Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1840-03-19

ndhsas-a patriotic selfdeyotion hv VIZ;
ne lost his seat in Congress. and incn,ro W." =
Puiar odlum and prescription. for = se,S eu
fraoi Twr Ntate. All this Gen. Harrison 4
to- rom sense of duty to the Const;,
torn -, ms country, and to the riphts and !;
ha I,,I Vi tne Southern States, at a time ,vb,
was the comrng to ask at their llaYdsv so;iGf
in eo asssea q as an .qJoliionist, under tn
same circumstances He, then, as a membe
OF the Senate OF New York, voted in favor O
intructlons to the Senators and Representative
OF lliat State In Congress, TO support the Mis-
sour restriction, and year or two afterwards
as member OF the Senate of the United
S!ateS' voted In favor of proposition to res
.rlct the introduction of slaves into the Terri
tory OF Florida. Well, therefore, might the
South require Of him some pledge of fidelit,
| to their rights, when he became candidate
Tor their sufirages to elevate him to the sta
ton he now occupies. But what farther O,
htSher pledge can Gen. Harrison have to rive
! than his conduct and opinions, uniformiy sus.
talned through every change of circumstan.
ces, and at every personal sacrifice, coupled
with that just and Republican definition OF
the true province of the Presidential veto in
ms letter to Sherrod Williams, Esq. in which
ne says, vt Is conservative power, intended
only TO be used to secure the constitution it.
sell from violation, and to protect the rights OF
tne minority and the weaker members of the
ohion,' "a definition obviously framed, in
Its last clause particularly, with reference To
that vital interest of the South, of which he
has proved himself through good and
through vilreport, the disinterested and pat
riotic champion.
Another denunciatory charge against Gen.
Harrison and alike destitute of foundation.
winch has been extensively propapated, is
that he was ''a black cockade federalist and
an advocate OF the alien and sedition laws''
during the administration of the elder Mr.. Adj
ans. This charge has been most decisively
met and refuted by Judge Burnet, distin-
gnlshed citizen, and lately one of the Sena-
tors In Congress, of the State of Ohio, who.
from an Intimate personal acquaintance with
Zen. Harrison at the period alluded to, de-
clares that she was a firm, consistent. nm
yielding Republican of theJeffersonian school
and warmly advocated the election of Mr..
Jefferson against Mr.. Adams.'' General
Harrison himself, in debate in the Senate of
the United States In March, 1926, in reply
ing TO some observations of Mr.. Randolph.
importing a similar charge, explicitly declar-
ed, that while In common with his constitu-
ents, the Legislature of the North Western
territory, whose delegate in Congress he then
was. ne approved the course of Adams adj
mlnlstration in the controversy with the
French government, and had a great personal
respect for MIR. Adams as an honest man and a
patriot, ''his opposition to the alien and sedi-
ton laws was SO well known in the Terrific
ry, that promise was extorted from him by
his friends in the Legislature, that, as he had
no vote In the proceedings of Congress-. he
would not unnecessarily compromise the local
interests of his constituents by the expression
OF his political opinions" But whether Gen.
Harrison has been or is federalist, must de-
pend on the character of his political princi-
pies, and not on the arbitrary classification of
personal or party prejudice. Now, i: so hap
pens that we have an authentic and most lu-
cld exposition of his political principles by
himself, at period of life when they must
have been fully matured and thoroughly set.
tied, in an address to the voters Of his Dis
trlct, before whom he was then a candidate for
a seat In Congress, which was published in
the Cincinnati inGuiSitor under date of the
18th Sept. 1922.
In that admirable address, he declares that
he is ''a Republican Of The old .JcGersonian
school, and derives his principles of consti-
tutionai Interpretation 'from the ceieJr nfed re-
solutions Of The Virginin Legislature of '9S and
'99''-that he, therefore, 'sdenies to the GEN.
erai government the exercise of any power but
what is expressly given to it by the constitu-
ton, or what is essentially necessary to carry
the powers expressly given into effect,''-
tnat ''he beheUes tie charter !giren TO the Bank
o. ne United States aCaS unconSfitutionaP'-
'she believes in the tendency of large public
acct to sap the foundation of the constitution
by creating moneyed aristocracy, whose
views and interests must be in direct hostility
to those of the mass of the people, and that
he Is therefore, sin favor of every practicable
refrenchment in tie expenditures of the govern
nt'-that she believes in the right of the
people to instruct their representatives., when
eiected''-and finally that he believes "upor
the preservation OF the Union of the States, de.
ponds the existence of our civil and reli
glous llberties-that the true cement of this
Union is the brotherly love and regard which
the citizens of the several States possess fo
each other-and that as the Union was effect
ed only by spirit of mutual concession ant
temperance, so only can it be preserved" A
| political creed more truly RepubBcn1, and ma
triotlc than this, think you will agree will
me, has never been submitted to the Ameri
can people, and as it was delivered IN IN,
world, when the experience and reflection O
a life then but little short of fifty wears ba,
impressed THAR seal upon his opinions. itmus
In candour, be presumed to form the basis o
his public policy and conduct.
But, it is said that Gen. Harrison has vot
ed Tor protective Tariff, for Internal I'm
Provements by the General Government. an,
is In faUour of National Bank. In reoar,
to this allegation, think / shall be able t
shew you presently that it is wholly gratui
tous. AS to the others, what more has Genl
Harrison done than Mr.. Van Buren,! Nh
! Van Buren, voted for the worst of all the Tai
Ills, the Tariff of 1923. commonly call tn
; Bill of denominations. Very gross and wanto
Injustice has been dome Ganl Harrison h