Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-05-07
NUMBER III.

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hiionisfs in the Northern and Eastern
States were equally averse TO Mr.. Clay
and Gen. Harrison, though the former
having been recently, from his situation,
more prominently hostile 10 their mischie-
vous schemes, might, therefore, for the
present, be more prominently the object
of their hostility. The abolitionists have,
in fact, nominated Candidates OF their own
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency.
Is It possible, that the authors Of this
Address found their allegation, that Gen.
Harrison has refused to answer the re-.
peated inquiries ofthe Southern people on
this vitality interesting question Of aboli-
tonism, on the Letter addressed to him
which has been recently published, and
the answer of Committee Of his friends
at Cincinnati which has been publicly
declared to BIO a forgery, and this charge
OF forgery not contradicted Or what is
il they alude tot Or was this allegation
against Gen. Harrison only introduced by
way Of preface to their false gloss upon
the conduct Of Mr.. Riyes7 II must be
amusing to those who happen to have any
personal knowledge Of the two men, to
see the attempt OF the authors Of this Ad.
dress 10 run a contrast between the dir.
stimulation Of General Harrison and the
| .frankness Of Mr.. Van buren, the first, a
man who is morally incapable of conceal.
ing any opinion or sentiment, however
his interest may require him to dissemble
It; the other, as incapable Of revealing
any opinion or sentiment, which il is not
his interest to profess--if indeed, he en-
ter,ains any other.
But the authors of the Address, as II
conscious that they had no good evidence
to support the charges Of Federalism and
Abohtionism against Gen. Harrison, have
most audaciously, or rather most impu.
IDENTIFY, attempted to make the Wings. and
especially the Southern men among them,
witnesses to sustain the accusation. They
say" You will see that VIM. II. Harri.
son is both FrDERALrsr and an ABoLIA
ZIONIST; that his supporters, pho haze ia
Ken him up as mere instrument 10 cork
om their orn advantage, nell knotc these
truths ; and they dare not dvow, and are
equally afraid TO deny them" And to
point this remark at the Southern Wings,
they proceed to ask the people" what
should you say, what ought you to feel,
with respect to any Amercan--wifh re-
spect, especially, 10 any Southern man,
who sustaiEs and can comprehend tho re-
lations Of parent, husband, father, brother
or friend, &c., and yet 10 CRAFTY his Inst
Of place, or tog'uihi political amino stiles,
can lend himself to the elevation Of one,
who, if not from wickedness, from folly
equally fatal, is prepared to let loose upon
these sources of happiness and improve
mont Ito the humiliation of every trace
of civilized lile) the widest excuses of
rage. brutality, and ignorance 7" Now
it is possible, that weak minds, maddened
with the utmost bgotry Of factious zeal,
may entertain the belief that Gen. Hafri-
son is Federaiist and an AboHhoniss.---
But il is not possible for the meanest un-
Outstanding, or the most furious bigotry,
to believe, that tho Southern Why's we'll
know" the charges of federalism and
Abobiionism against Gen. Harrison, to
be truths. and "that they dare not ayow
and are afraid to deny Them" And con.
sldering the vile, corrupt and malignant
motives which the authors ofthis Address
have ascribed to US, one and all, perhaps
from consciousness of the motives by
which they themselves are actuated-and
considering the facts notorious to oil the
world, which disprove these inputations
upon us we feel it a duty which we owe
to ourselves and our country, to declare,
as we do declare, that, so far, cerfninly,
as we and the body which appointed Us
are involved in tho mputation, and in re-
spect, we firmly behcre, to the whole Wing
party--the charge, that ue knom General
Harrison to be both Federaiist and an
dboltionist, and that wc dare not arow
these truths against him, and are AFRAID 10
deny Them, is a wiliul and impudent false
hood. We say wilful and impudent
ialsehood LIST, because the authors ofthis
Address, themselves, in the first part Of
the passage quoted, declare, that we ask
the people to believe that Gen. Harrison
is not Federalist nor an A6olitionisf.
which plainly implies, that they kno1c We
have denied these charges against him:
I'd, because they must know, that every
Wing press south Of Mason and Dixon's
line, has been, for months past, denying
and refuting these charges: and 3D., be-
cause, in the Address Of the late Wing
Convention for the nomination Of Presi-
dental Electors, both those charges are
stated, denied in the most explicit manners
! fully examined, and refuted; and that ADJ
dress, the authors Of the imputation We
are repeiIing, If they can read truth and
argument, as flently as they can write
malgnitv, slang and nonsense, must have
read and understood.
We know not who are the authors of