Farmers' gazette, and Cheraw advertiser. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1839-1843, June 05, 1840, Page 118, Image 2
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Thus formed. The benefit, wo think, will
ifoi bo confined to she productiveness, b:r
#x?end to the quality also. Fowl manure
^ can not bo obtained in any very largo quantities,
but as v?ry iiltle manures ;i large
tr? space, it ds also applied to - the cotton with
c great rfTect." Cotton seed is ch'iVflv reserved
for corn.. When used for cot'on, it
creates too luxuriant a growth, and tlfe
j odWre I he in opening. Several experiments
have been made with timer and salt,
t ut these generally have been so loosely
made, that nothing definite beyond the fact
^lat they were beneficial,.could begrimed,
from them. Mr. Frederick' A.. Porcherof
Somorton, has made greater use of these
'Ho manures than any other planter in S'.
"-.John's and has kindly furnished us with an
f account -of his operations with both, and
. . which being interesting, we give in "full.
"' * 'n ? ciYirili field ,,r
" ' lil 1 I IV ? W>" ?H
Cotton, lime ?:oue in.the propoition of
s.x'ty-four bushels to the acre. The soil
was original^ ofK>gi! loam, of'tho quality
indicated by th? growth of dak and hickory.
Tnis,4 prcsuui", Gom its contiguity to t wo
large swrrmps, and. from the grow th of the
;?I'lf.sst Umi in. ;Ue .ntj^hborhood.' I do not
I.now when :thn land w-'s cleared, but it
must have been a gre.r many years sinec.
1. had obviously been subjected to a long
course of exhausting colt.vat on. \Vh? n I
hrst took it in, it was covered with the
broom grass. A Top of slips, I bc!i"ve
was the first step taken towards reducing
't to cu!;i\at;ori, an 1 tins was followed every
alternate year, with-a crop of cotton.- Dm
ring the al.ewate vears if rosed?manure
O *
wa* freely given. Tire-first crop, that of
1835, was almost a total, failure?that of
1337, oromised better, but it did not \ie|d
more than 75 lbs. of clean cot'on per-acre.
Perhaps it shared the file of other eiops on
lands of s| better repiyution, tiie autumn of*
1837 having been peculiarly unfavorable
to lire maturity of the cotton. Too products
of the fie'd from the crop of 1339, is
ns well as I can judge, a fruc.iou below 13d
lbs. per acre. . ,
"The lime used wis procured fronVthe
c - ?- .t i_.i
mnr^m o^ n creciv u:i me pmiruuiuu. i
I.os about six feet below the surface of the
l:tigl?l?nd. It is of various. apppafanc*-?
v unu.pl it being so h ird that it -is with
ddficnfjr broken by the pick nxe, while
the 0'bcrgTruinble with the 'application of i
verj* bltie force. Fusssil conUuuejj to abound I
throughout the strata, but more in the loose j
mosses than in those more compact and '
hard. 1 bave reduced all to quick liioc in j
the k In-, and have found it quite uvailahle !
for mm-tor.* H j
"The lime applbnido the land was broken J
with a hammer, n vh v toilsome operation,
and in that way applied. The field is laid
off in square half acres, ond contains, in
each acre, sixty rows, each -350 feel in
length. To each of these rows a bushel
of the pound**) lime was applied on the'list.
The land was manured t?s usual. The
quant fr) of manure applied i do not recollect
; I am sure it did nuti exceed tfftvun
horse carl loads to the acre. .
"I left the plantation in May, before the
lime had any time to dev( lope its agency,
andd*d not return until October. In Jun",
my Overseer wrote me that lie eotilJ no;
n/'r/'Pivn Mio -.1 i?f!nn ih?> lima. CXCCO! ner.
jrx . - w. ' r I I
haps in the increased vigor of I lie growth.
of the joint and nut grasses with which the ,
field is inflated. Some, lime in July, Ik? j
wrote that the limed cotton was improving ,
rapidly, and recommme.nd? d its application j
to every a?*re of cotton which should be
planted. The !;me d;d not cover the w hole
lielJ, the part not Imcd is of a character j
more congenial to cot on than the other.? !
o /
The lime g?vc out in the mid deol a pond, j
In this pond I doubhd ih?' quantity, and i
instead of one bOshel, put two, that is, at the
rate of a hunched end twenty bushels to the i
acre. Here the success of thu experiment i
\tas shaking. The pond, as far as the lime*
wcnt,mod a luxuriant groivth'ol productive?
cotton in it, whilst on the rest a few poor
stalks.here uid tlr re, a Ion** indicated the
presence of cultivation. ^?To pains were
taken to separate the product of tire hnied
part from the jest*
"The "application of wood nshes lo a
hitherto unproductive pond, in the quantity
ofa jHckto the row, or from'fifteen to
twenty bushels to the wre, was attended
with the same, or even more striking result*
.
