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CHHOMCLFi AND SENTINEL.
A I G V ST A .
WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 28.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Okie;
Tl;e invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican —
the patriotic Fa:mer of Ghio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TILER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of *9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
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patriot statesmen.
■PCS T LECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICCORESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DsKaib.
C. B. STRONG, of Bilb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, -of Burke.
E. wfIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
rfj The late election in Ohio has resulted ic the
election of 12 Whig and 7 Locofoco Member? of
Congress.
Arkansas Election.
The following are all the returns, we have been
able to collect from our exchange papers of the late
election in Arkansas for u Member of Congress. —
There are 37 Counties in the State.
Congress, 1840. Congress, IS3B.
Counties, Fowler, (W.) Cross, (L.F.) W L.F.
Philips, 264 287 170 244
St. Francis, 123 332 64 240 j
Crittenden, 48 mai. 82 139
Pulas'i, 538 416 537 196 ;
Hot springs, 107 IS9 92 114
Clark. 154 136 131 112 j
Ja-kson, 115 143 43 112
Herap't ad, 255 338 295 225
Independence 377 213 256 193
IOSI 2054 1493 1605
(un. Ji.CK.sox at Large.— We announced a
few clays since that Gen. Jackson had gone on
an electioneering trip to the Western Di-lrict of
Tennessee. The Clarksville Chronicle states, on
■“authority to be relied upon,’' th&l at Charlotte,
in a public bar room am );ig other things he said:
■“That Webster was sent over to England to
5 negotia ea great mammoth Bank in America,
that Dukes and Lords am. Ladies of England
were to be the Stockholders, and that the whigs j
«f the United -States had defrayed the expenses
«f their conventions and barbecues with British
Gold, which had been sent over to this country
for these purposes.”
We learn that in other places his abuse of
Gen. Harrison was violent and unmeasured.
Comment is unnecessary.
A Contrast.
Who gains by the destruction of Credit, and the
'Stuh’ishmtnl of a Hard Money Currency ?
Tin; OFFici.-Hoi.nEiis— Who will receive their
salaries in gold and s.Ler, while the value c4' all
property will be reduced one half.
The Money Lksih,u and the Usurer—
Whose gold and silver will be augmented in val
ue. in a ratio corresponding with the reduction in
the value of property.
The R ch—For it wHI, in tbe language of
General Jackson, make the rich richer, and the
poor poorer.
Tin; Creditor—Who will thereby be enabled
to oppress, and utterly ruin his unfortunate debl
°r‘
Who loses by the d P, t ruction of Credit, the
establishment of u Hard Monty Currency?
The Farmer — W nose farm is reduced in val
as u • one half ana its productions in an equal pro
portion.
The La%oi»er —Who is either utterly depriv
ed of trie means of earning his daily hiead, or is
compelled to worn at prices varying from 30 to
40 cents per day, instead of one dollar and a half,
as heretof>re.
The Poor Man —Who will he deprived of
all prospects of over rising to opulence in lie by
the destruction of adl credit and enterprise.
The Young Man—We will have torn from
him the great main-soring- to industry and exer
tion—and who henceforth, must never allow his
aspirations to rise above the lower and humbler
walks of life unless born to wealth and opulence.
Th Debtor— Whose property wili he sacri
ficed io fill the coffers ol his rapacious creditor.
The Ln>t Card.
Froraihe Louisville Journal Oct. 17.
A letter that we havejust received, from a lead
ing politician at Cincinnati, sikys: “The Van
Buren men in Phdad. iphia hiivf _-ot up a perfect
tWe-simile of the Cincinnati Gazette in mourning
and announcing the death of Gone: al Harrison 1
Their intention is to circulate thousands ot their
forgery among the voters of Pennsylvania. This
is part of the as ounding scheme of the Locofocos
■to defeat tbe old hero’s election. Be prepared.”
Virginia will vote for William Henkt
Hi; bison, snd oy a majority 100, which in pro
portion to her popular vote, will he equal to that
of any Stale in the Union, save peihaps Kentucky
and Indiana. Uur friends at a distance may rely
upon this with confidence. We warn them not
to trust the assertion of Thomas Ritchie. He has
not tin; slightest hope that his party ci a carry
Virginia, and all his btag aud bluster are pul
forth fur the purpose of operating upon other
States, lhevo.es of which are cast contempor
aneously with that of Virginia,— Petersburg
f Va.J Ini ell. »
Con esponden<-e of Uui North American.
New Youg.Friday,3 P. M.
We have a fine day and a good amount of bu
siness doing. Flour is salcal le as verv slid prices.
All sorts of grain arc lo be quoted at the prices
of yesterday. A sale was made of barley ai 65
cents pe. bushel, rash. In cotton the saies are
light, say 400 or 500 bales.
"stocks recovered themselves somewhat this
morning. m [
Tue prices of foreign exchanges are without
alteration, end the sbiymente of specie continue.
From the Charleston Courier.
