The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1836-04-08

those who have determined 10 support Mr. Van
Buren, Dc ms opinions oR this or any other sub
lect v hat they NAV, that he has accompanied the
declaration that Congress possesses the right to
legisate on the subject of Slavery within the Dis
uict of Columbia, with an explicit ayowa OF his
diSapprohaton Of TIC exercise Of that right, and
with a sort OF pledge that, should he be elected
President, he viii put his veto upon any act which
may be passed by Congress Conhscatug the Slave
property Of the District. THIS Is all seeming
fair" out il should not recommend the possessor
Of such opinions TO the confidence and support OF
a SIaveholdinr community. No NORTHERN
MAN trb0 comedies the rigit Of Congress TO oct
upoa this subifci, should Be- trusted ~ the South
A southern man, entertaining tins opinion, would
be harmless because his interest if nothing else,
would prevent him from giving il practical re-
C1gnlton: But we have no such guarantee in the
case Of Northern man. HIS interest Would lie
IN the opposite dirCciOn-and interest and opinion
thus concurrIng. who can doubt which way the
scales will incline, IN nearly balanced state Of
parties Who can doubt, II the AbohtionistS were
strong enough 10 pass a law emancipating the
Sl5vs, ot the District that Martin Van Buren,, as
President, believing that they had night to pass
such law would dare 10 encounter their hostility
hy the application of the Veto Who believes
that he would desue 10 do SO lie must be more
credulous believer in the sincerity and virtue of
politicians, than we are who suppoSes such thing
within the range of posslbllity-and as for Mr..
Van Barren, he is tie very last man whom we
should regard as being capable OF such an act, un-
der such circumstances He has been treacherous
TO more than ono engagement, without any thing
like the same motive to insugate the treason-and
what has been, NAV be again" But even were
his sincerity uHimpeachable, We repeat, that no
Northern man, especially one OF admitted ambi-
lion, and dependent or ITS qualification mainly
upon Northern influence, who comedies the right
OF Congress to emancipate the slaves in the Dis.
irlct, can be trusted BY the South, no matter how
strongly he NAV protest phile he IS bidding for
Nouthern roles against the exercise OF the right
Al is trastiag too much upon siggle contingency
"a contingency, in this case, as feeble as the
spiders most attenuated web"
Mr.. Van Burcn's past history furnishes US with
lust cause TO dread his official action on the sub.
iecf Of Slavery, IN any aspect in which il may be
presented to him. In lo20, he opposed the admis-
son Of Missouri into the Union, unless she would
bind herself to forbid the existence OF Slavery
within b. limits In l-2l, be voted in the New
York Convention. Tor the extension OF the right Of
suffrage to free negroes. And IN le22, he voted
so to clog the introduction Of slaves into the terri.
tory oil Florida, as if be bad been successful
would have filled up that then newly acquired re-
ginn with free aborers, and eventually made 1t a
Free STATE" and an Abolition Factory, on our
Southern frontier All these facts prove that be
has leaning t0u3rts 4bohtionism--and at least
furnish reason enough Why the South should us.
trust him