Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-10-14

influential on public men generally as
they are and have always been upon
him. OF his Justice and beneyolence
no question will be made among those
who have enjoyed the pleasure Of
knowing his social qualities. There /
lives not, probably, one man who can
rise up and charge the General with /
injury, in regard to his property, his
person, or his reputation. On the 9th
er hand, all who know him well will |
bear ready testimony to the kindness,
condesoension, the active beneVolence |
of his conduct towards those whom
Providence has placed in less eligible
circumstances than those in which he
was placed.
OF the patriotism Of General Harrl-
son, the history of the West, for nearly
fifty years, is the impartial record; and
as I have no claiHl to peculiar informa-
| lion in that matter, | shall not affont
your intelligence by dwelling upon the
| Instances that might be cited from that
ample volume, in illustration Of his
character in that respect. | will only
say, that, whether you consider him
as the Governor of Territory, Agent
of Indian Affairs, the Commander OF
an Army, Member Of the State Lee.
gislature OF a Senator in Congess, you
will find love of country the leading
star Of his movements-the handspring
of his actions. To this he freely sac
rifced wealth and ease, and what was
| far dearer to man under The impulse
of political ambition,-that popularity
with his immediate constituents upon
which he depended for continuance IN
office. This last sacrifice he did en-
phatically make, when, contrary to
what he knew were the wishes OF his
| Ohio constituents, he voted, In the
i Congress Of the u. States, for the adj
mission Of Missouri into the Union as
slave-hclding State. How admira-
bic the gratitude of Southern polltl-
clans, opposed to his election to the
Presidency, who gratuitously denounce
him as an Abolitionist! How nobly
they reward such self-sacriicing pat
riotism, in the disinterested defender
of their rights and privileges
In.l810, General Harrison's polit-
r ical position was well defined. Ht
was then a Jefersonian Republican
and was, | believe, unimpeached o
having ever belonged to any othe
!. school Of politics. Indeed the party
/ now opposed TO him have no othe
It ground 10 charge him with ever havin
S belonged to the Federal party, than tn
9 fact OF his having been appointed to a
: important office by Federalist Pres
n dent. They forget that party adhe
Q renee was never a SINE qua non IN o.
: der to Office, till, in the first series
d the present administration, Gener'
+ Jackson, contrary to his own earne:
o advice to Mr.. Monroe, rendered 1t So
n Men who were competent and faithful
= bad always, previously to that era
4 party exclusiveness,. been consldere
le elirible to such offices as circumstal
le ces rendered it proper they shou
Id fill. And, such circumstances exlstt
:" in a remarkable degree, when Ge
IL Harrison received the appointment.
nd question from John Adams.
We Never, perhaps, was any man 7
~ object of more, or of more shamele
cb faisehood than Gen. Harrison has be
d. since the Harrisburg Cohventic
ey He has been stigmatized as a cowal
Id in the face Of long career OF bra
tic daring in his country's most dang
ion Gus service. He has been traduc
the as FederaIist, though every page
Law his political history ranges him
ms the ranks of the Jefferson party
Of Democratic Republicans. He
Id been denounced as an Abolition
d. Notwithstanding his self-sacrifc
lgh vote on the Missouri question, his
are peated and unequiyocai disavowals
ok, abolitionism and the Hostility OF Alb
In tionists to his election on the grou
be simply. that he is opposed totheir A
lition views. He has been SANDER
i as having, in the Legislature oil vi
: endeavored to procure the passage
hat law for the sale Of White Debtors
nfi- the highest bidder; when the purp
| to Of the contemplated law was the g
.nts mutation of Imprisonment for CT
lee into temporary service, under l
nat protection! These falsehoods are
tbe elaring, sobarefaced and SO easily T
ted, that their invention and clrc
him lion show at once how desperate
.ars. administration party feel their caus
ann be, and the utter restitution n
tba, which they labor of any respect
Il means Of supporting themselves
apy power, against the claims Of Their
,orty taqonists. They show, moreover
.eIy a most unequiVocal manner, the
ntly' feet incapability Of his most G
,arsl sighted and sagacious adyersaries
And detect, in the long and responsible
nter- reer Of Gen. Harrison, any one
raj stance Of incompetency or naalv'
t;on which should bar his wa