The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-06-06

made N the V4p bureh F3Sty oas D..
whsn 4 was discovered thas Mr., Baldwin had
given the same vote. the Federal lenders changed
heir tactics, or rather the scene for displaying
them and they caused the charge, with all us
Known falsehood, TO be put in travelling condi-
ton and sent of 10 Maryland, in the hope that
II might receive there, from the hands OF stran-
gers, q more hosptable reception than i had met
with at home, where i was better known.
Notwithstanding his vote, Mr.. Baldwin re-
ceiyed the jealous and undivided support OF the
federal loco-foco party in Ohio; and, by that
smnport we are furnished with test Of their
sincerity in making the charge they now use
against General Harrison. Did they believe in
he truth of that charge when they rushed to
The polls to elect MIR. Baldwin to the first Office
in the State2
,va,Id give il as his deliberate opinion and be-
lief that Mr. Baldwin lost his election on ac-
count Of the vote he gave in the Senate OF Ohio
Mr.. Mason resumed and said I: My colleague
will find il a much easier task TO declare what
his opinion is than 10 reconcile that opinion with
the facts Of the case II is true Mr.. Baldwin
was defeated by, | believe, about 5000 votes,
Il speak from recollection, without pretending
10 be precisely accurate j but why was he de-
feated2 Because (says my colleague In an
under tone) the democrats would not go 10 the
polls and vote. Precisely so! And MIR. Van Ruren
will be defeated next November for the same sa-
tisfactory reason. But then, why would they not
90 to the polls and vote for Mr.. Baldwin, Not,
certainly, because he had given what my col
league, in late speech against General Harri-
son, chose 10 denounce rs very obnoxious
vote. They were influenced by no such objec-
ton for, within the space OF three weeks after
the defeat Of Mr. Baldwin, the real democracy
Of my State not only went TO the polls, but they
did more, they gave General Harrison, notwith-
standing the pretended sin Of that vote was on
him, fresh in their recollection, majority over
Mr. Van Buren, of about 5000 votes.
Now, sir, as my colleague took the field, and
employed all his energies TO secure the election
Of Mr. Baldwin, we know what his opinion
then was respecting the very same charge he is
willing aoic to use against General Harrison.
We know that he then treated it as false and
| frivolous: for il formed with him no objection
against the claims of Mr.. Baldwin to his con-
| lidence and support. And we further know
that nothing has since occurred TO render the
charge less false and frivolous than il was at
that time.
My colleague, (Mr. DuNcAN,) when making
his speech the other day, read an extract from
the Journal of the Senate of Ohio, which set
| forth the 10Th section OF the bill, and the pro-
| ceedings Of that body in relation to it. At the
same time, he sent to the Clerks table paper
which he said contained the "remarks" of
General Lucas, delivered "Me time the measure
pas under discussion !" and, that the true cha
mcter of the proposition then "under discus
sion" might be forever fixed in the minds of the
present and all coming generations, he desired
that these remarks might be read and, to give
greater force to the remarks of General Lucas,
nv colleague pronounced an extravagant eulo-
gy on his character and public services. With
these parties, whether well or ill-deserved,
have nothing to do. The whole speech attribu-
ted to General Lucas furnishes internal evidence
that it was not made Sat the time the measure
was under discussion" but is the production Of
a later period, and the effusion OF a heart can
kered with the accumulated venom of years
| and the last paragraph, unluckly for the author,
| is perfectly conclusive on this point. II is in
| these words: "The question was then taken on
Mr.. Fithian's motion. and carried in the affirma
| tive: Yeas 20, nays IL. So this obnoxious pro-
vision, rofed for and defended by WILLIAM
II. HARRIsoN, does not now disgrace the statute
book of Ohio"
General Lucas, ! incline 70 think, would have
been less bitter in his denunciations had he not
forgotten, at the late period when he wrote his
speech, that he had himself 'svoted for' the 18th
section, which in its operation on Zone of the
patriots Of the Revolution" who might have
| been provoked to commit an assault in defend
ing the honor Of his Government" is far more
| rigorous and degrading than the section against
which he has directed the thunder of his repro
| baton. Before he ventures on writing another
| philippe against Gen. Harrison, would call
his attention to that section, and ask him why
| he allowed 1t to pass, and to disgrace the
statute book Of Ohio?" But, sir, as it is thing
unknown in parliamentary proceedings to debate
a proposition after il has been decided, and
| rather difficult to announce, pending the discus
sion, the precise result of the vote, and to desg-
tbo,, nSST
ing voted in the negative before the question
was decided, should be glad if my honorable
colleague would inform me how Gen. Lucas was
enabled, during the debate on a pending mo
| ton, to say ''that the question qrds then taken"
that it ards Carried IN the afir7nafire-yeas
20, nays III" and TO declare, exultingly, that in
consequence of this vote, the obnoxious propo-
son, roted for and defended by William H
Harrison, does not NOW disgrace the statute
book of Ohio!n Such speech, delivered .sat
the time the measure iuas under discussion,n
must have sounded strangely in the years of his
brother Senators!
Again, sir, is il not little remarkable that the
"now Governor of the Territory of Iowa.
should then have selected the name Of General
Harrison from the twelve Senators who all voted
the same way, and made it the special object of
rude and malignant assault And think YOU
he would have committed this outrage in his
presence2 Where was the motive at that day
for singing out General Harrison, and holding
him up to the odium of the country, without one
remark on the conduct of those who voted with
him? No motive then existed and no such
speech was made.
My colleague has been deceived This pre-
tended speech, like the charge il is brought to
support, has been trumped up to serve the party
purposes ola day, and then TO be consigned to
oblivion forever
have now done with this stale calnmnv. and
| nothing remains for me to do but to deliver il
over To The INDIGNANT and e