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. :. ! . s . . i ; r "" . ' ...: ; . .!. : . - -- 1 'iri t.Je- -Tf ' . -. ' ai'' :. . ; ' ': v ff i T: '. . -y.' " ft 5 3 1;; m t R; i fKar'acW UKWbiebVe have before allude J-p ability anvays.try, say aadtia q wcuj I 4 ' proper l o be 83i3 otl dopoVhe jeader vv:fYb'ar io mind, thereiore, mi LifvM-We him the sobiect mailer, pot ibe.st; O ' ' GEN. HAtiuJrux j ixyxi f 7. llpi?ros said he was greatly indebted 1 i ! tt6 LifcJbv'etiftt of Columbus and If rarklin 1 C: t Cociiy th most! cordial ihospitahty;Jid atali lVi;?times been. accorded to bim.by (hem.: 5of long ! Jt i,2o as the lime when he wasJionorediibrlbe i J fyfrnm! 'of , theLNlbwstern Army and l&i Md hi Wad caters at Franklinton.Mne v ipv- toilet aide of the Infer, tiivas his fortenfej tofto i ? I - Jin the people of EVanktin.CooniyVnot ooJy good - i vr?in kmfn$4d hictf had laid hiarendanj T:tWtis'? ?rcsnt occasion he cheertu r. ' "is '- i -'. the c3mra1;es T"n i i-1 'iuu malt-. iba Comioittee because it baa ness aod -pespertiion , - t j and 1 iyltbis matter uiine !5,hni h ..Pn.i to liave citen un cfry groyr.d of .1 n unor ill i viri ii l wv - ----- , . ' L I U VVVM..J w .... ,vt) I tcadefrsicn by bis political oiri.ai:i:s. W8S one only of many roiSrepreseotalipus tChim. hs condoci, M5iiHK,04 ."b-1?.m6.lons.:w'l.b"' aod ) tiO said seri?au u ,....... -i ! V fdfnda, bj making apeecn. ana ae Q,a fo ,n dience to whiitjhe ooderatoo to ba thp desire ihr,A whom h sddressed. " He was hor- ' pjied that public ievriosity waa awakened ip re ? defence to some iininjsvwiicu. nao ueti; taieij ?Hf ublishl concerning himnor was hie willing v. lJ saii&Tf-1 he .:eel jngs'; cl hj ffflow-ritijwpk bj. : '-?"socli proper1 exp!apa.tiwi8 ai becaui'hiot4p bis r,- present poaiiion belfor tbe cpanhp- Iepjojfess 1 .fed that r44-:had,sofferBd -deep raorlificaiiojnlaince 1 1.-, be bad been placed; before the people as a pandt;. ; Ua for the highest oflicelin iheir g'i pifp tbe j - 'ca'oit exalted itatioH in' thewwld that inyipor- iron "of b:s conntryroen should tninK ii .aecesaa t'or exbeJient to "abuse, slander. orrilify Mm, u:t,'iti. Uairii Press was leeiraino. Ilesaid it if it iwei e necessary npj . proper toi brm to do so. lie referred bbwerer, to tie Uichmond Enquirer andv expressed sarprfse at the manner it h liicb bis oaine and'character had been treated" brtbat paperir::Hedidi6V a ' afforded an .elf smpfe of thepros0ruiioajof the press to party ty par poses. That,, paper, which formerly did him ciore, than justice and pajd him. tbe highest dbmplirnents as a soldier and civilian whose editor at vhe time could designateno other man whofla he Considered so xb qualified for the re sponsible place of $ecreiary of War was now lendiW itself "to the cfrcolation of the na(i dis creditable calumnies', against him and, endeavor; in to peruade bis countrymen ihai;he.wa3 a coward and a federi(ist. He alluded to he eri dencp upon which the Eoquirer sought to fasten tbe "accusation ibat lie Was a Hack eock adeftd eralisli. e.i-the rpmarks of 31c. Randolph in ibe Senaie:of the Uhited States. He said that the attack of 'Mr. Randolph was met at the rno meDt it wa$ made artdjeflctuIIy disproTcd. lie passejd a bighencb!ifuta upon the genius of that remarkable man. and feiidj that those who:knew Mr. Kandolph, kn-w th3t he never gave up a point; in debate, or receded from bis ground any hwhere,.uniH convicted of error. The fact that lie maue m repiy i'j 1119 answer u vu '. - ' -f.lv "t"4ear :ar was; ta nim'the bombIerepotstinii'bjbad earned as frurh public ctr si derations.- He nV'ghl draw consolation, cinder,, this species of irijary, Irum tbef revelations of history r. which shewed that ihe-best of trc, who1 had -devotesd' heir iive8;,t6 ifce pcUic service, had been ihe v4iirr "Inif traducvionfe BiA virtue and truth t jarer the f fiwindatioes of onr republican system. When ; Jbe3e are disregarded, our flee institutions pnast v faif; he looki-d, therefore, at symptom! .of de i moral izatiun with sjincere rgreti as betokening 4 danger to f ubHe l:bhhy. A part of ihetxdlticaj !pr3!,: supporting ihe exittingadrninlstraition, , jnd certain partizifi of MrVan IJoreii, afso a candidate for that high office, to which! sutfie ol ibose whom be addressed desired toeley:atejhitn, had invented and propagated many caleronies