Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-08-27
SKETCH OF DEBATE IN THE ABoLITIoS
CONVENTION.

Ot DEBA ~ Tx .Aoo1'AAS-'
CONVENTION.
A member of the convention Mr.. Spald
ing, /, was understood, a lawyer, said that
he was Wing Ahoitionis', and was OPP
posed TO any course being taken by ,hr
convention that would endanger the elec
tion nf General Harrison. A nomination
ofa distinct Abolition tickle, of electors,
pledge to Mr.. Blrney, he said, would in
iure the Wing cause. because the aboli-
1ionisls were generally wings, and such n
ticket would draw more from llarrlSon's
votes than from Van Buren's He believed,
and so far as he understood the views OF
the Aholitionists generally, they believed
that there were a choice of evils between
Harrison and Van Buren,, aud that Harri-
son was better for them than Van Buicn
because the WhiG party was the friend Of
Aboltiousm, aud the Democratic party
opposed little WE,iss IN Congress wh"
supported Garrison, had generally roe'!
against The gag law, while The Democrats
had carried it by their woes. This, he
said, would determine his course. We
saw, continued Mr.. Spaltling that there j,
choicc for abolitionisis between the twD
candidates Of the great parties, and why
then, when it wasIccrtain tina, Mr.. Birney
could moi he elected, should The AbolitioniSrs
by seperate nomination, draw voles
from Harrison, by taking the large propor-
ton of Aboliionsts in the whia party. and
thus strengthen MIR. Van Bureni The
votes for Mr.. Birney must come from the
Wings, fiat all, and this would defeat the
Wings. This, as friend 10 Abolition, he
could not consent to.
MIR. f. Wright, jr. renlied that IIarri
son was certian of the Electoral vote of
Massachusetts, if the Abolirionists went
for Mr.. Birney. The parties in Massa-
chusets, was so nearly divided that the
Abolilionists could prevent choice Of
Electors. because it required majority.
Ii ,.ould lhe. go 10 the Legislature. Thar
would be whig, and could elect the iIar-
rison electors. and he did not dispair, that
in that event, the Abolition Electors
might be chosen. Ierepelled AN inrilna-
tioD that seperate nomination woull aid
Van Buren. None but an insane man,
he said, would suppose that the Van Blu
rem men have set us on.
MIR. LcaviIt of New York, (ediror ofthc
Emancipa,or,) who had previously spnken
with decided condemnation of Mr.. Van
Buren,, as pledged utterly, against Aboli-
tiun in all lis forms. said that be was
open aud plain in his course while uarri-
sou was aiming secretly to gain the slave
States, by serviliIy to The South aud the
Northern Aholilinnists by confidential pro-
LESSONS. 1t was well known that letters
from Harrison, with the injuncrions of Sc
cresy, had been privately circulated at
the South ever since Harrison was can
didate in 1886, pledsing him 10 the slave
holders. John NJ. Bcrrien Of Georgia had
81 private letter from Harrison in 1886. on
the slave side, a Air. | last lis name
of Louisiana or Alabama, had arolhcr OF
these secret pledges to the South. Mr..
Rives, or some friend of his. had anOIhcr.
These letters were concealed until after
the Harrisburg Convention, where, hy an
other process, the woes of AhoiiionisrS in
that body were secured for the nomina-
rion of Harrison; and as soon as that was
done and the nomination acce.Itd To by
Ah,li,oni>,S at the North we then find the
whig Shareholders in Genroin. Alabama,
Virginia. &c, ralIyin5 10 the support o.