Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-10-20
FUK TIE F.VRI7RER.
To Mc Uhig TOtcrS Of tic Congressional District Of



Cnroiinc, kmg y. queen, &c.
The time is rapidly approaching when you will have
to cast your votes for Presidential Electors. The ques-
ton must present itself TO your minds WHO OUGHT
TO VOTE FOR: There is one subject of para
mount Importance connected with the pending cleo
ton. is tint Of Abolition. Disguise your lead
ers may it is question above all Others the most I'M
portant. No at this time dare Mr.. Van Bu-
OF being nany way or manner opposed 10 the South
upon this subject His vote in the Senate alone would
prove that he is to he fully trusted In addition TO this,
however, his positive pledge to any law upon that
subject, puts TO fight every objccor How stands the
case with Gen. Harrison and his Northern friends ::
We design now TO sci before you, III PLAN language,
facts, which ought 10 startlc every Southron. The
subject Of Abolition was, FOR the first lme seriously
artated in Congress when Missouri first asked to be
admitted into the Union Then, it was that John Ser
gcant the late Wing Candidate for the Vice Presden-
CIV, and Mr.. Satonsall, now prominent Abolition
Wing Member of Congress from Massachusetts, and
others of like stamp cndeavored 10 shut the door OF
admission against her, unless she willing to abolish
slavery. Upon that question, although Gen. II. was
in favor of her admission with slaves yet he voted for
an amendment by which large portion of the terrific
~ of Missouri 10 be attached to Michigan, where,
BY the compact made by Virginia and the Congress Of
the United States slavery could not exist BY this he
at once admitted that Congress possessed the power
and right Of intcrdcting slavery in Missouri. When
Gen. Harrison returned home, he declined becoming
candidate for election to Congress- but candI-
What was his course there ? We challenge denial oil
the truth of the following abstract taken from the Jour
nails of the Ohio Senate He there asserted, "that the
admission OF slavery in the State of Mssour was
fraught with the most fearful consequences TO the per-
manency and durability of our Republican lnstltu'
TONS and invoked 'the utmost eXertlons and the use
of every means avert it." What say you to this We
Lcighs and Tyers, and Bolts and Lyons, of the
Wing party And We Corbins and Wrights, and Boul-
wares of the Caroline District Read and ponder
WE'LL ere you say by your votes that you will surrender
vonr rights and liberties into such keeping. In le2%'
General Harrison again became candidate for Con
Gress in Ohio. lie then charged with being friend
" TO Slavery What does he then say to the charge
Did he admit its truth oh, no. Hear him. u am
accused Of being friendly to Slavery From my earliest
YOUTH to the present moment, have been the ardent
friend Of human Liberty Atthe age of eighteen, be-
came member of abolition Society established al
Richmond the object of which to ameliorate the
condition of Slavery In vain has General Harrison
and his friends endcavorcd TO up this matter All
sorts of excuses have been urged to do away with ms
own plain declaration. Sometimes the General 40
souely denies that he belonged to such society
thus giving the lie direct to his own published state
ment At other times he pleads iorgetiulness. Inns