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/ I EXTRACT FRA.M THE ADDRESS OF T1IE no.v. THOS. J). SUMTI5R, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. C >nnected w*th all the questions that have been discussed in Congress, at the present session, has been tiie great absorbing one, who shall be the next Pi-esideni ? Tile contest is an excited o?o ; and is uu - .t :i. ~r wh'jre more so man ln.mu council* <n uiu nation' which ought .to have nothing to do with it, and which cannot interfere with it without connecting it wkh their legislation. Owing to this interference, Congress has done but little in the discharge of its duty . to the country and to individuals. Having formed a decided opinion on this question T will nnf hpsitnte now to express it, justified as I am in that course by the example of older and wiser 'men than myself. My honorable colleague. (Mr. Thompson) and also the honorable Mr. Preston, in their letters to my constituents of Cheraw, state very confidently that General Harrison is deeply pledged for the South on the Abolition question.? This was news to me, and I took especial care to inform myself as to that matter. Mr. Preston says, in the letter reterrea to, " not less extraordinary is the advocacy of a Missouri restrictionist against a gentleman who wore a crown of martyrdom on that opcasion in the maintenance of Southern-rights; who has suffered more than any any man living in our cause ; and va^o fought our battles in a remote region, removed from the support of sympathy, and without hope of reward." Again : "On the subject of Abolition, he sacrificed I lis political career in maintaining the constitutional rights of the South." I wisTi to he cleared of the imputation of any ingratitude to him on the score of his sacrifices for the South, and therefore proceed testate what I have ascertained to be the extent of his claims to Southern gratitude. In the first place, General Harrison was not a member of the 16th Congress during which the Missouri battle was fought, ana Missouri ultimately admitted on certain conditions. He-was a member of the 16th Congress; at the second session of which, the first proposition was made for the admission of M.ssouri :into the Union, op an equal footing with die original States. GeneralHarrison-then voted against the ? _ r ii iJz.. clause promsuiZillB Jiirxnur luiruuuvjuvii of slavery or involuntary servitude into the State.But the bill was lost at that session by a disagreement between the two lionises ; the House of Representatives laving insisted upon the restriction. It appears from this, that General Harrison, when the subject was first brought forward and before it had become connected with political and sectional cxcite ipent followed the impulses of his feelings & judgment in voting with the South. But, after he left Congress, and while the question was undecided and agitating the Untqn, and ferving as a rallying point for all the enemies of Southern institutions, he yielded to the storm that was ragingaround him. and consented to the sacrifice that f*Ji?' :?. TT j? was demanded oy uuruueuiics. uc vjouc amplefamends to his political friends for _ ' his aberration in tlic session 1818-'19.? The next,year,before the Missouri question w^Aeltled* General Harrison was in the innate of Ohio, and there assisted in maturing, ond.voted for (January 3,1820,) the-throwing preamble and resolutions: ?* Whereas, the existence of slavery in our country has ever been deemed a great moral dad political evil, and in its tendency? directly calculated to impair our natwnaFcfiaracter, and materially affect our', national happinessand inasmoch as tlie1 extension of a slave population in the United States is fraught with the most fearful consequences to the permanency and durability of our republican institutions; and whereas, the subject of the admission of slavery in the new State of Missouri is at this time before the Congress of the United v States; therefore 1 u Resolved, That our Senators and Rc- j presentives be requested to use their utntost erteitions, and take every means to; prevehf the extension