Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1840-05-09

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Congress, and the otherwise authentic history Of
the last 39 YEARS, are full and explicit [At
this place we may as well notice an accusal on,
that General IL. had committed himself to tho
keeping Of com uittee Of friends on this and
other political subjects. The authors Of this
SANDER k1,oic its lalsty. Gen. II. has donepre-
csely what Gen. Jackson did, OF permitted 10 be
done in his fist Canvass Who does not recol.
lect precisely similar committee in Nashville
to acknowledge the receipt Of letters and to al.
swer charges against Gen. j., in his canvass
and who then complained Of 50 necessary
procedure 4 The other excuse is, that, as re-
gro was not "citizen," the vote Of Mr.. Van
Buren, did not make a voter of him We
might laugh al this profound legal opinion, It the
Wings had no. been actually beaten in one Of
the strongest contested elections ever held in the
city Of New York, by the aid, 0lone (os was
charged by the public presses Of the timoJ OF
FREE NEGRO VOTES, towards the close Of the
day
Apologsing fellow citizens, for the heightened
and minute co sidelaton which we have given TO
this subject to the truth and iairness Of which we
shall afx our signatures, we proceed to notice
another accusation against General Harrison,
equally destitute Of the least foundation in truth:
1t is alleged, without cxplana.ion that General
Harrison voted, in the Ohio Senate, to sell poor
white men for debt" This is done, too, fellow
citizens by presses that have refused to publish
the letter Of Gen. H. written TO the editor Of the
Richmond Wing in 1886, and rePu5shed by the
Wing press from one extreme Of the Union to the
other, explaining and vindica,ing the vote he gave
on striking out q section IN one Of the criminal
lars Of Ohio which hal passed the House Of Re
personalities, and which enacted tina. when any
person was in confinement Tor the non payment
Of fine or costs, where, (lor horse stealing OF
house burning, or Instance the punishment, o.
conviction by a jury, was fine and Imprisonment,
such person, if he would not or could not pay
that portion Of the sentence OF the jury included
in the fine and costs should De sold 10 such per.
son as would pay it for the shortest period Of the
service Of the culptit. This is the whole case,
fellow citizens, So grossly u.sI-Pgcsaucd, ard
agains. whc. such pa'i,orc Recommendations have
been poured forth, by men ~'0 hnc1c The facts.
but have imposed the uasast representations
upon many who did not. Ii dis was wlOng-it
It We're better the county Ut the State should loose
the fine and pay the COs.s o. such naIeia-tor.
We apprehcni you will instruct those VINO made
ID unuako the vag,anl act which stands on your
own Statute book, iuti:ctng SIM tal disgrace up.
on those who oier or Jeg instead OF roam ard
steal. Dgcs. GI3. The thousands who served
under him in the SHOWS Of the North Western
Army--the hundreds at home vino have shared
his private, uno5rusye cAari.ies-his:5ry, ltsat.
which atteS,s the remarkable fact, that Of all his
soldiers, not 'rGS ecer SUBJECTED 10 tie tgn0my
Of public cbGSt'Ssmtnt-aLI, all attest the VIC
lcnce Of that panty rancour which would aScrl00
charge Of inhumanlty to such man.
We come, lastly, fellow citizens, to the 'nals-
Of federalism" which. be it borne IN mind,
made against eusYY prominent citizen VINO ha.