To the Hon. George McDuffie.
g IR i think, sir, I do not assume, when I assert
that I have proved , ‘hat if the constitution had been
embodied and been endowed with life and speech,
it could not have acted with more fidelity to itse.f
moie in character , than did Gen. Hafrison, its
servant and representative. fur it, on and nf.er the
Missouri question. It has ■ eon seen that he car
ried out the conservative principles of the consti
tution in the very spirit of the constitution, not
only defending a brother’s rights with a brother’s
; fidelity, but with a brother’s love I shall not
■ trust myself to pr nounce upon their character, j
j and give name t;> those who, informed of all that
General Harrison did and said at this crisis ol the
country, have yet sought, from hi.-conduct, and
his defence of it on this occasion, to bisnd him as
a traitor tc the constitution which he died • politi- ;
cal y) in defending, and an ally of the abi.itionists, J
i in re isting whom he sacrificed himself, ihe facts, j
! ai d hi? accusers aie with the South, and the ver- j
; diet is being reader 1. j
: I come, now, in historical fonnccticn, to the :
! second occasion upon which General Ha, risen p.-e*
i sented himself as a volunteer in defence of the
I constitutional rights of die South. In 1833 he de
| Jivered an oration at Cheviot, the main butden of
I which was an argument against the crusade of the
aboil ionrits against the South. He wa- not a can
didate for the Presidency, nor thought ot as a can
didate. From a detached passage of this oration,
(not the Vincennes) severed Loni the wiioit aim
and sco; e of ‘he orati n it elf, whl h was to put
down the ahofitionists, and expose the foil , mis-
I < hievousness, and unconstitutionality of their agi
tation,you ha e sought lo connect him with the
v ery men and doctrines whom he was endeavoring,
with patriotic effort to oveitnrow. Trent that very
passage itscl , however, i have pledged myself to
prove that she had sought the bitter opposition of
the abolitionists, he could not h tve hit upon any
, plan to have secured it more effectually than by the
recomendation of the project contained in it, at war
with alt their distinctive principles, and upon which
they have made ceaseless u:arvpon principle. But
before I come to the proof of tms propo if ion, let
me qosle some passages from the c he viol uiation,
in exposition of Gea. Harrison’s object and spiri
in deliver-ng it. lam on'y Sony that apace will
not Deinirt the insertion of too wh.le of it; but the
following extract will suffice;
“ ] here is now. however, a subject which is be
gin .ring to a aim them,in relation io which,if their
a/orxK has any foundation, the i el-itive situation to
which they may stand to some «*f the State?, will j
be the very reverse of what it now is. 1 allude to
a su p se-i disposition in some individuals in the ;
non-s avch;>kl:ng 'tales, to intei sere with the slave
population of the o:ber Mates, for the purpose of
forcing ihe r emancipation.” * * *
*■ If then- is any principle ot the Constitution of
the I’oit. d S ates e& driputaD e tnau any other, it
is that the -lave p -puUtion is unde, the exclusive 1
coat.o. of the States wbicb possess them.”
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What rau?t be the consequence of an acknow- !
ledged mo ation of these lights, (fur every man of
• sense must admit it to be so ) c njoined with an
insu.ting interference in their domestic concern- '” ■
• i- • « « * * »
“ Is there a man vain enough to go to the '-and
of Macon, of Madison, and of Crawford, and tell ■
■ them that t iey either do not understand the p:-o
cip'-es of the moral and political rights of man, or
that an ler-danding they disregard them ? Can
tiiey address an argument to the interest or the
fears of the enlightened population of the s ave
; states, th -1 has not occurred to themseives a thou
sa; d and a thousand limes 3 l o whom, then, are
they t) address themselves but to the staves ?
And what can he Slid to them, that will net
lead to the indis iminale slaughter of every
aue, sex and on-ii io i, and ultimately tolt.eir own
destruction? Should theiebe an incarnate devil,
who lias imagined with approbation, su h a catas
trophe to hi? fellow-citizens, let him look to those
for whose benefit he would produce it.”
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“ I will not stop to inquire nto the motives of
those who are engaged in this fatal and unconsti
tutional project, i here may be some who have
embarked i.i it without p.operiy considering its
i consequences, a- d who are actuated by benevolent
and virtuous principles. <ut if such there are, I
1 am veiy ceitaln that should they continue their
j present course, their fei ow citizens will,ere long,
curse the virtues which have undone their c.untry.”
“ If I arr correct in the principle s here advanced,
I support my assertion, that the aiscussion on the
i subject of emancipation in the non-sla-eholoitig
| States, is equally injurious to *ne slavs and their
: master?, as • * that it has t o sanction in the princi-
I pies of the constitution.”
No one can fail to recognise in this earnest and
I direct lung age. the sincere pa riot.enfor* lag witn
j honest heait and purpose the strict fulfilment of
the solemn covenants of the Constitution. That
the connection of Gen. Harrison’s course on this
subject may be more strictly preserve I, I will fur
ther postpone my promised comments on youi
strictures upon he passage oi the Cheviot speech,
to which you have expected, until i bring before
the country the whole of his ab'e, sober, and elo
quent aigmnent and appeal in beha f of the ton
stilulional righ s of the :-oulh, delivered in the
midst of the canvass for the Presidency, at Vin
cennes, Indiana, in May, 1835. And here let it
be remaiked, that this i? one of the documents to
which he has made standing reference as a lull,
i deliberate, unchanged exposition of his views on
I the slave question. I pray all conscientious citi
j zeas to read it careful]. —to m<irk its rignai ability,
its directness and mmfulness, its honest zeal, its
completeness—and then compare it with any pro
i duct ion from any quarter on the same topic and
say that it is surpassed bv any qualitv whi.h be
longs t»th •wi iter, the patriot or the statesman. 1
shall not ask them to limit toe comparison to the
present President—his passionless mind, never rose
to tiie fervid eloquence of its sty-Ji*, aud the con
densed, diie-1 and cogent powei ol rite argument.
