Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1840-06-11

erled or attempted, and that those lor'y years
we're precisely the period of our greatest pros
perty and happiness, and Of advances in civil.
cation and power, unprecedented n the history
Of the world sand that the thirteen years when
we have had no such institutions were years
of universal sagnatlon OF all the emp'oymen's
of life, and Of that suffering aud distress which
results from deficient or vitlated cnrren'
cy.
| do not doubt that bank, not sufficiently
guarded, may become a dangerous engine IN
the hands of corrupLG Government, and thatltI
may be used njurioksy TO the South. Bat.
properly guarded, have Just as lIltle doubt
that the chief benefits Of such an lnst'iutonI
will be TO the South is the paying, not the re
Iceiying sections, and is therefore mainly inter-
Iesled in having uniform currency.
| But whatever may be the dangers, rea' or
supposed, of u national bank, they sink INFO
utter insgnifcance in comparison with those
of Government bank, and that such is the al
rernatve contemplated by Mr. Van Buren,,
do not think any longer doubtful; aud think
have heretofore proven il.
| But it is said that General Harrison is an
aboitiunist, and that it was for that reason tina!
! he has been nominated over Mr. Clny-who
was so obnoxious TO the abolllonlsts that none
of them would vote for him. You cannot have
! forgotten that The very men, and the very
presses, who now tell you this, up to the very
moment of the Harrisburg nomination, said
That Mr. CLAW was an abolltionst Now you
are told that he not only is not, but is especial.
l ly Objectionable 10 the aDolitOnlSls. Both can
not be true. What is it that has so suddenly
transformed Mr.. Clay from an aboIlilonst IN
to an enemy of abolitonl | will tell you. lie
lis no longer candidate for the Presidency =
He is in nobody's way-and has therefore re-
spite from calumny. He is now marvellous
proper man. But let that ilIustrious citizen
j Industrious for every great quality that ele'aies
our nature-be once more btonght before the
country, and the same war Of calumny and
ralsehool will again be waged against him
Harrison an abolitionist-a Virglnlan, and
that Virginian n HarrIson-an abolitonst!--
Does any one really believe it!
No man living, North or South, has done
and suffered as much in the cause OF defending
this institution of the South as General Harrl
Y son; and no statesman of this country has give
as many votes against that institution Il
r Martin Van Buren,; and he never changed 0
O wavered in this course until, without sue
# change, he could not have hopei to be eecte
% President.
N Now il is bad enough to challenge our esp
!. cial confidence for an old Underwriting enem
If who never ceased to oppose US until the nece
IS sites his political position made it eXpedlel
n but it is too bad at the same time to ask us
!. denounce an old long-lred friend, who ha
hr
n friendship do we deserve, if we thus act? A
) low me TO submit the proofs in support of tn
broad proposition which have asserted.
!. Mr.. Van Buren, voted in the New York Coz
is yention to confer the highest privilege OF
r freeman upon negroes. 1t was carried manl
: by his influence; and it is to him that we ar
l. indebted for the fact, that the powerful repre-
=. sentation of forty members from the State {
!, New York are sent here in part by negroes.
:. In 1919, Mr.. Van BIren voted to ins;ru
n Rufus King, then a Senator in Congress troI
r. New York, 10 vote against the admission
=. Missouri into the Union unless slavery W.
" abolished 1t is 10 me a melancholy llustr'
i lion Of the decadence of public feeling. and
a want of proper tone and spirit in the Soui
!, that one of the prime movers-perhaps Il
r. the very prime mover of that dangerous me
4 sure-should not only be urged upon the con-
y dence of the South but is so pressed as Il
20 only anoined saviour OF Southern institution
). Mr. Jefferson said that the news OF that m)v
ment came upon him Ike the cry oitire IN Il
a. night. No one crisis in our pubic affairs HI
n. SO excited the fears OF every patriot; and, mo
.. strange and unaccountabe, he who lighted Il
i torch is held up as our best friend, and he wi
! extinguished it as our worst enemy. Is tn
- grateful, fair, or ius,? No later than 1872
.,d M. Van Buren, voted to restrict the lntrodu
:, ton of slaves into Florida. Ii Congress hi
=, the power to restrict, has it not power to 70
:, bid the introduction OF slaves into a TERROR.
= Who denies this! Ii you have power TO r
~ strict it to settlers, why may you not resrl
=, it still further to settlers over eighty years
70 aye, or altogether! Look on that picture, al
: now look on this! In 1899, General Harrist
over Convention in Indiana, who
roIobject was to obtain modification Of the ordI
cd ance of 1899, so as to admit slavery IN tn
ar Territory. In l3l9, General Harrison was
Il. member of Congress from district contal
ha ing more aboIitionsls than any other in I
~ State. The Missouri question:, raised by M
-. Van Buren, and his associates, was brought
n. fore Congress. III was one of those try
~ occasions which few men have the moral COT
~ age 10 meet General H. had, and acted w
:, thhy of his own iamo, and the patriot mai
al which he had inherited from noble ancest
M He was told, if you vote with the South y
4 will destroy yourself, "That is probable"
I;s repicd, shut it is better that should destr
~ myself than TO destroy the Constitution Of
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