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g OHKOM 1 -;LB ANIi. SKNTINEL. AUGU S f A . TUESDAY MORNIN(j. OCTOBER 27. . 11 ! i FOR PRESIDENT, 'VILLI A. 31 m:\UYi HARRISON, Os Oh io ?; T.. 0 invincible Hero of Tij|>ccaooe —the incor ruptible Statesman —the indexible Republican — .the patriotic Farmer of Objc. FOR VICE-PRES iDENT, JOHN T Y u E it, Os Virgin if : A State Rights Republican o| the school of ’98 — one of Virginia’s noblest su|is,ancl emphatically one -of America’s most sagacious, virtuous ani patriot statesmen. | FOR F VECTORS OF PRESIDENT A NO VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER,(.of Oglethorpe. Dl NCAN L. CLINCH, |f Camden. JOHN W. CAMPBELL|cf Muscogee. 'JOEL CRAWFORD, of |lancock. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark. ■ SEATON GR ANTE AN 15. of Baldwin. ANDREW MILLER, ofjcass. WILLIAM EZZARD, o| DeKalb, « C. B. STRONG, of Bibb? JOHN WHITEHEAD, 4 Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs. Bead the Croghan correspondence in this day’s paper. >| (jThe Bank of C. is checking on New-York at four percent foi Augusta notes. •‘3l ore Warnings to the South. - ” The how lings of the initial}? of the kennels of Locofocoism, are pitiful in the|cxtxeme. The re cent elections have rendered |helr situations al most intolerable, and in the|desperati©n which they ‘eel, they have entirely omitted to repeat their numerous charges of Cowardice, Federalism, nd Abolitionism, against the fold General. Ihe ople, it appears, have a lesson. Nor do they pretend to debtuil any mea ure of the administratration—they give the go by every thing, the Army bill, freenegr.,-testimony, the ex traordinary expenditures of teiCjiioEc money, and . he excessive corruption of |he vaiious depart ments. And when the Whigfoigans attempt to force from them some defence <v their master, like a Spaniel ciouthing under the h, they exclaim, “ more warnings to the South.f lipping, by pub lishing to the world that ther<|is an abontionist who will vote for Harrison, tba| forsooth the peo ple of the south would not giv£ their vote to Gen. Harrison. This is really very logical, and is cer tainty very conclusive argument. It is very com plimentary to the intelligence c| Southern men, to suppose they could be led olf fi|m their determin ed opposition to the corruptions|>f this administra tion by such paltry stiitf, and w| are quite certain Geoigians will make tlieir acknowledgments to Ritchie and the Corporal througli the Bollat Box ou Monday. | Craw fort?.| We take much pleasure in cabling the attention of our readers to the article>cf • t rawford,’ in this day’s paper. He handles thiy unfortunate Mr. McDuffie hkc a master, and we‘ feel quite certain, if Mr. McDuffie should chance ever to read the remarks of Crawford,” he wiii.fecl with double' force the merited contempt vrhi|h his servility to Mr. Caihoun has brought upon Him. ‘•Hard pressed for an| excuse ” The n.ocofocos in lansackiiijg tlieir inventive faculties for an excuse for their lirta defeat in Ohio, have come to the conclusion this! the British army stationed in Canada, voted for tie Whigs !! What do you think es this, Corporal -4 Doesn’t it sound to you very much like them plldges that Dawson and the remainder oi the Tickcl were impelled to give P” : _ Ti IE ELECT I <!> NS. The Baltimore P triot of lht|23d says: “ We omit t .-day our tables of returns from Ohio and Pennsylvania. The majerity f|r Corwin in the ormtr state will be about eighteen thousand, which will doubtless swell beylind twenty thou sand for Gen. Harrison cn the 30fh. The Locofoto majority in Pennsylvania, on kit Congressional ticket, will be about three tnoi sand—a majority obtained by frauds in PliHaoeiph: v city' and county which hav since come to light, and are now un dersoil g judicial investigation.” Members of Congress from oorn Carolina. The following aic-.the inember| elect to the next Congress, from this Btate —Isasl E. Holmes, R. Barnwell Rhclt,John Campbell! F. \V'. Pickens, Thomas D. Sumter, Samp son H. |lutler, Patrick C. Caldwell, James Rogec-„ and IVr, I Butler. Messrs. Calsweli. arnd Bctlel, are new mem bers, elected respectively in the ilaces of the Hon. J. Iv Griffin and the lion. Wleoy Thompson, both of whom declined a re-electt»n. Dr. Butler is the only Whig on the list. —Charleston Courier. Elections for Congress?—Elections for members of Congress have heeli held in seven States, and the following is thejrcsult compared with the former election: 1840. I 1838. W. L. F| W. L, F. Louisiana 2 1....- 3 Vermont 5 ~ Missouri ... 2. . 2 Maine* 4 2..|.. 2 6 1 Georgia 9 - 6 3 Pennsylvania...l3 15.. ..II 17 Ohio IS 6.. .. 8 11 46 26 33 41 In these seven States the W1 igs have gained twelve members, equal to twentj four votes, and without further chances will gi jC them a large majority in the House of Repre ieutatives of the next Congress. *No choice in two districls|\t. the late elec tion. i ' J “ Uefaultehs. —After observing the number of public defaulters, says the Atlas* we led inclined to look at the Subtreasurers as jvlargiana did at the oil jars in AM Baba’s -garden. “Forty jars, ami every one containiog a robbe*. Alla preserve IMS.” I Van BureiUs Support of the War. A recent letter from Gen. Erastus Root of New York, who was in the Senate ol that state, in 1812 with Ma.tin Van Buren, puts the matter of the fitter's support of Dewitt Clinton, beyond a doubt. The following is the General’s letter : Delhi, N. A., Sept. 19. 