Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-08-27

our columns to the letters Of 4" Crar-
ford" from the Charleston Courier
Below will be found the first letter In
our next we shall publish the second.
TO THE HONORABLE GEORGE
M'DUFFlE.
S,R: prococd here to my task-ond
that no injustice should be done, shall quote
the precise language that you have employ
81.
although I am constrained, by cicum'
stanc es, to decline your invitation, | concur
fully in your opposition TO the election OF
General HARRIsON. II there were no other
objection to his election, the audaclous and
insuling position he has assumed oi refus
ing to disclose his opinion to the people on
subjects Of vital importance TO their wei
fare, while asking their suffrages Tor The
highest office in their gift, and the disgust
h ng mummery Of log cabins and beer barrels,
which would disgrace the orgies of the low
est demagoguc, by which his nomination has
| been heralded forth even by the highest oil
his partizans, would be quite conclusive with
Il me-"
Il If this tbunderbolt were aimed atGeneral
/ HAnRIsoN, it has certainly spent itself IN
air. To your bare assertion, that Gen. il.
has refused to disclose his opinions on vital
subjects, | have only to oppose nn obso'
lutte denial, and to plant myselfon The facts
of the case. II is not true that his opinions
have not been disclosed fully, freely, unre'
II sevedly. Sir, II Is not IN your power, 10
make and unmake truth at your pleasure,
and fearless Of all contradiction, make The
II positive assertion, that there is not one sub
ject Of vital importance-no one, sir, upon
II which he has not expressed his opinions and
stated his vews-fully, frankly, and unre.
servedly. have regarded this charge, when
coming from others, as the mcrest cant oi
designing politicians, and should not have
known how TO account for your endorsement
Of it, if you had not yourself supplied the
reason. | find it in your lcttcS-,hnt you
have "iciiddrdicn yourseD entirely from The
| feid of politics." 1t is a chance whether
your eye, consequently, ever lights upon
paper that is not devoted to The destruction
of General HARRISON. And | will here re-
mark, in the way Of justification Of your bofd
dogmaiisn, that never did IA press exhibit
II such reCklessncss of the interests they pro.
fcsscd 10 seryc-ncvcr wns Suppression,
pcrversion and imputaiion, employed SO un
scrupulously, to deceive, inhame, und mad.
dena people against ono to whom they owe
debt Of lasting gratitude. can readily
believe, sir, that having Withdrawn entire.
Il ly from the field Of politics." and conhnng
| your reading TO the VAN BURkN press OF
The State, than you cnn believe amy thing
against the candidate Of the whig party.
/ 1t is only to be regretted that on question
H upon which you must necessarily from wan,
of interest and proper investigation, be IL
norant, that you should have rnshly put forth
a Misrepresentation, calculated to do all the
Il injury which such charge, sanctioned by
your character, could do. This crying in,
| justice to soldier and patriot, and above all
to an honest man, this greater wrong to
/ yourself, would have been impossiblc, If you
could have taken sufficient interest IN the
| politics OF the day to read occasionally any
one Of hundred Of the opposition papers OF
the country. Is there one question Of vital
Importance, now before the public, besides
The following
II The Bank.
! Internal Improvement.
Il The Tariff.
II The Sub Treasury.
II Abolition.
II The Veto.
II Public Lands.
\ The general character of Hs Government -
Il Nulli6cation-or the Force Bl:"
Il The last war.
II The alien and sedition laws.
Il Imprisonment Tor debt.
Il Bankrupt law. :.
Il Are not these df the subjects Of vital
importance" which agiiatc aud occupy the
nation? II there be any other question
mooied either by politicians or people, wha;
IS it Z Tam entirely IN ;he dark, cannot rcoo
what Is plainly written, or hear what is loud.
II ly spoken, if there be n single other one
| question. discussed as OF vital importance
beyond the list | have given. Yet upon ,ohicI,
Of all these has not General HARRISON ex.
pressed his opinions, so plainly, pQinie,hy n'Ni
LJuiiy that any honest man can possibly mus
understand him? Upon which has he equi
pocaied, and used the double tongms can
readily believe, sir, that you may think me
audacious in my nterrOgatOries (; If your
sources Of information have been confined to
I such portions Of the administration press, n
| am accustomed TO see land of such journals
| alone here would be understood to speak
or to hare spoken) can well conceive your
astonishmels at my supposed temeri,y. You
sir, and the Ingenious, confdlng people OF
our State, have been grossly abused and
practiced upon by the organs Of political in
formation. Would you believe t-could you
imagine, that editors, born and bred as gen.
tlcmcn, recognizing in their private walk
the courtesics of lie, the obligations of strict
truth-could be SO far seduccd from that
which is due to themselves and to their re.
sponsiblo and respectable pOsItion-as upon
The great question of our intel rest and ou'
fcclings-our existence nnd. our point o
honor-that they could be induced to injure
one whom in need had proved himself om
friend to his o,en hurt-by cmting one ofhis iet
iers iniico, and suppressng the portion which
vindlcated tho consistency Of his life and his
opnions-gloried in the mo' iyrdon he had
4 suffered for as and repeated and enforced the
generous principles OF an enlarged patriot
ISM and devotion to the Constitution, which
prompted the noble sacrifice OF se!C to tho
South and Union. IT, sir, you have evcI
read the Whoie Of the letter or address, writ
ten to the people of his District, by Gen
IhRRisoN, when n candidate for Congress
Immediately after the Missouri question, yo'
can appreciate the extent of the ungenerou'
aud unfccling injury which has been done
him.
II If your information has been confined Il
the first portion of that addrcss-ihe onl
knowledge permitted or enjoyed by large
portion Of our populailon--you will have