The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-06-04

VI aitptStlutI 1zOilN OH tiidt plCluTts ait
) now look on this In ls02, General llar
rison presided over Convention in Indiana
whose objec, was to obtain modification 0
The ordnance Of l7s0, 50 as TO admit slave
ry III that Territory. In ls22, Genera
Harrison was member Of Congress from
Il district IN Ohio, containing more aboli
tionlsgs THAI ATTY other ~ the State. The
Missouri question, raised by Mr.. Van Bu
rcn and his associates, was brought before
Congress. Ii vas one Of those trying oc
casions which ftw men have the moral cour
age 10 meet. Gen. II. had-aud acted
worthy Of his own fame, and the patrio,
name which he had inherited from noble
'ancestor. He was told, il you vote with
The south, You will destroy yourself. "Thal
is probable" be replied, but il IS better
that should destroy myself than to destroy
the Constitution ofmy country I'm expires.
sion and an act sufficient, Of themselves to
stamp hln patriot. He voted With two 9th.
. crs, and only two, fron the upnslave States,
to sustain the chartered rights of the south.
Never did wilder, Gercer, or more furious
storm burst upon the head Of any man.
{ At the next election hc was, notwithstanding
his overwhelming popularity, beaten for
4 Congress--and never was more vituperation
and opprobriun heaDed upon any man than
he suffered. The town of Cheviot was 10
his district, and 10 that ueghborhood there
were more aboiitioniSls than any where
else in the State; ard there the denuncia.
lion Of General Harrison was most violent.
In 1888, the people af Cheyiot, remember.
ing his public services, aud wiling 10 for.
gite--not to forget bis great political crime,
Cor abolition had increased, not diminished
invited ban to a public dinner. His
friends urged him 70 make 40 aliusion 10
abolition tina; decent respect 10 those
who had invited htm, a very large portion
Of whom were aboli,lonists, demanded that
he should make 10 aIluslon to the past
He at oUce determined that ne would not.
But on his way to Cheyior. be found the
dangerous spirit Of abolition more rife than
ever he determined 10 r. buke Il, and he
did 50. wish you 10 remember, that this
speech wa1 not made 10 slave holders; but
Stat there was not @ man in the assembly
who was not opposed 70 slavery and large
number Of them abolilionists. To such an
assembly he held The following language !:
There is, however, subject now be-
ginnins TO agilate them Cine Southern
States in relation 10 which, il their alarm
has any foundation, the relative situation in
which they may stand to some Of the States,
wlll be the very reverse 10 Who'll II now is.
| a.Iude TO 8 supposed disposition IN some
individuals in the non slatchoding States
TO interfere with the slave population Of the
other States, for the purpose Of forcing their
emancipation. do not call your attention
to this subject, fellow citizens, from the APP
prcheEslon that there is a man amongst
you who will lend his aid 10 a project so
pregnant with mischief; and stg less tina,
there Is a State in the t.uion which could
be brought 10 give II counlcnance. But
such are the feelings of our Southern bre.
th-en upon this suLJect--such their views,
and their jgst views, OF the owls which an
interference Of this kind would bring upon
them, that long before il would reach the
point Of receiving the sanction Of State,
tho evil Of the attempt would be cunsumma
ted as far as We are concerned, by DISCO
luton of the Union. /, there is any priu.
cpIe Of the Constitution o! the United States
less dlsputable than any other, il is, that
the slave population rs under the INCLUSIVE
CONTROL OF the States which possess them.
II there is any measure likely 10 rlvet the
chains, aud blast the prospects Of the no.
groes for emancipation, 1t IS the interier-
euce Of UNAUTHORIZED persons. Can any
one, who is acquainted with the operations
of the human mind doubt thls We have
seen how FESTIVE our Southern brethren
have been from q supposed violation Of their
political rights. What must be the couse.
queuce Of an Acknowledged violation olIhese
rights, (f0r every man Of sense must admit
il TO be SOL conlpined with an insulting IN
reference with their domestic concerns;
az uiH not stop 10 taqntrc into the mo.
tires of those rrho are engaged in the fatal
and unconstitutional PROJECT. There may
be some rho haze embarked in 1t tcithom
property considering its consequences, and
uho are Getpated by hsaeroi5nt end rirtu.
Gus principles. But, if such there are, I
an, pcry certain, that. should they continue
their present course, Their tello'O citizens
riH, ere long, course the virtues trhich
hare unaone their couatry.s
"Shoud be asked ii there is no way
by which the General Government can aid
the cause of emancipation, | answer, that II
has long been an object near my heart TO
see the whole of lis surplus revenue appro
priutcd to tina, object. With the sanction
of the States holding the slaves, there ap.
pears to me to be no constitutional objec.
ton 10 lis being thus applled; embracing,
not only the colouiz lton of those that may
be otherwise troed, but the purchase Of the
freedom of others. BY a Jealous prosecu.
ton Of plan formed upon that basis, we
might look forward to day, not very dis
lant, when a North American sun would
not look down upon slave. To those
who have rejected the plan Of colonization,
would ask, if they have well weighed the