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

pleasure ~ the contemplation OF such scenes
as must inevitably follow, finish out the pic
ture.
If am correct an The principles her,
advanced, I repeat my assertion, that The
discussion on the suHcct of emancipation
IN tie non. Sidreaoidiag States IS equally
Injurious 10 the slGres and their masters
and that IL has no sanction in the priRci
pies of NE Constitution. must not be un
derslood TO say, That there is any thing II
that instrument which prohibits such dis.
cussion. know there is not. But the
man who believes that the claims which his
fellow citizens have upon him are satisfied
by adherlng 10 the letter Of the political
compact that connects them, must have a
very imperfect knowledge of the principles
upon which our glorious Union was formed,
and by which alone it can be maintained. "
The following extract of letter from aa
intimate friend Of Gen. Harrison, places his
conduct on that occasion in q striking point
Of view:
+" But bis speech at Chcyiot affords still
stronger proof on this subject 1t vas de.
iyered you viii recollect, on the in Of July :
it was delivered, too, before The very men
who had opposed him because @. his slavery
views. Surely, then, he would not no"
touch this dangerous topic. The OF aston,
did not require it; the occasion, indeed,
would hardly justify il. Besides, this was
the first opportunity which the General
had enjoyed since 1922 Of addressing the
I people and how easy, how natural il would
have been, to improve it for his own ends ;
TO seek by talAjus Of old times, Of his icats
Of arms, and Of the glorious West, TO kin.
die a!resb those friendly feelings which once
burned 50 strongly in his favor Why
not so embrace it? Why q; any rate, dis
cuss d subject winch was full Of excitement,
which might rouse against him passions that
were even then only slumberiug, which had
before and on that very spot, marted his
political prospects. He die it, It is evident,
because foul spirit was about hun. which
if allowed To spread would peril all tina, was
noble IN the hand and he forgot himself.
and thought Only Of his country, in the eff.
| for! TO destroy that spirit"
Afterwards, in a speech al Yincennes in
1885, he used the following language upon
this subject:
81 have now fellow: citizens, a few words
more 10 say on another subject, aud which
is, in my opinion, Of more Importance than
any other that is now in the course of dis.
cussion il any part Of the Unlon. | allude
to the societies which have been formed,
and the movements of certain individuals,
in soma Of the States, 10 relation 10 portion
of the population in others. The conduct
of these persons is The more dangerous, be-
cause their object is masked under the
rarb Of disnterestedness and benevoleuce
and their course yindica'ed by arguments
and propositions which in the abstract no
one can deny. But, however facina,ing
may DO the dress with which their schemes
are presented to their fellow.cltlzens, with
whatever purity OF intention they may have
been formed and sustained, they will be found
to carry in their train mischief To the whole
Union, and horrors to a large portion Of it,
which, It is probab bic, some Of the projectors,
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, are such as you have read of, to have
been perpetraled on the fair plains Of Italy
and Gaul by the Scythian hordcs of Allla
and Alarc and such as most OF YOU appre-
hended, upon that memorable night when
the tonahawks aud war.clubs Of the follow.
ers Of l'ecunseh were rafting in your sub
urbs. regard DOT the dsavowaIs of any
such intention upon the part Of the authors
Of these schemes, since upon the eSamIna
ton Of the publications which have been
made, they will be found 10 contain the
facts, and the argument which would have
been used, it such would have been their
object, am certain that there is not, in
THIS assembly, one OF these deiuded men,
and that there are few within the bounds of
the State, lfthere are any, would earn.
esily entrcat them TO forbear; to pause in
their career, and deliberately consider the
consequence OF their conduct to the whole
Union, and to those for whose benefit they
profess to act. That the latter iriH Be he
rictimS Of The freak, i9judicioaS, PreSump.
tuouS, and unconstitutional efforts to Serre
them, thorough examination of The sub.
ject must coapiace them. The struggle land
struggle there must beg may commence
with horrors such as have described, but
it will end with more firmly rivetng the
chains, or in the utter eStirpation, Of those
whese cause they advocate.
An I prong, fello,p citizens, in apply.
ing the terms pedk, preSumptUouS, and al.
constitutional, 10 the measures of tho eman.
cipators A slight examination will, |
thiuk, show that am not. In vindication
of the objects of Convention which was
lately held in one of the towns of Ohio,
which | saw in newspaper, II was said that
nothing more was intended than TO produce
a state of public feeling which would lead
TO an amendment Of the Constitution, au'
thorizing the abolition Of slavery in the Uni
ted States. Now, can an amendment Of
the Constitution be effected without the con.
sent Of the Southern States What, then,
is the proposition to be submitted TO them ?
Il a