The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-13
RICHARD ]. MATCHETT, PRINTER.
ISLANDERS REFUTED.


ISLANDERS REFUTED.
The Cheui0t anil VincenaseS Speeches; Letter from
Gen. Harrison, endorsing the latter-refntotiOn
ofte slanIder of selling wAtte men for debt.
From the Woman.
We are gratified in being able to lay before
our readers that part of Gen. Harrison'S Cheviot
speech in 1888, which relates to Abolition. The
reader will see how grossly this eminent patriot
has been wronged, by the publication OF the gar
bed extract which the Administration presses
have given, and which the Van Buren, Conven-
ton have also detached from its context. Every
impartial mind will be struck with the soundness
of Gen Harrison'S views. and the f"""'H'" -
ELOQUENT style in which he expressed them. Let
ii be remembered, too, that this speech was de-
liyered the year subsequent to the memorable
agitation in Virginia, when so many of the pre-
sent supporters of the Administration were clam
orouS for abolition.
Extracts from his Speech at Caeriot, Ohio, July
4M, 1888
"There is, however, subject now beginning
to agitate them (the Southern States) in relation
TO which, if their alarm has any foundation, the
relative situation in which they may stand to
some of the States, will be the very reverse to
what il now is. ] aude TO supposed DISPOSE
ton in some individuals in the non-Slaveholding
States to interfere with the slave population ofhe
other States for the purpose of forcing their e.
Emancipation. do not call your attention TO this
subject, fellow citizens, from the apprehension
that there is man amongst you who Will lend
his aid TO project SO pregnant with nISchlef
and still less that there is State in the Union
which could be brought to give it counteDance.
But such are the feelings of our Southern breth-
rem upon this Subect-Such their views and their
inst views, of the evils which an Interference OF
this kind would bring upon them, that long before
it would reach the point of receiving the sanction
of State, the evil Of the attempt would be con-
r. ,.ora nod hxro
linton of the Union. Ifthere is any principle of
the Constitution ofthe United States less disput
able than any other it is, that the slave popua-
ton is under the EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF the States
which possess them. If there is any measure
likely to rivet the chains and blast the prospects
ofthe negroes for emancipation, it is the inter-
ference of unauthorized persons. Can any one
who is acquainted with the operations of the hui
man mind doubt this We have seen how res
tive our Southern brethren have been fiom sup
posed violation of their political rights What
must be the consequence of an acknowledged vi
olation of these rights, (for every man of sense
must admit it to be so,) conloined with an IN
shifting interference with their domestic concerns!
"Shall be accused of want of feeling for the
slaves by these remarks! A further examna-
ton will elucidate the matter take 1t for
granted that no one will say, that either the Go
Vernment of the United Staes or those OF the
nou-slavehoding States, can interfere in any
way with the right of property in the slaves
Upon whom. then, are the efforts OF the mlSgul-
ded and pretended friends of the slaves to oper-
ate2 1t must be either on the governments OF the
slavehoding States, the individuals who hold them
or upon the slaves themselves. And what are to
be the arguments, what are the means by which
they are to influence the two first ofthese lsthere
man vain enough to go to the land OF Madison,
of Macon and OF Crawford, and tell them that
they either do not understand the principles of
moral and political rights of man; or that,under-
standing they disregard them2 Can they adj
dress an argument to the interest or fears OF the
enlightened population Of the slave States, that
has not occurred to themselves thousand and a
thousand timesl To whom, then, are they to
address themselves, but to the slaves? And what
can be said to them that will not lead TO an in
discriminate slaughter of every age and sex and
ultimately TO their own deStructlonf Should
there be an incarnate devil, who has imagined,
with appreciation, such a catastrophe to his fell
low citizens as have described, let him look TO
the result to those for whose benefit he would
produce it. Particular sections of the country
may be laid waste, all the crimes that inturated
man, under the influence of all the black pas
sons of his nature, can omit, may be perpetra-
ted for season; the tides of the oceans however
will more certaoly-change than that the flood
ofhorrors will be arrested, and turned upon those
who may get it in motion
81 win not stop to inquire into the motives of
those who are engaged in this fatal and uncon-
stilutopal project. There NAV be some who
have embarked in it without properly consider
ing its consequences, and who are actuated by
benevolent and virtuous principles. But, if
such there are, am very certain that, their fe!-
low citizens will, ere long, "curse the virtues
which have undone their country
"Should be asked if there is no way by which
the General Government can aid the cause OF
emancipation; answer, that it has long been an
object near my heart 10 see the whole OF its sur
plus revenue appropriated to that object, With
the sanction ofthe States holding the slaves, there
appears to me to be no constitutional objection
to its being thus applied, embracing not only the
colonization ofthose that may be otherwisefreed,