Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-07-18

January lSO0 and do consider that their principles
have been recognised and adopted byo majority Of
the American people" Il
SO much for the charge that Harrison "s an old
Federalist'' and so much the "attestation" il re-
ceives "by reference to public Documents"
FalSchood third and tourh-"Gcn, Harrison sup
ported the Federal Alien and Sedition law admin
isrotion Of old John Adams"
The charge that he supported Adams and his
administration is answered and amply refuted by
the foregoing testimony but did he approve Of the
Alien and Sedition laws as is inLimatea by the
Argus and as is directly allcdged by the address
which was adopted by the National oflice-holders
convention, which assembled at Baltimore a few
weeks since Let the following facts from "public
documents" be recorded as my answer.-Extract
from Hnrrison's reply to John Randolph "He was
not in Congress [Said Gen. ~ when TIE standing
army was created, and the Alien and Selion laws
were passed, and if he had been he could not have
voted for them. and 'coud not if he could" My
opposition to the Alien and Sedtion laws acas so
peH hnorn in the Territory, that promise was ex-
torted from me BY my friends in the Legislature,
by which was elected, that l would express no
calculated 10 defeat the important objects with
which was charged.
So out goes another of "the hundred eyes'--or
lies of the Mo- Argus.
FalSehood .Gjtb--"Nhile Gov. of Indiana Ter.
rtory, Gen Harrison approved law restricting
the right Of suffrage TO- free holders possessed of at
least fifty acres of landed property" Two minutes
reflection in regard to the powers and duties of a
Governor Of Territory would be sufficient to de-
tect the falsity of this charge; but we have the
testimony from public Documents at hand to
prore its total variance with the truth. Extract
from letter recently written by Gen. Harrison to
Charles Schmidt, Esq. of Cincinnati :-"I must
take this occasion to say, that the part of law
passed by the Indiana Legislature in the year 1907
and which has been recently Published in this city,
which prescribes freehold of fifty acres Of land
as necessary to qualify man as an elector, is
qao!dtion from The ordinance Of CONGRESS, which
was the Consultation Of the Territory and Deer
whtch neither the Legislature or myself hal any con-
troll, and which it was our duty to support. That
all my life have been opposed to property quuli-
cation for the exercise of the elective franchise
and that 10th the legislature and myself woaM gladly
hdre extended The right Of Suffrage as ii now is, had
it been in our po,cer.
With the ponderous club of truth, then, weagain
Dung up another Of the many eyes (lies) of the
Argus
Whilst upon this subject will charge that Ma,ty
Van Buren, himself Is in aror ''of pr0perty Qual-
ifcaion for the exercise of the elective franchise
and the charge is ''attestel hy the proceedings of
the New York Convention of 1921, as also, by
Hollands life of Van Buren,, pages ISL, 1s2 and
1873.
Fdlselood Sirth and Serenth--"Gen. harrison
will not make any public declarations of his princ
pies, but refuses to answer the reasonable inquiries
of the people," That this is basey and utterly
false refer to the sources from which the fOrcgo-
ing facts are extracted as also to his puJc speeches
at Columbus and Fort Meigs, made during last
month and to lis recent letters to Mcssrs. Lyons,
Schmidt, Williams, &c.
FalSehood eight and last Jut largest Of all! 1.-THE
truth of all these statements can be fully atested
by q reference TO public documents" The facts
adduced in the course Of the above letter prove
beyond all lingering of doubt" not only that the
whole ''l3 lines contain on an average of little
more than one LIE to every tro lines" but also that
the statements Of such reckless and unprncipled
Editor does not merit the least confidence from this
community. will say in conclusion that if the
Argus can "atest' his charges by reference to
public documents" call upon him. as a citizen and
one of his subscribers, to afford US evidence OF
such atestation.