1840. “ Yoj say they [the locofocos] hold on to the present so called democratic Van Huron party believing thatthey (their principles) are the o'd republican principles for which we used to con tend. I presume they have not thoroughly ex amined and scrutinized the official acts ot Mr. Van Buren since he came into high power, and compared them with the republican pr nciplcs for which we used to contend. Had they thus ex amined. and made such comparison, their good sense would have led them to discover that his conduct was not highly democratic in its charac ter. His urging through the Sub-1 reasury scheme after it had been condemned by General Jackson and the wnole republican party, wa enough to overthrow every pretension to democ racy. “ You ask whether Van Buren supported Clinton against Madison in 1812. Surely he did. That is a matter of record. The electors ot President and Vice President were then chos en by toe Logi-lature. He and I were then Senators. We opposed each other, and in some instances quite seriously. I was tor Madi son, the regularly nominated Republican candi date, and he for Clinton, the peace-party candi date. Our acts are recorded on the journal, and have often been published. Gen. Ogle, in his late speech on the palace furniture, has given a very correct sketch of this transaction. “The fi tends of Harrison »re rapidly increasing in this county and State. This State will give him at h ast twenty thousand majority.—ls Penn sylvania goes for Harrison, (an i I have nodouht she will.) Van Buren will not get sixty electoral votes. His friends, it appears to me, can have no reasonable hopes of his election.” “EHASTUS ROOT.” From the Sew Orleans Picayune of the 2 DA From Texas. Six Days Later.— By the arrival of the packet schr. Henri/ Clay, from Galveston, which reached this port last evening, we have Houston nates to the 13th instant. But little news of importance is received by this arrival. The Houston Star of the 13th inst. says; —“A gentleman who left the camp ot the Federalists on the Nuccess a few days since, has informed us that the Federal army under Canales recently overtook the rear guard of Arista near t arnargo, and alter a slight skirmish defeated it without any loss Jti their part, captured 300 men, and all the baggage of the enemy. A large number ot good muskets anti several pieces of artillery were also captured. Among the prisoners was an offi cer named Urrea, who had aided m the massa cre of Zapata, in consequence of which he was executed. Gcu. Canales had succeeded in cut ting off Arista from the road to Malamoras, and he was therefore ret eating in great participation towards Monterev; the forces under Canales were within one day’s march of him, and were making every exertion to intercept him on his route to Monterey. The garrison at Malamoras | consisted of only 100 men, and as a detachment, was sent to capture the place, it has probably fallen into th ■ hands of the Federalists.” Gen. Samuel Houston has been elected by a large maj irity, as one of the Representatives from San Augustine coun y. The Dr. barque Elizabeth, from Liverpool, has arrived at Matagorda, with a cargo of salt, coal and implements of husbandry, with upwards of 50 emigrants. Correspondence of the Sat tonal Intelligencer. New York, Oct. 20. The Albany Regency crumbles. Thomas W. Olcott, E>q. one of its pillars, perhaps the most notable man of the party in Albany, has come out decidely against the National Administration. My correspondence thence says, “For two years Ids influence has been directed to obtain a modifl tion of its policy more consonant with the spirit and design of our institutions, but having been unsuccessful, ne now abandons those who have abandoned their country.'' Colonel Croghan. The administration have been playing a curi ous part with this gentleman and tnsnarne. They sent him into the North Western wilderness on duty in early summer, and when he was beyond the reach of newspapers, published his part of a private correspondence between him and General ; Harrison. No sooner, however, does the gallant Colonel come to light, see these Letters in the papers of the dav, than he disclaims any pai lici i pation in the publication, and gives worthy hon ois .o his old Commander-in-Chief. From the St. Louis Bulletin. CORK KSPONDLNCE. Dear Colonf.l—l am well aware that you | take no part in the political warfare of the limes, and it is from no desire to draw you from your neutrality that now I address you. ! During the last two years I have had the plea j sure frequently to meet you, and have never yet 1 heard you declare yourself for either of the Pre sidential candidates now before the people, and I have no wish to see you commit yourself upon this subject. I believe, sir, that your relations with General Harrison, as well as with Mr. Van j Buren. are of the most friendly character, and j that you regard them both with feelings of friend ship. Whilst you dispaiage neither, I have heard you speak of both in terms of praise, and I feel satisfied that you wdl answer the questions I ask you in the candor and sincerity of a soldier. Some letters of yours have been recently pub lished during your absence from Washington, and many have endeavored to produce the im pression that you have authorized their publica tion, and have thrown your influence against Gen. Har ison. fdo not believe that this is so, but would like to ea*n from yourself, whether the publication of these letters was authorised by you. At Tippecanoe you were one of the Aids of General Boyd, and performed a glorious part in that, as well as in other hard fought battles, which have added to the fame and honor of our country. I should Ire pleased to know if on that occasion, or at any time