ajrair.st him, but he proposed on the present oc casion to speak nf one only of the riumerbus perf versions and slandjers whicb nlled the 'columns , of the newspipers ader. and conrfoef. ? nd misrepresented tis rhar- He allpJpd to tho8tory.of -zz: - ' ,1 his famous CoyiDETiAL CoMStirrER'," as they called it, The story goes," said Gjene .raT Harrison, twit 1 bavi not only a commit tee of conscience-keepers, but. that they put me in a cage.astened with iron bar?, arid Jeep me in that' ' (Toonejwho looked at his. brfght and ; sparkling eye their liglt which beamed in its J rich expiession-i-tlie smilej which 'played jnpyn his ountenancei,. bipod ing tbe lineaments fbe tievolence and fertines who remembelredj also ' that hs was listening to tbe voice .of k son ". of , oU Gov; Harrison- one of j" the signers,?' the pupil of old Madj Atithuny," the her0 ofiTip- pecanoe, the defender a f 'lA.rt Aletgs.jiliej con? 3n.frer -4f;,PfwjUrtheff4a,-er VVmJ .Hsrt IxRPJisorr in a cai:e!as irfesis:ibly lodicrous! :t "! -' When the laughter has subsided, the: (Jeineral : proceeded. ' 1 ha re' no- committee, fellow citi tzn?, confidential ji cther.4 jt.fs true thatI ern ployed ray friend, j WajorjGwynn; to kidjme in returning replies to some of ;tbe numerous q.uee- tions propounded tam&. by letters. DUl tosuch only as any rnn cuijid answer as well as another. There is scarcely a qaestionj of a political nature . oaw agitating the public mind, otr which. 1 hate J not long Btnce prymoigaiea my opinions, oy i fspeches publisbf d letters jor .cfficial acs. JV Jarge majority flelners 8ddiessed to me ptirport ed to seek ray views of Abolition, Uoited States --:Brik, and oiherrmaiteis concerning 'which my views wete already in possj?RHon of ihe public. iTlie roost suitable (answer, tp ihse-atid to well jntentioned personsj the raostf satisfactory was a reft-rence to the documents in which my opinions already expre?ted rere to be found. Such an swera lventrusted ip my well tried arid faithful jfriend, M;jor Qwynn,; Letters requiring more pirticular attention!! answered myself. Every 1 body, who knows Jlajor Gwyjm knovts that he is not one whom 1 would employ to write a (:61itic- al U tter. He is a jself made man a soldier and a gentleman but iefiher a poljtcian tor a schol ar. I asked the service of him, because Ihe was ' my friend, snd ' 1 confided In him, ahd it was (plain and simple 1 My habit is to reeetvp, open and read my . letters myself. Such bs require j special attention, j reply myself ffu eh as j may be easily answered. by another, I hand to j my friend, with an endorsation indicating where ilba information sought roayjbe iound-4asilhus- Refer tie writerUo speech at Vincennes" or j " the answer is seen in my letter to Mr.; Den . j ny,'&c. But it seems thai Major Gjwypn was . j Chairman of a Committee1 of the Oiiiiens o! j Cincinnati or of Hamilton County. Wllen the J famous Oswego letter was received, it. was read, 1 and as usual with kucb letters, I endorsed it and. ; handed it lo Major Gwynr. But) jitj seems, Vhen tbe answer was prepared it was signed al 1 so by his colleagues of the County or City Com fnutee. Of all tbjsl knew nothing njori in their rapacity of Coaiimttf e bad they any th(nt to do with my Isitu. jTet by little mis'ake and much perversion these gentjleraen haVej been e rected into a corarrtttiee of my consciebje-keep-er?, and made to shm me up in a cage Sid prevent me from answering inierrogatories. Gen Har rison remarked tljat, had he, indeed (called to hts assistance the ser vices of a friend in Conduct ing his correspondence, he would have bad hWh auihority tojusttf him io the measure It had been said of General Wa$inglon that many of the papers whicrTbear his signature wei'e written 7 by others, and he Uteived it had never been con tradicted ; and Gin. Breckenridje, aid to Gen. Jackson in the lafe war, had repiesenied him- self lobe theuthk of much of Gen I Jackson's correspondence. jBut he had not done so1, to any extent or in any other senstj than as he had now explained it in n quest ingi Major ,Uwyrn to re fer hoseaddrestsirig loquiries to bira, id the pub lie sources of infatuation, j And he would here say. that in alt h?f public life, civil and; military. MU c -r rPPr. speech or trder. bear in? his naaie. which WIS nnt wriftani UI! I tits own hand, lie said. u hfmtsplf