Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-06-06


police of the State. 1t is certain that neither in
respect to myself, those who concurred with me,
was the opinion at the time considered as the re-
suit Of unfriendly bias towards the poor or unfUr-
tunate Nay the last objection which could have
anticipated even from the eager and recEl' desire
10 assail me, charge Of unfriendness to the
humble and poor Of the community
am, my dear sir, with great respect,
Your humble servant,
WIN. II. HARRISON.
J. H. PLEAsANTs, Esq
We might safely rest the case here, inasmuch as
the provision for which General Harrison voted had
reference alone to infamous ofendsrS-those per-
sons whose criminal conduct would have subjected
them to imprisonment in the Penjtentiary. The
question was whether offenders of that description
should be sent to the pententary, or whipped at
the public whippingpost, or be suffered to lie and
rot in the county JAIL or be sold hired out to some
honest farmer or mechanic and be made to work
out the fine and costs which they had incurred by
their crimes against society. The experiment of
sending them to the penitentiary had been tried,
and was running the state in debt without any cor
responding benefit to the offender. Besides, is it
any worse to set white man up on the public
squore and sell him for one or more years on farm
or in a workshop, than it is to shave his head,
clothe him in felons dress, and put him to hard
work within the walls Of peniteutiary we put
1t to the common sense of all men without respect
% party-which is the worst ! Would not ninety
nine out of hundred prefer the mode of punish
ment voted for by General Harrison!
Again. If the reader will look back a page or
two to the names Of those who voted with Gene
i, 81. ,,,n G..
the list that of ELI BALDWIN. And who is Eli
Baldwin! Why, he is the same individual who
was the Van Buren, candidate for Governor of Ohio
in 1886! Now, is it not too bad, that the Van Bu-
rem leaders and organs in Tennessee in 1910, should
call upon their followers and readers to 90 against
General Harrison because he once voted along with
Eli Baldwin, whom the organs and leaders Of the
same party pressed upon the people ofOhio in 1886,
as a most suitable candidate for Governor! If
General Harrison is unworthy of the support of
the people Of Tennessee in consequence of that
vote, was not Eli Baldwin equally unworthy Of the
support of the people OF Ohio!
Another of those who voted with General Har-
ri son on the occasion referred to, is Nathaniel Nc
Lean, who was afterwards elected Keeper of the
Penitentiary, and subsequently, TIE Jackson
candidate for Congress from his district! Allen
Trimble who gave the same vote, was afterwards
elected Governor :! In 1886, when General Har-
rison was run for President, and Eli Baldwin for
Governor of Ohio, every man in the state who vo-
ted at all, must have voted for one or the other O.
these gentlemen-the Wings for General Harrison
and the Van Buren, men for Eli Baldwin. And yet
after the whole state Of Ohio including both parties
have by their votes demonstrated to the world that
they did not regard this vote Of General Harrison
and Eli Balwin as rendering either of them in the
slightest degree less worthy Of public confidence
after Ohio has done this, say, the organs and
leaders of the prrty in Tennessee deem = Il: fellow
citizens ignorant enough to be made believe that
there was something exceedingly wrong in it.
But further. 1t so happens that similar law
vas once in force in this State and North Carolina
By referring to SCOTS edition Of the Laws Of Ter
ncssee, vol. l, page 1873, the reader will find the
following
An Act for hiring ont persons convicted Oh indiet-
ment or presentment, not being able or willing
to pay the fees Of Office and goaler'S fees.
Whereas, many persons convicted on indictment,
take the benefit Of the insulvent act, either ne
glecting or refusing to pay fees Of office, and
sheriifs and gaulGr's fees to the great injury Of
the citizens Of this state for remedy whereof,
l. b 4 enacted By the General ASSemby Of The
State of North Carolina and ii is hereby enacted By
the autho"ityof the same, That all and every person
who shall be found guilty Of any charge exhibited
against him or them BY indictment or presentment,
and shall be unable or unwilling to pay the office
and gaOler'S fee, that or may be consequent
thereon, shall be hired ont by the sheriff OF the
county where such person is or may be convicted,
for such time as any person will take him or them
to serve for the said fees and charges, the said She
riff first advertising the time and place OF hiring at
least ten days previous thereto.
Here is precisely the same law, in principle! 1t
was actually in force in Tennessee until ISL,
when it was repealed By implication by the insol-
vent law of that year, Yet whoever heard ITS au'
thors denounced in Tennessee and the parent state!
But we have not yet done with our exposure OF
the insncerity and hypocrisy of the Van Buren, Or
gans and leaders in Tennessee, who are urging the
objection in question to General Harrison. One Of
their most Ssh ming lights" is the Hon. FELIX
GRUNDY-a gentleman Of whom they are SO fond
that they actually elected him thrice to the Senate
Of the United States last winter. He was a mem
Der of the Legislature of Tennessee in 1924, auC
on the 10Th page Of the Journal of the House o
Representations for That year, we find the tollowin!
entries