during the war, General Harrison showed any want of uravery ; and fur ther, if the ground selected fur the encampment of his troops at Tippecanoe was injudiciously or improperly chosen. During the war, sir, you performed a most dis tinguished part, and your name will always be associated witn its m st brilliant achievements, as long as there is left one American heart to ad mire your gallant and glorious defence of San dusky. you have had as good an opportunity to form a correct opinion of the courage and con duct of General Harrison as any other officer, and I should be pleased to have your opinion upon these matters. Respect fully yours, SAMUEL B. CHURCHILL. Sr. Louis, Octob, r 6, 1840. Col CutrncHiLL—ln reply to your letter ol the 261 h ultimo. I can only slate, that the publi cation of the letters to which you allude was not authorised by me, and that I never during the whole war saw Gen. Harrison at any time show any want of courage. On the contrary, I have every reason to believe him a brave man. Upon the receip «f yours, I addressed a letter to Gen. Gaines, with whom I held frequent conversations years ago, and the following letter of his con tains the opinions which I then entertained and which I still retain. Respectfully, G. CROGHAN. 1 Sr. liotris, October 2, 1840. v D ah CoLO-stt —At your request I slate to , you the subs:ance of our several conversations ,j touching your opinion of General Harrison, and ,j your unhappy difference with that distinguished officer. The first conversation which took place between e us was at Fort Stevenson, where you coinmand v ett, in the early part of September, 1813, when j Major Wood and myself were on our way to re r c.mnoilre the Sandusky Bay, and to have a con . Terence with Com mod ore Perry, on the subject .. of our joint operations against the enemy. That j conversation is, perhaps, the oetter recollected, r inasmuch as it has often been referred to in our . subsequent conversations since the war ; and (1 from lire fact that you did me the compliment to s say that you made a memorandum of the princi ple upon which I had acted in respect to a meet y tngofthe field officers, with Brigdier Gen. Cass, d which took place soon after rny arrival from fort Meigs, and hut a few weeks after your gallant defence of Fort S .evenson, which took place while I was at Fort Meigs. 1 In reply to my inquiries respecting General c Harrison’s plan of operations at Tippecanoe, you s replied that the selection of his position was the best to he found near the place ot encampment : rj that his formation of the different corps of his rj army in the encampment, was made with a view . to hold every officer and every man ready lor . action upon the ground where they slept, i hat . General Harrison’s vig.lance had previously been j the subject ot remark and admiration among the s troops, and it was that night increased, i hat x yon had several opportunities ot seeing him in the forepart of the night, and at or near the lime r the battle commenced. That you saw him ire [> quontly in the cou sc ot the battle, and heard . him giving his orders, and with great distinctness i animating his troops —and that no man could I have been more collected or fearless in battle than } Harrison was upon that occasion. In speaking of the bailie ol Fort Meigs, Major Wood and yourself concurred in the opinion that General Harrison’s plan ol defence was un exceptionable, and that the victory at that place was more impoitant in its immediate result sand , uLimale cons quences than had been conceded j even by many of the friends of the General, that j a shade had been cast ov» r that victory, by the p untoward disaster of the loss of Colonel Dudley i and his Regiment; who, after defeating the Brit- L ! ish on the left bank of the nv r, were led into an s | ambuscade of Tecumseh’s Indians, where they j were cut otf in an attempt to do more than they , had been ordered to do. It was not possible, as ! \V ood and yourself believed, for the General to t I restrain or save them—occupied as he was on the j right haiiK of the river, in the hottest ol the bat -1 tie, near a mile from the point where the ainbus . j cade was formed on lire left. \ou both assured . i me that the movement of Cot. Dudley and ins Regiment was contrary to the orders ol the Gen s j end who had no means of correcting the iatal . error into which the impetuosity of this fine corps j of leave Kentucky volunteers had led them. In respect to Fort Stevenson, you and Major , Wood, than whom I have never known a more , gallant, nor a more promising officer, and who . afterwa'ds repeatedly covered hi i.self with im , j perishable fame in battle, under my command at t ; Fort Brie, concurred fully in the op.niou that it I would, or mignt have been, attended with latal • consequences to the North Western frontier for j General Harrison t>> ha.e broken up the nucleus , j ol the army, then assembling at Camp Seneca, ana j marched to your assistance at Fort Stevenson. His general and field-officers were rejnmed to I j have expressed the same opinion in a council of , vvar, at the time of attack. Vou expressed then, j and subsequently, your satisfaction, and that of ! your officers and men, that you were permitted ito continue the conflict alone. Major Wood and ■ myseit sustained you in this impression. You . ; were both of the opinion that a movement on the t | part of the General, with the,uninstructed troops, . such as most of those with him at the time were . I known to be. might put it in the power of Te -5 cumseli, and his army of savages, reported to be . upwards of