was satisfied that! ha had erred. Gen Harrison eipiaincd the foundation jof Mr. Ran dal pb's Charge, made it ajmomeotjof temporary irritation, j He said tlratojd Mr. ' Adams. refused to adopt against France the measures which his p rtyf desired and showed himself in that respect, at leist, mere an Aoiricn than a Partiz3n. It was that course of policy of Mr. Adams which commanded his approbation and induced liim so to express himself, at the time. Mr. Randolph remembered the expression bat probably forgot the particular subject iof itl and thus the very fact which proved him to belong to the Repub lican party of 1300, iong jjeaj3 after war4, is sep arated from it's attendant (bircumslancesand used to prove him a Federalist. Gen. Harrison ex pressed bifnsplf with much earnestness on the injustice Which was thus attempted to be inflict ed oh his character in bis native Slate, in which, when truth and virtue aud honor had suffered vi olence every where4 else he had hoped they would survive. j ! i' i Gen. IUrrj?on alluded to several other jtfstah ces of gross misrepresentations or absolute false hoods industriously and shamefully propagated by a 'party! press. It seems almost incredible, fellow-citizens," said; he, "but it is true that (roraja long speech filling several columns cf a pop U two short sentences have been taken from different parts of it .these two sentences, sepa rated from their contfexi, are put togetber, my name attached to ibein, and published through out ihe land as an authentic document.!' He deplored that state, of public sentiment which could to'erate s;uch )i system of party action and trusted for the honor of his country and the hopes oflibsrty that the reformation of such abuses wttld soon be wrought out by the force of a pure sod healthy publie opjoiotf. " Vhy i fellow citizens," said Gen. Harrison, M I have recently, in that House (pointing to the State house) been charged with high offen ces against rhy country,: which if true, ought to cost me my life i)Yes' continued he, ae eusatiofis were there laid ro my charge which be ing established, would subject me,j even now, to the teve rest penalties which military law inflicts' for, 1 have always held that an offlqer may not escape tbe" responsibilities of misconduct by resigning his cnmmU$ion. - These "charges are not made by my companions inarms, by the eye witnesses of jtny ac(i&nsi by the great and good and fcrave men who fuugbt by my side or. under my omband. Theft tell a different sjtory. -But their evidence j clear, unequivocal and dis tinci tie testimohyjfiGov. bhelby, thevener ableihen:ofi'KmgMountain,of the gallant Ferry, and of many, brave and generous spirits who saw and knew ana participated in all the operations qoonece jWitbUhe battle of the Thames the eyidne 6if., impartial and honora ble men the concurrent records of history and the authority of universal public opinion, are all casi aside, in deferppe to the reckless assertions of those who were eiither not in being or dandled io the rms of th0ir: burses ! 1 Gen. Harrison aaidj be; ackrjowledgep iliat the calumnies were disagreeable to bim.lIisgood name, such as it was; was his most precious treasure and he did I not like, to have if mangled by such.calumniators. j Were it his land wfiich they ""were seeking to aestfoy were it theji!tie deeds to his larm that they are endeavoring lo mutilate, he could bear their efforts with, pitience and smile even at their success. But he confessed, notwithstand ing his perfect confidence in the jostice of his cuuritry: and 'the decision of an impartial posterir ty, that these ruthlesjs attacks upon his military character affected hjic unpleasantly, This poli cy of his adversaries constrained him to consider himself as now on trial before his country. He was: not reluctant to be tried fairly The Amer ican people being his Court and Jury his ad versarMs held to'tho rules ofevidjence establish ed by common sense and common right he fear ed not the results, bfjthe strictest scrutiny and would theerfully submit to tbe decision oil a vir tuous apd enlightened community. Hq asked but fair dealing and final justice co more. General Harrison alluded to several other in stances of gratuitous and unfounded calumny, having no shadow ofiapology in any fact for their I?v?n,i" anf Publication; He speke of the bat- ie 01 i ippecanoe of the death of the brave and lamented Daviess, whose fall had been ascribed Ivu- it IIe 9a,d ,he hole siory about the V hite Horse wi s entirely false, and that !ie fate of the ga.lant Kentuckian had no connection tope.savW1tb$ Which they found in villifyicg his name; tare meianrnoiy nr., cnur.