Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1840-06-11
MR. CRuNDy's SPEECH AT BALTIMORE

MR. CRUNDY'S SPEECH AT BALTIMORE.
Mr. Felix Grundy, Senator ofthe United States
from Tennessee, and late Attorney General OF
ahs United States, was present al the recent ' an
Buren Convention at Baltimore. and is represen,
ted by the Globe to have made the following re-
marks respecting Gen. Harrison:
..Thev have shut him np," said he, "l will
at sav in a cage, but he might well be IN
on,. and will not 1T him have the use OF pen, INK
and PAPER while his conscience Keepers say that
\. shall neither speak nor write, and they Will
-, a. IL for him. Now as, this Convention, as
sober rejecting men, if this is the way to make
4 President for the people OF the United states
want to push this matter little further. mr..
h,yke The Post Master at Cincinnati is here, aud
: intend before leave this place, to ask him to
.t.tr ,vhet Their this committee does not regularly
.ttend their candidate to the Post Office, when
h.aoes for letters to see that he gets none that
are not such as they are willing that he should
receive 1t IS true, that there are many wags
IN this country and that some OF them may proba-
b,v write hoaxng letters to the old gentleman I;
And his Wing advisers may wish to save HIM the
,nnrt;6cation Of reading them, as they may wish to
Ave nostare, az the postage is alwtys refunded
an returning such letters to the post Office. But
,h.v omen all his letters for him; and where there
:. nothing to be said in reply, they answer them,
though when there is. they will not answer
shem at ALL
These absurd charges and insinuations have
Aesn brought home to their authoS by Mr. Duff
Green. editor of the Baltimore Pilot, who address
cd note to Mr.. Burke, the postmaster alluded
N. before he left the city, and was Informed in
reply, that MIR Grundys statements were not on
+, wholly unauthorized b. him, but were entirely
fsise and sroundless
Duff Green thereupon addressed long letter
90 Mr. Grundy. in relation to this matter, through
the Medium of the Pilot, in which he talks to
,h;a eminent Loco Foco as follows;
u, am now enabled to say that upon reading my
,.,ter Mr. Burke said that you had authority
q refer 10 him; that you had done Drong in doing
an and that you must correct your stntement.-
Th.t 40 far from the Cincinnati committee atten-
i;no Gen.l. Harrison to the Post Office, and
.psning his letters. before they, are permitted to
rss into his hands. General Harrison reeeires
liz letters as other gentlemen do' sometimes oy the
hand of friend, sometimes himself and some
,,,nes by servant; that far from his being
attended by a committee. as you assert, he knoWs
.otkine of anu such committee except what he has
sssr in the papers, and that they haze never, n
,;nrie instance, attended him to the Post office as
you represent.
your own witness: and you must sand before the
world as prosti.u'ing your high character and
YOUR official station. 10 bolster up the cause of
corrupt administration by means unworthy of a
petty bar-room politician
There is but one consoiaton in this painful ex-
h;bition, II is a proof of the desperation of your
marty. and gives evidence that the days OF this
ey.a,eate administration numbered.
The Cincinnati papers state that Mr. Burke,
the Postmaster of that city, is a minister of the
gospel. and a person highly respected in all the
vsiks of life. "What will Mrs. Grundy say!'