of slavery within! the territory of the United States west of j theP^fisassippi, and the new States to be i forced within that territory, which the Cbnttiiution, and the treaties made Under it, wil| follow.". * . .. This resolution goes as far as Mr. John W. Taylor, or any of the most ardent of the .Missouri restnetionistsof that day could desire ; and it shows that General Harrison. had no disposition to " safer in our couse" and to ? fight our battles iu a remote region, removed, from the support of. sympathy, and without hope of reward.M *- In-: 1822, General Harrison was again a candidate for Congress,and was chaiged with favonng slavery, in a circular ne saidiH Fellow-Citizens ; Being called suddenly home to attend iny sick family, I have but a- moment. to answer a lew calumnies which are in circulation conccrniagriio. . . ^Inin accused of being friendly to slavery. From my earliest youth to the present moment, 1 have been the ardent friend of human libertv. A* the ajr? of* cijrhtccnil BECAME A MEMBER OF AN1 ABOjLlTIOiV SOCIETY, established at Richmond, the olyeet of which , was to ameliorate Uje condition of slaves, and prjeurc tf:e:r froecHn f>v even' legal I mca^s. My venerable friend* Judge Gatch, of Clermont county, was also a member of this Abolition Society, and has lately given me a certificate that I was one. The obligations which i then came under i have faithfully per! FORMED. * # * I " WM. HENRY HARRISON." In his Cheviof speech, delivered July 4,1833, General Harrison said : CK/uiU T Ko if*tliDro ia nn trtiv I , ijiivuiu a W uouvu ii biivi v <o iiv i? I by which the General Government can aid J the cause of emancipation, I answer that : it has long been an object near to my heart to see the whole of its surplus reuenue appropriated to that object. With the sanction of the States holding slaves, there ap ! pears to me to oc no consututionaioojeciion j to its being thus applied, embracing not ' only the colonization of those that may be otherwise free, but the purchase of the freedom of others. By. a zealous prosecution of a plan formed upon that basis, we. might look forward to a day not very distant, when a North American sun will ' not look down upon a slave." After this no one could accuse General It* _ r i : C ft? .l xxarnson 01 any leaning miavurui ouumern institutions, and those who had susI pected him of it, became satisfied, and , ceased their ciainor. He was proud of j his Abolitionism, and looked forward to j the day when the schemes of the Abolitionists could be consummated. The avowal of such sentiments, from one who has neither fanaticism nor ignorance to plead in extenuation of them, and who acts from * - - i- - -i : A 11 aenoeiate policy, must ue aiarmiug iuau I the true friends of the South. That the Abolitionists themselves were satisfied with General Harrison's orthodoxy on this point, is proved by many circumstances attending his nomination for the Presidency. Stevens, Ritner, Burrows, Penrose, the Pensylvania anti-masonic and abolition^ leaders, were the most influential in bringing about his nomination, to the exclusion of General Scott and Mr. Clay. Mr. Clay was sacrificed in the Convention to the interests of the Abolitionists. No one delegation from the Southern States voted for General Harrison. He was the nominee of Abolitionists. . The following is a clnfpmpnt nffhp hnilntinira ? " First Ballot for Henry Clay. Rhode Island, 4 Delaware," 3 Maryland, 10 ; Virginia, 23 North Carolina, 15 Alabama, . . 7 Louisiana, 5 Mississippi, , 4 / Kentucky, 15 Missouri, 4 Illinois, ? 5 Connecticut, 8 103 " For Winjkld Seott. New York, 42 Vermont, 7 New Jersey, 8 94 ^ "For William Henry Harrison. Maine, ; 10 / Massachusetts 14 Ncav Hampshire, 7 Michigan, 3 Pennsylvania, 30 Ohio, 21 Indiana, . 