three thousand, to cripple, and [nissi t my overpower the troops at Gamp Seneca, it not ) intervening thick woodlands. In this event, the 0 frontier, for many hundieds of miles, would have been laid open to sav ge depredation, which could not have been checked before the arrival ot the chivalry ot Kentucky under Governor Shelby. That gallant army did not arrive until near the middle of September, 1813. The loss ot the nucleus of Harrison’s army at 1 J j Gamp Seneca, at any time before the arrival of G .vernor Sh> I'oy, might have protracted opera- I j lions upon that frontier, until the following year, ( when we might have found such reinforcements on tlie part of England as to have rendered it impracticable for us to profit bv Perry’s brilliant victory on Lake Erie. You have repeatedly assured me that the cor respondence between Gen. Harrison and your self was not intended by you for publication, and that you had shown it only to such persons as i you considered to bo the mutual friends of both , General Harrison and yourself, and that you be r j lievcd the General’s apparent neglect to do you ! ind your officers and men that justice which you - deemed yourself and them entitled to, was nut t the result of any design on his part to injure you - or them. Unwilling as I am to appear in the newspa i pers, or to interfere in any way with the political ; controversy which is now going on between the i advocates and the opponents of the present ad ! ministration, not strictly compatible with my of ficial sta.ion, I can never hesitate to do an act ; of justice to those with whom I have served in ! tin' defence of our beloved country, and more es , pecially when slandered, as General Harrison . has been, by the blind votaries of theewii spirit of party —many of whom 1 Know to he mere dan , dies. Who have never, to my knowledge, seen the flash ol an enemy s gun—nor even made an ef * fort to enter a big swamp in search of a foe. t EDMUND P. GAINES. , Col. Geouge Ckoghax. Election Car d . TIME OF ELECTIONS STATES STATE PRESIPEKT’L £ 5 ELECTION. ELECTION. £ > r i New Hampshire, March 10 November 2 T . Connecticut,.... April 6 “ 2 8 * Rhode Island,... 15 4 4 Virginia, “ 23 “ 2 23 t Louisiana, July 6 “ 3 5 ■ Alabama, August 3 “ 9 7 Kentucky, “3 “ 2 15 . 1ndiana......... “ 3 “ 2 9 } Illinois,... “ 3 “ 2 5 Missouii, “ 3 “ 2 4 * * 1 onnessee, ... “6 “ 315 North Carolina,. “ G •* 19 15 Vermont, September 1 “ 10 7 > Maine, “ 14 “ 2 10 Georgia, October 5 2 11 Maryland, *• 7 *« 9 10 j South Carolina.. “ 12 by Legislate 11 GhiOj “ 13 October 30 21 Pennsylvania,.. « 13 “ 30 30 f New-York,... November 2 November 2 . 0 3 and 4 3 and 4 New Jersey.. .. October 13 November 3 x and 14 and 4 1 if Mississippi, November 2 November 2 4 _ Michigan, “ 2 u 2 3 ' Arkansas, October 5 “ 2 3 Massachusetts, . November 9 “ 9 14 I Unaware, “ R) “ K)J 3 e The Electors meet at the Capitals of the rcspec i, tivc States in which they are chosen, on the 2nd day of December, and give in their ballots for Presi dent and Vice President. s * No state Election this year, the elections arc j biennial. t In New-York ( ity, Brooklyn, and Eushwick only one day, viz ; November 4th, From the Charleston Corn ier. To the Hon. George McDuffie. Stu:—ln the letter, which it was your pleasure to address to the citizens of Mtliedgevdle, and through'hem to the people of tiie Stales, you made use of the following language: “ Ii there were no other objection to his (Gen. Harrison’s) election, the audacious and insulting position he has assumed of refusing to disclose his opinion to the people on subjects of vital importance to their welfare, whilst asking their sulfrages lor the highest office. &c.” To this it was replica that “To your bare assertion that Gen. Harrison has refused to disclose his opinion on vital sub jects. I have only to oppose an absolute denial and to plant myself on the facts oj the case It was further added that there was not one ques tion—not one —agitated either by politicians or people—and a list was given—upon which Gen. Harrison had not expressed his opinion , fully, pointedly and explicitly. In your response to “An unchanged Nuliifier” you have attempted to sustain the charge of silence and an avoidance of the issues of the times, which you had brought against him (Gen. H ) in your Milledgeville Ift tei. These are your words ” “And here Sir, I must notice one of the reck less charges repeatedly urged against me. 1 tiro Gen. Harrison’s notorious G'oinmi’tec distinctly declared, in answer to a letter written to him, that in conformity to the policy of the Harrisburg (con vention, be would answer no inquiries as to bis political opinions, further than to refer to his for mer speeches and letters; and though the Gen eral confirmed this declaration, in a letter explain ing the authority of Major Gvvyn. and in a ver bal communication m de to a Committee from Kentucky, yet since public opinion has partly i driven him from this untenable position his par j tizans have the unblushing effrontery to deny ; that he ever assumed it, and to charge me with uttering a calumny, because, I spoke of it in the terms it deserved. We are told that his speeches and li'iters answer i very conceivable question. Let us sec. “ Would you, if elected President, recommend Congress to appropriate all the surplus revenue to purchase and emancipate our slaves. “ Would you sign a bill increasing the tariff, : to provide (!!) a large surplus for this purpose f Having thus, Bir. in your own linear bled lan guage, slated vour defence of it —I will proceed to substantiate the denial ot that charge, quoted