Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-09-10

proper pIace-that every thing in rela-
lion to il is we'll understood and duly
appreciated. Can you join in any ex-
pressions Of this kind9 Surely you can
not; for YOU know too well what was
done on that frontier, and how much.im-
mediately around Sandusky, that has
never come to light. IL my services
have been duly appreciated, then truly
have been resting too contentedly up
on what have done; for no public ex-
preston, conveying an assurance of the
grateful sense in which my services are
held, has ever yet reached me. You
may say that received a sword from the
ladies' of ChiIicoihe, and that was also
breveted by the President: for the first
feel as soldier ought TO feel for gift
which he should prize as his life; as for
the latter, | regard it as thing Of no
value, and not TO be considered, for bre-
vets had been dealt out by the dozen,
and often times to those who had never
seen an enemy My name was once
before Congress for vote ofthanks, and
it was rejected as unworthy an express
sion of its appreciation. When was
thus SO flatteringly passed upon, was
Congress, in your opinion, informed Of
all that ! had done in the Northwest?
You will say that it was not. And when,
at very recent period, too, was COM
PEELED by my necessities 10 ask aplace,
and an unimporlant one, and found diff
culties and vexatons when had expected
every thing the reverse, bad not right
to believe that nv claims 10 preference
were considered but of the same rank
with those of every other applicant for
ofice2 The world knows that there was
arepulse of the enemy at Lower San
dusky, but what further does it know cal
culaled 10 enhance it above the most tri-
val affairs Of the war? Does il know
that disobeyed your orders TO abandon
the place, and that this disobedence saw
ed your army from precipitate retreat,
aud perhaps the whole frontier from The
incursiOns of savage foe2 A council
of your general and field officers decided
upon the proprety of falling back upon
Upper Sandusky; every arrangement
was made for precipitate retreat, and
the signal Of departure was to be given
at the moment ofmy joining. care not.
Your order was dsobeyed, and you were
thus saved from the Of a retro
grade step. The consequences Of the
repulse Of the enemy at Lower Sandus.
ky were, as you have long known, more
important than can be conceived by any
one unacquaintod with the topography of
the section Of country under view, and
the position Of the opposing forces. How
you would have Jared had been caplur-
cd, you can best mcclure; at all events,
it did appear that, at tho time, you be-
lieved the enemy more than a match for
you. And what would have been the
consequences Of your defeat9 A smok-
ing frontier OF more than five hundred
miles in extent. What saved the boats
and the immense stores concentrated at
Cleveland under the direction of Major,
now General Jesup2 What also prevent
ed a combined attack of land aud naval
forces upon the fleet of Commodore Per-
ry at Erie, at lime when its destruction
must have been Certan2 My disobedi-
ence of your orders-my subsequent de-
feat and repuse Of the enemy at Sandus.
ky. Gen. Proctor, on leaving Detroit in
July, 1918, had no other object in view
than the destruction of the fleet oil Com
modoro Perry at Erie, and Of The military
stores and boats at Cleveland. lie block.
aded Fort Meigs merely as cover to
his real intentions, and to afford him an
opportunity OF ascertaining what reinforce.
ments were marching out, that he might
be assured of the safety Of Detroit during
his absence. Satisfied OF this, he left
Fort Meigs with force of at least 5000
men indians included) in iurlherance of
the grand objects of the expedition. Ga
reaching tho point of crossing, at the en-
trance Of Sandusky bar, his Indian force
refused TO go further on the lake, without
first taking the scalps and punder at
Fort Sandusky. General Proctor, from
his own written statement, (now in your
hands,) unwillingly indulged them An
attack was made-it failed--and with
heavy loss. The Indians deserted TO
man, aud thus an expedition, originally
well planned, and fraught with deadly
consequences to our cause, was complcte-
ly defeated bya force of $50 men, of
whom nothing was expected, and for
whom nothing further in praise has been
offered than was extracted from McAfee's
History Of the War in the West.
Respectfully, G. CROGHAN.
Geo. w. II. Harrison,
Cincinnati Ohio