9 94 " The second ballot was the same. Un the third ballot, Connecticut and Michigan changed their votes to General Scott, making his vote 68, Harrison's 91, Clay's1 95. The fourth ballot was the same. On the fifth ballot, New York, Illinois, Vermont, and Michigan, gave their votes to Gen. Harrison, which made his vote 148, which was a majority of the whole electorarvote of the'Union. Connecticut and New Jersey gave thcirvoteto Gen. Scott, The others", 90 in number, were for Mr. i Clay. " General Harrison was therefore nom ?. ?i i? *i?i-i?.? r A Too inaieu uy U1C UUlUgitlCS I1UIU lUOllic, mar sachusctts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York, Illinois, and Vermont?by ten non-slaveholding States." ? The nomination of General Harrison j was hailed with triumph by the Abolition [ organs ; the Emancipator said : ' Well the agony is over, and Ilcnry Clay is?-laid upon the shelf; and no man of ordinary intelligence can doubt or denv "* ~ # ~ ^ ~~ . a, I that it is the anti-slavery feeling of the North' which has done it, in connection with his own ostentatious, and infamous pro-slavery demonstrations in Congress. Praise to God for anti-slavery victory ! A man of high talents, of great distinction, of long political services, of boundless personal popularity, has been openly rejected for the Presidency of this great Republic, on account of his devotion to slavery. Set up a monument of progress there. Let the winds tell, the tale?let the slave holders hear the news?let foreign nations hear it?let O'Gonnell hear it?let the slaves hear it?a slave holder is openly rejected for the Presidency of the United States. The reign of slavocracy is hastening to a close. The rejection of Heiwy Clot/, and the nomination of William Henty Harrison, hj the Whip Convention, taken in connection with all the circumstances is one of the heaviest blows that themon i " . . * 4 slcr slavery has ever received in this country* . I The Liberator, published in Boston by Garrison, said : " The National Whig Convention, assembled at Harrisburg on the 5th December nominated William Henry Harrison for the office of President of the United States. * * * * wamamJ *U!?. l'mnArfflnt ClfTTfe ? ? U lCgttl U LUIS (UIUlUV/1 iui|/vt fcw* of the times?as a signal defeat of slave holding power in this country. Had it not been for Abolitionism, Henry Clay would undoubtedly, have been nominated. We have faith to believe that no slave holder will ever again he permitted to Jill the Presidential office- in this Republic" From a letter written by a leading Abolitionist, published in the Philanthropist, an Abolition paper printed at Cincinnati, I make the following extract: " Have the Abolitionists. npt already reason to congratulate themselves on the concession made to their influence on the nomination of General Harrison ? Most assuredly they have. Who is there that can believe that General Harrison would have been the the whig candidate, had it not been for kClay's anti-abolition speech in the United States Senate last spring ? Is not the Harrisburg nomination a great abolition victory." An examination of the list of delegates who composed the Convention, and parti/*ntnt*lir tlmrn iitKa trntorl YrPnP.nii V^UIUI \Jl II1UOU >T IIV/ vvtvu ?v> VW..V.. Harrison, will show more clearly and positively what his principles may be, than any other test. In examining that list,we find him to be the nominee of the Abolitionists, of Federalists, of Bankers, and of Tariffites?men with whom the South has nf intaMut foolinn OF nfifl. j HVJ V/UIIJUIUUHJ V/I lliiUlooi) AVViMig V* Ymmm* f ciple.. ; ' The Harrison organ here (the National Intelligencer)'published Mr. Slade'sspecch and circulated it through the country.? Upwards of ten thousand of these speeches were sent abroad by the whig members, a list of whom I herewith present you: " Whig Abolition.?We have been furnished with the following names of members of Congress who are charged with having sent out the Abolition speech, of ]jlr. Slade under their franks. We. publish them before the adjournment of Congress that the gentlemen named may know what is alleged before they leave the city, viz : " Messrs. Brpckway, Trumbull, Storrs, Osborn and Smith, of Connecticut; Messrs. Hasting, Adams, Calhoun, Baker, of Massachusetts ; Messrs. Slade and Hall, of Vermont; Messrs. Clark, Gates, Granger, Kempshall, Morgan, Filmore, Crittenden, Russell, and Peck, of New York; Messrs. Edwards, James, Cooper, and