as above, made by “ Crawford.” It is not sup posed that you may have read any tiling which ‘•Crawford” rnav have written and fie does n >1 comment upon an} T thing which Mr. McDuffie has written as intended particularly tor himself. | But Mr. McDuffie, in writing to the world and 1 for it. has denied iha, which “ Crawford lias as | serted, and it now becomes a matter of character i for “ Crawford” to defend himself in the issue made before the country. I think no one, Bir, ceil'd mistake your mean ing. 1 judged not your motives —I pronounced not upon your intentions —hut 1 did say and I repeat it, and with emphasis, that in asserting that Gen. Harrison, “ hud refused to disclose his opinion to the people on subjects oj vdul im portance to their welfare—you had asserted that which is not the sact —that you had done him a great wrong and such a wrong as only ignor ance could excuse. Gen Hiuuison look no such ground as you have attributed to him. 1 fie ground he did take was lhai he had already (I cloud his opinions on all the subjects ol vital impoitance, and bad not changed Ins opinions. j In his letter to the Committee appointed by the Harrisburg Convention, to not'ty himot his nom ination, he writes on this very point. “ It may pc. haps be txpccitd that I should em brace this occasion to declare the principles upon which lHe administration will be conducted, it | the efforts of my friends to place me in the Presi- I dential Chair should prove successful. But hav- I ing in a letter to the Hon. Haiimau Denny, and in another to the Hon. Sherrod Williams, ! both of which havebeen made public, giving my views at some length, of the powers vested by the Constitution in the President, I consider it unnecessary to repeat them.” In response to a letter written to him by three citizens of Oswego, and also to a Committee of Citizens of the Van Huron Party of the Stale of Kentucky—both addressing him on the subject j of slavery, he referred them, byway of most cmn | plote and full reply, to his speeches delivered at t hcvioland Vincennes—and above all to tin* acts j of his life, widen wcie the safest illustration of j his principles and the most to be depended on. This, Sir, is what you style an insultmgand con temptuous denial of the right of the people to j be informed on subjects of vit d importance. : Was it not true that he haa expressed his opin ions at large to Messrs. Denny and Williams? Was it not true that be had met the question of i abolition at all periods of his life, and that in the I speeches referred to, recently delivered in the midst of the canvass,he had developed his opinions with a point, energy and completeness,not sur passed bp any man in the nation—supporting the rights of the South in every particular—de nouncinglhecoiraeof (he abolitionists us foolish. imbecile, fatal to the Union, “ unconstitut anal” “ presumptuous,” “impertinent” proclaiming the absolute dominion of the South over the whole subject, and denying to the North any lot or part in the ma ter —even denying to them the . right of discussion, as shut out by the spirit and intent of the constitution. And if this be so— I challenge a denial from any quarter —do you call, this Sir, a distinct reference to such notori ous pub.ic documents within reach ol any press or party in the Union, an evasion or denial of the right of the people to bo informed on the ques tion of abolition 1 Has there been any difficul ty on the pa r l of the party opposed to him. in finding those speeches, and culling fiorn one of them the only passage to which exception has been taken, and the only portion of them icpub i lished by the Van Buren press of the Slate, as ian exponent of his opinions and fee lines 1 Sir, I mem what I say; speaking deliberately, I dc | dare raysdf willing to go beiore the people of ; South Carolina on any whole document, letter or speech, that Gen. H.v liiusoN ever delivered cr wrote. Ido here assert and hold myself prepared to prove, that Gen. Harrison’s life affords anex arnple of as constant, unbroken, unswerving fi \ dehty to the constitution as thorough and inva riable a surrender of individual opinion to the chartered rights of the Bontli—as this country affords. In fact, if I were called upon to point to a man whose life had proved tnat be counted I himself nothing in comparison with I he constitu tion of his country —who womd rather sacrifice himself than injure others, and who had done so —that man would be Gen. Harrison. I con demn any comparison between the lives of Gen. 1 Harrison and the present Executive. Gen. H arrison has never c- nsemed to turn agitator —to ponder to sectional feeling —to convert a trampled constitution into a stepping stone to power. Bir, it was as a Virginian, a citizen of a alaveholding community, that as a youth he was a member of an emancipation society, and the liberator of his own slaves—it. was as the rtq re sentati^c of a free state, when the public mind bad been imfiamed to furnace heat, and a fanat ical fury raged against the constitutional rights of the South—it was in Ohio, Sir, when the North and V\ e.