-cV1 izenssaidiGeni jHarnscn.Vihat tbe advocates nf Mr. Vari1 Bdren should so.far, forget what be-! loegs'tp 1 b ."charterer pf , in 'American ciuzen, arid doso much vjulencje toibe nature of our free iostitntionsi; as tbfplace the great political conr rest ia wliicb.weitre now striving upon aTTtssue such as this. - l,waold not accept tbe lofty sta-j Vton", rp which; sonie of yoo are proposing ta ele-t ate me, ifi itf cafrie.to, roe by , sucbrmeao$. a! would cot, f I hao the power to prevental-l Ww; tbe faiffameiof tny competitor tdbe chjast-H iy assailed and; wconded even for the itiainmeni mf that loft j, aim-of a aolle ambition. Nay. 1 have often defended Mr. Van Buren against, what I believed to be tbe misrepresentaiions-ofj my own mistaken friends and others.-, FelloW-! citizens, if Mr. Van Bureo be the beiler states - :i. I l. . I ! . t lict nun l( man, lei us; say bu uc , raise an cbjeclionraj!tnst it, or io desire ta im-j pose restraitits'opbn the utmost independence of thought and action, and the freest expression of feelinu and oninidn. r li love a frank, and gener4 oub adversary;4-sucb a man I delight to embrace arid will serve biro, according to my abilityi as cheerfully as niy professed friend.- But .that political warfare which' seeks success by foaldr traction; arid strives fof ascendancy by the rum' of personal character, merits the indignation of honest men is hatefill to every generous mindj and tends too surely to the destruction of, publicj virtuei and, as a consequence, to the downfall of public liberty,1 . : ;- , , Gen. Harrison apologised for. cccopyiog hisj fellow citizens so long. He said he would buri mention one mors 01 ! tne latest sianaers w oicw; E3 ! Vo'rnt:rV increased by writing, jhit I t;:s Ifttcry, I - oblige J tor somo itme to 'do very little in jtion of Mr. II r i".',"f nri - v -0-ly y " - f- X ' c FRIDAY, $UNE 20,1840. ery tbal wy;Wben V recovered, my unan swered letters had increased tcrsd fearful a miss that I have nct yet been .able, to get through it, even willr the 8S5istcncc n mv cotisQUiice-keepiiig ccrr.jniltce. . . I c 1- ibDugb 1 haTO Bdopiea jne mettioti ri gettti fid'of''a:large-port ron v( them ,by cornmit- tin'v'thcfn-to the flames: instead of lha co:;... miitee, suxh are ihp'cbbiHiihCtnierTupUons' to which 1 a ni subjected by rt consent lu earn of visitor5,ibat lim'ablelb'makeveryjittle progress in lessen: ?.'z myrjfile 'You hate In" The aboverny- apc!c;y for treating 'yoo with apparent neglect, v! :zh it wasyraposi blo thfit l should do, well from your high Standing in socleiy ,as Jrp.ni4be regard I feel for "vou 'in-consequence of the loiig and inlimato friendship and conneciioh bet iween oui families. But fbrilhcse reason? onnrtnr ihHllPPS mO to S3V. that 1 COUlU 11C Govrr it.'-l:!. ft or a 1 -The press of akirlreparatory to" tbe grand Ver bave Vroogbl myself lo arbe po , ,.-..,..!; , . -f lineal part of your letter at all. f I a ra con celebration wfiicb ts A take place here ctr 4th of Q feflee6tf 0lJ your- next month, and man interesting matters which . was loUliyonnecessary we are in doty bound to give from other journals fof j cannol SUpp0se thai my ; personal friends with the. number ogcommunieations on hand, connexions inmy-;naiiTe-iSietcpuld leave us little opportunity to afford the usuaf a- ih'mk that I was less of gentleman pran mount of editorial bitter this week. General honest man than th03e ardent ;pbiticiahs ifarnsos letier! to &ir. Lyons and the proceed- farther SoulhStanlyAlford, Legarc, Daw- : IK I s nftc'c n,co .r son.