Davies, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Tillinghast, of Rhode Island; and Mr. Giddings, of Ohio." . Thus united and arrayed in support of General Harrison are all the odds and ends of opposition factions?the Abolitionists ; the" advocates of a National Bank, and of Bank expansions and. Bank explosions?the friends tojjvtemaTimprovement and a protective tarinTaild of the assumption of State debts. General Harrison appears so far as we can penetrate the mystery with which his friends will please to i shroud him, and so far as we are able to i judge from his past transactions to be a < philo-abolitionist, and an advocate for a i national bank, fcr a protective tariff, for 1 internal improvements, and for the accu- 1 mulation of surpluses in the Treasury.? Under such circumstances, it will be im- ( possible^for me, and as I confidently be- j iieve for the Squth to go for him. On the contrary, I would deprecate his election, ! as an evidence of a determination, on the part of the majority of the people of the | United States, to Dursue such-a course of , policy, as would inevitably drive the South ( out of the Union, or grind her to the dust. , On the other hand I shall look to the j success of Martin Van Burcn,' as a proof | that the great political reform, which be- i gan with the Maysville veto, and which | has been consummated by the divorce of the Government from the banks, will not < retrogade: and, further, that the tide of 1 fanaticism, which has threatened to sweep ' away the rightsof the South, will be check- ^ rd in its course. . 1 Your obedient servant, THOMAS I). SUMTER. . July 20, 1940. j YntarxTv.?The results of the recent j Democratic Convention at Charlottesville, | are in the highest degree checnng, as wiii , he seen by the following paragraph: During the session a committee compo- j scd of twenty three Delegates, oqe from ] each electoral district, gentlemen of dis- i crelion and character, was appointed to I ascertain the probable" state of parties of I Virginia. . By a comparison of calculi- i tions, and after making liberal allowances < for Whig claims, it was decided that there 1 would be a Democratic majority in iitteen Districts, and a Whig majority in eight, ' making the majority of Mr. "Van Burcn ' 5918. On this, the editor of the Rich- J mond Enquirer remarks: " For our own ( part, wc have tried some of those calcu- . lations by the information wc had prcvi- | ously received from numerous counties, ] and wc have come to the conclusion, that , if our friends do their duty, we shall carry the whole state by at least 7000. We i learn that our cause is gaining in all di- < rcctions, as light pours upon the people, i ' # V.-; ' -77 ' and the humbugs of the Whigs dissipate' i into thin air. * There was-not a Delegate,! with whom we have conversed, arid we, talked to at least a hundred of them On the! result in Virginia?who did not seem to' have made up a definitive opinion, and there was not one of them who did not! count upon a strong and triumphant majority. We therefore announce to our Republican brethren every where, that Virginia is safe, perfectly safe, for Martin! Van Buren." . oi: -7. 7 en 7.*?._? ).i.i a - : : Biiipwrcvn un*+ Lcucd tc/A't.?nu am-val at Boston brings the itttelligence of the wreck of the brig Florence, Captain Rose, on the coast of Newfoundland, be-j ing on her return from Rotterdam. She! had a crew of 8, and 79 passengers.. Be-? ing thrown upon the reef and capsized, Captain Rose succeeded in getting ashore on a ledge with his crew, save one who; perished, as the only means of saving the lives of the distressed passengers. But of the 79 only 30 were rescued. The wretched survivors wandered in this inhospitable region four days, with nothing but the bark of the trees to eat, and with scaitt cloth-1 ing, when they reached on the 13th, the1 harbour and village of Rnunse. The hos- j - -Li - -1? - ? r. ; _1 1 J M. , puaoie r.inaouauis inrnisuvu mem . wuu; every necessary relief, and a vessel to takej thern to St. Johns, the residence of the U. S. consul. There too, every needed aid was readily afforded, ami the captain