-t and East, stood combined against the Bouth, and a brave man might well have cowered before the fury of the storm, and a selfish man. a time servei would have looked to his constitu ents and his sec'ion, and found some excuse in yielding to a sentiment so general, violent, and bigoted—it was then, Sir, that instead of acting upon his individual abs rart opinions—instead of seeking to gain favor by y eldin.: obedience to the unconstitutionall nquisitions of bis constituents it c,as then, Sir, that in the single mindedness of a devoted patriotism, he deliberately, counting the cost, and knowing that Ins politic; 1 life was the forfeit, cast his suffrage in favor o! the equal rights of the South, and gave utterance to the memorable sentiment, “ Belter that I should he sacii iccJ. than the constitution ot my country.” Here. Sir, was a ,c t of patriotism —an occasion which finds out and distinguishes the time server, the mere politician, the self-seeker, from the sin r fr[f. minded man, the lover of hiscountrv, ihcun caicuia/ivg, steadfast friend of right. e j have seen where Gen. Harrison was whe c ■, was Martin Van Buhhn ? I his day ol pent was not the day of his inaityrdon. H-s hour ot sacrifice and devotion to the constitution and the , South did not arrive till, in the iulnct.s ot time, the Presidency could be won by a pledge, ami the sentiment of the iSorth was so true an ally of the South , that it pul a halter round the neck ol Ga risen in Boston, and surrendered to the fl lines Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia. This fntnd ship !to the South at such a crisis—in such a slate of opinion —if urged as a claim upon lie tSoutti, is matter of pure scorn and derisi n. At no time has Crawford questioned the confidence which the friends of the President have placed in that pledge It was the manifest interest of Mr. Van Burks to give it, and as manifestly 1 his interest to keep it. Never before has Craw ford been induced to comment upon the circum stances under which that pledge was made, and to pronounce upon the motives of palpable sclf j interest which prompted it; and though Mr. Van Bun ex’s whole career, up to the time he was a candidate for the Presidency, shewed an unbroKen scries of votes on the slave question in opposi tion to to the constitutional rights ot the Souih, yet such was Crawford’s sense o the importance of keeping our peculiar institutions out ol the Piesidenlial vortex, that he has never Jclt il to be consistent, with duty to go behind that pledge, or t ) expose the purely selfish and public considera tions which governed him who gave it. He u;d not receive il as an evidence of patriotism—as a proof of Iriendship—butnc was willing to Bust it. and to accept ufit as an atonement for the p ist, and as an earnest of fidelity for the future But, Sir, when it is attempted to cry down and sacri fice tie patriotic and ever faithful Harrison, who, living in a free Stale, has spurned the pop- i ulaniy to be won by cirrying out his own ab stract principles, at the expense of the feelings and the rights of a portion <f his countrymen —when a party among that very portion of las countrymen, for w hom he sacrificed himself, un mindful of the sacred claims of gralitu le, per vert, suppress, mutilate the very record of his services, and this, 6ir, to *dfer him up a victim to the ambition of our present Chiet Magistr ate, w ho never discovered our rights till he could drive a trade in them, and never could understand his constitutional duty till he could make a unfit by it —whose life presents the barren bald desert of a mere politician, distinguished by no heroic achievement in the field, reflecting national re nown—by no illustrious displays of a high or.ifo ; ry in the Senate, refining, elevating the public sentiment—by no wise measure of statesmanship, conferring practical blessings upon his country— one, iSir, for w hom it was “glory enough to serve,” who is content to follow, and proud to he an echo —one, whose character and whose success, and tlie marine rof whose success have done more than all oilier causes combined to degrade the national sentiment, to raise the corrupting, the dead/'/ doubt, in the minds of the aspiring of his coun try men, of the existence of public virtue, or its ; i necessity to reach ihe'hiahest distinction—a doubt, | fatal to him who holds it, and fatal to the liberty, ;to the honor, to the glory, of any people w hose | ; nationalchara ter it moulds and governs—a friend j of the S uth Sir. who voted voluntarily for the ! Tariff of ’24, and who after raising expectations of aid against the Tariff of ’2B, unlike the gal lant Ttlkh, who. (b lievmg in the obligation of instructions) when instructed to do that which | was against his convictions, promptly resigned a scat in the Senate, to which he had been but re cently elected tor -fix years—unlike the chival rous son of Virginia, was content to he the pas sive instrument of wrong, and, under the plea of instructions, to fix upon the country an act which he professed toMsem unjust, unequal and oppres sive: whose every net, in connection with our peculiar institu ions, up to the time he was a can . didale fir the Presidency, proclaimed us outlaws j to humanity, sew.ng broad-cast at every step the | seed of abolitionism—who, not content w.th rx | cruising in his own Stale, the “stale right ot lilt ing the black man to the level of tHe white, and clothing him with politic il authority—g vmg him that right of suffrage winch made him a sovereign and a citizen —a right and a character, which carried along with them, by virtue ol legal j necessity, every other franchise of the citizen, and, as a mutter of course, among others the ! right of “trial by yury”—the right of being a j candidate for the Presidency—of voting fur i're- I sidential electors—and possibly, by a casting vote, i determining the vote of New Vork and giving a 1 President to the Union —but, not content with | applying his principles to his own State, he stands | on the confines of New Vork, and is bold to say ■ to the South, that Missouri is not good enough td be mi associate