It i* as foi'ows;
“ 1 have i ow fellow citizens, a few more words
to say on another suoje< t, and which is, iu my
opinion, of moie importance than any oilier that is
now in the coarse of discussion in any put of the
Union. I allude to the socie ies Which have been
formed, and the movements of certain individuals
iu some of the 'tales in relation to a portion of the
i population in others. The conduct of these pei
sons is the more dangerous, because their object is
masked under the garb of disinterestedness and
benevolencei and their course vindicated by argu
ments ami p;opo.-i:ions, which in the abstract, no
one can d; ny. But however fascina ing may be i
th>* dress vrilk which their schemes are presented to
j their fello w-citizens, with whatever purity of in- I
| tention they may have been formed and sustained, 1
i they will oe found to carry in their train mischief
I to the whole Union, and honors to a large portion
; of it, which it is probable, some of the projectors
! and many of their supporters have never thought
i of; trie 1 alter, the first in the series of evils which
j ate to spring from their source, are such as you
i have seen perpetrated on the fair plains of Italv
and Gaul, by the Scythian hordes of Attila and
! A Uric ; a id such as most of you apprehended up
on that memorable night when the tomahawks and
I ware übs of the so lowers of l’ecum-eh weie rat
i tling in your suburbs. I regard notlne driavowals
: of any such intention upon toe pait cf the authois
; of these schemes, since, upon the examination of
i the oublications whi n ha”e been made,they will
j be found :o contain the very facts, and verv ar.ru
; m* nt' which they would have used, if such had
; been their object. lam certain that t ere is not.
j in this assembly, one of those do'uded men, and
i there are few within the bounds of the State. If
1 there are any, I would earnestly entreat thf m to
forbear, to pause in their career, and deliberately
i consider the consequence of their conduct to the
whole Miion, to thestates more immediately in
terested, and to those for whose benefit they pro-
I fess to ac:. That the latter will be the victims
| of the we ak, injudi* ious. presumptuous, and un
con'llu-ional efforts to s* rve them, a tao.ough
examination of the subject must convince them.
I The struggle (and one theie mud he) may com
mence wnh ho;ror- such as I have descri. en, but
it wi 1 end with more firmly riveting the chain-, or
in the utter extirpation of those whose cause they
advocate.
“Am I wrong, fellow-citizens, in applying the
terms weak, presumptuous, and ui constituti nal,
to the measures of the em -n ipators ? A slight
examinaton will, I thinx, sh.ow that I am not
, In a vin licati n of the objects of a convention
which was lately he'd in one of the tow ns of« hio
j which I saw in a newsp per, it wa? s. id that no
■ thing more w*a- intended than to • reduce a st ite of
pub ic feeling w r hi< h would lead to an amendment
of the constitution, authorizing the abolition oi
slavery in the United states. Isowcan an amend*
raent of the constitution b« effected without the
consent of Southern States? What then is the
proposition to i-e submitted to theni ' it is this :
‘ The present provisions of the constitution secure
to you the right (a right which you hela before it
was made, which you have never given up,) to
man ge your domestic concerns >n youv own way ;
but as we are convi ced you do not manage them
properly, we want you to put in the hands ot the
general goverumen , in the councils of which we
; have the rn ijority, the control over these matter*,
I the effect of which will be virtually to transfer the
| power fiom yours into out hands.’ Again, in some
J of the States, and in sections of others, the black
j population far exceeds that ot the wiute. Some
of b;e emancipators propose immediate abolition,
j What is the proposition tiien as it regards the
j states an 1 parts of the states, cut the allernat-vcs
of amalgamation with the blacks, or an exchange
jof situation with them ? Is there any man of com
mon sense who docs not oclieve that the emanci
pated blacks, being a majoiity, wi.l not insist upon
a full participation of »olitical rights with tne
whites; and when passes-ed of these, tuey will
not on tend fora full snare of social rights a.so ?
I What but the extremity of v. eakness and toi y
could induce any one to think, that such proposi
tions as these could be listened to by a people so
intelligent as the southern states.' further, the
amanciputors generally declare it is their intention
to ellieci their object (although their acts contiadict
their asseition) by no other means than by cun-*
vincing t!ie slave holders that the emancipation oi
1 the staves is c alled for, both y moral oh igit»on
I and sound policy. An ui.fleugeu jou h. at tne mo
ment of his leaving (indeed, in main instances,
befo.e he has iefi it) his theological seminary, un
' dcitakes to give lecture** upon morals to tne coun
trymen of Wythe, Tucker, t’encjlelon and Lowndes, -
and lessons of political wisdom to states, wbo-e
affairs have ro recently been directed by Jelieison
and Madison, Macon and Ciawford. Is it possible
lb it instances of greater vanity and presumption
could be exhibited? But the course pursued by
the emancipators is unco stitulional. I do not
say that there are any words in the constitution
which forbid the discussions they are engaged in ; I
know that there are not. And citizens have the
| right to express and publish their opinions witii
j out restriction. But in the construction ot the
I constitution it is always necessary to reiei to the
j circum lances under which it was framed, aud to
I asceitain it< meaning by a comparison ol its pro
visions vvith each other, and with the previous sit
uation of tne several states who were parties to it.
In a poibon of these slavery was recognized, and
they too:; care to have the right secuied to them ;
to follow and reclaim such oi them as were lugi
• lives to other states. The laws of congress. pa-seJ
' under this power, have provided punishment idr
:>n\ one who sha.l oppose or inlcirup tie exer
cise of this right Now can any cne believe that
the i stiument which contains a provision of thU
kind, which authorizes a master to puisue his
j 'lave into another state, take him back, and pro
vide a punishment fur any citizen or citizens of
that state who should oppose him, should, at the
j same time, authorize the latter to assemble togeth
er, to pass ic-ol tionsand adopt addresses not only
to • ncuur. ge slaves to leave their ma ters, but to
l cut their throats before they do so >
“1 insist, thU if the citizen'ot the non-slave
holding states can avail themseives of the aiticle
t*f the constitution, which prohibits the rest; i tion
of speech, or the pre-s to publish any thing in un
ous to the slavehoiding states, that they can go to
the extreme that I n we mentioned, and effect any
thing further which writing or speaking could ef
fect. But, fe low-citizens, these are not the pri* -
| ciples of the constitution Jroch -a construction
I would defeat one of the great o jecis of its forma
tion, which was l.iat of secur.ng tne peace and
harmony of the states which were parlies to it.
