The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-17

sign OF the Constitution. ne same de-
carations were made by him, and with
greater emphasis, if possible, ia an address
delivered to an assembly of his fellow CT
tizens at Cheviot in Ohio, on the 9TH of
July, 1893; from which an insulated pas
sage, lin which the author admitting sla-
very to be an evil, says he would gladly
see the surplus revonce of the Union de-
voted to its progressive extinction in the
purchase and colonization OF the slaves,
with the sanction of the states holding
them, has been artfully culled, and given
to the public, carefully suppressing the
context in which Gen. Harrison main
tains, in the strong language | am about
to cite, that ''the slave population is I'M
der the exclusive control of the states
which possess them," and that "neither
the general government nor the non-slave
holding states can interfere in any way,
with the right of property IN slaves" and
at the same time denounces the schemes
of the abolitionist as fraught with ''horrors,
upon which an incarnate devil only could
look with appreciation"
But even if the incidental and abstract
suggestion above noticed in the Cheylot
speech of Gen. Harrison were to be look
ed at, disconnected from its context, how,
ever we might differ from him both as to
its practicability and some ofthe princl-
pies involved, Justice and candor would
still require us to bear in mind that, but
few years ago similar sentiments were
freely expressed both by the press and
public councils of Virginia, and that
plan for effecting the same object, almost
identical with that thrown out by Gen.
Harrison was developed and earnestly adj
vocated by Mr.. jefferson, in letter ad
dressed by him during the last years of his
life to Mr. Sparks, which you will see in
the 4th Vol. of his writings, page 389-
39l. But again repeat, where is the
man, whether of the south or of the north
who in the practical assertion ofthe rights
ofthe south and in energetic and decisive
Reproduction ofthe projects ofthe abolition
lists, has gone farther than Gen Harrison.
A just people cannot forget the noble and
self-sacrifcing devotion with which he
stood alone, out of all the representatives
of the western non-slave holding State and
in little band of but two or three from the
whole slave holding region of the Uu-
ion, in steadily resisting, onbehalf of the
SOUTH the memorable Missouri restriction
and the kindred proposition made at the
same period tie restrict the introduction Of
slaves into the Territory of Arkansas
patriotic self devotion, by which he lost
his seat in Congress, and incurred popular
odium and prescription for season in his
own State. All this Gen. Harrison did
freely, from a sense of duty to the Consti-
tuition of his county, and to the rights and
| interests Of the Southern States, and at d
time when he had nothing to ask at their
hands. What was the course of the pre-
sent Chief Magistrate, in whose behalf
Gen. Harrison is now sought to be stig.
matised as an aboIitionist, under the same
circumstances? He then as member oil
the Senate of New York, voted in favor Of
instructions to the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of that state, IN Congress to
support the Missouri restriction, and a
wear or two afterwards, as member of the
Senate ofthe United STAGES, voted in IA
vor of proposition to restrict the intro
duction of slaves into the Territory of Flo
rida. Well, therefore, might the south
require of him some pledge of fidelity to
their rights, when he became candidate
for their sufferages to elevate him to the
station he now occupies. But what farther
or higher pledge can Gen. Harrison have
to give than his conduct, and opinions,
uniformly sustained through every person
al sacrifice, coupled with that just and re-
publican definition of the true province of
the Presidential veto in hi letter TO Sher-
rod Williams, Esq, in which he says Kit
is conservative power intended only to
be used to secure the constition itself from
violation, and to protect the rights OF the
minority and weaker members of the I'm
iona definition obviously framed in its
last clause particularly with the reference
to that vital interest of the South, of which
he has proved himself, through good and
through evil report, the disinterested and
patriotic champion.
Another denunciatory charge against
General Harrison. and alike destitute OF
foundation, which has been extensively
propagated, is that he was "a black cockade
federalist and an advocate of the alien and
sedtion laws" during the administration
of the elder Mr.. A DAMS. This charge has