Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1840-04-23
REILLY TO "CAssIus. No."

REL La 10 ~"lASSlUS, No."
Having shown, in our reply TO he dst number al
Cds,ius, tAa Gen. Harrison stands on Lelier efonud.
Tor the South, han Mr.. Van Barren does, in relcr-
enee 10 the Tariff lmefnd Improvements aud the
B4nk, we now proceed, 10 upset the contents OF
his second nulnber-which is designed 10 prove thai
Gen. ildtison IS an Adoiaidpist in sediment and
feeling aud that he entertaius the odlous aud dan.
ecraus doctrine that Congress has Tie porcf, Ua3er
He constitution q Tie [. States, 10 legislale on the
sui jet Of sIovety.n Thee n,ver wasa grosscr ca.
Ionny uttered by mortal man nor was ever . ca.
lunnny atieop ed 10 be sustained by such futile
ftasoni G, On by prools 50 mulilaed and earbled -
Ia enllle these WHO hapelhus mutilated aud gar
bled them to all tie penalties Of Tie law against for.
gerry.
lsGrn. Harrison an Aboljiouist in feeling and
srnti cut! We mean. a Northern Aholllouisi, as
t~Iatlern is understood ~ our day for III course
Cassius does not mean 10 object To such Abollionis,s
as Mr., jefferson and his grandson, - Mr.. Mcdowell,
the V. Bu,en candidate loi Govelnor, Mr.. Richie,
Nj. foane, &c. ? lie has not the effronle,y to say
30. We defy him 10 pontto any 'sentimentn ever
uttered by q n. illrfls9n which sas AIMS The asser-
tion-No defy him to point To any which does MOI
! 1901 '''Nf W II u
llalIson's declaration, thai, at he age of Is, he
belonged 10 an Abortion Socirty in Richmond.
But yet le quotes. as all his predecessors IN calum.
ny dnl the work Of mutation have done, only 4
single paragraph of thar lett.r, aud omits the balance,
IN which be lashes the Northern Aboltiouists, with
as much seventy as he does in HE Cheyiot speech
which is also matjiatcd, and IN his Vincennes speech.
lFho believes that The Abolition Society in the me.
hopoLs n PrgiH'a, in 100, bore any the slightest
resemblance to the Societies hich have latcl,
sprung up in the North! Who believes that such
u Society would have been tolerated lhcn, any more
lhan now : Who does MOI kao,o that il was no such
society !! When Gen. Harrison used the tenn Abo-
ltion Society, he mead just what James Mcdowell,
The '. Buren, candidate foi Governor, meant. when
he sail, that when he ceased 10 be an ABOLI-
ZIONIST, he must lose ms senses" ID d he mean
10 say ,hat he was an Aboln,onist Of the Ioppan
school No: lie meant just such an Abnllionlsr as
existed throughout Virginia IN 1881. Gen. Ham.
son, in using the same appelIat,oD, meant to convey
just such an idea oflhe term As was entertained IN
1890 by his Virginia neIghbors, and MOI such rs is nov
affixed To it by Germ Smith, Marcus Moron.
Senator Tappan, tx Senator Morris, aud other
distinguished Van Buren, Aboluionisrs IN the non
siateholdlng region. But II is remarkable that the
rery letter, from hirh Cassius and his ''illnsluous
predecessors in mattaki0R, extract single paragraph
for The purlos Of proving that Gen. Harrison is an
Abolilonisl, is al the same Time extensively copied
by the Van Buren, Abolition papets al The N"nh 10
show that Gen. Harrison is not only not an Aboli-
ZIONIST. brit that he has ''Ho SynPaAy for Tie Aboli-
tio, ISIS Il would seem strange that such different
conclusions could be drawn l,o;n the same docu-
ment; but The sGrprlse ceases when we lam that
The maiiatorS in Vngrum only copy a single para
graph, aud onit al The balance of the IeIe,.
while The more honest Abolitionisls copy The whole
aud thereby show The faIsiiy Of the assumption of
Cassius aud his comEecIs. The letter, after expres
sing Gen. Halrson's opinions on Slavery in the "b-
slraci, as above quoted by Casslus, goes on 10 deny
he right Of Congress 10 interfere in any rag oc,H The
starcs ofMe South, "a right which Cassius SAYS
Gen. HARRISON afliim,D AID, in relation to lis
vote on The Missouti question, which he was deJend
ing, he says. thai had his constituents desired him
10 give a different ~yote,-that, is had DIZZY desired
him 10 vote with The Abolitionists, Nho were then
headed by Rufus King, Martin Van Buren, and 9TH
er"FEDERAL LEADERS," (as Mr.. rhersoh
called them,)-they could have instructed BIN, in
which event. CONTINUES The General. Il should have
''rGoieed IN an oPpoHaHiy Of SACRIFICING MY
SEAT TO MY PRINCIPLES, u dcy had IN.
..strucfed me against my construction Of the constitution
'on The subject. saw NOTHING II Ii CON
.SrlTUTION, which | had s~orn to support. To