Columbus Democrat., 1840-10-10

Consli,utionsl barriers on which the security Of
your property and The safety Of your wives and
daughters depend.
| I1C.D.ral Harrison is opposed 10 Abolition,
and vii veto any bill sbohsbing slavery IN the
/ District Of Columbia, as some oi BIS political
friends at the South asset, Why does ne not give
a pledge to that effect as Mr Van Buren has donei
Why adhere TO the policy Of writing letters TO The
abollonists of the north, and 10 the ase'holdels
Of the south, not intended ioI the public eye !"
When lntenogaied on these questions oi para
mount Importance to the south, by the Democra.
tic Committee Of Kentucky, he replied "Ihal no.
thing could induce him to answer such lnleTroga'
tories coming from friends or foes y
TuE TARlFP question Is one OF great and
growing interest 10 The people ei The South as
an attempt, in all prObabIly,will be made IN is42
TO alter the ocompromise act' SO as 10 increase
the protective dulles. II is therefore important
that lhe opinions Of the aspirants to the Presden'
CIV. on this subject should be known General
| Harrison having expressed no recent opinion, We
have TO refer 10 those formerly expressed, TO ar
rive al some conclusion as to what his views now
ere.
From 1916 10 1920, he voted for. and sustain.
ed in Congress the tariff acts for The protection
| Of domestic manufactures. lie has expressed
himself decidedly 10 favor Of the tariff Of 1928,
the effects Of which produced the nulllhcatIon ex'
citement that came nigh sevenng the Onion
In the Legislature Of Ohio, he supported the
following resolution:
/ Resolved, by the General Assembly Of the
State Of Ohio. that in their oPInlon' the present
pecuniary eubarrassments Of the country, are 10
great degree, caused by want ot encouragement
and protection 10 Domestic .MGnufGelursrs; and
lha, GOOD POLICY requires that such modIflsa
,ions of the tariff, on imported articles, be Imme'
dia,eIy mad, as will stop that nundalion Of For
epn Merchandise, which has destroyed or sus-
pended the operations Of The greater part Of the
man ulacturing establishments OF The United
States" The yeas end nays beng called HAN
RISON voted in the affirmative"
In 1891, in an address 10 an Agricultural socl'
ely 10 Ohio, he said
} ut may be asked, whether, andtrany circum'
stances. would be willing TO abandon the Tariff
! answer. without any hesitation, m the afhrma.
tive. Whenever the streets OF Norfolk aud
Charleston shall be covered with GRASS and our
Southern friends find no market Tor their pro-
ducts, and this stuie Of things can be distinctly
traced to the tariff, them and not I'LL then, will !
give my voice for its modification or repeal"
II The political life Of General Harrison proves
any thing, il is that he has ever been consistent
and jealous advocate Of high protective tariff,
which, in the opinion OF every southern statesman
and as pas, experience fully proves, builds up the
} north u. the exp pense of tho south
General Harrison has been equally as jealous
an advocate of INTERNAL lMPRovEMENTsb by the
General Government, as he has oi a protective
tariff. His votes in Congress, and in the Legs.
lature of Ohio, give ample evidence ofhis attach
mcnI 10 this system.
While member Of tho Senate Of Ohio,n 1919
he sustained the following resoutcD
Resolved, that, in the present state Of pecu-
niary embarassmen,s amongst the people, il is
, unwise and mpoliiic, for the Government to ray
off the public debt more rapidly than the obliga.
tons il may have come under TO its creditors may
require; and lha, any surplus IN the treasury would
: be more usefully employed in the Internal I'm
proyement Of the county, by roads and canals
: and in the support and encouragement Of domes
! tic manufactures" The yeas and nays being call
| ed, HARRISON vote in the affirmative \! Oh
I motion of Mr. Harrison, Resolved, ha, our Sc
0 uators in Congress be instructed, and our repre-
Z senlatives requested TO use their exerlions 70 pro
i cure the passage Of Laws embracing the princi
d pies recommended in the foregoing resolution. ;
u The opinions Of General Harrison are so contra
diciory, es to the expediency or consitnonaity O
q national bank, that his own pohnca friends are a
fault on these points in many ofthe States
In 1922, IN letter 10 the editors OF the lnqiSitor
paper published at Cincinnati, he SAYS:
believe that the charter gwen TO the Bank o
10 the United States was unconstitutional heinz
not one OF those means necessary TO carry any of h'
e expressly granted powers into effect; and whilst m,
b. votes in Congress will show that IrW take an,
constitutional means 10 reroke the charter my vote
. IN tic Stale Legislature will equally show that an
: opposed TO those which are unconstitutional or vo
. ent, and which will bring rs into collision with TN
General Government" Afterwards, in his letter 1
re Shrrrod Williams, in 1886 he says, "if elected I
The Office Of President, and il were clearly ascertain
ed that the public interest in relation 10 he coec
3. lion and disbursement Of the public revenue, w0nl
materially suffer without one, and there were une
!, quvucal manifestations ofpubc opinion its tavor
J" woukl sign n charter Of Nsliuna Bank"
!" :, IN Vuginia the wings support Gen Harrison o
. :. the ground that he iSnppoSed 10 National Bank
" in Mississippi, they support hun brcause he e ii
~ !" favor Of bank We leave il with those who es
y. m most interested in the opinions ofthe General, +
y determine how he can be for and against bank a
~ one aud the same time
a OPINIONS OF MARTIN VAN buren,.
I'd Duing the last Presidential contest, every viii,
"a newspaper and every whig politician Throughout
the country, denounced Mr.. Van Buren, for wha
OF they sneerngly termed his non comm tdFsm-
to This charge (ike the standing army the Hoo
ID case, aud other vile emanations of the Execuhy
+" Committee, during this compagn,) has vanishe,
70 before the light of experience and truth. Wha
le a ong contrast, on the score OF non coplmtdhs.
he do the candidates or the Presidency now presen,
n You see the hero dodging behind a confdenla
le committee, or standing mute and the revile
I'd mon committa" openly and fearessly avowing hi
d. sentiments upon all subjects upon which his feI
Ct low citizens have thought proper to iuterrogat
he him. One cannot confde in the intelligence an
ID patriotism Of his countrymen, the other earessl
III arn.,ls IN ho,b Ono dare M, ,,,or n son,;roa,