Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-07-04


Author Tappan, Garrison and others are ready
to attempt, II was not established for the pur.
pose Of circulating infammatory Abolition papers
to excite the slaves to rapne, violence and rebel
lion it was not for the purpose of getting up pc.
tltions 10 Congress TO abolish slavery in the Dis.
trict Of Columbia, Ito do which NJ. Van Buren,,
says Congress is competent) it was not for the
purpose o! getting up instructions 10 members Of
Congress 10 admit no State into the Federal I'm
ION, unless she would give up her right to have
slaves, as did Martin Van Buren,, a State Senator
In New York, get up instructions to Rufus King,
a Senator in Congress, at time, when that ter
rlble question was shaking the Union to its very
centre. No-such was not the purpose of that
Society in Richmond, formed in the very heart Of
the cold Dominion" 1t was "Humane Soci.
ety." that was its true style and name. And we
would ask, was this wrong? Because we toler.
ate slavery, must we be in humane, refuse to vim.
dictate the rights Of those entitled to freedom by
every legal means, and dishonor the name of
Christian! In those days, it was no reproach to
utter the sentiment, that slavery, was a great DO.
litcal evil, and that its existence was calculated
to impair our national character. Then, and for
many years after, the wisest heads and purest
hearts were anxously contemplating on that great
evil, and meditating whether it were possible to
get clear Of it. Among these were Washington,
the father ofhis country, Jefferson, Madison, Pat
rick Henry, Gov. Page, Mason, Tucker, and
many others But these patriots never dreamed
of any means but legal means-modern abolition
was then unknown.
We invoke our Fellow citizens not TO be de-
ceived by the garbled extract to which the Dem.
ocratic Central Committee have dared TO afiix
Gen. Harrison's NAME as though it were the
/ ,bnIo Of ,l,o oil II,
and a patriot, to one whose whole life has been
that of self sacrifice, TO read the whole address
as given by us in this publication, and we hesitate
not to say that you will pronounce it to be the eI-
fort not only Of clear mind, but of pure heart
of one who loves his country above all other
things This society was formed in the very
heart Of the "Old Dominion the mother of slave
States, and some of Vinginia's best blood as be-
fore stated, were its members. Harrison was
member of it at Is years Of age, had attended
one Of its meetings, when at 10 years old he was
| appointed an Ensign in the regular army, and
joined Gen. Wayne expedition and came TO the
| West So much for this foul and groundless
charge.
But again-being on business at Vin@unes in
May, 1885, public dinner was given him by his
good old friends Of Indiana, and being toasted, as
is usual on such occasions, he delivered a speech
to the people, an extrsct Of so much Of which as
relates to this question, is in the following words
81 have now, fellow citizens, few more words
to say, another subject, and which is, in my
opinion, of more Importance than any other that is
now in the course of discussion in any part of the
Union. al.ude to the societies which have been
formed, and the movements of certain individuals
in some OF the States in relation to portion of the
population in others The conduct Of these persons
is the more dangerous, because their object is
masked under the garb Of Observation-Disclosures and be-
neyOence; and their course indicated by argu.
mentS and propositions which in the abstract, no
one can deny. But, however fascinating may be
the dress with which their schemes are presented
TO their eiIOWcizens, with whatever purity of in
tenton they may have been performed and sus-
tanned, they will be found to carry in their train
mischief 10 the whole Union, and horrors to large
portion Of il, which, it is probable of the pro-
lectOrS and many of their supporters have never
thought Of the latter the first in the series of evils
which are to spring from their source such as
yUu have seen perpetrated the fair plains Of
Italy and Gaul, by the Scythian hordes Of Atta
and Alaric; and such most Of you apprehended
upon that memorable night, when the tomahawks
and war clubs of the followers of Tecumseh were
rafting in your suburbs. | regard not the dsavow-
ais of any such intention upon the part Of the au-
thors OF these schemes, since, upon the eXamina-
ton of the publications which have been made, they
will be found to contain the very facts, and very
arguments which they would have used, if such had
been their object. | am certain that there is not
in this assembly, one of these deluded men, and
there few within the bounds of the State. If
there are any, should earnestly entreat them to
torbear to pause in their career and deliberately
consider the consequence of their conduct to the
whole Union, to the States more Immediately inter-
ested, and to those for whose benefit they profess
to act That the latter will be the victims of the
weak injudicious, presumptuous and uncOnstitu-
efforts them. tlDrOD0h
tion of the subject must convince them The strug-
gle land struggle there must be) may commence
with horrors such as | have described, but it will
end with more firmly rvetting the chains, or in the
utter eXtirpation Of those whose cause they advo-
cate.
"Am wrong, fellow-citizens, in applying the
terms weak, presumptuous and unconstitutional, to
the measures Of the emancipators A slight ex-
animation will, Think show that | am not. In
vndicaIion of the objects of a convention which
was lately held in one Of the towns of Ohio, which
| saw in newspaper, it was said that nothing
more was intended than to producea state of pub
lie feeling which would lead to an amendment of
the constitution, authorizing the abolition of sla
very in the United States. Now, can an amend
ment Of the constitution be effected without the
consent of the Southern States What then IS the
proposition to be submitted to them 1t is this
The present provisions Of the constitution secure
to you the right "a right which you held before it
was made, which you have never given up,) to
manage your domestic concerns in your own way :;
but we are convinced that you do not manage
them properly, we want you to put in the hands of
the general government, in the councils of which
we have the ma jorty, the control over these mat
tiers, the effect of which will be virtually to trans
fer the power from yours into our hands Again,
of the States, and in sections Of others, the
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