ut New \ ork, until she reihrms I her institutions, and confers upon her slaves the rights winch he hail given to the black man in J New York. Who, sir, unmoved by a tottering ; union, unmindful of the solemn lesson of the ■ j sons ol .Missouri, leading or following, it matters not which but still true to the unwarranted us j sumption of his State and his section, strove to i impose in their turn, the same degiading, unjust, • ; unequal restriction upon Florida ami Arkan-as • j —°ne. sir, who as a Slate Rights man. of the f j Jeffersonian school, in the name of Jackson and J etlerson, sent us the Natchez as an image of l sovereignty, gave us the Force Bill as a i : condensed ah-tract. and the Proclamation as an f | ample development of the principles of’9B—one ’ ; who, waen lilted to the Presid ncy. was proud • ! to carry out these principles, and to place on his - right hand Joel lv. Poinsett, tire very incarnation . j of the Proclamation, and the very hand of the ■ | Force Bill—and on his left hand John Forsyth, f j who, in his place in the Senate in : 32,* declared r j that “sovereignty did not exist in the States ■ separately and individually since the Union I since liiat period it resided in the United .States - as a whole.” “ Hyj the Constitution the States • | had surrendered their sovereignty, with the single ■ ; exception of • quality of representation in this - i (the Senate) House.’ One, sir. whom vou, in ’ j the snnp'e single mindedness of an honest heart, t | whom Mr. Calhoun, in tire severe consciei tious- I ness of an austere viitue, whom Mr. Pickens, in - the nobility of a lofty and high-soulcd chivalry, • Born long and intimate knowledge, judging him " by his private conduct and public acts—held up to the scorn of the nation as a creeping sycophant, . a shallow charlatan, imposed upon the nation by . the will of a despot and the prostitution of the ’* Treasury, in defeat of the liberties of the people, i and in triumph over the constitution of his coun i try—one sir, against whom the character of S. i Carolina stands staked—whom he cannot eotn s mend to the respect and confidence of the coun -3 try, without in the same moment and by the very - same act, denouncing her sages as sharpers, her 1 orators as mountebanks, ar.d herself as the dupe -of the vtle.'t impostors, in the shape of the wisest, f bravest, truest of her sons—when sir, for such t an one as lids, with such a history, with such a 3 chaiacter and such claims— against whom our 1 very honor is picdged il is allcmpteo to destroy . the brave, the virtuous, the ever faithful (mark ■ the phrase, sir, (or it is pregnant and meant to be i so) Hamsun, it is til that the whole truth should J he spoken, plainly and if it must be harshly. If U should set m violent, sir, remember that I have ( been the witness of monstrous cruel ar.d violent 3 s 3 * Gales and Seaton’s Debates, vol. f), p. 552. t dales and Seaton’s debates' vyl. 9, \ . Tib. wrong, and that a just indignation cannot nl„. command itself to the forms of a nice 10 ,'!'*** I have said. Sir, that G»m lf u . r -' » • ' u Qn »l siave question has been eve fvl/fj ~ j 1 1 c southern men had mutilated the very record . ■ services and hi* triumphant vindication if* Constitutional rights of trie south. I tlle mented on the vote he gave and the magnan^ 1 "' H-ntiment with which he accompanied ii w ' ni ° Us was proposed by Messrs. King and Martin V * I | I.urea to shut out Missouri (ram the f c M . , an ,1 lof her sisters. Let us follow him horneTo k 1 ! misguided angry constituents. He meets h I he expected to meet—denunciation, re * I contumely. For upholding the equal ; S Carolina, in the person of her pecrandfo. ° j Missouri, he is denounced as a foe to w ' j traitor to freedom and an enemy of manki’n.f 1 under well upon the fact, gaz; upon it st riM u, ' by, because, true to the sacred obligations of t) 1 ' \ Constitution signed by Washington and \ D | —because he would not, outraging the charte'iS [ rights of others, carry out his own and i[ le , r J s abstract opinion in reference to slaves, and J his and their standard of rights and I I law for the government of the south—f rtr 'a 3 fi fidelity In his Constitutional duty his&wn/mf vidua I sentiments and interests, be was d n,* 0 ' ced as a friend to slavery and traitor to Uyyf and an enemy of the hum on race. Is he du (n ! M hefire his accusers and in uai obstruct opinion, illustrated by bis bfc f - ] ! earlies* youth onward, does he abandon v j Constitution ofhis country, take buck las vote\n Congress and beg pardon with down cast heed tor doing his duty ? This is what South Csri ’ hna has been taughtto believe— and 1 Mush to say it by S mth Carolinians—and this Sir.U the I J manner in which it has been done. “I am accused ot being friendly to slavery. aP 1 >m my earliest youth to the present moment I save been an ardent triend of human liberty. „\t nr* t ic ige of eighteen I became a member of a Abo- ” i 1,11011 Society established at Richmond. Virginia; ; the object of which was to ameliorate the condi' i j lion ot slaves, and procure their freedom by every | I I legal means. My venerable friend Judge Gatch, 1 Clermont County, was also ain moer of this ( ' * a, ‘d has lately given me a certificate that i 1 was one. The obligation I then came under I I have faithfully performed. 