i he liberty of speech and ot the pre-s were given
as the most effectual means to preserve to each
i and every ciuz n their own rights, and to tiie
| states the rights which appertained to them at the
i time cf their adoption. It could never have been
expected tnat it would be used by the citizens of
one portion of tne states for tne purpose of depriv
ing those of another portion, ot the rights which
they n.i i reserved at the adoption of the coii'iitu
tion, and m the execrise of which none but them
selves have any concern or inteicst. If slavery is
an . vil, the evil is wit i them. if there is guilt in
it, the guilt is theirs, not ours, since neitoer the
st tes where it due* not exist, nor the government
of the United States can, without u-urpation of
power, and the violation of a solemn compact, do
j any thing to remove it without the consent of those
: who are immediately interested. But they will
i neither ask for aid orcon-eut to he ai ,ed, wh Ut
| the illegal, persecuting, and d mgerous movements
1 are in progress, of which I complain : the interest
j of all concerned requires that these should be
I stopped immed atcly. This can only be done by
i the force of public opinion, and trial cannot be too
S soon brought into opera ion. Every mo rement
j wmch is made by tho abulitioni-ts in the no -
slavehoiding states, is viewed by our southeru
brethren a< an attack upon their rights, and which,
if persisted in. must in the end eradicate those
feelings oi attachment ;.nd affection between the
j citizens of ..11 Me states, which was produced by
a c ommunity of interests and dangers in the war of
the revolution, whic h was the foundatn n of our
happy union, at d by a continuance oi whi h, it can
alone be p.eserved. 1 enlieat you, thea, to frown
j upon the measures which are to produce rebuts so
much to be deprecated. The opinions which I
| have now given I have omitted no opportunity for
, the last two years to lay before the peop e of my
own 'bate. I have taken the liberty tj exp.ess
them here, knowing that, ev» n if th.ev should un
j fortunate! • not accord with yours, they would be
! kindly received.”
Is there necessity for comment on this ? Has
l the south any Lang move to ask ? Does it not cut
off all interference in any shape, by any mode, writ
ing,speech.petition—and that too by Constitution
al prohibitum ? Does it not assert the rightfully
uncontiolled —and m fact uucontro.labie power of
tne soutu, over its own msituiiuns, denouncing a.l
interference,under whatever pretext, with what
ever puij os-,, with however pure or impure motives,
us nut only injury but insult, as not only wrong
but outrage—pronouncing u- tSie absolute sove
reigns and ai biters of our destiny, responsible to
ourselves alone, and to Him, to whom all are re
sponsible.
! 1 will now say a few words and only a few
j words, in reply to your coirmie t, on the passage
i exceptea lo in the Cheviot speech, celivered in’33.
I The purpoce and spirit of that speech i have sla
ted and proveu—and lust let me correct an evrer of
I expiession which you have made in vour quota
tion — Gen. Harrison did not say he “hoped” to
j see the day, &<■.—bul“ we might ook forward to
, aday. ' His proposition vva,to appropriate, ‘with
j the sanction of the Mates holuing the slaves,” the
| surplus revenue for the colonization of the Dec
and the purchase of others who were not free, far
I the purpose of colonizing them. As a theory, Mr.
: Jefferson is responsible for tnis project. He re
| commended the appropriation of the proceeds of the
| Public Lands. Bui he lived to out-live this and all
other chimeras on this subject—and to despair of
any agen y sullicientiy powerful to remove the
black race from our borders. VVitn all his fiery
hearted entbu iism. he died, surrenoering the
whole problem of the relation of tiie black man
with Hie wnite, to time am providence. As a
matter of pr.ncple, this project of General Har
bi on’s to “ colo..ize” the negroes of America, if
ref. rred to as proof of his connection with the ab
o itionisls, proves incontestiLly the contrary —for
it must be known to jou, ieared as you may be,
that “ coloniza.ion” and *• abo.itiou’’ ate at dag
geis’ points, and that the ab ii ionisis nave de
noun ed colonization, as a vioent wrong to the
olack man, and the main prop aud ally of s avery.
Il it has chanced to you to h ive read the celebra
ted letter ol .vir. Birnie to Mr. Lalhoun and Mr.
Li-more, in explanation of the principh s, instru
mentalities and ultimate purpose of abolitionists,
you will have known from that source, if not from
any other, that they consider slavery criminal in
itsell ; and that the black man, notwithstanding
his color and ids history, is entitled to a 1 the
rig ts and privileges ol an American citizen —to
those rights and privilegis it is their purpose to
r. store or to raise him. They consequently on
1 P r ’ nc pl*, or as a consequence of tneir principles,
| denoun<e tho ma.i or the government who would
| Py r chase a slave to co.omzc hi , as sharing the
s;n ol holding the slave,as sanctioning aid re-vard
ing the guilt ot his m-i<ier; and that to colonize
him and send him away from this country, is to
deprive him of the rig ts of an American citizen,
and lorce lain into exile. I repeat il, that nothing
have t e abolitionist denounce ; with so much ana
s-.ch unmeasured violence, as outrage and, fraud, as
Colonization in any shape, by individuals, societies
or governments. To this denun lation Gen. Gar
rison expo-ed hi nself and >o far from making
them his friends, in the natur. of ,bi. gs and on
principles, provoked llicii enmity. The war of
the abolitionists upon the colonization society is
familiar to all our ■ itizens—hut it is not to that so
ciety it is to colonization itself —the removal of
the negro from this country as his country, tnat
they are opposed. This, Sir, you cannot deny. 1
can accumulate proof upon proof of this, if it were
necessary, or if it were denied. I shall content
myself, with the abduction of a reso.ution, level
led at the colonization society us our country, as
the omy body upholding colonization, by James G.
