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TUESDAY MORNIN(j. OCTOBER 27.
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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 '
