Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1840-07-21
- From hs Ai6dHy Gal Ga-sre.
MOST OUTRAGEOUS -SuAD-

Some weeks go the editor OF the Louisville AID
veri r asserted upon the ailedgCd authority of an
4 through tns columns, that I, n thousand
n ~ C., bearing Harmon bai-es, ~ ere d, esent at
tie 7 cent haTrsol conye. ZION up m he TIppcca-
noe blttle fround. adding that It was well urdeI-
s God At the convention that the expenses Of thcs,
negroes were betrayed by abolition societies favor
able 90 General Harrison.
The editor of this paIer was absent from tho
co lntry = hen this publication OF he-AdveIi o. 1p-
peared. anu very recently, for the first time, a1
meet our eve. Having attended that convention
a a delegate, aud having industIio sly cnca.td. 10
col .ect muterIats for ItsdescTiptIon, we knew II t.
b false IN every particular - as foundation,t.s a Ic
as . arJy oflrontery ever fal ricated.
The annexed re pectiul letter was, accordingly,
p cpar,d y a Il enber of the delegation and hand
ed IN ncrson, bv one of the de eS ties TO MIR. Penn
the editor of the Advertiser;
NEw ALRASv, la. July I'd, Isi1.
To tae Edl"r Of the Louisville Advertiser:
GentIrmcn;-Ne nave lead with establishment
il your parer OF the 2Ogh Juue last an article head
Ell Looking Out" in when you say: I'VE have
cDnveiscd with a gentleman who resides adjacent
to the TIppec moe battle ground, and who was
there Al the celebration, acd we lcatu from him
MT only the fact thar all the whiS accounts of tn,
number present on 'hai occasion was grossly ex.
asgsTatc winch, OF course, was TO be expected
but that they have SUD- essed the important fac
thai there was Il bJdy Of a. least one thousand he
grJcs IN attendance decorated with Harnson bad
yes and headed by five negro delegates iroUa Tea
We had intended addressing you a note m relation
to this matte shortly after tie pu1hc-ton OF ur
aztec, but have not done so IN account oil the az
sence of some IF the undersigned. We would now,
however, respectfully request the name of the gen
tie nan upon " hose authority YOU have mad the
above 4 stomeni; for berg delegates from Floyd
county. } attendance at the Ilppecanoe Bate
GrOun 2 60 ,veouon, and fee ing that, not only The
c Iaracter OF our ire ,ds, but our own reputation foI
I lnth IsInvOiyed IN ibis matter, EIDE EN- 4 but jus
tlce that we should know the nau!e Of ia gentleman
whose IN have eonAicted with our own "a.
regard TO the conyentIoI. In a late ndmber Of yOuI
piper you admit ih3t you may have been imposed
upon. Ii this be the fact, Won, as we'll as ourselves,
II we an .nierest IN bringing your Informant before
the public, and exposing ban as a nlaa devoid o.
fTufns Hv gDmnItlnw with ttP above TIQufst al a
ear j a period as possible. you wall IN Ich oDlgs.
ou-s r sptciiully,
PETER TELLON,
W.. RANDOLPH,
II. WILKINSON.
J. p. II THORNTON,
T. II. NANCE,
T, J.. BARTLETr,
CHAS. A.. TYLER.
WILLIAM ! REDMAN.
To his letter the response of thai q diior was an
INCIDENT refusal to tIscios sc the name Of the author
s.. as We learn, to set the puihc mind right IN ref
gated
Comment upon such conduct is unnecessary
honest men, OF fall parties, will sugscs, their own.
ne have hut 10 request a general republication of
the iacts contained IN this article by every Whic
Press be'ng comment that all upright adinlnlstrauon
eliors, Who 5aye aided IN tho ere atIonl Of the
iilsehood' will lose notice in publishing ITS Contra.
The next certificate from The Floyd county dele
shilon TO the Iippecanoe Convent ton will be con-
GuTred IN by every man who was present upon
the ground. The editor of the Advertiser u dehed
u cite = witness " no will contradict II:
We, tho Undersigned, delegates u the TippecanOc
L ,HnreEtIgn from Floyd cOdnty, pronounce the stale
medt =. ode by the Louisville Advertiser IN reference
10 the atteu- '"nce ofnesroes upon that Convention,
10 be fsI.. i'm nvn,, ~sTtiCular.
HENRY 2. THORNTON,
PETER TELLON.
w. J. RANDOLPH;
CHARLES A TYLER,
ID. WILKINSON. 4
Up. III. THORNTON,
r. " NANCE,
VIM, J. REDMdN.
THEO. }. BARNETT.