, 1840-08-08
GEN. HARRISON'S vERACITY.

lie presidency during the last lew months
in relation To the Abolition of slavery.
When Il candidate for Congress in 1922,
he made the following declaration in a print
ed "address to the public" viz
Il am accused of being friendly to slavery.
From my earliest youth to the present no.
ment, | have been the Drdent friend of hu-
man liberty. At the age of 10, became a
member of an Abolition society, established
at Richmond, Virginia; the object Of which
was to ameliorate the condition of slaves,
and procure their freedom by every legal
cans
On the 4th Of February, 1910, a letter
from Gen. HARRISON was shown to the Hon.
w. B. CALHOUN, of the House of Repre-
sentatives, of which he gives the following
account in his note to Messrs. GALES and
SEAToN, dated The 18th of June last, viz:
"The letter of General Harrison referred
TO in my note. was a short one, and consisted
exclusively Of 4 response to this inquiry
as it true that General Harrison. whilst Gov
ernor of Indiana, did make an effort to in
troduce slavery into that Territory? This
inquiry he responds TO in the same terms
which he used IN replying TO the same ques-
lion eighteen ysars ago, in the address to the
Public also referred to in my note"
1t is well known that the letter of Gen.
HARRISON referred to in this extract, was adj
dressed TO the Hon. GEORGE Evans, member
Of Congress from Maine. and was undoubt-
The ".AddreSs To the Puilic,' referred TO by
Mr.. CALHOUN, is the SAME from which we
have quoted above. As General HaRRsoN.
in his letter 10 Mr.. Evans, employed "THE
SAME TERMS WHICH HE USED" in that address,
he said. in writing in the month Of January.
1910. that when only eighteen years old, he
"bccamea member of an Abolition society eS-
tablished at Richmond, Va"
In his letter to Governor OWEN. of North
Carolina, dated February 19. 1910, General
HARRIsoN uses the following language, VIZ:
"You ask me mhetGer Inou am. or euer
hire been besn, member of an AboH ioI so.
ciefy.
"iaascer deciSirely, no."
The editor of the Philanthropist, published
in Cincinnati, in his paper of the 3Oth ult.
makes the following statement, viz:
''lh two interviews we had with General
Harrison on this s%~hject, about four months
since, ire WIS AT pans TO assure us that he
'Iud himself belonged TO an abolition socie.
" in Richmond, Va. He did not hesitate
about the phrase; he did not use any other
'AbuIilirn society seemed the only name
which he knew or cared TO know"
Four months prior 10 the 3Oih Of June last
carries back the date when Gen. Harrison
made these declarations, to about the first
of March last.
n, .Ia n # Al L., O. I--zn
said 20 Capt. VIM. Chambers and G.. VAN
BUsErHx, Esq. who were bearers OF n letter
from he Democratic committee for the state
Kentucky. asking. anon. other things. Tor
his opinion an Abolitionisn. '.hot nothing
couH iniace him 10 daSucr such intcrrogaio-
ries, either from friends or foes"
On The l7lh April, only one short week
thereafter. he wrote Il letter 10 A. G.. HENRY.
of Springfield. III. which was used nj the
time ot the Wing convention nj that place,
TO satisfy the Abolitonis,s. and was after.
wards read in part TO DIR. ISAAC $. BERRY
of NandalIa, and others, TO satisfy them tina;
he had been explicit or the subject of slave
nv. This letter, if it could be seen would
no doubt, like that to Mr.. Evans, be found
10 repeat the old story of having joined an
Abolition society at the age of eighteen.
Finally. in his letter to Mr.. LYONS, dated
on the LIST June last, Gen. Harrison says:
d" In answer to the inquiry, why | used
The word abolition in designating a~society
of which ] was a member in Richmond, in
the year 1871, instead Of the word humane
which is known TO be the one by which the
was really distinguished. all that |
can say upon the subject is, that If | did re-
ally term it an Abolition society. a fact which
| can still hardly believe. flor | have not
able To see the paper containing nv
address to the people Of the district in 1922
/ must have been from forgetfulness, winch
might easily happen after a lapse Of 81
This caps the climax! After using "the
same terms. the terms abolition society,""
n his letter to Mr.. EVANS of January last,
Is were employed in his address of 1922; al
.er about the LIST Of March, employing on
occasions the terms "Abolition society,""
Ising no other phrase to describe it; after,
IN the l7rh April, writing something of the
same tenor to Mr.. Henry Of Springfield, Iii.
lois; he now can "hardly b~eliepe," that in
1922 he .did really term il an Abolition so.