Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-04-21

From the Charleston Courier.
Cr,t. HARRrsoN.-We cheerfully give place
D., ,be remarks Of our correspondent, "a Sub
s.,;ber". and he would have been Just as wei
.,,e with any other title or any other name.
n b,s been rendered manifest, we trust, by
.,r course hitherto, that we IRE not among
tboso who, merely because we favor another
candidate for the Presidency, would Willy
Cont HARRISON, misrepresent his views, or rob
t,n of the hurels he earned so well, by his
..lU and prowess in the wars Of our republic,
both agains: the ruthless savage and the haugh-
~ Br,on, or the civic wreath to which he has
s5wclI entitled himself by his eminent services
in the civic line. We declare, in all sincerity
heart, that It affords US pleasure TO do justice
10 GnL H., or to any other distinguished mar
10 whom we may be politically opposed. II
with grati6cd and not with reluctant feellLg,
therefore, that we open our columns to the
indication Of that tried and veteran patriot
against any charge affecting his fame, and es-
55caly against the foul charge Of aboht onism,
(Which ever since our knowledge Of his Vim
s.nnes' speech, we have believed him, and
Ml believe him, to be as innocent as we are.
40 one is more ready than we. to extol the
,5rri question, when his sense of duty to the
Constitution, the Union and the South, induced
HIM lodly and fearlossly to oppose the infa-
nous Missouri restriction, against the senti-
nelts IT his constituents of the Cincinnati
Uho District, and az the hazard of political
m ,iom, which was, in fact, subsequently
inflicted upon him for his course on that me-
m5aNa occasion and perilous crisis. So, too,
,nlongh we cannot but condemn, and still do
condemn the doctrines and spirit Of an oft cited
extract. from his Cheviot speech of 1888, in
v,hch he expressed himself in favor Of appro-
pratinu the whole surplus national revenue,
,sh me- asSsnt Of he Sldre-h0ldiHg States, to
The united purposes ofemanCipation and coloni-
zation in inspparaJle coHneri0H, and preached
the dangerous he.esy that such a measure, if
asscntcd to 5y the slave-holding States, would
be within the constitutional competency of
Congress, without an amendment of the Con-
sttuton--which Is equivalent 10 giving Con-
rress constitutional and therefore full power
over he abolition Of slavery--the qualification
proposed by him being one, not Of right, but OF
eNpadeJcy merely; yet we have always adj
m.ued and proclaimed that the extract in ques-
ton, was am isolated one--found in the midst
ofau address, rep'ete with sound doctrine on
hoqle5tion Of Slavery, and its constitutional
r.7abity in the several States. save by their
orl voluntary action and when we read his
Y lcsnlss speech, Of 1885, reiterating those
rrd doctrines, hshing the abolitionists with
ncutcd severity, for their ianaticism, folly, and
iaadehty to then constitutional duty, and Ia
King tE5 high ground that the discussion os the
abolition u slavery, IN a non-saveholding State,
was an abuse and violation of the constitution
al privileges Of speech and the preserve at
once ad,nltted and announced, chat the anom-
alOus passage in the Cheviot speech, the par
ucIo Of chat in the bushe of wheat, was am
pr a.on0d for-and that it would thenceforth
DO Unfair and unjust to attempt TO identify
Gen Harrison, with abolition, or the abolition
r's, cspecayis those vile wretcnes had then
uuhed and repudated him, through the Eman-
clpator, their leading organ, and the antl-slave-
~ Almanac, one of their insidious publications,
TO abuse and excite the public mind of the
North, against the rights, institutions and IN
(erests OF the South. With unfeigned delight
then, not because we have at all abated our
political opposition to Gen, II. for the Presiden-
cy, but because we love to do justice, and we
take sincere pleasure in arraying the distin-
pushed men of the Union in favor Of the con-
htutonal rights Of our own loved and cherish.
ed South, do we this day, in the communica-
ton Of our correspondent give place to an ex-
tact of letter from Gen. Harrison, dated a
ieD days since, addressed to a distinguished
member Of Congress from this State, (and
which we know to be genuine) record his full
and unqualified Endorsement OF his VincenRes'
Speech, We said, a short time ago, in one Of
nfltf rt,1 oil hot
ed from Gen. H., 10 clear bis skirts, so utterly
and thoroughly from abolitiOnism, as to disarm
even bis bltterest foes of that weapon against
Inn, and to render them ashamed to weld il
any longer. That line has been giUen; and
Zen. Harrison stands before the republic ere
deemed, regenerated and disenthrahed" from
tle dlaboIical genius Of northern abOlitionism
we proclaim It, rs we promised, aud sound il
Jumpet-tongued, that echo may take 1t up, and
send It, from hill top to hill top, with loud and
Joyous peals, in triumph through the land. We
al east, rejoice to be assured that whether oul
own hvorIte candidate, Mr.. Van Buren,, o.
MS opponent, Gen. Harrison shall succeed
overwhelming discontinue and deieat--tha
soiaIlon Of them for the scorn and Indignation
~ y, tle republic which the gallant and generous
nenry Clay declared should be their meriteC
sSoohl-awalts them; and the rights OF the
oOuth will stand uninjured, unimpaIred and IL
panoply OF safety, under the sacred banner o
Sne constitution. We oppose Gen. H., there
ue'hot as an abolitionist, but as a tariff anC
~.'ernal improvement man, and one whose
He"s oil the constitution, generally, are too
S,sueudinaran for our creed of "Union ant
S,ale Rights" and especially and decisively
uJcaGse he is in opposition to an incumbent
VINO boldly and generously came to the aid ant
tesclls Of the South, at moment when he
rights Or the Unlon .:,;'cge imPerilled by tn
nau'lc efforts Of criminal iaii,e, ucisn' anu De
slse nobly planting himself on the Soast'tu
WY ne freely and unequivocally, staked hu
Pg.lucal fortune on the maintenance OF the IN
,'HuIlons OF the South, in their whole constItu
uonal integrity.
Here the Courier assingns the reasons
snieh influence it in preferring Mr.. Van Burel
~ zen. Harrison for the Presidency, and dc
ENDS itself against the impression OF Gen. h
.laL he was charged by it with seeking con
lament both Of which we exclude as no
0'.aSssSry to our purpoge, and then conclude
v y1s following manly strain:
we repeat, however, that Gen'. HaTiso
IL" Stands rectus IN cura with the SOUTH
S s% nnooly scorned all concealment and throw
s ~ ~ reserve, and, occupying position, by tn
c.. Nr. Van Buren, on the platform Of To
~ og5Su'auon, he is justly and honorably emit
80 Tar as the slave question is concerned
complete, on equal ground with Mr.. Va
ten, Tor the votes ana favor Of the South
- ether be elected, and the Constitution
e., me South Is safe, and the Union,--th
"Inpls Of Libertv-is safe and sanctified.