Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-06-20

eordiHg TO oil the rules Of punctuation and cor.
rec, composition, It should be cut up" into tSo
paragraphs, the former 10 close, as We close II,
at the word slave" II will be seen by refer.
encs 10 The quotation at the head Of our columns,
thai We have neither garbled, nor cut up the para.
graph, nor msrsprsssntsd Gen. Harrison, nor
sndsavOred to produce false impression" as
tho Wing Editor falsely asserts. The aiiomp, at
deception is altogether OIL hts part
"sbOuld be asked il there IS no way bv
which lhe General Government can aid the cause
Of emancipation, answer, that II has long been
an object near my heart to see the whole Of the
surplus ssEenue appropriated 10 that object.
With the sanction Of the States holding the
slaves, there appears 10 me TO be no constitution.
al objection 10 lis beng thus applied; embracing
not only the colonization Of those that may be
otherwise feed, but the purchase Of the freedom
Of Others. BY a EsalOns prosecution of plan
formed upon that basis, we might look forward to
day. not very far distant, when North Amer.
can sua would not look down upon slave.
ITO these who have rejected The plan Of colo
niLation. would ask, il they have vel. weighed
The consequences Of emancipation without How
long would The emanciPaled negroes remain sat-
lshed with thaif Would any Of the Southern
States thea (the negroes armed and organized)
be able to resist their claims to participation n
all their political rghtsi Would i, even stop
there } Would they no. claim admiltanco 10 all
the social rights ADD privileges Of a community
~ which, IN some instances, they would compose
the maoriyf Let those who take pleasure in
the contemplation Of such scenes a. Inus, ineyi.
iably follow, finish out the picture"
There stands the opinion. deliberately express.
ed, without any modification whatever, that it
will be eOn'hisEional, with tho sanction of the
slave holding States, for the General Govern
ment TO appropriate the whole Of the surplus 70.
venue 10 the emancipation OF the saves-thsrc
stands The assertion Of the speaker, that Il has
long been AN OBJECT NEAR MS HEART to have
thai surplus so appropriated. With these opin-
ions of Harrison, deliberately expressed and new
or retracied, we, Of the South, must have "a &C.
nerous confidence" indeed. 10 tho man to trust
him upon tho subject Of slavery, and believe tina,
there 10 not "a single faint Of abolitionism abou,
him." What care we about his views as 10 a
"plan Of colonization Whether hs is In favor
OF sending the emancipaled slaves TO Africa, or
Now Zealand. OF Of sinking them in the Allan.
tic Ocean +! We find him opposed to slavery,
aud. upon certain contingency. in favor Of an
interference by the General Government 10
bring about 10 abolition, and this alone 10 sufi.
ciens TO make US distrust him. We, with Mr..
Van Buren,, believe that the consent Of one, or
even Of oil the slave holding s,atos, would not
give Congress the power TO interfere in the mat.
tor. Does The Editor Of tho vicksburs Wing
believe with Gen. Harrison. lha, the sane ton Of
the slave holding States would make il consu
tlonal in Congress to omancipa,e our slayes1 If
he does we tell him, he is in the wrong latitude.
and the sooner he gets north of Mason & Dix.
on's line, tho better for him and the country.
Gen. Harrison is, and always has been in favor
Of high protective tariff, and so, no doubt, is
the Vicksburg Editor, who 10 The warm admrer
Of Henry Clay, tho father Of the protective sys-
ten. and who has taken up General Harrison on
y because he couldn't do any better. Now, a
high protective tariff would inevitably soon create
latge surplus revenue, and, should Gen. Haui.
son ever be President, (which God, in his in6n.
ito msFcy forbid y upon the application or con.
sent Of any one o. moro Of tho States, tina, sur.
plus might be appropriated to the emancipation Of
'ho slaves therein. No wonder, with n knowl.
edge Of these and other fac,s--such as Harison's
declaration IN 1922, that he became a MEM.
Der OF AN ABOLITION SOCIETY at the
age Of eighteenth going TO show his deyOto on
10 The Cause Of emancipation the abolition.
lists allsuPport him--nO wonder that they exeued
their influence (as they undeniably did in The
Harrisburg Convention to gel him nominated
no wonder that they hailed his nomination an "ths
greatest blow that The monster slavery ever 70.
esivcd IN this county."-No wonder that the sdl.
tor Of the Vicksbwg Wing himself should have
at frat, hesta,sd 10 support the Harrisburg nom.
lnee---no wonder that in IN honest moment Of
disappointment al The nomination. he should have
exclaimed. ut iels<o conceal the fact, tina
Harrison has no strength in the South, and i
would be worse than folly TO a,temp, to rally up
on him. II cannot b dOns"--(Sss Yicksbur,
Wing Of the 25th Of December las;.)
But, says the Wing, "if General Harrison b,
defeated fairly, why be it so, but in Gods nam,
do not resof! 10 such outrageous frauds and mis-
representations We have resorted to NJ
frauds or misrepresentation. We are willing tc
give Gen. n. "a fair field" lie. him come ou
openly and explain his views and opinions re-
spscting abolition IN all ito phases--Let him. al
Mr. Van Buren, has nObly and fesrlsssly done
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