Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-03-12

VI htPuDiicdn lnS;itutonS-and whereas, The sub
lrct OF the admission of slavery in the State
Missouri IL at :his time before the Congress Of the Uni
! ted Stat, s: therefore
"Hisoircd That Senators and Representative.
be requested to their utmost exertions and take
every means 10 prevent The extension of slavery within
The Territory n In: /. States West Of the Mississippi
and Tie new States 10 be- formed within that Territory
wlrci the Constitution and the treaties made under il
! will allow.
The Senate Of Ohm preferred the original proposition
OF Mr. thompson a: refused to commit for the pur-
pose OF anIendnicnt By divided vote of 10 To IL.
But Gen Harrison gave up the point at issue by the
very character Of his resolution. He abandoned the
ground which III" South had assumed-the principle
on which they had relied, viz: that there power
AT all III the Constitution, 10 forbid the States TO
the " est Of The Mississippi from holding slaves Why
call Tor every TO forbid It's Introduction into the
nen Stafes%-Why thus presuppose that there may be
such power IN the Constitution, which every State
Rights man sernly and peremptory denied to exist at
ali: no remark need be made upon the unqualified de-
nunciatIon which he made upon the effects of slavery
and upon its being raught ,cih the trarfui
qusnces TO the permancncy and durability Of Rcpub-
hcdn Institutions" Such an extrayagant remark, is
much more suitable to the mad fanatics of the North
than the cool politicians OF the South.
word more.-To show what Gen. Harrison $
position in regard TO the Slavery question the day of
the Missouri Controversy, the following extract of a
Letter. addressed By the Editor of the Nashville Union,
on The 10Th ult. TO Mr. Stanly member Of Congress
.'oIlH Sarollna, accompanies tiS appendix:
"iou ask ~here Gen Harrison about twenty
years ago, when Mr.. Van Buren, then Senator in the
Legislature of New York (Which State was then
slave State voted that Congress had constitutional u
rIsdcton the subject Of slavery in the territories
And you answer the question by declaring that Gen
Harrison was defend,ng the rights of the South" If
by the vote which he happened to give in Congress in
1890, Gen Harrison defended the rights of the South
he certainly defended them against his avowed
opinions as shall presently prsvc. He returned TO
his observation-disclosures candidate for reelection
and being charged with having voted in favor of sla
very, he issued circular his own proper sigma
ure, which published in the Phanhropist at Gin
cnna in 1922 and which the records of that date say
secured to him the entire abolition vote of his district
AS the reading of that circular may not be entirely
interesting to you, suboin couple of its paragraphs
10 wit:
'Frrow called suddenly attend my
sick family have bnt few of the calumnes
which IN circulation concerning
81 accused Of being friendly slavery. From my earliest
man Liberty Al the age Is became member Of an Abol
ton Sorety established Richmond Virginia. the object
dom by every legal Ny venerable friend Judge Catch
Clermon county, was also member of this Society and has late
then came under have faithfully performed"
"Do you call this s.defcncc of Southern righis:"-
able defence! gallant defence, indeed 1t possesses
all the characteristics of the phraseology peculiar TO
runmad fanacism-and to you, Sir, and the Southern
members of your party, is the honor reserved of sup
porting man with SUCH principles Tor the Prcsidency
man who according to his flexible speech Chcvot)
not only holds the emancipation of the slaves OBJ
ect near his heart, and stands ready 10 appropriate
the public domain for that object thereby taxing the
Slave States to pay for their property-but is
a MEMBER or As ABOLITION SOCIETY, still in rood
fellowship, still faithfully performing all the obligations
Of membership, and according To his voluntary
admission still highly prz,ng the lonors of that
membership to have obtained diploma ccri.
cate to secure his title to them. Is be supposed
sir that these facts were unknown to the Aboonists
whose prcpondcratng influence in the Harrisburg Con-
vention secured his nomination for the Presidency =
The primary movements of the several delegations by
States at the opening of that Convention proof con-
elusive that no such supposition is admissible
u 1t originally proposed to subjoIn TO the Id
dress copy of Mr.. Rivcss y. York Letter, of the
4th December last; but he has completely dissipatcd
every possible doubt about his position his last Let
Ter of the 18th ut. Towards the close of that letter.
he expressly declares, that "Rceardng Gen Harrison
for the reasons have mentioned, the true Rcpubl-
can candidate for the Presidency of the two pre-
scented to the choice of the country, shall unhcsa-
tngly give him my support 1t IS one of the most
remarkable phenomena of these times, that MIR RirCs
and his Conservative Colleagues should pronounce
him the true Republican, Candidate whom but three
pronouncng to be Fsdera'ist a latitudnous
structonist, and the devoted friend of the two A.
damses Is it passion, what revelation is it,
which has induced Messrs. Rives Garland, Anderson,
Fontanc, &c, &c, with SCcond sight%l