The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-17

EiSOu DIT luE DCIlOu dIluhCd W NNOfSA~N
that"he was firm, consistent, unyieldlng
republican of the Jeffersonian school, and
warmly advocated the election of Mr.. JET
ferson against Mr.. Adams" Gen. Harrl-
son himself in debate in the Senate OF
the United States in March, 1926, in re-
plying TO some observations of Mr.. Ran
dolph, importing similar charge, explicit
ly declared that while in common with his
constituents, the Legislature of the North
Territory, whose delegate in Congress he
then was, he approved the course of Mr.
Adamss administration in the controversy
with the French Government, and had a
great personal respect for Mr.. Adams as
an honest man and patriot, chs opposl-
ton to the alien and seditlon laws was so
we'll known in the Territory, that prom
Use was extorted from him by his friends In
the Legislature, that as he had no vote in
the proceedings of Congress, he would not
unnecessarily compromise the local inter-
ests of his constituents, by the expression
ofhis political opinions. But whether Gen.
Harrison has been or is federallst, must
depend on the character of his polltica
principles, and not on the arbitrary classi
lication of personal or party prejudice
Now, it SO happens that we have an au-
thentic and most lucid exposition OF his
political principles by himself at period
of life when they must have been fully
matured and thoroughly settled, in an adj
dress to the voters of his District, before
whom he was then candidate for seat
n Congress, which was published in the
Cincinnati Inquisitor under the date of the
18th Sept. 1922.
In that admirable address, he declares
that he is ga Republican of the old Jeiier-
son school," and derives his principles Of
constitutional Interpretation "from the cell
ebrated resolutions of the Virginia Legis-
lature of '98--'99' that he therefore, 'de-
nies to the General Government the exer-
else of any power but what is expressly
given to it by the Constitution, or what is
essentially necessary to carry the powers
expressly given into effect-that she be-
ieves the charter given to the Bank of the
u. s. was unconstitutional = that she be-
lieves in the tendency of large public
debt to sap the foundation of the Constitu-
ton by creating a monied aristocracy
whose views and interests must be in direct
hostility to those ofthe mass ofthe people"
and that he is therefore Gin favor of every
practicable retrenchment in the expend-
lures of the government the be-
lieves in the right of the people to instruct
their representatives., when elected"-and
finally that he believes "upon the pre-
servaton Of the Union of the States, de-
bends the existence of our civil and reli-
gious liberties the true cement of
this Union is the brothcrly love and regard
which the citizens of the several States
possess for each other, and that as the
Union was affected only by spirit of mu-
tual concession and forbearance, so only
can it be preserved A polical creed more
truly Republican and patriotic than this, l
think you will agree with me, has never
been submitted to the American people,
and as it was delivered to the world, when
the experience and reflection ola life then
but little short offilty years had impressed
heir seal upon his opinions, it must in
candour; be presumed to form a basis of
his public policy and conduct.
But. il is said that Gen. Harrison has
voted for protective Tariff, for Internal
Improvements by the General Government,
and is in favor of a National Bank. In
regard to this last allegation, think shall
be able to show you presently that it is
wholly gratutous. AS TO the others, what
more has Gen. Harrison done than Mr..
Van Buren, Mr.. Van Buren, voted for
the worst of all the Tariffs, the Tariff oil
1928, commonly called the bill of abomin.
atoms. Very gross and wanton injustice
has been done Gen, Harrison, by pervert
ing a passage in an address delivered by
him to an agricultural society in Ohio in
1881, so as to make the impression that he
would not be willing to relax or abandon
the Tariff policy "lill under its operation
the grass was found to grow in the streets
of Norfolk and Charleston. The truth
is, that this expression was quoted by Gen.
Harrison from an agricultural address oil
Mr.. James M. Garneit of our own State,
who had argued that such was the actual
effects ofthe Tariff on the South; and Gen.
Harrison, responding to the argument, de-
clarcd, if such were really its effect, then
che would instantly give his voice for its
modification or entire repeal The senti-