Birey, the candidate if the abolitionists for the
Presidency, in the “world’s convention,” recently
held in London.
“ Resolved, That this Con ention re;ards the
scheme of African colonization, proposed and mged
by the American colonization society, totally inad
♦qu ae to the overthrow m slavery in the United
States, tending pae.ee fully ta strengthen that tm
nghteous system, as deeply injurious to tho negro
race, whet er bona or free, noth in America and
Afr ca , and therclo.c unworthy the aid and counte
nance of the Phiianthrophist and Christian ”
I do not suppose, sir, that you were conscious
that you ha. omitted to st.te that i>en. Harrison
had coupled colonization wuh emancipation —as an
inseparable co.iuition. No doubt, entirely with a
view to condensation, you select this one passage
f.i.m the t heviot speech —omitting the whole ar
gument and purpose of the speech, as inconsistent
v i'ii tiie point and conipactn s> of your argument
—: ut when it was y oui aim to convict Gen. Har
rison of being an abo.iliomsb after omitting the
whole contest of the passage, which context wouid
have ma te the charge not only .trefoil* tut ridicu
lous—alter sacrificing so much to condensation and j
point, it wou d have seemed a little more fair not !
lo nave omitted the “ colonization” ft ature in Gen.
Harrison’s project, which, in itself, raised up a i
wai; as high as the heavens between lien. H arri
son and Aooli'ion, and gave a flat denial to the
charge of any connection, identity or countenance
of the abolitionists. Not expecting as a matter of
justice, il nave been a generous concession
to have quoted the whole oi the very shoit passage,
thrown out incidentally, and by the way, in a long
argument devoted to the cause f the South. Would
not any one suppo-e, in reading the charge you
have brought ..gainst General Harrison, in the
> language you have made, that he had recommended
.j the appropriat on of b.e suip.us revenue of the
j United Mates to the simple emancipation of the
j slavisof this couutiy, and b.at he hud hoped to see
| tiie day when they would be ,il hee —free in this
i country. 1 hose who have read tne speeches ao I 1
have quoted them at son;l* length, will have seen,
that Gen Harrison considers it as utterly vision
ary, that the two races can jive together, in
the Southern States, on terras of social or polit
ical equality—or that they can he freed without
leading to bioo shed and extermination. His plan j
j wi' to colonize, not to emancipate —to separate i
j the races, not to biing them, in this country, on a
! common level. Tnis is his language —“ W ith the
i sanction ol the Slates holding the slaves, b.cie ap
pca.s to be no cons itulional objection to its (the
surplus revenue) being thus applied; embracing
not only tiie colonization of those who may be oth
erwi-e need, but the purchase of the ficedom of i
o h rs.” And then adus. tnat by a prosecution of \
j this plan,“ we might look lor waul to the day when ,
1 the North American sun would not look down up- |
;on a slave ” Not, sir, in your condensed plnase, i
| he •* hoped ’ to see the day when “ the American
j sun would not lo >k down upon a slave” —coupled
1 wuh youi piecedicg language, “ he al-o declared,
i in ids V incennes sjieeih. that it had been Jong an ;
| object near to his lica.t to sc.? the who.e surplus
revenue appropriat d to the purchase and emanci
-1 paiion cf our slaves”—t .e whole togeth- r, as ex
! pressed in your language, half quotation, part mis
i quotation, and a p irt omission, leading the mind
| irresistibly to theconclusi n that G nerai Harri
son had indeed hoped to live ta see the cay when
1 the American ,-uu wouid not sTme upon a ala. k
j man, as a slave, and that our whole i eg.o popo a
! tion was to be free uul free in this country, ihis
false tmp.ession, raix d by the manner of your
charge, strengthened, 00, by the immediate reflec
tion accomp uy mg it, and by the subsequent argu
ment, in which not one word is said of •• coloniza
tion. This is you reflection :
“ In the fate of the avowals, I may well wonder
how can any 'ouihern mm give him his support?
Here is unso.iration, in its largest extent, and a6o
litionism in the most dangerous of all the forms
wnicji this infernal monster can assume. It is the
very form in which we sha.l have to meet it.”
It is evident that you have b en deluded by a gar
bled e ti act from the ulobe, or some paper al home,
quoting from the Globe; for I would be w illing to
leave it to any simpleton, or even to an hysterical
o.d lady, if there is any possible danger lo be ap
prelunded from this cnirnerical conceit of Jeffer
son and Harrison, against win h every Abolition
ist in the country stands pledged —against which,
even the avarice of the North stands pledged —for,
ou the icmoval of our slaves their best market
would be b st —and forever. Il is palpa le that
you h ive w asted your strength upon a s. adow r —a
fiighif.il ph ntom, conjured up by the enchanters
of the Admin stratum lo frighten the boutn from its
propriety. It set-rns too plain for argument that
the removal of the negro population to Africa,
wou .d injure the North, to the extent of the whole
negro consumption o. Northern goods and produce
—besides the consumption oi their master, partly
the produce of iheirlabor. Doyou think, Sir,that
England wou.d have consented to the emancipa
tion ol her slaves in Jamaica —she pay mg the cost
if lh. population of that Island weie to have been
Iran ported to Africa, and the whole lich sugar
crop, thefiuit of negro labor, stricken forever from
the 'um of h«*rnational wealth? Do you suppose ,
Sm, that th<* Nortn is prep ired to commit suicide —
to yield up all her p csent wealth, to purchase our i
slaves foi transpoitabon ’o Africa, and thus cut
herself off forever, from tho largest sour, e of her
present and future income and support—and this j
too,from a motive of avarice ? The abolitionists,
as I have proved before, are opposed to any such
removal, on principle—and il is as clear as the sun
at noon day,that the self-interest of the North i»
absolutely oppO'ed to it. But as I remaiked before, j
it is evident that your remarks are not levelled
agains: Gen Hairuson s colonization piop>sition—
but against the simple emancipation oi the negro \
population, permitting them to remain in this conn- j
try —which is the plan of the abolitionists —aut is
not the scheme ot Gen. Harrison as recommended
in his Chevuii speech—ogiinst which indeed the
whole power of his V. ncennes ’ and ( heviot speech
es is levelled, as those have now seen who have read
them. Let me now repeat emphatically that. Gen
Harrison never made a y such proposition as you
have commented on — nd that the proposition he
did n ake, is of so contrasted a character, both in |
spirit and object, as to secuie the united opposition
of abolitionists aiid the determined hostility of all
tariff men.