-Kt 112, &c , &c. Tbey take if ; for era nlt supplyibe deficincyj We claim for these ar had come to his knowledge. A German paper,1 published in: Cincihnati, almost under bisyownj eye, puts it forth with apparent sincerity r thaj General Harrison, now a candidate for the presidency of tbe United Slates, Jwas, manyj years ago, when a young man, an aid to Geneti al Wayne during his Indian wars and that whenever, young? Harrison found that a battle was coming oh, he always ran off into the woods. (Again ihereljKajl lbud and irrepressible laugh ter.) The edroi fprgot, said the General, wher he served up this little dish, that the only poesi ble security to young Harrison's scalp, on th approach of k battle with the Indians, was ir keepivg ovtpf tlie ysoofa I Such a story as this can only excite a; smile here, it is true, said Gen , II., but ibis paper circulates not alone in thi United States-jcopies of it are probably read it Europe, where! our history is less known, an where the contradiction of such silly falsehood! may possibly jneMer come. " It has long S been proverbial of old soldiers fellow-citizusi; bontinued Gen. H , ''that they delight to go back toother days and fight thei battles over again. When I began this addfes! to you, 1 intended only to speak of my far famed " Committers pjJCossciENCE keepers" and the " iRONiJCbEi ia which they confine me; but I have Unwittingly taken advantage of youp kind dispesitipn; to listen to me, and extended my remarks! to other though kindred topics. 1 will only add that,iaIthough tbey have made f wide mistake who make me dwell in an " Iros Cage," the ;un lucky wight who put me in a Log Cabin wis a little nearer the truth than he probi ably suppos$d.himself to be. It is true That part or my dwelling house is a log cabin, but as to rlie hard biderj (the laughter which fullowe the allusion to the 'f hard cider" branch of thfe story drowned theoiceof the speaker.) F Bu, aid Gen J Harrison, admonished by the proverb, thai ytb may ascribe my long speech to the commori infirmi ty of an old soldier, and bring me under the suspicion of the loquacity of age, I will conclude these haslv and unpremeditated remarks by !hankijrg my fellow citizens of Co- lumbus lor (heir ptlitenesson the present occa sion as wie'ifforithe friendly feelings of whic they have VjiriSy apd often heretofore givetiv me so many g Vvpg; proofs. i The Genen tpd, leaving the crowd!, which had jcorjl smolate while hp spoke, delightedfW .and satisfacttf Illt' .V t ! r- iy manner in wnicnx i ne wisnes oj w speech a nd others to. Io quoted by my frieb ds in Bfinur nrir nmnmna nn llifi'subiect cf abo- tides ah attentive pegisal iromoor reaoers. i ne lllipnJ?dl if y ad nc t0Id those opinions first is a1 perfect ionmder en the claraarous de- al jg time-itbey haVe therefore treated mands and pertiuacious objections of the Fede- with scorn and contempt the charge of my ralists It is the. very thing tbey have been being an abolitionist, and truly a?sfit that, I bawling out for so lor and so lustily, and must have done and suffered more to support r..fiTinfAn:nt.::tii&, Thi other we scarcelv Southern rights than any other persorinorth Lr n n or h A w n tiV l it onmPS -lth UCh OVBr- OI djaSOn OUU !J . ; f indeed, a great numuer oi applications ;rom individuals, (nine-tenths, at Iccst, my oppo nents) requiring mo to reiterate.wbat J hnve said or written upon the subject ol toe u. b. Bank. Abolitionism, &c. I have declined to answer them of late at all : amongst olh er reasons, because if was physically imos- slble that I should do it, and as they all re quire my opinions in manuscript, particular ty aocresseq iu tuo writers, tuey wuuiu uui M ,. ' . i I - whelming force; thatiwe almost pity Mr. Van Buren. J It mastUlniost finish him in the slave holding1! tate?. ;Bujhe was done before this came out. Nothinarllould have saved him, iot now bis destiny seems to be sealed. Sic tern' per to bumboggars I! the citizens. iThk nrrfirrta in thp mini of every ono witn whom vbe wri'.er inierchansej a thought wasSIte wish that every man in thfe IT..: I i l ! ft .i t-. J. . . I umon nao nearo tne unpremeoitaieu ano extemf poraneous addressi Upon every candid mind it impressed the conviction that the opposition can? aiaaie ior tne rrestdeny was the last man io me world to be made the instrument of a cum! mittee of conscience-keepers." or to conceal his opinions of public measures from sinister moi lives, when the disclosure of them was called for by ihe propriety japd fitness of things. The General left the city about 10 o'clock, es corted by a numerous cavalcade on horseback and attended by tie Alayor and the Chairmaf of the Stat QeWlral Committee The escort parted withjthdir nest a mile cr so from the city un ihs lniirnpu snrrpihtrorH The Generaljwas addressed on partinsr bv the Mayor in a