Like all public men Governor Harrison was subject to the virulence of his enemies, and much of the criticism leveled at him is, by the light of history, vicious and unwarranted beyond excuse. A series of attacks on him, which is referred to so often that it is somewhat famous, is known as "The letters of Decius." Decius was Isaac Darneille, who in 1805 published his "Letters" in "The Farmer's Library," of Louisville, and afterward issued them in a pamphlet. These communications were not only criticisms of Harrison's public acts and policies, which, of course, might have been quite warranted, but they reek with a personal spite that was the fashion among critics at that day. To such extremes did "Decius" go that eventually the editor of the publishing paper, J. Vail, printed an apologetic explanation discrediting the author and giving his name.