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ALS signed “W. H. Harrison,” one page both sides, 8 x 9.75, January 27, 1836. Addressed from Cincinnati, a handwritten letter to Thomas Ewing, in full: "I duly received your Speech upon the boundary question which you have so obligingly sent me under your frank. I should like when you are at leisure to have a little more manuscript from you than a Subscription & frank. I saw & read the Speech in the Intelligencer & I think that if I were even not an Ohioan, I should believe that it was unanswerable. I enclose you herewith the Scioto Gazette containing Murphy’s strong reply to a Slander of the Scoundrel, Allen. Would it be worth while to insist upon its publication in the Globe or Baltimore Republican? Hammond says that the Calumny was first published in the latter. I am not anxious myself that any further notice should be taken of it.
I received two days ago a letter from a young man who was formerly in my office, Wm Hart, giving an account of the late Fairfield meeting. He speaks of it as a triumph of our [friends] that was very gratifying to them.
I was exceedingly glad to see Calhoun’s [apt] & severe rebuke to the Conduct of the Hero in relation to the French Question. I do not believe that the Herolites here feel much disposition to respond to the views of their leader in this matter. However the Subordinate officers will no doubt echo his Sentiments when they receive the order to do so. R. Lytle I am told left this today for Columbus & I should not be surprised to find that he was the bearer of one for that purpose. He can have no official business there." In fine condition, with portions of words missing due to paper loss to the left edge, which has been reinforced with a strip of paper.
Written in the early stages of Harrison’s first campaign for the presidency, this letter offers a revealing glimpse into Ohio and national politics during the closing years of Andrew Jackson’s administration. The recipient, Thomas Ewing, was then serving as U.S. senator from Ohio and had recently introduced a bill to settle the state’s disputed northern boundary, delivering an extensive Senate speech on December 21, 1835, defending Ohio’s position in the controversy with Michigan that became known as the Toledo War. Harrison’s praise for Ewing’s “Speech upon the boundary question” refers to this argument, which Ewing had sent him under his congressional frank. Harrison also turns to the ongoing diplomatic crisis with France, approving of John C. Calhoun’s recent rebuke of “the Hero,” Andrew Jackson, whose handling of unpaid French indemnities had brought the two nations dangerously close to conflict. Jackson addressed the crisis in a special message to Congress on January 15th, just 12 days before Harrison wrote. Harrison’s reference to “R. Lytle” evidently concerns Robert Todd Lytle, a prominent Cincinnati Jacksonian, former congressman, and federal Surveyor General, whom Harrison suspiciously suggests may have been carrying political instructions to Columbus. Four years later, Harrison would defeat Jackson’s chosen successor, Martin Van Buren, for the presidency and appoint Ewing as his Secretary of the Treasury.
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