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

| 0AOuAN OC HlthuGlu d5 WOuiu teDu L0e Iu
ther to increase the reputation of the a
fair. Secondly: When | heard for NOR
than two years, officers declare that yo
were inimical 10 me, lat the same tim
giving instances in proof) book appear
ed in Kentucky, highly corrobOrative Q
these declarations, for in this book To-
which it is said you had passed your aI
probation whilst yet in manuscript
statement is given of the affair of Sandua
ky, calculated most completely to LESSEE
its reputation in the opinion Of the pub
lie. Lastly-when in degree exaspera
ted at the false coloring given TO the al
fair of Sandusky, in the book above refer
red to, while revolving in nv mind con
lecture of the real state of your feeling:
towards me, accidentally met with
stranger who recited to me conversation
he had recently held with you, that places
the fact of your hostility beyond a ques
ton. The conversation here alluded tC
was expressed at length in my last letter
and to it might have added another fact
which had IFS place in the chain of con
nection that you presented TO this stran
ger-McAfee's history | may say
vouched for its correctness, as it was Civ.
en- TO him after he had avOwed his inten-
tion of writing an account of the war.
might here relate many other facts of like
importance in this chain of singular coin.
cidents; but deem it will readily appear
from those | have already stated, that
was slow to believe you capable of i'm
proper feeling. and that the warmth Of
which you complain was the consequence
OF unwillingness on my part to trouble
you with a recital of the various reports
had heard, until at last they assumed SC
positive a character as to impress me
with almost all entire conviction of their
truth.
| may offer these particulars in excuse
for the tone and language of my letter:
but they do not cause me the less to re-.
gret having betrayed such warmth. You
had right to expect other treatment; and
| do not hesitate to say that have wrong
ed your friendship.
Your letter bears with it all the salts
faction that you could give, or that | can
ask. You have denied, in emphatic
terms, the truth of the statements that
have been made TO me, and of course
stand acquitted of every charge of impro-
per feelings towards me. The subject, l
hope, may stand at rest forever, at least
SO far as relates TO yourself. Should
second edition of McAfee's book be
published, | will offer to the publisher an
impartial detail of facts in relation TO the
affair at Sandusky, as duty which owe
to those brave men who are injured in the
statement now before the world; but, in
whatever may say, no personal illusions
shall be made to yourself, if they can be
avoided. Althoug III l no longer harbor
thought of your having ever wilfully in
jured us-of your having, at any time,
stated any thing with view to detract
from the merits of the defence of San
dusky--I am very far, at the same time,
from placing, as T used to do, the strong.
est reliance on the activity of your
friendship for me. once thought you
anxious to seek an occasion to speak
i'll praise of my services. l since
find my mistake, and that your neglect
for me has gone so far as to cause you to
pass from under your eyes work con-
tanning an incorrect account Of an affair
on which my reputation as soldier
greatly depended, when it was fully in
your power to have given it the necessa-
ry corrections. Feeling, as / do, that |
have striven a great deal in your behalf,
and aware that you were conscious ofmy
hav ing at one time rendered you a very
signal service, am surprised, perhaps
mortified, that you should have neglected
The very favorable opportunity thai was
offered to you of acknowledging the obi
CATION, by generously publishing to the
world full account of every transaction
in relation 10 the defence of Sandusky.--
Such course would not have left me
among the number of those who have
given proof of mere personal courage, but
would have ranked me on the roll with
those who have rendered their country
signal services while it would have exalt-
ed you as one superior to all selfish con-
siderations, more anxious to render JUS
tice to others than to claim it for your
self. / have been educated in the belief
that candor was virtue; have there
fore addressed you in its utmost sinceri-
ty. | do not wish to hurt your feelings,
but to show you what my own are. har,
Dor not against you the most remote re-
sentiment. am as willing now as have
ever been 10 speak in your favor, nor
will ever neglect an opportunity of 90,
ing justice 10 your military worth and
services.
l am, very respectfully, yours
G. CROGHAN,
General Harrison, Cincinnati.