could, BY any
possibility have obtained list of the delegates, or
Of any particular class of them, so as to have pub
lished il on the 22d The number OF men In this
city that day, according 10 the estimation OF the
best judges, at least fifteen thousand How would
it have been possible for any one to have obtained
list of the names Of half that number, on Of
any particular class of men among them
The editor OF the Statesman and his friends were
perfectly thunderstruck at the number OF men who
assembled here and at the fact that they almost
universally farmers, mechanics and iaborers They
saw men Of that class from the remolest corners Of
the State and they knew and fh too, that there must
be spirit and feeling at work among the people Of
Ohio, of which they had not dreamed to have brought
them together. They now aim TO destroy its effect
abroad (hey cannot do 1t al honey by misrepresen-
tation and falsehood II was the largest Convention
ever assembled in The United States for political pur-
poses and no falsehoods Of the Statesman or Globe
can change the fact.
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