The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-16

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TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAR
OLINAs
Your native and adopted citizens gave you
their support, in your struggle with the federal
government on the, ground that they owed you
their first allegiance. One who owed you no al
leeiance except that which he owes to Constitu-
tional Liberty, and who then stood by you at
greater personal sacrifice than any other who
came to your assistance in that trying hour, would
now address you. He refers to the part he bore
and the sacrifices made in your cause, because
they give HIM claims to your confidence.
1t is source of the deepest regret and mortif-
cation that on the question which now divides
the country, he is separated from old and long
tried personal and political friends And it is
rendered the more painful, because he earnestly
believes that all that is necessary to bring him
again side by side with those to whom he was so
long and so ardently attached, is that they should
know the truth as it is known to him.
These remarks are not intended for the hack
neyed politician, whose heartless policy is regu-
lated by selfish considerations. They are intend
ed for the honest, candid, thinking public, who
read and make up their opinions upon the facts
as they believe them; and are called forth by
reading in the Charleston Mercury the following
paragraphs
owe published yesterday a letter from the
GLOBE, stating as the result Of the Democratic
Convention at Baltimore, the una nimous nomin-
alton of MARTIN VAN, and also a unanimous
agreement to refer the selection of candidate
for the Vice President to the people of the several
States. This is what we expected and we cor
daily approve the decision of the Convention"
And AGAIN.
we-are now therefore in the right position, u
nited on principle and one in feeling. Our first
movement has been to declare the principles we
hold, and whlchwe mean to defend to the utmost
We have not advanced moment too soon to
the great contest which is undeniably pending
and on the result Of which more depends than up
on any struggle since the days of Jefferson. We
have not only noble cause, the noblest that can
awake the energies of freemen, but cause in
peril, and which it may depend upon our votes
and our moral influence to rescue from defeat and
disaster. 1t neither be denied nor forgotten,
that in opposing Harrison, we are opposing not
only the foes ofthe State Rights, but the foes of
our social institutions. The proof of this last
was fully canvassed and established ON Thurs
day night. We have made the charge, and feel
Northern Abolition is one of the main pillars of
the Harrison party at the North"
For the present, we pass over the support of
Mr.. Van Buren,, and the approval of the proceed
ings of the federal caucus, relative to the Vice
Presidency. We come to the declaration that it
can neither be denied or forgotten, that in OPP
posing, Harrison you are opposing not only the
foes Of our social institutions.
The Mercury of the 18th May, asks:
ssHas General HARRISON explained or modified
those declarations which marked him out as
man whom the South must look upon as an enc
my? Has he given any pledge, that however his
Utmost soul is hostile to u.s. he will still use his
official prerogative for our protection Has he
given any new assurance? Has he said a single
word to Justify any modification, not to speak OF
a total Oblivion, of the general suspicion enter
tanned against him by the whole South.
Our object is to reply to this enquiry. Gen.
Harrison has given no nesc pledge, because he
had long.since given the strongest assurances that
he could give, and hence no new assurances were
wanting. We rely on his public action on the
Missouri question, and his vindication of our
rights, addressed to anti-slave-holding consti-
tuency in defence of them, in preference to any
new confession of faith, put forth to suit an i'm
Urgency and to court popular favor.
Cen Harrison represented an anti-slavery Dis
trict in. Congress; he voted for the admission of
Missouri, and, when he returned home, was call
ed to account by his constituents. Hear his de-
fence In an address to his constituents, he said
81 deny that my in congress in relation Mis-
sour and Arkansas, in the least incompatible with
these principles. Congress had no legal constl
tutiona right TO emaneipate the negroes in those
lions of Louisiana without the consent of their owners
than they have TO free those of Kentucky These po-
pie secured in their property ya solemn covenant
with France when the country purchased from that
power. To prohibit the emigration of citizens of die
and climate of which was peculiarly suited to them.
would have been highly UNJUST had been purchased
out of the common fund.
And again
My vote against the restriction Of Missouri in forming
erconstitufion not conclusive one; there would
have been time enough, had continued TO be amember
before the question decided for my constituents to
have instructed me, and should have reoiced OPP
portunity of sacrificing my seat to my principles if they
had Instructed me in opposition TO my construction of
the constitution Like many other members from the
Notwithstanding states, of whom mention Shaw
Holmes, Mason of Massachusetts, Lamar of Connect
cut. and Baldwin of Pennsylvania could nothing
in the constitution which had sworn to support to
rant such interference with the rights of the states,
and which had never before been attempted. And
where Is the crime in of men being able to
we had all sro.7 to support il, the crime would have
been in giving IL construction which our consciences
wouldnot sanction.o
Here you will find that Gen. Harrison places
the vote he gave for the admission of Missouri,