Whig Republican. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1840-18??, 1840-10-21

in less eligible circumstances than those
in which he was placed.
Ofthe patriotism of General Harrison,
the history of the West, for nearly nifty
years, is the impartial record; and, as L
have no claim to peculiar information In
that m after, l shall not affront your intel
ligence by dwelling upon the many IN
stances that might be cited from that am
pie volume, III illustration of his charac-
ter in that respect. Twill only say, that,
whether you consider him as the govern
OF of a territory, Agent of Indian Affairs,
the Commander of an Army, a Member OF
the State Legislature or Senator in Con-
gfess, you will find love of country the
leading star of his m6vements-the mann
spring ofhis actions. To this, he freely
sacrificed wealth and ease, and, what was
far dearer to a man under the impulse of
Political an1bition-that popularity with
his immediate constituents upon which
he depended for continuance In Office
This last sacrifice he did emphatically
make, when contrary TO what he knew
we're the wishes Of his Ohio constituents;
he voted in the Congress ofthe u States,
for the admission of Missouri into the
Union as slave-holding state. How adj
mirable the gratitude of Southern polltl-
clans, opposed to his election to the Pres
idency, who gratuitously denounce him
as an AboIiti6nist! How nobly they re-
ward such self-sacrifcing patriotism, in
the disinterested defender of their rights
and privileges!
IN 1910, Gen Harrisdn's political po-
sition was well defined. He was then a
Jeffersonian Republican: and was, | be-
lieve, unimpeached of ever having be-
longed to any other school of politics.
Indeed the party now opposed TO him
have no other ground 10 charge him with
ever having belonged to the Federal par
ty, than the fact of his having been APP
pointed TO an important office by Fed
eralist President. They forget that par
ty adherence was never "sine qua non"
in order to office, till, in the first series
of the present administration, General
jackson, contrary to his own earnest adj
vice to Mr. Monroe, rendered it SD. Men
who were competent ana faithful, had al
ways, previously TO that era of party ex-
cluSlVeness, been considered eligible to
such offices as circumstances rendered it
proper they should fill. And, such cir
cumstances existed in remarkable degree
when General Harrison received the APP
pointment inquestion, from John Adams
Never, perhaps; was any man the OBJ
ject of more, or Of more shameless false
hoods than General Harrison has been
since his nomination by the Harrisburg
Convention. He has been stigmatised as
a coward, in the face of long career of
brave daring in his country's most dan
gerous service. He has been traduced as
Federalist, though every page of his
political history ranges him in the ranks
of the Jefferson party of Democratic Re-
publicans. He has been denounced as an
abolitionist, Notwithstanding his self-sac-
riicing vote on the Missouri question,
his repeated and unequivocal disavowals
of abolitionism and the hostility of Abo-
litionists to his election; on the ground,
simply, that he is opposed to their aboli-
ton views. He has been slandered, as
having, in the legislature of Ohio, ell:
deavored to procure the passage of law
for the sale of white debtors, to the high.
est bidder; when the purpose of the con.
terhplated law was the Communication OF
Imprisonment for debt, into temporary
service, under legal protection! These
falsehoods are so glaring, SO barefaced
and so easily refuted that, their in.
ventlon and circulation shew at once
how desperate the administration party
feel their cause to be, and the utter DIES
titution under which they labor of any
respectable means of supporting them
selves i'll power, against the claims o
their antagonists. They show, morrow
er, IN most unequivocal manner, the
perfect incapability Of his most clea
sighted and sagacious adversaries, to de
tect, i'll the long and responsible career
OF Zen. Harrison, any one instance of in
competency or nalversation which shoulc
bar his way to public favor or confidence
Had | never before heard the name O
Harrison, or had conceived strong pred
judices against his character, previous t,
the Harrisburg nomination, am persua
) ded that the absurd and slanderous false
: hoods which are relied upon as the onl,
means by which his political adversarie
r labor to prevent his election, would con
vince me that he ought to be elected
r And feel satisfied that he will be electe,
|, perhaps, owe you an apology for tn
length of this letter But when persona
Friendship, Justice and Patriotism unit
! to urge one in the defence of injured in