and male have reached Boston. The Florence was owned by Captains Rose, Messrs. Badger & Peck, and Messrs. Badger & Messerode, and was insured in New York for $11,000 which will cover her loss. . If a piece of wood whicli floats on the water, be forced down to a great depth in the Sea, the pressure of the surrounding liquid will be so severe, that a quantity of water will be forced into the pores of the wood, and so increase its weight that it will no longer be capable of floating or running to, 'tlio cm firo Hnnr#? |)ia fimKnr nf china which foundered in a part of the ocean, have never risen again to the surface, like those which are sunk near the shore. A diver may with impunity plunge to certain depths in the sea; but there is a limit beyond which he could not-live under the pressure to which he is subject. For the same reason, it is probably that there is a depth below in which fishes cannot live. They have according to Joshlin, been caught at a depth at which they must have sustained a pressure of eighty tons to each square foot of the surface of their bodies. From the Temperance Advocate. Limestone Springs, Sept. 17. Mr. Editor:?Through our friend Mr. Law, i sent you a hasty note from Rutlier- < fordton. I now take uo mv pen a little more at leisure, to make you acquainted more fully with the prospects of Temperance in the mountains. The Convention which assembled at 1 Ashville seemed to me to act with one spirit, everything w.sdone with a singleness of heart for the promotion of the cause . of Temperance. The establishment of ( (heir Periodical, although desiruni.e of < my prospect of obtaining subscribers for | your paper, when I found it could be pub- i lished nt so low a rale as 50 cents per an- j nnm, met with my hearty concurrence. It | seemed to me to be another means of car- < rying " glad tidings" to the poor, and as j such, entitled to the hearty welcome of rvury l Jiiiaiimi wj/iai. I look no note of the proceedings, and cannot give you the statistics of the interesting report presented by Mr. MrAnilly. Fhe different Temperance Societies represented, were, I think, set down as being ' numerous, and devoted to (lie cause. The 1 lutnor of the Report, Mr. McAnilJy, is the Presiding Elder of that circuit, in the Me- 1 ihodist denomination ; and I was delight- 1 sd to see a leader in that numerous, unicd, and devoted body ofChristians, standng up so boldly, as an advocate for Tem- ' perance Societies. The Methodists from iheir origin have been the friends of Temperance, but has only been of late, that 1 monf iKnm linrn cr/tn ihnir wnv In i v,. ? v J w.v?, :ome up to the help of the Lord, in the a nighty battle which Temperance Socic:ies are waging against drunkenness. I " fmpe that all their ministers and their peo- ( pie will be hereafter, as one in this glori- 1 dus rause. I The people of Buncombe who attended! ^ the Convention, .and the visiters to the j Mountains,.who we're at Ashville, appear-i" ed to1 me to be impressed most favorably in-thc cause of Temperance. Two little [joys, and a roost interesting and lovely poung lady, pressed their paienrs to subscribe for your paper, and to them you are ndebted fortTiree out of four subscribers [ sent to you. When this fact presented tself to my mind, I was reminded of that jeautiful passage in the Psalms, ''outof ?f l,ahp? nnd sncklinps fhast ihon ordained strength, because of iheir snemies, that thou mightest stiii the enemy and the avenger." How true as well is beautiful! Children are rising up in the cause of Temperance, to "still iheen?my and the avenger," the most cruel en 1 nf (tin Immun rarp. flrini. zmy ami nreugci ?? .? kcnness. To this reflection arises another still more interesting. The virgin purity, ^ snd spotless innocence of our young and lovely sisters, throughout the land, are like the young ladv to whom I have referred, on our side in this mighty cause. With the innocence of childhood, and the ' nlense devotcdoess of woman to aid us, ( what need we fear all that the workers ofi? Iniquity can do; especially when we know It ; > . - V ' : . ' . - V * . .1 ^ that our work is the CbrtTs, and