1 have been the means ot tree ng many slaves, hul never placed one in bondage,” William Hkshy Jauiusdx, 1 Ins dislocated fragment ofhis let er to his constituents, tom. with perfidious art, from its context, is published to the world, as his vindication of himself, and Southern men,on thu L M passage, severed from its proper connection, are I challenged to nchold, in General Harr.sou, the ■ confessed abolitionist, a renegade to the South || ashamed of the very vote he had just given in I defence of our constitutional right; and, if this I had been all that Gen. Harrison bad said to his I constituents, in defence and vindication of bii I vote on the Missouri question, those who now I denounce him as an abolitionist, would not he I reviters and slanderers. But. sir let Gcu. Had- I uison go on, etui see where these revilers slam], “I deny that my votes in Congress, in relation l|| la Missouri and Arkansas are in the / -usi inesm- I pah hie. with these principles. Congress had no I mor v legm or constitutional right to emancipate | the negroes in those sections of Louisiana, with- | "I | out the consent of their owners, than they have I ;to free those of Kentucky. These people Here j secured it) their properly, hy a solemn covenant i with France, when the country was purchased ‘ trorn that power. To prohibit lb- emigration Si Pi§ I citizens of (he Southern Slates to the part oflhe I | country, the situation and cl mate of which was f peculiarly suited to them, would have been high- s ly n ■■just, as it had been purchased oul of the I common fund. Particularly, 100, when it is re- tel collected that all the immense territory to the f North West of the Ohio, had been ceded byVir- || ginia. and with an unexampled liberalty, the hud herself proposed, by excluding slavery from |gj|i it, to secure it for the emigration at those Stain I which had no slavts. Was it proper, then,when i her reserved territory was in a great memurt fl filled up, to exclude her citizens from every part ! p j of trie territory purchased out of the common ! fund? I was the first person to introduce inw y Con. ress the proposition that aif the coynlrr 1- above (to the North of M ssomi. which, haviaj 1 | no inhabitants, wasffi e from the objection madi ] lu Missouri and .Arkansas.) should never !;re | j slavery admitted into it. I replied, what I list; I before said, that, as our union was only effected « ; 1 v mutual concession, so, only can it be preserr- | * “My vote against the restriction of Missouri, I in lo ming her co. sntutioii, was not a conclusive r/# ! one. There would have been time enough, had I continued to he a member, before the question I j was decided, for my constituents to have instruct ' ed me, and I should have rejoiced in an opportu- 1 nitv of sacrificing my seat to my principles, if they had instructed me in opposition to my con- & yj| struction of the constitution. f “Like many other members from the non-slave- K 9 holding slates, of whom I mention Bhaw, Holmes, ■ Mason of Massachusetts, Lyman of t 'oniiecticnl I iu:d Ualdwinot IVnnsjßaiiia.lcoultl Hensfhtj I | in the Constitution which 1 had sworn to suf I ; port, to warrant such an interference with the* Bpi I rights ol the states, and which had never bfiirt I | been attempted. And where is in ow K j set of men not being able to interpret the consliw* I tiun as other men interpret it? As we had ail |||p sworn ti support it, the crime would liave been I in giving it a constructiou which our consciences ■ would not sanction. And let me ask, for wla! I j good is this question again brought up ? h ' iai I been sett'ed, as all our family dillerentes hu | ; been settled, on the firm fias-ts ol mutual coi- I promise. And patriotism, as well as pruaem devoted the effects of that awful discussion eternal oblivion. Is it not known, that fromj | cause the great fabric of our Union was shakes BN Ito its foundation ? Is it not Known that Misso u “ would not have submitted to the restriction, a;u I that the other slave-holding states had tleiernin 1 ed to support h; i? But for thiscompronw*- '- e probability is, that at lilis moment we nvg' ll ‘j,' 1 ’ I upon the opposite shore o Ohio, not fur an it s \ lionate sister state, but on an armed and imp I i ble rival. What patriotic man would |lot J 0 ’® I the ga lant Eaton in execra ing the head ami I h.ncl that could devise and cxet uleaschctneP' ductive of a ctilamiiy so awiul!” , I Now, sir. after reading tins document. ' ii will say that Gen. Harrison ever tnnetc I parted the abolitionist ? and who wttf ' to compare his course with that of the P r(>sl p President, who, acting u s if there were w sliftition, voted, in New Vork. to instruct Senators and Members to exclude Mtssou- 1 ' less she would exclude slavery from her ‘' _ and make it unconstitutional hy her com Who cannot reconcile the whole cor^° C L, I General M vuinsov, with all his recorder ions 1 Who lias not understood hiat. v ' his ietlcr to Mr. Lyons, of \ irginia, he s '.\ 5 “abolition” in the sense attached l,) , il !'! i( . f n constitution cf the society, ol whi h he. a member when a youth, did not mean v ' VA . 1 it means. Thai it xxas his right as a " * rlt \ n f \ aJ master to free his slaves , and as a u 1 Virginia, in Ins own State, to belong h’ •* . ty, whose object it was to ameliorate 110 | lion of slaves or free them in his own J ’“ ue " j t ji Washington aha abolitionist, in ,ii (’ Ht sense, when at his death he gave trees. a*' slaves? Was Jkffeuson, ohen he f the most violent opinions against sla'erj u,, | abstract, and g .ve origin to the chimeni a p of appropriating the revenue, derivable r '( public lands, to the colonization of s,a ' l /’ I|l i|i*f the consent of the slave Slates ? Is it lU '( ‘ eJ , to you that notwithstanding this, Jtrr r- 1 * )r i»l, pressed the hotte-t indignation at the t-- c iiheifering, Intermeddling s!alil i !aUII '