I willuow pass one word upon the scheme of j
simp e emancipation, upon which you have com
mented—not as having any connection with ben.
H., but r.y way of dissipating what I conceive
painful doubts vainly entertained. You think it
offers strong tempt tion to the North to buy up Ma
ryland, Viigmia and Kentucky to the support of a
high laiiif! You stem to have forgotten tout Ken
tucky a d Maryland are already tanff states. Vir
ginia is no doubt without asiy “ bribery” or for
eign influe; ce, becomi.-.g so, from ihe fact, that she
possesses no staples wnich can at all employ her
imm. nse negro population—tobacco, hampered and
restiicted bv heavy duties in Europe, being her only
article of for. ign expert. But w hat, Nil , do you
think it would take to purchase her in your wav ?
In ib3o her negro oopul a tion amounted to 469,757
—since then it has undergone an increase—but ta
king il at that number and multiplying by 300 (as
an aver go) you have as the cost of V irgmia alone
one hundred and forty millions, nine hundred and
twenty seven thousand, one hundred dollars. Tne
cost of the other two States, nearly doubling this
amount. Is any comment necessary ? BuT sup
pose that Virginia and Kentucky were willing to
sell inemselves, and the North were even wi fling
to buy—how in the nature of things could I is ini
men- e sum be raised, on a commerce faltered by a
sub-treasury.and oppressed by a tariff' laid on with
the purpose of defeating it—by a tariff imposed
for toe very purpose oi prohibition and monopoly
and necessity cutting ojj the very revenue
w Inch is to tUMush the o.ibiog fund ! ihe North
manifestly could not fea< h the very end of a high
laiill—and yet raise money by a tariff, to pay the
al.y who wou d impose it—the end of a high tariff
being monopoly—n d the result of the monopoly,
the destruction cf revenue. But this is of course
a! wild speculation,anu that you had indulged in
, an appearance of soberness, i could not
nave been seduted into an,> thing so foreign to the
’irne—; nd to our time and Gm. Harrison’s life.
Presidential o. natural. v\ hen it is slated, as to
the realities upon which we are called to act, that
both m Virginia and Kentucky, the greatest ar
gument which can .e employed against any man,
is the mere suspicion of favoring emancipation in
any shape, aud the main weapon, used against Gen.
Harrison, is a shameless misrepresentation of views
I hive proved to be so eminently sound and consti
tutional, how worse than idie this contest with
shadows of our own imagination ; li is anticipation
of the far future, this dreaming of things utterly
absurd, palpably impracticable, without loundation
without authority; and if attributed to Gen. Har
bison by those, who an not ignorant or misinform
ed —not so impracticable, not so absurd, as false,
libellous ana malicious.
I have thus redeemed my pledge. It is for the
country to determine whether the proof is not con
clusive. that Iren. Har r ison has been “ ever faith
ful ,J to the constitution —faiihfhl to the sacrifice
of himself —obedient to it against his own individ
ual opinions. Whether in his whole life —in his
Cheviot and Vincennes’ speeches, there do not
breathe a spirit of love for his whole country, and
a jealous guardianship of every portion of it.
Whether the p :ssage excepted torn his cheviot
(not his Vincennes) speech does not prove the very
reverse of that which has been deduced from it,
and of rself establishes a wall of separation be
tween Gen. Harrison and abo ition, and is not it
self a ground of hostility anr. not of favor, on the
part of the abolitionists —denying as it docs their
fundamental principles, and defeating their ulti
mate purpose Whether this plan, whilst it pro
vokes the hostility ol the abolitionist, does not
equally deay and efeat any purpose or motive of
self-interest, of all who would undertake it from
any quarter ? and is not for this reason, on all
grounds, littery impracticable, chimerical, afford
inr no possible ground for apprehension 01 suppo
sition that it will ever be undertaken by govern
ment or people, by states or Societies,at any lime
however distant: —whether Gen. Harrison’s vote
i and defence of his vote on the Missouri queslioa
—his volunteer defence of the rights of the South
in his Cheviot oration, when be was not a candrd
ate for the Presidency, and his stitJ fu !er, abler.
; and more complete vindication of ti.o e rights when
he was in his Vincennes oration —whether there
acts and speeches, whilst they furnish triumphant
proof of his fidelity to the constitutional rights of
tt e limes past, are not the best pledge of his fideli
ty in future, and contain in themselves the best and
most satisfactory answer to ail questions which
have or may fie put to him—and wheth'-r in refer
ring to his lite and those speeches recently deliver
ed, so.pointed, explicit, unreserved and comf icte,
consistent throughout, presenting a beautfui haimo
ny of principle and practice, conduce and doctiine
1 —whether, in making this re fen nee zo such a fife
and to such documents, he deniel insultingly and
au lacnusly the riiht of the people to re informed
on the vital subject of abolition ! and whether the
questions jou have put (as the only one? which
, could be imagined—a lung list having been furnish
j ed fiom which to m ke a choice) at the close of
j your communication, are not sufficiently ansvered
! fiy Gen. Harrison’s speeches, and are riot in them
selves utter v irrelevant to the pa sage upon which
they are falsely founded—it having b: ea proved,
that tne passage itselt, contains no such recommen
dation as you have imagined and imputed, through
palpable misinformation and delusion. On this
i topic I have done. CIIAWFuUD,
A Touching Incident.