briej valedictory on behalf of the citit zens ofihe paital,td which he replied in hil uuuormiy nappy manner New Carriage Makino 555 sxcer all the letters receited by him was phvsic ...j luipwixip, Miougu ne snooid do Odthinrr else whatever. To give his bearers an idea oi the labor it woald require, he taid, a gentleman then present was wuu mm tne mormno ie eft Qln: cinnati when he- toik Irooi ti e Post Office 16 letters there were usually half the! number at ihe Post Office jnear his residence -U-24. letters per day. Could! any man he asked give the rtq-4tie attention to such a daily correspond ence, even to the; neglect of every other enrare. cent f Tc ne it was, that many communicat ions were sent him which were not entitled to bis police sent by persons who bad no other object but to draw frtMn'him Something which might be asfd to his injury and the injury oil the'eaose with which hit was identified yel.jlLere were fffcMga tl those wnaiever with his owu white mare which, by accident, was not rode on that occasion by any onei In remarking tinonittio d,... ,a wh the battle of Uppeca noe h eeaid their ref utation.oneand al ,;wasi found in the proceed ings of the Legislature of Kentucky, aid espe cially in the! extraerdinarv mnfiftii,M j I by Ihe pallant Governor and nnr,li , &tate, when they subsequently honored him with thecommaod of their army, composed' of the choice spirits of the land, the best blood of Keo tocity. j Geo. Harrison speke with dtep'emotion of the trust reposed: ia him by Kentucky on tbe occasion anuded toi and; said, that the commis sion wbich bade hit the Commander of that brave thd patrioticiijmy pt Kentuckiaosf he had always held as tbejpost honorable commission which it had been ;tHe fortune of his life to have conferred upon him j r ; r. He referred to a! hrery recenj sfary got up in nisi owo neighoorbood-and sent forth to the WjM,cwoborated the sanctity of an affida-it-bichiepreserited him as confessing to a Joung man or, a sieamboat that He was an aboli wmst. and that, a ihougb he roied against re- , rWRft'Z'-aTABtlSHBlENT. glHE Subscriber begs leave to inform his JL friends! and'lhe public at larcre. that he hj . Irfl M . " - S- nmenced ihabavMj business, on Main Stree commence north of the Court-Hbuse, where he is now pre parea io maKe to oroer, on snort nonce, i OF BVERY DESCRIPTION on the most nrocerate terms, out of erood and Hrt rable materials,arid in a style of workmanship inferior to done in!tbis section of Country. l- strict attehtioiitdlinsioess, to be able to render satisfaction to, 4llj-ifcose who may favor him with tlieir-patrniag4J p y: - CP Orders from a distance will be tbankfu ly received! ard faithfully attended to. r ! . . 1 . . . .. .1. nepainng o every oescnption in nis line will be done with nfajness and despatch, and on mod erau termsUo correspond with the jjfimes. I B. One dr two ?ood workmen in thai. bove line ofbo'sio'esa will meet with empbvmeni. aue soon. NATHAN BROWN. Prom the RKhnhid Whig of Monday. ' !!; . i n f:f A LETTER FROI GEX. HARRISON, be satisfied with writing One letter and send- . ! Richmond, April, lltb, 1840. 1 ingaprinteo copj t"cir, i wasucieriiiiucu i ' . j M . .rhowever, to avail myself s of the first fayora jjear air-pi m circumstances wic b,e oppor,unil Jt and referri ng lo lhe letters his letter will jexp am, will excuse me, I -. ... harf iAtt nli,ft:fener, i hope, Ijor intrudinmyself upon your aUen-J hive mentioned, to endorse them ali: : This l00, , I IS , ... , I hive recently done in a letter to a com- Among the numerous charges which have - 9nnn:ntpri ,tm tvh,iml,, of been put into!circtation agtynst you by the lhe Leglslaiare of New York. You will presses and pfrtians of Mr. Van Buren, proballj see it pubilshed bj 'thetiiine th!s mo iwy uiwijiviiBu uFwu uu.uwu. reaches you. i! 1 ' potent in the Sou b, are-lhal you are a . . lhfl Hicen.inn between Mr. Federalist and arl Abolitionist. Satisfied, from tbe evidence before them and the whole ' Si . .. country, that theseicharges are equally un- sustained by trpth. denied, and a,s tnejf As the prospect of however, land the your friends have-met believe, refuted them. yoor election increases. heart of the patriot re- Randolph and myself in tne Senate of which a statement 13 annexed to the address, what better evidence could be given, that there is no