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■os who know mr/Lotte's integrity ■ ngledess of piutpose, the purity ofhis^’fl 1 principles, his ardent, undeviatiog deyJI bo to thejbest interests of the couutrc.w^B ie sincerity of his attachment to the tuse^ nil of which ,is known to evert Jffl ho. enjoys his acquaintance, letters liket^ l 1 lowing would seem and are entirelynm I epsary. But it haS been proclaimed fa mj'B ride that Mr. Love had turned rrofaof { I ie cause in which he had labored hasan^H y years, and, as he says, it waadiietotmti ■ nd justice that he should correct tbe f*]*. I ood- An old Democrat, a gallantsoidH^ I he last war, and an honest man, aqd n} I ever be found on the side of Martin Yu I lurdfr Nine-tenths of the changes boaaj- I y claimed by (he administration papers, vBlave no doubt will turn out to be like tfe Ihaoge in Thomas C. Love: flClarence, Erie Co. N. Y.) I July -Uth, 1810, ( 1Dear Sir By this day’s mail Ireceud Ihe Michigan Times” purporting ta (urI *en printed at Ann Arbor on the 7ihias,l vith your name and residence marked on ft* I nargtu containing an article wore rotnri I i/ioju.” % IThe article goes on to statp that “Thoma IC. Love, a promineigWhig of Buffalo and Iformerly a member orCtfnwress^ascomeont Ifor Van Buren, c ” Around this anTcle I black lines are drawn and the. interrogatory I wriuen /s it so V The lines are probably I drawn for the purpps^ofratlmgmy attend I to the article and hot for the purpose of“u-P“Wno;n . 1 had before heard thathwa repotted in some part of Michigan that luu in favorof the election of Mr. Van Bare* add opposed^tcr'Gen. Harrison, but not supposing that my ppinioDs of the men weretf any further con^mencc to them, ot their friends than the effect iof my vote, I entirely disregarded it But invading the articlee!-luded td.T'eoulJ not cerutiojy suppress mr indignation that any one professing acqaae-ance with me or mv character, should soet-- - V * . •.*»*„ *ivhich h ive been atalLtitr.es openly'dqda thusiastically expressed both in season anihs^ of season. And I now say, that If 4 liffjrf am able (it go or to be carried totbepi£,( shall vote (or Gen. Harrison, and from lia time till the election is over do all that bit my power to do, to ensure the election oftis Farmer of North Bend to the office rf President of these United States. And tbs at no lilne since his name was brdught befon the American people in 1S36 have I enfc taioed, or on any occasion expressed a difitf cot opinion.There was a lime when mapy of our pek ttcal associates deemed it advisable to bicj forward Gen. Scott or Mr. Clay, as the Wfe candidate for the Presidency. Against sart a measure, 1 from first tt^last protested, ms* ling that Gen. Harrison was not crnij 4 strongest man that could be selected-butt.-the present condition of the cbuotry, aljoga er the best man for the office.I then said, and repeat that ibete is non® now living that has so oftep periled his 14 for the honor of his country and the secorkj of her citizens as William Henry .Hurn» and none more deserving the lasting gnash of bis country-men.I speak Tram ray own knowledge oftfc high estimation io which his services i« held by the Democracy oflhe'lt;;ouQtrY,diH«» the most gloomy period of the last war.If my political opinions are thought to* of sufficient importance to justify a misrtpfr rentation of them—troth and justice require* refutation of the falsehood. You are *t hbm to use this in any manner deemed isdna^ for that purpose, \Yours respectfully, 1. THOMAS C LOVE
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Marshall Western Statesman
Marshall, Michigan, US
Thu, Jul 30, 1840
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