The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-16

their own. The Vincennes speech | will refer
40 presently. The Emancipator, 10th January,
$50, publishing this speech, remarks:
owe submit this document as plenary proof
that the Wing Convention of 1889 has taken
lesson in tactics from the Democratic Conven-
tion of 1886, pledging its support to the slave
power by nominating Northern man with
So ,thern principles for President"
From the Emancipation of January 30, 1910, |
read the following article, to which invite the
attention of those who think the abolitionists ia
yor the cause of Harrison,
esTHE HARRIsBuRG NoMINATIoNs.-The gene
raj surprise and excitement produced by the Har-
risburg Convention having now subsidized, we
trust the readers of this paper are prepared to
take calm survey of the matter, and examine
its relations to the GREAT QUESTION which viz
tually controls all our American politics
We hazard no contradiction in saying, that
when the convention met, there were very few
people north of Pennsylvania, who expected
Gen. Harrison would receive the nomination.
For this reason, the Abolitinnists had given
themselves less concern about him, and had taken
but little pains to ascertain his true position with
reg I'd to the slavery question. We kHeio, M
deed that he had been SeaiouS supporter OF
the slaue potDer in the days Of the Missouri
controversy, and had done tchat he could 10 as
sist in that grand c09tSitnlnlGtt0n, by tohich the
free principles Of the constitution acre ira
MED dozen, and the Siapc interest obtained an
ack,,otOIsdged supremacy in the Government Of
the nation. Also, that ne had assisted in an at
tempt to violate the solemn guarantees Of che
oyffinance of 'S7, older than the constitution
itself by spreading the curse of SIaveyy orer
the rich palleys and beautiful hills Of Indiana.
We may remark, hOtceeeT, that so
far As WE ARE ACQUAINTED, there teGS not a
SINGLE knoteH .4Laistioaist present ill lhe Har-
y,isb,ug Contention
The Liberator of April oath, said:
ssAs for ourselves, we are satisfied that Gen.
Harrison is as rotten as any STAKEHOLDER in the
land, on the subject of slavery, as facts show
ing this to be the case daily coming to hand"
The Philanthropist, of April "a, 1910, pub
fishes the letter of the Cincinnati Committee,
and remarks:
s'The pamphlet promised by the committee
is now published. 1t contains Gen. Harrison's
letter in reply to the accusation of pro-slaveTy,
published in 1922, and his notorious Vincin-
mes speech. The necessary inference is, that
the sentiments expressed in this speech, con-
corning abolition and abolitionists, he still holds
In fact the committee assures us, that the Gen
erals views in regard to all the important and
existing questions of the day, have heretofore
been given TO the public, fully and explicitly,
and that those views whether connected with
constitutional or other questions of any gener-
al interest, have undergone no change To
show what those views are, they publish, a
mong other things, his Vincennes speech"
After this, the Philanthropist says:
ESWe had thought that Gen. Harrison was too
man to truclrle to the STAKEHOLDER;
but, with the rest of our public men, he has pass
ed under the yoke"
An Anti-Slavery Conv ention for Western New
ork, held at Arcade, Genesee county, Jan. 20,
1910, seven or eight hundred persons present,
with delegates from the States of New York and
Pennsylvania, the following, among other reso-
buttons, were passed:
'FS. RsSoIUed, That, in our opinion, Gen. VIM.
II. Harrison ought not to receive the vote of any
freeman in the United States for the office of
President thereof, because he has apostatized
from the faith of his father, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, and habitu-
ally made war upon the most essential of human
rights:
E'1st. In urging the National Legislature to
suspend the prohibition of slavery in the North
western Territory, which he did, president of
a convention held therein in 1902, for the pur-
pose of introducing it there, though the prohibit
ton had been solemnly enacted by the unani-
nous vote of the old continental Congress, and
ratified by the first Congress under the new con-
stitution, with only dissenting vote.
s'2d. In giving his influence and his vote, as a
ting the State of Missouri into the Union with
a provision to lcgalize slavery therein, and in
doing the same, during the same year, in respect
10 the Territory OF Arkansas.
sf3d In disappearing the abolitionists and
the constitution, to their prejudice, and to the
injury of the great rights of free inqu.ry-free-
dom of speech and of the press-in a speech de-
livered at Vincennes, in 1885, in which also,
in effect, he encouraged the ldl0EeSs Uiolence of
MODS to suppress the movements of the abolition
ists though they were rightful and constitutional
by declaring that they should be Immediately
stopped by the force Of public opinion, and
that cannot too soon be brought into operation
s'4 h. In authorizing committee of his poll
teal friends in Virginia, in 1886, for the sake of
procuring him the support of slave owners, in
the election for the Presidency then pending, to
saw that Che was sound to the core on the subject
of slavery
ee5th In consenting this year to be run as a
candidate for the Presidency on ticket which
cannot receive vote which is not at the same
time given for a Shareholder as Vice President"
Each and all the Abolition papers are denun-
ciatory of Gen. Harrison as a "SLAvEITE"
esSPURIoUs DEMocRAcY.-At meeting in New
York of the Royalston Democratic q Asso:ia-
tons on the 18th January, 1910, the following
resolution was adopted
esResoEued, That modern whigism, federalism,
tOrVlSm UduhIohi, are all unit
ed as one common enemy against the national
Administration; therefore, it is the duty OF every
democrat to use every honorable means in his
power, to disseminate political truth, as avowed
by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
jackson and Van Barren which is equal rights
and equal privileges"
am indested to Stanley's sphech for the above
extracts.
General Howard being one of those alearned
in the law" hope he will consider the autho-
rity of all kese abolition papers, full 'set Off
against his dictum. As a "northern man with
southern principles" l feel greatly indebted to
Gen. Howard for the profound interest he ex-
presses upon the subject of our rights as slave
holders; but when he conjures up 'gorgons dire"
in relation to the conflict of jurisdiction which
n,au take place between the United States Court
and the Courts of New York, and says, Efthe