Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-07-24
WHO ARE THE RECREANTS!
AND WHO HAVE BEEN TRUE!

O"hneIClaI DuIaeliIl, canuld, temperate and able
article respecting 'the compromises at Harrisburg"
snd desire to amplify from the records Of the past
some Of its leading positions and thereby Justify
our concurrence in its main conclusions When
We have done this, we may nevertheless forbear
TO answer the first question prupounded in our cap
ourselves with the appreciation
OF our own conscience, and the judgment of all
fair and dispassionate men, that We at least have
remained ''true."
II is undeniably correct as assumed BY our CO.
temporary at St. Louis. that General Harrison was
selected by the Wing Convention at Harrisburg,
because he occupied "a middle and ,nlder" ground !
IN reference to the exciting questions then before
the country than the distinguished gentleman who
was then, as now, Senator from Kentucky-and
TO pretend do some Of the friends of that Seno.
TOR, that the Wings therefore became committed to
the full extent of his doctrines and his purposes is
rNE VERY REVERSE Of either reason or TRUTH.
On the Bank Question, especially, there was
known to be diversity of sentiment and opinion
amongst the Wings, which could only be ultimately
harmonized by the most forbearant and concillia.
tory course-and during the canvass, each man
construed the position" of General Harrison
somewhat, al least, it best squared with his pre-
possessions, or that division of the Wings with
whom he acted. In Virginia and other portions
of the South we have referred to our files and re-
freshed our memories with the fact, that he was
regarded and proclaimed as denying the pouer, ex-
cep under circumstances of the clearest necessity
and nnder the strongest and most peremptory lin
itaIions and restrictions.
In those States which had sustained the late
bank, we are free to confess that its advocates
appealed to one another to support him, on the as
sumption that he would mot interpose his veto to
such bank as the wisdom of Congress might
devise"-whiist in our own State (and the position
taken by the Wings here is most appropriate in
connemon with our enquiry we cannot perhaps
more faFiy illustrate what it uas than by drawing
from the Address of the Central Committee, ap-
pointed by the Wing Convention for the perv DUR.
pose Of rightly informing the public mind upon
this and other topics involved in the controversy.
The very short space devoted to it, in an Address
running through nearly SO double pages is proba-
bly, accounted for from the fact that the intelligent
Committee themselves may not have been more
fully agreed upon The proposition, than we're the
constituency to whom and for whom they were
writing. The gist therefore, of all they said upon
the subject, is fairly enough comprised in the fol-
lowing extract from their Address, at page 4O
you will be told that General Harrison was in
favor of the late Bank of the United States notwith-
standing he expressly Declares in his letter to Sher-
rod Williams, in 1886, that he deemed IT uncon-
sttuiional. and SO voted in reference 10 the scieri
in II 81,
letter, he assumes the position that bank can be
created by Congress, if necessary, which will an
s"er all the useful purposes of fiscal agent for the
government, and yet be confined and restricted
within the limits Of the constitution
Now, we would enquire, respectfully, whether
there is in any thing in this statement which COM
mits the Wing party of Missouri to ..such bank
AS our fathers had"* or any thing similar to it!
On the contrary is not the idea utterly repndiated
and discountenunced, over the signatures of the
honorable and intelligent men who had been chosen
and depu!ed to address the people of the State, in
behalf of the Wing party! The answer of CANDID
aud ingenious men to this simple question will
resolve the several enquiries with which we set
out; and while We shall have nothing to say now
IN reference to the faith or the want OF faith of
those Wings, either in or out of Congress, who
seek TO push upon their allies ''such sank as
Their fathers had" aud which both they and General
Harrison deemed UNCONSTITUTIONAL, we fear not
the verdict Of all candid men, of all parties, that
we, at least, have remained true We are ready
now, with John Tyler, The representative Of the
"pinions OF the illustrous Harrison, with whom
he was associated in the canvass, to 20 for bank
confined and restricted within the limits of the
constitution"
To inform ourselves and our readers as unerr
ingy as possible (whica is our habit upon questions
of the magnitude Of the presently what has been
the official identity Of opinlon and of action be.
tween the illustrious citizens who were thus G.
ISOLATED as the candidates of the purity opnosed
TO MIR. Van Buren,, we have turned to the Journal
Of the House of Representatives, during the ses
sion of 1913 'l9, when they were severally mem.
hers from Ohio and Virginia, and each had to act
the part of conscience and SWORN DUTY iin refer
10 the scieri acias and other mea sures' allp
ded to by the committee. Or5-H wiR be seen tkut
they roted together at that day, and until some of
our more erudite contemporaries can point out either
the tims and place, or the circumstances, under
which they became dissocidtea in opinion and in
purpose. the fair judging portion of the people will
he apt 10 conclude that their opinions wers as har
nonious, and much alike, when placed and
voted for the ticket for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency, they were when acting together
IN Congress-.
From page 3ll, OF the Journal of the House of
Representatives Of the second session of the fit.