Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-06-25
From the Charleston Mercury.

The miserable and oisgraceful policy of
the Wing candidate which is fast turning
against him the manly and highminded Of
of his friends both West and South, has
just received pretty commentary from
his own party. IF be had been all enemy
and lad laid trap with most cunning
caution 10 catch them and hold them Up
TO universal ridicule and contempt, he
could not have more effectuaIly done it.
The wings became terrible nervous under
his policy 10 hold no communication with
the people, whose votes he asks for the
highest station in theirgifi; Southern men
began 10 shGdder Under the thickening
proofs of The secret union Of Harrison and
Aholition-lhe Wings of Kentucky could
bear it no longer-they fitted out an ar
mament Of valiant knights 10 go forth and
deliver The hapless damosel of North Bend
from the confidential committee Of giants
aud ogres who were understood to hold hrr
in painful eonstraint, andrh world waited
With anxiety the most intense, the issue of
this bold adventure. Meantime llama
Uolat" ust as she used 10 do in widow d.
dos day-rumors Of awful Developments,
great reaclions-it was said the General
had come out against Abolition and every
unclean thins-the prevailing story was
that on the approach of the aforementioned
squadron of Kentucky heroes, granny
Harrison took heart jumped out Of an en-
brasure of the enchanted castle aud with
peIicoats flying had never stopped her speed
till on The sunny side Of Mason and Dix
on's line. 1t was averrred that Messrs.
Preston and Dawson had drank tea with
her and were sa,ifed-nothins could ex-
ceed The vigorous and universal shout Of
the Whis-'now we are not quite so much
of ourselves as We were belore!"
Poor souls! it was brief triumph. A let.
ter from ,teWhtg candidate has been pub
lished in which however the whole charge
of confidential committee and system
attic refusal 10 expose hi, opinions to the
peopleis fully admitted.
But Gen. Harrison says he thinks for
himself and is. an uncommonly indepeu-
dent man, and this conclusive declaration
is paraded by the Wings as altogether a
answer to what they call the
unfouuded calumnies Of the Loco Focos.
Who expected him to confess he was fool
and needed guardians. 1t would be a
singular and totally unbeard of modesly
in a candidate for the Presidency. Indeed
such is the perversiiy Of human nature
that i, extremely rare to find any n,au who
is free 10 confess that by reason of sfupidi-
ty and imbeciIity of mind he thinks him
selfaisqunli6ed for any place OF profit or
trust. Fortunately evidence of The fact
will leak out against all "policy" and we
have heard ofins,ances of men who tho't
and spoke of themselves with the pro-
foundest respect, but who were considered
by every body else as geese Of the first
water.
1t was not Gen. Harrison's opinion of
himself which had excited the curiosity Of
he people Of the United States. There
were subjects of some what greater mo-
Ihhieht than the authorship of his speech
es, addresses and general ORDERS" abour
which they have Gelt it their duty to ques-
ion him, on all Of which he is silen--sets
aqueys at his door 10 answer .not at
nome" 10 every inquirer, and wonders at
he insolence Of the people, who instead of
buying and amusing themselves with
volume Of his old speeches addresses and
general ORDERS" do actually thrust their
'aucy interrogations under the indignant
lose of SO great man as the Federal Abo-
|ilion candidate for the Presidency.