possibility of satisfying my po litical enemies by any thing that I could write than the garbled account which they have given of that discussion ? If the charge s-utiveb ci . I, ten snrr.c : Ferritory, i:; ". rt f & f r ' .k I v L v - .i ihe Gove r: Western j k Those ir address??, 1. idenl' and :!' ... that two d". their cxc3 i tjiem, wl.o !.: go to Indi:::: North-Wf; : : ably one re But the r; ritorv to t become a L soon be the it Was necers: r Tite; -appoint. nolwithst2i,Li;: length, my rc ! Nicholas, i! John of the I I cept it; The to myself, cr. no doubt t f " " ersuing ioi continued Gc Republican l: 'the North V,' ?rL thereH with a deter voice in the would lake no ; I have thv.i my conncxir: Adams. -I . Mr. Jefferson guration, to r: confidence, nr evidence that I hi? administr: : In ..answer i word Abolii: of which 1 v, the vear 1701. mane, ' v.htc!, which the sr,c All that I c that if I diJ r. ciely, a fact v. for I have not containing niy District in It forgetfu!ne.c5, after a laps? word Abolitic, in 1822, What no doubt that Tarlion P!es?a: in his publicit! he calls tne 'Ii vives with tbe hon cf the success of one, made b Mf Raado, h is auihenliC ,akeII ! and by ti n ti:! from whom he expects a wise, economical, and republicari:adainistration, the maligni ty of your enemies seem to inrrease, and tne spoilsmen: uefome more recKiess ano desperate in their efforts to retain the pow er by which they make their spoil Of this, the conclusive evidence will be found in the Hichroond Lnquirer ol the 10th inst. in a production purporting to be an address from the v an r Btfren Central Committee here, j In that addfess, it is roundly assert ed that you are a! Federalist and an Aboli tionist, and that jf bur friends in the South sbpport you, knowing that you are soT This statement is made here with a knowl edge of tjie viewsj pntertained by the Whigs of Virginia, as expressed in the address to tue peopie or ine state, puuiistied by lueir from a newspaper report, surely, my answer to him should be considered so also. It is worthy of remaik, too, that Air. Randolph made no reply to my answer to his attack, and that be was not a man to leave a matter in tbat situation if he could avoid itthe truth is, that I believe he really regretted his attack upon me. He repeatedly told me so, and frequently solicited me to bury' the hatchet at a friendly dinner with him, which 1 agreed to do. At theinner were olr! Calhoun, Mr. Hainefcand ,Gen. Hamilton, and others, all but. myself of theihen Jack v son party. Our friendly intercourse was never afterwards interrupted. In reply to youi lnqniry, as to mv con nection with the olJ Federal party", Iwill Convention, whicfi was held in,this city in Zd 'T 7 7 the month of Febrlary last, of which I send ZZ lTll 10 Xm M1 youacopyby thlmail of this day. Ire. th'r Trl gard the charge, tUreforeras, an impudent tad LL? J T ? P 5 . . ' ! ii ' . . . r I had been recenllv marriPii anil ni la sehoofl arainl l!i.a if rrHs n ietrninmi . . J 'viimu .1. 1L.i r: if . .! - . if appUcatioa be ' ' ': I'M! Salisbury; J-rtne 2$, 1840.- 6w48 Sucre! joe comaiodaie aboqi fi bration of the Hotel. 4th prepared to f- tv persoos at the great Cele Joly "oexf, al the Farmers .fnfiv mvrc Salisbury, Jane $6, 184Q.. V"M" f paid to him my resignation. as his aid de.kcamp; but he declined receiving it ; saying he nould very well di?p n3e with my services in his journey. It was during this trip that he obtained the promise of Gen) Washingi ton to give me a civil appointment, as I had expressed my determination to leave the army. This promise, the President repeated to my brother, Carter B. Harrison then in Congress, with some very kind re marks upon my conduct in the army. When Gen. Washington lefttne Presidency 1 have reason to believe, that he obtained a promise from Mr, Adams to fulfil hisfnten lions. When the office of the Secietary ot the North Western Territory became vaJ cant, Mr. Adams appointed me, although I was opposed by Uul. Pickering ihe Sec retary qf State. In 1799, I was selected by the Republican parti of the Territorial Legislature to be their candidate for the ap pointment of delegate to Congress. Be tween Mrf Arthur St. Clair, Jr. (the ton of , Governor St Clair,) the Federal can t didate and myself, the votes were divi ded precisely as the two parties stood in the Legislature, with