Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-01-07

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cot the pl5lie serpants, The safetyof The
pubic money Ia sound currency land the
general good Of the people. !" II.
As the editor of the Democrat has seen fit
totiE his paper of last week with charges of
Abolitionisn against Gens Harrison, we copy
the following from the Rochester Freeman
and the Emancipator, to show that there is not
one particle of truth in any thing he has SAID.
And which we also further dedicate to every
other such Truth-lorer as he is.
From the Rochester Freeman.
In. December, 1902, while Goyernorof Indi-
ana Territory he (Gen. Harrison) was presi-
dent Of convention of the people of that ter
ritory, held at Vincennes, and transmitted to
Congress a memorial of the convention, pray
ing that the sixth article of the g Ordinance of
'S7,H which prohibited slavery there, might be
suspended. (See am. State papers, 1903. -
His efforts to make Indiana slaves state were
prosecuted for years while he was Governor
of that territory.
In 1919, Feb. l6, Gen. Harrison voted as a
member of the House of Representatives, a.
gainSt clause prohibiting the further introduc
ton OF slavery IN Missouri; and against
clause for the further emancipation Cat 25) of
slaves born within that state. Two days af
forwards he voted against a clause prohibiting
the future introduction of slavery into Arkan-
sas, and against the future emancipation of
slaves born in Arkansas.
So basely did nc bow to slavery, that even
Ohio was shocked. He was Indignantly re-
jected at the next congressional election in
1922. The National Intelligencer of Oct. 90,
1922, says; " 1t is confirmed to us, that MIR.
Gazely is elected in opposition 10 General Har-
rison. A friend informs us, whichwe are sor-
ry to learn, that he was opposed particularly
on account ofhls adherence to that principle Of
the Constitution which secures to the South
their pre-existing rights" 1t seems, then,
that General Harrison claimed for the South,
the right to fasten slavery upon any soil which
the nation might have or purchase.
lie has had but little opportunity to act in
public capacity upon the subject of slavery
since that time but an address frcn his poIif-
ical friends in Virginia, IN 1885, says, I" be is
sound to the core on the subject ofslaYery.''
From the Emancipator.
Under these circumstances, we submit that
conscientious abolitionists are bound to regard
the two parties and their candidsts as standing
precisely on the same ground-that of ultima
ted subserviency to the dominion of the Siayo-
crazy. It - true, Gen. HARRISON personal
demonstrations are less recent than Mr.. Van
Buren's. But they are much stronger, for
Mr. Van Buren, helped to send RUFUS King 10
the U. s. Senate to oppose slavery in Missouri
and he has never attempted to ertend slavery
to regions where it was already abolished
And further, the demonstrations of the Harri.
son party are, more recent than those of the 9th.
er. And fit is said that we should give the
old General.a chance to repent ofhis pro-slaye-
ry, we reply, that it belongs to the man who
repents TO exhibit his own repentance. Ger.
talnly, there are no circumstances in the case
which warrant the slightest prescriptions in
favor of his repentance. Let him or his friends
If they choose, show wherein his views row
differ from his actions in 1902, and 1886. AnC
lin default of this, let the friends of human richt,
come at once to the conviction, that the cause
they have espoused is by Divine Providence
entrusted to their own guardianship, and tha
for its success or failure their country and pos
terlty will hold them responsible.