that ho will in the follrfess of time bless-it, as well as all who labor jn itv Much, it seems to me, has already been clone in the Mountain Counties of North. Carolina. More will, l ampersuadtd,now u? uuue. oirong arinK nas not as manjtadvocaies there as in oar own cherished State. The uncoirupted Monntaineer who ? has again and again bared jiis breaat for. bis country, and who will always be in her ^ botir of danger, first in the onset, and last, in the retreat, is ready to lay down the poisoned cup of strong drink neveragaifi ? < to resume it. It is only necessary to give > to him the information which we possess;' ' ^ and which is rejected by many of onr ureal-- j thy, intelligent, and otherwise respectable inhabitants, and it will be gladly received, and the seed thus sown will' bring forth fruit ' an hundred fold." Your paper,, and tneir monthly Vtesleria Carolina Temperance Advocate must perform this good work ; and I and every other friend of Temperance ought not only to cry to yon' and them 41 God speed you," but our shoulder? ought'to'he to the wheel, and - then like Gov. Miller's waggoner,:'we. should carry every thing before us " with . y a surge." Since I have reached this place, IJiav? had little catise to be pleased with the prbspects of Temperance. The rcgblar vieiters to this establishment are the most, cor- .; reel, worthy and pure.pedple, with tfrhom ; I have>ver mingled. They are true Chris- ; liatis, who, like their ancestors, afe with* ' out spot and without blemish. Bui this is z ; race week, and a flood is upon its, . I seein daylight more of strong drink indulged in by my yopng friends, than I am willing .? to see ; and at night, 1 am. pained to-hear the savage veil of drunkenness ringing > ; . "rri.s bii iiij cai3. 1 mo uvaiuuui nuu nwn|?u^ resort will probably never again be visited by a similar disgrace. 1 understand the Limestone Spring Jockey Club< is to be dissolved, at this time ; and woujd, that it co^uld be so, that every other one could be dissolved, throughout the State. Instead of doing good, they are doing harm, by encouraging vice, collecting together that degraded class of.people called black legs, '\ j who hang like the wolves following the rSlreal of Bonaparte's army from Russia,, upon the rear of every collection of gee- , llemen, who engage in borse?ra?ng. The example of vice before boys is as cont? gious as the small pox; ami every vicinity . to a race course increases its ravages among them. . As usual, your friend, , JOHNBELTON O'NEALL. JYegro Shoes & Leather., TWO thousand pair 'Negro Shoes, of prime quality, also Leather of every iescription. -Planters can' have their shoes fuade to measure by Sending to the shop at 3wift Creek Mills. W.D. M DOWALL&CO. Sept. 19. ~ 42" 4> m For Sale, Jk VALUABLE Planiation-6fofc&$tt!>e ensi side of the Water*? 'rite* ttnd * Graness' Quarter Creek, nine' mOjes'above Camden, (generally known as^he Lucas place,) containing about 1200acies, abont 100 hundred of which is cleared, the land is of good quality and will be sold a bargain, as the owner (residing out of the State) Is anxious to dispose ol it. For in-; < formation and terms apply to r C. J. SHANNON, sept. 19 . 42 v' . if ' JYbtiee. A LL persons indebted to the subscriber, cither by note or open account, up to . he present dale, are requested to-call on Mr. M. Naudin, and settle the same before etinn day; otherwise they find them in he hands of an attotnev. 3AMES CONNER. Sept. 19. 42 2i NEW STYLE * MOUSL1N DELAINES, just received by "1 the Great Western from., Liverpool, ind for sale by H. LEVY. . ALSO, r-8 blenched homespun, 5 cents per yard, Jood unbleached do 6 1-4 44 44 led Ticks 16 4< 44 'laid Homespun CI-4 * 44 kntl other articles at the same low prices, sept. 19' 42 B Mr UnMMMk n JX t ^ n y The Kirshaw Trortp HE/'ILL parade on the first Saturday iti. ?* October. . By order of Cant Boykin. ". W. A. ANCKUM, 6. S. sept. 19.. .42 I ' 1 ..< ? m J I i i i ^ Wcarc anthorlzed lo an? . J?' nounce Loi. sanucl s. iahjUk.?8 Candidate for a scat in the House of Represent u-livcs nt the ensuing election. ^ " ? * * I v t . r > .>>