The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-03
CONTnTIINI lATIONG.
'rO VHE SOUTHERN MEN.

TO THE SOUTHERN MEM
Ever since the beginning of the present peli-
teal campaigne, the Van Buren, editors bave
been ringing their infamous falsehools in your
ears that Gen. HARRISON is an abolitionist, but
hs has given the lie to their base ISLANDERS, not
only by word, but by deed these things are fla
miliar to all, but what do we know about Van
Buren's sentiments upon the slavery question:?
WHY don't Amos Kendall and his corps of quill
drivers cease coming their falschoods about Har-
rison, and discuss Martin Van Buren's politics ?
WHY don't they tell us about his negro suffrage
vote, or at least endeavor to explain it What
has Martin Van Buren, ever said done, that
he should be supported by the south Why he
voted in the Senate of New York, that free ne
groes and the runaway slaves of the southern
planters, should be put on an equality with white
men and their masters. He voted that they
should have the right of suffrage and at the same
time said it mattered not whether the old revo-
Iutionary soldiers voted, or not, that after few
years would roll by, when they would sleep be-
meath the clods of the valley, so it would be of
no use to oppose the property qualification to
give them the right of suffrage; and again, when
Gen Harrison, almost alone of the non-slave-
holding States, voted on the Missouri question,
and suffered political nartyrdom for southern
principles, where was Van Bnren5 Why, ia the
Senate of New York, voting that her Congress
men be instructed to vote against her unrestrict
ed admission into the Union; &what are Van Blu
ren's opinions upon abolition (Harrison's we all
know1 Then hear him! in 1886, he said, when
speaking of that entering wedge to rive open
the south abolition in the district of Columbia,
81 would not now from the sight now before me,
feel myself safe in pronouncing that Congress
does not possess the right of interfering with, or
of abolishing slavery in the district of Column
bIa." So when compelled to speak upon this
subject, instead of coming out boldly, and ex-
pressing his candid opinions as cold Tip" has
done, he uses the above mean, contemplate, nom
committal mode of expression He says, he has
not light enough upon this subject. Martin
Van Buren, has voted that negroes have the
right Of suffrage, and says, they are competent
witnesses, (and the law says otherwise) against
naval offices, voted against the Missouri ques-
ton, has lived ia a free state, and in slave
to decide whether Congress has the right or no
to take away cur property without our consent
Methinks there is not an intelligent schoolboy In
the United States, who without any light but
good common sense, but would make up his
mind in less time than it took Van Buren, to pen
his doubtings, and toll him whether he or any
body of men, be they congress, conncll or con-
vention, that had any business with mems Pri-
vate property or any right to takei 1t from them
without their consent. If doubling Martin
wants to be enlightened upoa this subject, let
him get in his democratic coach and four, and
go down in Virginia, and ask the first grey head
ed OH domestic he meets with, if he or Congress
has any right ,ts take him away from his master
without his masters consent, and my life upon
| it, he will hear no doubts Then let him try it
| and he will find that even negro without any
| light, but common sense, will give him better
and mere explicit answer than he has given to
us. He also says that he don't feel himself safe
in pronouncing opinion upon this simple
question that is true, in one sense of the
phrase, he is afraid if he opposes abolition, he
will loose northern votes, if he advocates it, the
south will go against him, so, to settle the affair,
he becomes all on sudlen very doubtful But
| this wont do for the south, they want no doubt
| ers upon this all important subject.
ask the Southern man, is he going to vote
| for Doubling Martin, or for her friend William
Henry Harrison, whose views upon tie subject
are the same as Thomas Jefferson's, and as
clear as a summers sky, unclouded by doubts Oh
deubtings. Are the South going to vote for Var
BureH's anti-States Rights measures, his Sub
Treasury, Standing Army, and his endorsement
and approval of negro evidence?-Are they go
ing to support man who is hostile to their in
tcrests, and who never did single act for thei
benefit? Are they going to support the traitor
who abandoned them, and voted for the Tariff
for Negro Suffrage, and against the Missouri
Question: No!-they will not.
Ios.