Liberty advocate., 1840-07-09


commissioner TO enter into any treaty or trea-
Ties, which may benecessary, with the Indian
tribes, northwest Of the Ohio, and within the
territory of the United States, on the subec,
: of their bounaries orands.
: "THoMAS JEFFERSON"
General Harrison, therefore, received both
these important appointments at the same time.
On the 18th December, 1906, General Harri.
> son was re appointed Governor of Indiana by
Mr.. Jefferson.-See I'd vol. Executive Journal,
page Al.
On the 10Th of December, 1909, Gen. Har-
: Irson was appointed Governor Of Indiana Ter
rtory by Mr.. Madson.-See vol. 2, Executive
Journal, pages 296, 800, 329.
The committee, it will therefore be perceiv.
ed, made no mistake, and that General Harr-
son was twice appointed governor of Indiana
Territory, and commissioned to make all ne.
cessary treaties with the Indian tribes north.
west OF the Ohio-a more important appoint
ment than that OF govsrnor-by Mr.. Jefferson /;
and once appointed governor, and also, briga-
der general, and major general by Mr. Madi
son; making, in all, six appointments by JEFF
lerson and Madison and but two by the elder
Adams. If, therefore, as is argued in the cir
cuIal, the appointment to, and acceptance of
office, is to be considered as proof oil federal
ism or repubIicansm, Gen. Harrison requires
no further vindieation from US, and may be
considered by you fellow citizens, as triumph
Iantly acquitted Of the charge preferred against
him.
We now come TO the second item Of proof
adduced--the attack which was made in the
Senate of the United States, by John Ran
dolph, on Gen. Harrison, in the year 1885,
We desire it borne in mind, that Mr. Randolph,
in his rabid support Of Gen. Jackson, was in
the habit of denouncng all who did not agree
with him in opinion, with very much the same
exercises when it calls southern members Of
congress, and all who do not support Van Bu.,
ren, federalists and aboltionists. The author
of the circular having shown, as it would seem,
to his own satisfaction, that Gen. Harrison
was foderaliSt in 1900, because he accepted
too appointments from the elder Adams, pro-
ceeds 10 show that Mr. Randolph's attack, and
Gen. Harrison's reply, in the Senate, prove
him to have been lederaist in 1895. That
you may have an accurate knowledge of the
use he has thought proper to make of this por-
ton of his evidence against Gen. Harrison,
we quote the following sentences from the Cd
and Sd pages of the ''Circular."
sit would no, seem necessary to produce 9th.
er evidence; but, as it is convenient, will call
your attention to his own admissions as late as
1926. In the Senate Of the United States, in
that year, 1896, as may be seen in congresson-
al debates, by Gales and Seaton, in the first
part of the Cd vol, and at page 359, John Ran
lolph, of Virginia, said that the difference be-
tween himself and General Harrison was vital;
that they differed Fundamentally and totally,'
and did when they first took their seats in
congress. Speaking OF Harrison, he said
He was an open, Jealous, and frank supporter
of the sedltion law and black cockade admin
and | was as jealous, frank, and
open opponent Of the black cockadc and
seditIon law administration. We differ fun.
damentally and totally; we never can agree
about measures or about men. do not mean
to dictate TO the gentleman; let US agree to diff
fer as gentlemen ought to do, especially ma
tives of the same State, who are antipodeS to
each other in politics. Now this specific
charge was made by John Randolph on the
Goth of March, 1896. The reply Of General
Harrison is reported in the same volume Of de.
bates, and at pages 364 and IS, in which he
said that, he could not refrain from making
his acknowledgment to the gentleman from
Virginia, Mr. Randolph, for the notice he had
been pleased to take OF him. He had been
pleased TO say thai, in the administration of
Mr.. Adams, | was federalist; and he comes
80 . hat . ba huI
me in 1899 and 1907 We wish it borne in
mind that Mr.. Randolph charged him to his
face with being jealous, open and frank sup
porter of the sediton law and black cockade
lie then proceeds in reply:
'At that session the gentleman and myself met
for the first time: he in the station Of repre>
sentative from Virginia, and in the more
humble one Of delegate from the Northwestern
Territory. Having no vote, did not think it
proper to take part in the discussion of any oil
the great political questions which divided the
two parties. My business was to procure the
passage of the bills which had INTRODUCED for
the benefit Of the people represented. The
gentleman had no means of knowing my po-
Iitical principles, unless he obtained them from
private conversations. As was on terms OF
intimacy with the gentleman, it is very proba-
BILE that he might have heard me express sens
timents favorable to the administration. Icer-
,ainly felt them, so far at least as to the course
pursued by il in relation to the government of
France The charge is made direct and une-
quivocal, and the answer does not deny, but
admits the charge; but admits he made no pub
lie speech to that effect in the house of repre-
sentatives, inasmuch us he had no vote; and
that Mr.. Randolph must have heard it from
him in nriva,e conversations. But he admits