the exception of one Republican who was induced by his regard for the Governor to vote for his son. The vote was 11 to 10, not one of the nine Fed eralists voting for me. Before I left Cin cinnati, the Republican members made me promise not to suffer my known opposi tion ta'the measures of the Administration to interfere with the attainment of the great object for which I was sent. tf poh my ar rival in Philadelphia, I was received by Mr. Adams in fhe most flattering manner. At his dinner parlie. where I was often a guest, he seemed to take great pleasuie in speaking of my father's services I in nhe Revolutionary Congress, relating mny an; ecdoles to show bis devbtionfto the cause, and the effect which his pleasantries pro duced in cheering tbera in the gloom, which the occasionally unpromising state of their affairs often produced-, I had no conversa tion with Mr. Adams oh politics, farther than to explain to him my views io relation to in tbe system of selling the Pub- which I was glad to find he-ap- Droved. A a annn as lhft law. was n as it is comrlonly called, which was for the division of the North WesteraTer the Whigs of yirgfnis at whom it is espe cially levelled ifan'i if made by an anony mous;sciibblerUnli newspaper, might be passed by with Contempt. But as the charge is non( put forth in an imposing fbrro7 and the subject' of Abolition is one of ab sorting interest anp paramount importance and as 1 could phot, and I am sure tbe Whigs of Virginia! and the South generally, would not vote forjfany Abolitionist living to be President of Uj United States ; (scarce ly sooner than ihej would for a Florida In dian,) and as 1 hake been placed before the people of this Sta& for the office of Elector upon the whig ticket, I have thought it due to you, to the Wbf cause; and to myself, to ask; you to furntib, under your own band, your denial of iheffcharge, in a letter to me, which) I may publish. I beg leave to sir, tbat the denial whichl I expect will; in my opinion, advance your cause; with alt gfod and reflecting men through the land but wketber it will ad vance or injure-it,; t is equally due to your self and to us, thajf you should furnish it,as I amjsalisfled thatflrou would be as unwill ing to advance tha cause by any fraud, as we should be made tbe instruments, appa rently, or dupes of t. Bepleasedtherefore, to say to me, wbe ler you entertain the sen timents upon; thStsubject of Abolition ex pressed in your spepcli at Vmcennes,in 1835; whether you everere a member of an Ab olition Society n 1irginia, and whether you have designated the Richmond Society as an Abolition Socrty, and wh3t was your political connectin, if any with the old Federal party,! , ; ' ' With great repect, 1 am, sirjj your friend, eye. JAMES LYONS. To Gen. W. II J HARRtsoif, Cincinnati, Ohior Ccn. tttttrUon's Reply. j NoRTii! Be sd, 1st June, 1840. Mr )ab sIrI When I received voor lette, of the I4tli Ipril, I was very onwdrhh. eErtgef witbia violent cot in the head, which ler- lie Lands w roinated in intermittent nenraloia. ne nn j . ) n. e" - w iheceniu;aiv i, the same of v;! Pleasants w;;? a Mr. Hubert i at the former re admitted' 1 do not v.-j ' be published, the facts she;, made to mc r.s I ' have w r ; 1 . Mr. Jos. Wii! the connectio s Hamilton C tee and myeelf; it public. I was alT'.:'. servations, party of y,r. must cocchdc Lieut HU Lieut. Q. Court Martial : P. Levy, the r.a: siatea ; jn a.-j service of the r: witnesses. The admission of the 1 ruled, refuseti t should be Cor.'iJ un inis tesum -man was found frota his' station i ry of the Navj. and memorial tc tion.to the pro duction of ct! ;n effects such a c lhe becrefarj proceedings t- ' ' dent cf ti, whole record, cr, "The Prr.v ! ings in the caJ his interference. Mr. Botts cf into the Hcu the Secret-irv cf On the vote cn t! (in lucu ivau exceptions hov.'t menaeu. .v;;. . Hawkins z .1 M of Virginia, lit son, Turoey an'J What is r. -t c... man Is the ens v. with bis spr in alliance ui;.: Whig parly in C ostentatiously ; here is a'sircng c Mr. Watterson. animation that r voted for ihe Hp L - T era van liurcn i Southern Wfet" nf th Snnlhprn r uuons: -i lb i men, Mf. Watte I 1 i i t i - r : . i h ; ' . ii -. . : . " :t; i i ' . i S i'-t
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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