Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-07-04

tiOH' nave hlICduy TtpllCu W SiHllldT TeVueSl
made BY the editor of the Daily Telegraph, paper
published in this city but as know not if that
paper (Which has been recently established is on
your list of exchanges and feel that the berali
OF your conduct towards political opponent give,
YOU an undOubted claim to the respect and courtesy
OF his friends, | repeat the substance Of that an.
swer.
The letter in question was written in 1886 in
anticipation OF state Of things which did not &C.
cur IT was, therefore, not made public, and fear
has not been preserved. Al least, after diligcnt
search among my papers, | have been unable to
find 1t. Its contents, however, are perfectly within
my recollection, and do all that is in my power to
comply with your request by stating them, as |
have done to the editor of the 'reerraph The let
ter embraced three points.
First General Harrison denied the right of
Congress to abolish slavery in the States, or in the
District Of Columbia.
Second He expressed the opinion that the tariff
compromise ought to remain undisturbed.
Third: lie repudiutcd the practice of making APP
polntmcnts to office, the reward Of partizan SER
vice.
This was the purport of the letter. | did not ask
General llarrison's opinion because | doubted it..
Having been in intimate intercourse with him foT
several years. knew that his views on this subj cct
were in accordance with my own.
am, very respectfully, gentlemen,
Your obcdient servant,
J. MCPHERSON BERklEN.
This letter from General Harrison to him, Mr.
Berrien says he has mislaid, but he gives its sub
stance. lie says the letter was written in 1886,
in anticipation Of state Of things which did not
occur, and was, therefore, not made public, and
he fears has been lost. This Democratic Com
mlttec, however, says, when referring to this very
letter, that sin a previous and longer letter to
Mr.. Beuien," longer than to Mr.. Soo,l ''the
to h. N,,;o,,,l Il,
abolition of slavery with The consent Of the slave
holding States, was also asserted; and for that
reason it is supposed that the letter to Mr. Berien
was not published" Strange conjecure
This conjecture, or half way assertion OF this
substance Of the letter Of Gen. Harrison to him.
which he had mislaid, and no such sentiment is
contained in it. But suppose such a sentiment
OF Jefferson, and Madison, the father Of the con-
stitution.
Can further proof be required that Gen. Harri
son is not an abolitonist, but that he is sound to
the heart--aye, as sound as Mr.. Clay himself
(whom this Democratic Committee seems to adj
mire not less than Gen. Ilarrisons frends.) If
50, it will be found in an extract from speech
delivered by him at Chcviot, Ohio, on the 18th Ju.
ly, 1888.
This, most men would have thought, an unfit
occasion, j4th July celebration again to revive
a question with people who had 50 signally re-
buked him for his defence Of Missouri and of the
cbartered r;rbts n Tho sail ond h;s f,ionds ~
ged him to say nothing out abolition; he thought
otherwise. lie saw his duty and he followed it
like man.
A notice Of the delivery Of this speech will be
found in Todd & brakes Sketches Of Harrison,
p loZ' Inc speech Is not there gwen, put II il
therein stated 10 have been published by the CON-
mittCe of Arrangements. A part Of it presented
a summary of the cause which led to the Revo.
lutionarv War. and a lucid exposition of the Con.
stitution NJ tho Trnted States The Damoc,atic
Co,,,,,,;,,o ,,LI;.L H. c,Il.. -. 60,
- 49, - N
''"' '9e0"' aS 'Iou5H WIZ al '.al 1t C0I'I.neu
upon IHc suUJeCL o. AOoAIIoN ana ColohI%duoh,
ana even split The paragraph part oil which they
published, because sentiment followed which
they were bound to approve. The garbed ex.
tract reads thu:
..Should no oe;sd if tlora Is M ,,ov hv which
the General Government can oid tho coi,se Of oman
cin,tion Tnnswer ,Lot - has I,,,,r 6eo1,, I,t s
MN heart 10 SEQ Tie ,rLoo of its yyr,Je .orS,,s .
ptoD,jotoJ IN tBot oLject Win the samaritan nr ,t
States holdinq slaves there an,eors to ma n h. pa
con ,,jonaj objec,;on n -, L;uC t5,,s r,;j am
bracing nor enIv the COLONIZATION of ,bosa ,hot
he otherwise freed bnt tha nurchase nf b, f-eado,
of others. Bv zealous prosecution Of a nlon form
ed unon TINT basis we miqht look forward m n d,y
not rery far distant, ,rf1n n North American y,,y,
,rouH not look dopn uDon Stare"
Wv
we now present Inc Wh"4e oil the ChevIot
speech which relates to the sub ect of Abolition
and Observation-Disclosures the garbled extract
published BY the Democratic Central Committee
which is as fellows.