Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-03
POLITICAL.
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TWENTY REASONS

TWENTY REASONS
VIM Gen Harrison cannot be elected President OF the
United States.
l. Because he is incompetent from want OF the re-
uuiste intellectual qualifications to fill the Office In
this respect his friends have claimed for him merit
He was avowedly selected the ground of his drda
Liity and not in consideration OF qualifications
he possessed for the station. Mr.. Webster rightly
interpreted the general feeling (amnng the Wings at
least towards him when he sad-"General Harrison
is pity of his friends and the scorn aad dersion Of
his foes.
> Gen Harrison is an Abolitionst. In addition to
the fact Of his receiving the support Of Abolition press
es and the Abolition party, he has been If he is not at
the present moment, member OF an Abolition society,
and has, moreover, publicly declared himself IN favor
of placing the surplus Of the country in the
hands of these fanatics Tor the purpose OF purchasing
and liberating the slaves.
g. He is a Federalis Of the Reign of Terror stamp;
and when charged by John Randolph with being an
open and Jealous supporter of the sedltion law and
black cockade Administration, he admitted it.
A. He is in favor of Internal Improvements by the
General Government, maintaining that Congress pos
sesses the power make roads and canals within the
respective States, and voted in Congress IN opposi
ton to every State Rights member Of that body
). He advocates high Tariff, protective Tariff;
and not only So but to the taxing of many of the
necessares of life In 1897 and in the United States
Senate he opposed all reduction of the Tariff and in
June last capped the climax Of his absurdty on this
subject by declaring that she would sooner see the
streets of Norfolk and Charleston covered with grass
than consent to modification or repeal Of the Tariff
laws"
penetrating every part of the country-an institution
unknown to the Constitution fthe Government, and,
as experience has proved dangerous to the Liberties and
prejudcia to the interests of the people.
T. When n member of the Ohio legislature he voted
in favor of selling white into servude for debt
a measure in perfect with his black cock
ade principles. The famed blue law code of Connec-
cut the reproach of which, that State is endeavoring
under the plea that the code fabulous, con-
tanned n similar provision.
g. He contends for the right Of Congress to abolish
slavery and insists that with the consent of the slave
holding States there is no Constitutional objection TO
it. ''The cause Of emancipation, said he in his 4th of
July Grafton at Cheviot, Ohio, in 1888, ss object
near my heart" and added that by jealous underta
king of the work by Congress, 1--WE might look for
ward to day not far distant when North American
sup would not look down upon slave With the
consent of the slaveholdng States So with their
alone all the other States should be taxed And
there is ono constitutional objection" to this!
9. General Harrison first acquired notoriety
ddate for the Presidency of the u S. through the po
ltca Anti Masons of Pennsylvania. He avows him.
self "the oldest Anti-Mason in the country, having
formed his preudices against Masonry far back
he can remember" The right to dsbelieve in the uti-
lily Of this institution questions but the attempt
press such disbelief into service for party purposes
and personal ambition, only be regarded with pub
lie scorn and decstation.
TO- Gen Harrison is in favor of distributing the pro-
ceeds from the sale Of the national domain among the
States or in other words favor of taxing the whole
people to pay the debts which the mprovidcncc Of
few States has contracted; for whatever is withdrawn
from The national treasury to relieve the proflgacy OF
State legislation must be Immediately replaced by taxa
ton direct otherwise to meet the unavoidable c5-
penditures of Government.
H. lie is advocate of tho unrestricted tuctuating
paper currency SYSTEM which has periodically, since
its establishment, produced disastrous revulsons in
trade-vevusions extending to every part OF the coun
try np1f hall, RI gf
~ His votes while ncnber of Congress show him
to have favored every prohgate expenditure of the pub
lie money, and to have opposed every wholesome mea
sure of rcform-to have supported the consolidation
of power Congress at the sacrifice of the rights of the
States.
- He is in favor of that attribute of monarchy
an imposing standing army; and whilst member off
Congress gave his vote for standing army of twenty
thousand men.
a. He eyinced the absence of every qualification as
n statesman and diplomatst during his mission to
Colombia by his letter to Bolivar, debating to him the
course proper to be pursued IN his administration OF
the Government-an interference, which, when at
tempted by Genet in government, caused HIM TO
be spurned from the country, and which IN the pre-
sent case came producing the most disastrous re.
salts. Gen Harrison barely escaped assassnation-l
the interests of merchants were placed at fearful
risk and the peaceabe relations between that
ment and the United States subjected to imminent ha-
card Timely interference prevented more serious
consequences.
Is. His supporters, acknowledging his disqualihca-
ton for the office of President of this Republic,
tend that his defects will be supplied by the talents of
the men who will be called into his councils; other
words that the Office of President of the United States
will be farmed out,-Gen, Harrison enjoying the ho-
nos and emoluments, and Henry Clay, whoever can
most shrewdly direct his inbeciity, will be President
in fact 1t is on this principle that he retains the
Office of Clerk of Hamilton County Court.
16 The election of General Harrison would give as.
tendency principles at with the constitution and
spirit of our repudiated at its
very organization and which Jefferson, Madison, Jack