Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1840-09-03
From the Madison la. Courier.

i
Blue light lavs Of The Vest--General
H0rrisOn in fdUOr of selling FrecmeH
in IndidnG-agdiHSt GIlOUiHg the right
of suffrage to tie poor man, unless
possessed Of Property QuaIifca-
tiOn / &c. &c.
Much has been said in defence Of the
charge agains General Harrison OF voting
in the Senate of Ohio TO sell free white
men as slaves; and General Harrison's
own letters Of denial and exculpatlon,
have been extensively published. The
charge, however remains well establish
ed. aud as long as the records ofthe State
of Ohio shall continue TO exist, so long
must the testimony to establish this
charge be perpetuated. (Ee jourcal Of
the Senate Of Ohio of January the goth,
lS2l.)
But we have resumed this subject to
show, that this section of the Ohio Legs
lature, with all its odiousness, was an
old acquaintance of Gen. Harrison, and
had no new horrors to present TO his
mind; for, while Governor of "the Ter
ritory of Indiana" he approved and sign
ed "An act Respecting Crimes and Pun
ishments," containing sections more odl'
GUS than the section for which he voted
in the Ohio Senate: more odious, mas
much as it made an escape from this
most degrading and humiliating servi-
tude, a criminal offence, punishable with
WHIPPING in the full measure Of
THIRTY-NINE STRIPES!!! and
with double servitude as to time. (See
Territorial Laws, Revised code, of 1907,
pages 80, and 40-sections 80 and 3l.)
''SEC. 80. When any person, or per-
sons shall on conviction Of any crime, or
breach of penal law, be sentenced to pay
a fine or fines, with or without the costs
of prosecution, it shall and may be lawful
for the court before whom such Convic-
ton shall be had, 07-tO order the sheriff
to SELL or hire the person orpersOns
so convicted, to Seruice, to any person or
persons who UiU pay the said fine and
costs for such term of time as the court
Will think reasonable.
And if such person or persons, so SEN
fenced and hired or sold, shall abscond
from the service of his or her master or
mistress, before the term of such service
shall be expired, he or she so absconding,
shall on conviction before justice of the
peace, be WHIPPED WITH
THIRTY-NINE STRIPES! and
shall moreover serve two days for every
one so lost.
Sec. 81. The Judges Of the several
courts of record in this territory sh Ill
give this act in charge to the Grand Ju.
Ty at each and every court, in which a
grand jury shall be sworn.
JESSE B. THOMAS,
Speaker ofthe House Of Representatives.
B. CHAMBERS,
President Of the Council
Approved-Sept. n, 1907.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
But was Governor Harrison at this
time clothed with the veto power? his
friends will ask.-Aye, he was: he was
more amply than the Executive of any
State of this Union was. See the "Ordi'
nance for the Government of the Terri
tory of the United States, Northwest OF
the River Ohio" This ordinance may
be found in all of our revised laws from
1894 inclusive, to the present day. We
quote from it, the following words:-
"And all bills having passed by a ma
iority Of the House, and majority of the
Council, shall be referred to the Govern
or, for his assent, but no bill or legisla-
tive act whatever, shall be Of any force
without his assent"
His vote was absolute. No law could
pass without his "GSSent," though every
member of the House of Representatives,
and the Council might desire it most ar
IDENTIFY.
Mr.. Van Buren, has been, by the whig
press, most grossly misreprcsented and
SIGndered, in relation 10 his votes and
opinions in the New York convention in
1921. He has been falsly stated to have
favored property qualification 10 entitle
white men to vote. Let us see what
were Governor Harrison's opinions on
that subject in 1907. (See same Re-
vised Code, page 235-6)
"H is therefore enacted, That every
free male nhabitsnt Of the age of ~
years, resident in the Territory, ana
who hath been citizen of any State in
the Union, or who hath been two years
resident in this Territory, 0F AND
! HOLDS A FREEHOLD IN FIFTY
| ACRES OF LALDE0 within any
county Of the same. or any less quantity
in the county in which he shall reside,
which, with the Improvements made
thereon, shall be ofthe value Of eSrONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS, or who has
paid for, and in virtue of a deed of con-
veyance for further assurances from a
person vested with the fee, is in actual
possession Of fifty acres of land sui lect
to taxation in the county in which he
shall be resident, shall be, and are here
l., Ioclorad IN ha duIv oDah6pd electors