Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1836-08-01
Monday, August /, 1895.
GEN. HARRISON AND JUDGE WHITE

raj politician, the Bank man, the Tariff man, lire
Internal Improvement MN, aud the man who was
attached John Adams, alministraon''- the
purpose Of showing thu there j, something uuuatu-
raj in the union between hi, friend, and those Of
JUDGE White. Doc, tine Enquirer hciicre what it
says ol Cen Harrison? l. cannot be 50 iguo-
rant let what shall say Of it, conlor, irit does
not
Docs il mol KNOW that Gcn. Harrison was never
" lcderaist,n wien that term bad distinct >iguj-
deaton Does il mol know lllat lie was a friend
and iasorle Of Jefferson aud supporter Of Mad
>oa, by word aud deed, throughout the whole tur-
buIent period Of hi. administration, when inter
nal faction, aided by Martin Van Buren,, united
with an external enemy 10 perplcx It's councils,
10 embarrass lis operations, aud TO jeopardze the
safety oil the country!
Does ii not know that he voted against the in
corporation OF il Ndtionat Bdnh, and that he still
avow, the opinion that such institution is entire
~ unnecessary and ought not to be incorporated
except under the influence of some such oyrrWhr-
ming necessity as that Which induced Mr. Mad-
lson, in SI6, 10 renquisl his constitutional OBJ
iecons 10 its charter, and even won over Virginia
to a silent aeqniescencc in lis establishment
If Cen Harrison be Tariff man,-and We do
not believe that he iS,-eannot the Enquirer, in its
charity, find for him the excuse which it /, always
so quick to bring forward in palliation OF Nan Blu
rcn's support Of the 1arf' Of 1921 aud especially
of the =" bill Of abommations," the Tariff Of 1873,
to wit, that he acted in obedience to the will Of
his constituents Why should it object to Gen.
Harrison, while itself supports Van Burcn, who is
obnoxious To the same charge There never has
been in this country more decisive friend Of the
protective policy than Martin an Barrn-not e.
ven MIR. Clay himself. How is it, then. IL2t the
Enquirer reconcile it TO itself to support Van,
while it pronounce, the advocates of the Tari0, in
the adverse ranks, 10 be beyond the pale of for
eiyencss Answer us, how it is, that Anti-Tarill
men can support Van Buren,; and that answer
will Justify the friends OF Judge White in forming
an union with those Of Gen. Harrison, even though
! the latter, in this respect, be As obnoxious Van
/ Buren, himself
In relation to Internal improvements, too, we
boldly assert, AMI challenge contradiction, that
Gen. II lrrison never gave, in the whol' Of hi, c
eisatve career, more heerodox votes than Van
/ Burcn himself. And we have the authority olhis
late letter to Saercod Williams, Esq, for saying
that he Is decidedly opposed to the exercise of this
power by the general government. We deny,
therefore, that he is an =" Internal Improvement
man., in the SENSE in whcl, that term IS used by
the Enquirer But il he were, such objection
comes with most wreehed Grace from an uoconr-
promising defender of an administration, which,
with all lis veloes, has done more to extend and
Pcrpctuato this policy than all It's predecessors
combined.
In relation to the last charsc OF the Enquitcra-
ga;nst Gen. Ilarrson wit, that he was attach
: ed 10 John Ad.,m,s administration it is utterly
nnionndel, and the Enquirer itself, if we mistake
not, once apoogizrd for having ianoccnhy copied
an article charging the iaet which il now takes up
ON itself broadly 10 assert, in the teeth Of the rctu
tation Which that article elected, and which drew
from the Enquirer lis apology. Gen. Harrison
was never attached to john Adam>'s administra-
ton in any sense whatever of that tcrm and
the Enquirer haS too perfect Il memory of the acts
of It's opponents TO believe that he was. 1t is up
on in elne charges Of this SORT that the really
ignorant throughout the country, base the false as
scron that Gem Harrison was an " Alien and Sc
dition law fcderalisr,n which, even were it true,
should be ercat crime in the eyes Of the sup
portcrs Of an administration which has recently APP
pointed one ol that sect to the Office of Chief JUS
iice OF the United States, but which, being false,
should not be urged by any intelligent man by
whom seraeity IS deemed virtue. The fact is,
that Gen. Harrison has always, from his first en-
france into public life acted with the Republican
party. Mr. Jefferson, while the General was yet
Young man. placed him at the head of the North
western tcrritory-a situation requiring combl-
nation Of alrnl, iatrefidity and prudence, which
were happily found blended in the young Virgil
man. Was Mr. J. in the habit of appointing Alien
and Sedion law iederaliss to offices Of trust and
rcsponsibilitvl Not he. He selected his agents
from the Republican ranks cScusiveIy-and in
LOOKING fora Governor of the Northwestern Ter
ritory, then embracing region OF country winch
has since bccnp arcned ontlnto several independent
States, he found, in those ranks, a man qualified
by bravery, sagacity and prudence for the delicate
and important duties which devolvcd upon that Of
licer-and that man was VIM. II. Harrison, who
had been tried before, in the council and in the
fcld and had displayed those qualities in an emil
nent degree.
There is, then, truth in the allegation that
there is any want OF the clements of assimilation be-