The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-18
no Tr1E HON. FELIX GRUNDY.

where persons ha wing business with the othce
will please call.
TO THE HON. FELIX GRUNDY.
Among the most painful duties that have de-
volved on me, in the course of life filled with |
trying incidents, is the necessity in which | am
placed to hold you up to the country and to poster
ity as a calumniator.
In your speech delivered before the federal
caucus in this city, you say that his friends will
not let Gen1. Harrison have the use of pen, ink
and paper, and that you will ask Mr.. Burke to
state whether the Cincinnati Committee does not
regularly attend their candidate to the Post office
when he goes for letters to see that he gets none
that are not such as they are willing that he
should receive.
Knowing Mr.. Burke to be an ardent partisan
ofthe present administration, and that he mingled
without reserve in political conversations did
not know how far he might have committed
himself in his conversations with you, my
reliance therefore was more on the people
of Cincinnati, who would have been called
upon to vindicate GenH Harrison against your
calumny, in case he had endorsed it, than on Mr..
Burke, when l addressed to that gentleman the
letter which you will find below.
In saying this, I mean not to disparage MIR.
Burke, further than as he is impeached by permit
ting you to avouch his name as the author of
deliberate ealumny. / speak of him to show to
you and to the world that although your own
witness stood silent, and, as far as he could by
negative endorsement, verified your statement,
was not afraid to put even him to the test, con fl
IDENTIFY believing that your statement would recoil
ON its author.
/ am now enabled to say that upon reading my
letter, Mr. Burke said that you had no authority
to refer to him; that you had done wrong in doing
so, and that you must correct your statement.
That so far from the Cincinnati Committee at
iaading Gen'. Harrison to the Post Office, and
sPening his letters, before they are permitted to
pass into his hands. General Harrison receives
his letters as other gentlemen do sometimes by
the hand of friend, sometimes himself, and
sometimes by servant and that so far from
his being attended by committee, as you assert,
he knows nothing of any such committee except
what he has seen in the papers, and that they |
have never, in a single instance, attended him
TO the Post office as you represent.
Here then you convicted by the mouth of
your own witness and you must stand before
the world as prostitutiDg your high character and
your official station, to bolster up the cause of
corrupt administration by means unworthy of a
petty bar room politician.
There is but one consolation in this painful
exhibition. 1t is a proof of the desperation of Z
your party, and gives evidence that the DAYS of
this proaigate administration are numbered.
You may say that you will not condescend to
notice this exposure silence is your best defence
Your effort to serve your party will recoil upon
them, and they in the bitterness of their mortif-
cation, will curse you, not for the statement you
have made but for doing it in such manner as
hat it was so clearly proved to be untrue, and up
IN your head, will be gathered the anathemas of
disappointed avarice and defeated ambition.
That you may have further foretaste of what
$ to follow, copy from letter just received
rom one of the Committee, dated Cincinnati It'll
Nay 1S4O u
&C | have Just heard that Grundy abused Gen1 ~
harrison imbecile, weak old man sc. una
lie to take his letters cut of the Office, which al
vas done for him by his committee--and for the O,
ruth of this appealed to our Postmaster, Judge Q
'urke. Is this true, The lie is too barefaced nj
do harm here---its publication scu do good.o q
% the Rec. Mr.. Burke.
SIR:-The Hon. Felix Grundy is reported by Ii
he Globe, in a speech before the Convention u
ately assembled in this city, to have said: n
'sBut to return the Ohio and the city of
Cincinnati The wings there have a candidate whom =
they want to make President, and of whom four years
ago very little heard but within the last few months
no mortal man has ever grown vastly as he. From
plain honest clerk ola county court who nterered with
nobody and with whom nobody intenered he has grown
u be astonishing great destined in their opinions
TO carry all before him. But, notvtstand ing ali fs
no one can, by possibility, his opinions on
any Of the great questions interesting the country
OBTAIN any information IN regard 30 him. by which they
can me azure his fitness and Capacity for HIGH station
TO winch he aspires. What bs7e his friends done in
Js :, s 70 T NM why aey won'tet him be measured
80 Ia ny nav shut him up, Il will say in a cage,
i.s.- snt as well be in one,) and will not let him
the use OF pen, ink and paper, whehis conscience
Keepers say That he shall neither speak write, and
they VIII not DO II for him. Now ask this Convention,
SOBER rejecting men if this is the way to make the
President for the people of the United States? wan
& 10 push this matter a little further.
aMr Burke, the postmaster Cincinnati is here and
intend before we leave this place. to ask him to state
whether this committee does not regularly attend their
Candidate 10 the post Office, when he goes for letters to
sae that he gets that such as thew are will
inc that he should receive. II is true that there are
osnv vaes in this country, and that them may
his Wing advisers may wish TO save him the mortihca
sion NJ reading them, they may wish 10 postage,
which is always refunded on returning such letters
she most Office But they open all his letters for him,
and where there nothing TO be said in reply, they
swer them; though when there is, they win not
hem at ALL Now, this is the way in which they want