Mr. Arlington, while addressing the
people at lilt late festival in Fairfax, aliuded to
the objections made to General Harrison-s fitness
for the office of President of the United States,
on account of bis advanced age. “In the Ameri
can Republic, ” observed Mr. (J. “a man must ne
ver be too old to serve his country !” Then, tur
ning to Col LJroadwatc, a veteran of the Revolu
tion, who was s atca on the platform, and who is
upwardsot ntneiy, the orator continued : “Sav,
venerable man. t ou being of -i bygoij, age !
Say s ddier of the Revolution, lay countrv’s «’e
fender in her hour o" trial, blessings be on ihv
silver ha rs, and may the choicest charities of
heaven cheer the remnant of thy days! Sav,
is an American citizen ever 100 old to serve his
country ?”
A pause ensued, (says the Alexandria Gazette,
from which we take the above.) w'hcn the vete
ran. slo ly rising from his scat, and resting upon
his staff, exclaimed, in a firm and audible voice.
No I never too old to serve his country !” And
here ensued a scene proudly to be remembered
by the people of Fairfax. The ladies waved
their scarfs, while the enthusiasm of a thousand
hearts bursted spontaneously from a thousand
lips. Loud rang the wild hurrah ! It was mag
nificent.
“Some achieve greatness,” says immortal Will
Shakspeare ; and “some have greatness thrust
upon them.’’ Napoleon, now, belonged to the
former class—not so numerous a division, hy the
way, as the latter; but by one of those wonderful
revolutions which occur only at long intervals,
he gained that giddy ascent which haserer, like
the fabled Prometheus, fed on itself to its own
destruction. Cincrnnatus. now, had greatness
thrust upon him—so had William Tell—and so
had Washington—and so had many others—but
it has been reserved for the young soil oflndiana
to produce a genius that the voice of fame is bear
mg on her swiftest pinions to the uttermost
bounds of the earth. When that amiable individ
ual was tracing those since famous words. “Crow,
Chapman, Crow !” could he have foreseen the
immortality he was bestowing upon that illustri
ous individual, how solemn would have been his
thoughts—how grave his demeanor—“on the
vision’d future bent,” while recalling tohis mind s
eye the undying fame that he was preparing
Chapman to receive ; thus, we see. hy some freak
of fortune, some have greatness thrust upon them!
Behold Chapman’s patronymic—s e, from the
j cane braxes of the lather of waters, to the lurn
berlands of the blue noses, his name rings the
alarm like Ziskas drum —tis shouted forth hy
| orators !—hundreds of journals give nis heraldic
, symbol daily to the world ; the geese of the Roman
is a goose compared to the crow of Chapman !
and famed Percy’s war cry has no hope of oeing
remetnoettd ! So hurra,“crow, Chapman, crow!”
—Baltimore Clipper.
An Immexss Yield or Corn. —We under
stand, says the Lexington (Ky.) Reporter, that
three neighbors of Mr. W. C, Young, of Jessa
i mine county, measured the quantity of corn
j grown on an acre of his farm a few' days since,
■ and found «he yield to be thirty-nine barrels and
ono halt bushel!—About the same quantity was
also found, from measure nent, to have been pro
duced upon one acre of the farm of Mr. Joseph
Bryan, of the same country.
Philosophy of Advertising.
A late number of Chambers’ Edinburg Jour
nal contains a very interesting articleon the sub
ject of advertising in the public papers, by an
“Old Tradesman.” His ideas on the subject, are
certainly worthy the attention of all who are anx
ious for business, and are simply and briefly as
follows:—The first utility of frequent and regu
!ar advertising is this; »here is at all times a large
class of persons both in country and town, who
have no fixed places for the purchase of certain
necessary articles, and are ready to be swayed and
drawn towards any particular place which is ear
nestly brought under their no'ice. Indifferent to
all. they yield without hesitation to the first who
asks.—Then in the country, a considerable num
ber of persons, who wish a supply of them, na
turally open a communication with that address,
which, perhaps, leads to much ulterior business.
People in the country are al o liable to be favora
bly impressed by the frequent sight of the name
in the newspaper
The advertising party a quires distinction in
th ir eyes, and thus they are led, in making a
choice, to prefer him. But hy far the most im
portant effectof advertising is one of an indirect
nat re. Inal conveys the impression that the par
ty-pretending or not pretending, quackish or
not quackish—is anxious for business. One who
is anxious for business, is unavoidably supposed
|° a " ‘ndustrious, attentive, civil person, who
ke°ps the best articles at the cheapest rate, does
t very t tng in tha neatest and most tradesman
i - e manner, and in general uses every expedient
Jo gratify and a tract customers. People of course
like to purchase unde these circumstances, and
the system of advertising assuring them that such
circumstances exist at this particular shop, they i
it accordingly. S uc t, &re th
the old tradesman alluded to. and ♦ > ° P,,lu>n * °f
tamly supported by fact; fur wherevi?* °Cr
sive or regular system of advertising ■ T n *
and no backdrawmg or unco« q uefa“, PfUtl * d .
