Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1840-06-25

Dear SIR The circumstances which Ihis lettcr will
explain. will excuse me, / hope, from intrudIng myself
upon your attention.
Amnag the numerous charges which have been put
IA circulation against yoJ hJ the presses aud parrizlus
ct MIR. Van Buren,. the Two most relied upon and deem.
81 most potent in the South, arc-Iha; you are a Fcde-
mllst and an AbOlitOn.si. Satisfied, from the evidence
before them and he whole country. that thcse Characs
are equally unsusiaIned hy truth. Your friends la e.
met, denied. and aS they believe, rcfutcd them a.
The prospect at your election increases. however, aud
the hear, ul te patriot rcNIvcs with the hope OF Ihc
success ui one, IRON whom hc expects a wise. ccuul-
mscat and Republican Administrator, the maligniiy OF
your cncmics seems To increase, and the spO.lsuncu be.
come more reckless and desperate M their efforts 10 re-
tain the power by which they make TIA ir siol. o
IIls the conclusive evidence Will be found m the
Richmond Enquirer of the lOih IusiUnI.i ! y production
purpOriing to be an address from the Van Barren Central
Committee here. la that address. it Is ruuadIy assert
cd that you are a FCdcralIsl aud an AbOli,iuuisL. and
that your friends IN the $OIth support you. knowing
that you are ~. THIS statement Is made here with a
knowledge uithc views entertained by tae WA of
Virginia, - expressed IN He Address 10 the peoplc of
ihe STATE, published by their Convention, whica was
held IA thIs city iR the month of February last. oIwL.cL.
! send you a copy BY the mail OF ulIs day. regard
his charge. therefore. Is an impudenl ialsche,d q.
galnst you, as Il certainly Is against the Wings of E,rgI-
n a. al whom IL IS specially levcllcd; and ii made by
any Anonymous scnbblcr IN a news, apcr, might have
been passed by with contempt. But as tho charge -
NV fA 4NAAA III AT 4NtiNetiE Nihl, ana tue SuIIDGl OF
AbvlIiiOu Is one Of absorbing interest and plrImOunl
Impar,aUcc-anl asl could not. aud am sure the
Wings OF Virginia, aud The SouIh generally, would mol
vote for any AbO.iIouISl living to he President of the
United States; (sCarccly sooner than they would for a
Florida lndianD and - I have been placed before lie
People of this State for the Office OF ElecIor upon the
Whlg ticket, ! have Thought II due to you. To the Wing
cause. AMI 20 myseiG 10 ASK you 10 furnish, under your
own hand, your denial ofIhe charge, ia a letter To me.
wh.,h | may publish.
] beg leave ." say, that The denial which | exGcct
will, III my opinion, advance your cause wiil all 2 od
and rclectIag men, through the land but wheiEeg Il
Will advance Or iIJurc It, u Is equally due To yourself
anl 10 Us, tlat you should furnish u, as | an satisfied
that you would be rs uuW Ilihg 10 advance that cause
10y any fraud. as we should be 10 H.. BE pleased there
lore, 10 say To me, whether YOU still entertain the scuIi-
mcI.is upon the subject Of Abolition expressed ia your
speech at NuccUHes, ia 1885, whether you were ever
a mCmJer 81 an Abolition SOcitiy in Virginia. and
whether you have designated the Richmond Sucicty "a,
an Abolition Society, and what was yols poliGc4l con.
ncciiVn, II any, with the old Federal parry.
With great TespCC',
AIN. SIR, yUGT friend, SC.
JAMES LYONS.
To Cen. W. II. HAERIsJN,
Cincinnati, Ohio.