stances exist, it is usually seen to I Clrcu,n *
with a considerable share of success*
ture in the philosophy of the subject m’„ at u fea ’
fully attended to. A faint anu
tern of advertising does nut succeed ev ****
! £«“■"• “Drink Jeep or last. f*
, Spring. ’
The power so. evil possessed hv the f"
| wonderful. It drew the people a ' lolje b
j ated them from affections to their true
: and attachment to ihe.r own principle
j now the Globe and Extra is doing tL *'
the Administration. Wherever that vH°? * or
slander and defamation is scattered, it
the very fruit of its former seed, arid
the hopes of the very power which it w
ded so sustain. The labor of the W-eV^ 0 '
has been to open the eyes of the p eo .|’ > res *
the result of the Globed course LaslicenV *!*
j gu«t the People with the Administratis - V.'*’
| instruments. So obvious has been the ,to
1 character of this mouthpiece of the Ad*.
tion, that it has itself discovered its ow, ! r "
t siveness, and now complains that the T
| not reatl its poisonous effusions. V s
■ j uze Ik,
i Flour.-—Sixteen thousand live hundred I i,
els of wheat and fifteen hundred barrels 0 f ft
j started on Wednesday for Liverpool in nj v r
land.— N. Y. Am. ‘ “
A Pleasant Town.—The Michigan 4 t.
cate, published at Jackson, says—“ \\V( m
this village one distillery in operation, ami oL' 1
the progress of erection, one ball alley amok?
Hard rooms, fifteen places for retailing LritnJ'
liquors, and tne State prison!” ~ h ’ 5
A pain er was employed i». painting the
in the Thames, on a stage suspended under Jr
stern. The captain had got in:., the boat alon
; -side, to go ashore, ordered the cabin boy to L
! go t nepwnter, (>he rope that holds a boat)-
j 1 he b \y instantly went aft, and let go tbe
jby which the painter’s stage was hold The
| captain, surprised at tbe boy’s delay, cried out
| “Confound you for a lazy dog! Why dan’, V .,J
let go me painter?”—‘He’s gene sir.” replied
tie noy, “pots and all!” r j
c O M MEKxJi AL ~~~
fMtest dates from Liverpool, October 3
Latest dates from Havre, September $
Baltimore, Oct. 2d.
Coffee. —The sales of the week are over 200u
bags, most of which were at auction. < n Wednes
day JbSi bags Rio were soldat ii a I2g cent-.; and
.WO bags Laguayia at J1 cents. We note sale’s bv
private contract of R.o at cents, and of La
guayra a: il£ cents. The Mock of iiio m { in[
hands is again exhausted—perhaps hOO would
now cempn-e it.
Cotton —A sale of a few bales new North Caro
lina al iIT cts. We note a sale of 8J bales Geor
gia Uplands on terms not transpired.
Flour. — lijiFard-strest Flour. —The store price
for Howard-stieet Hour has declined a shade.ad
we now quote al $4 94. The sales of the wet*
until yesterday, were unify, in at £5, for good com
men unmd Aoout lOuO dol> were taken yesterday
and this morning from stores at $4 94, an holders
are now offering to seii at the sane rate. Wecoa
t.nue to quote the re* eipl price at $4 87.
City Mills Flour. —.Sales ea.ly in the week atss,
and afterwards at £4 cash, or interest addtd.’
Molasses. —The cargo of the schooner Track,;n
Green, from Matanzas, consisting of 177 hhds. and
18 tierces, was offered at auction to-Jay, but a few
lots oniy were sold at 23 a so cents —the baln.ee |
withdrawn.
Frovisions. —A general dullness has prevailedin j
fie provision man ret tnroughout the week, and the j
transactions in all the variou-, articles under this I
iiead have been confined almost entirely to small I
j lots to the retail city trade. We quote Me?s Pork j
|at sl7, with small sales and dull. Prime al sls; j
Mess Beet at sl4 ; No. I at sl2, and Prime at $ 10, j
with limbed sales. The Mock of all deecriptious
of liacon continues light, and the demand very iim- I
ited in extent. We conti ue to quota Western I
Hams at 12j to 15 cents, the first named rale for I
interior, and the last lor a superior article. Mid- ]
i dlings at 10 to and Miouldeis at 9 ce.u.
i Sales of Baltimore cured Hams of gi.od bze and
in handsome order, have been made at l-Utoi?
cents.
Sugars —At auction to-day the cargo of the brig j
W r ater Witch, from i otto ivico, consisting of .47 j
hfids. was offered but oniy 108 sold at $7 >5/isSbO. I
At the same ;itr.e was ottered the cargo ol he sebr. I
Gallant Alury, also from I*ollo Rico, consisting ol I
152 hhds., but only 90 hhJs. we.e sold al oil? j
$S 50.
Whiskey —We note sales of hhds throughout 1
the week al 21* cents, and of bbls. at 26 cts. To
day bbis. are a little scarce, and a half cent rr.oiel'
occasionally paid for a lot of approved qua itv.
i he wagon price of bbls. is now 22 cents. exiTo
sive of the barrel. The inspect oos o. the week
romp.ise 92 hhds and Ibo 2 bbls, of which 92 hid*
an.‘ 250 bb.s. come from the Susquehanna River,
and 280 bbls by the busquehauua iiari Road.
Philadelphia. October *24.
Cotton —Market inactive, and the sale? to a lim
ited extent at nearly Meady prices. BaUs of about
2no Upland and v iiginia at 11 n 1 cts.y
Jb. on time, and a lot of common Tennessee atS
cents cash.
Boston, October 2!.
Cotton —A sale of 3.0 bales New Orleans uni
100 do. Uplond was made at 11c, cents for the for
mer, and 11 cts for the other, to manufacturers.
Molasses —Very dui 1. *
Sugars —Prime retailing, in good demand.
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