"My brother, in 1333, manured some
lands wiUi shell dime, bought in Chuilcston
?the quantity Applied was u peek to the
half acre ro\", or 11) 1-2 bushels to tli?* ncfc.
Tire laud was plan ed in 1836, 1838, and
1839, in cotton. The first year no effect
was observed?an improvement was perrepiihle
in 1838,and markedly so hi 183d.
The soil was n poor clay loam. The hmo
was slaked when applied. II'S ex peri
mentft wi h ashes in the quantity mentioned
above, wf-re all eminently successful.
"Salt was used on my plantation in 1830
nnd 1837. The first year, its successful
result was most strikingly manifest. A field
of sixty acres, lying on the edge of Dig -n
Swum pi had been treated in the following
manner: part of if, say 30 acres was cleared
and planted in cotton in 1832 ; the crop
of cotton was con inued without intermission
every year. In 1834 nnd l83ort-.e re.
maimng 30 acres were cleared and planted
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wun cotton. in iq.jo, n.? wuoie h?*w ui
sixty acres* presented portions which Ind
been one, two, nod four years under cultivation.
No doubt wns entertained of the
propriety of planting the two first portions,
but it was thought advisable to give the
third portion a dressing with manure. Ac.
cordingly a quantity of compost was prepared,
and about thirty bushels of salt, or a
. bushel per acre,thrown upon if. This was
spread upon the land, and this part, then
under cultivation without intermission for
five years, yiejded a greater quantity per
acre than the rest of the field, wheh was
much more fresh. The difference was perceptible
to the eye. I sold upwards of one
hundred .and fifty weight of cotton per acre
from this field, at a price higher, :hau any
Prof. Shepard has kindly promised us au
analysi* of this lime stune.
[ Sanlec cotton at that time in Charleston
brought. except cotton raised under the same
treatment. Ties experiment was. made
under the direction of niv brother, the late
: Dr. J. P. Pore her, who superintended my
plantation during my ubs'-ncg Irorn the
1 State.
The use of salt was repeat (Hi in 1837.
but without any marked r sult. In no ens*1
was there studi a f .vorable opportunity of
comparison, as in the preceding year. The
j cotton crop was a b id on**. O.m great use
| of salt as a manure fur cotton* seems to bo
j.thc quality which it imparts to the plants ol
; holding the fruit which it b? ars. I do not
i know win titer it stirnulites and promotes
production. but it certainly appears to act
as n conservative to the product, Such
i was its only apparent agency in the suercessful-experiment
of 1836. "My brother
| continued the use ef suit, and the Tesirlt ol
: his cropping hasViown that ho did not ex"rtSgqrate
its. value."
Mr. Porr-hojr intends making eonsj,J Mn.
ble use of both tfie lime and salt. When
wediad the pleasure of visiting Som?rton
last, wo found large quantities of the rock,
f got ou' foMlie purpose of bo ng converted
ino lime, nt.d we und Ts'.ond from l?im,
1 that he had purchased a considerable quan!
ii y of salt to be us? d ns manure. One
fict we would call the attention of our Plan
1 ters to. and tint is that the cotton, manured
tcih salt, brought ;i h'gher-price than any
, o l.fr from t'te same neighbor oocl, sold at
fhe timo. .Is ii not worthy ofenquiry and
experiment,) whether salt, added tf>- other
manures, (or alone) does not does not pro
dui'e a finer s*si;>!**, independent of its efT-cts
| n *5ther respects? In a small punphj? t
: published ?omo f-w years since by Mr.
r Johnson, lie enunv rates the bepefiis to be
derived from the use o: salt to he?
"1st. Bv promoting in small proportions,
; putrefaction. 21. J5v ?h*slrf?\in** weeds,
grubs, &e. 31. Asa constituent or direct
fool. 4:!i. Accc.r'hnjj to Drs. Darwin and
Piifslh*, as a stimu'artt to the absorbent
vessels of plants. 51?. By preventing inj'irv
from sud ! n trans tions in the tempera,
j ritre of lac atmosphere; and Otit. By keep,
j ing f!?e soil'mois1.'*
; Corn.?Ti en? is nothing peculiar in the
* culture of this crop, unless i| be in the
grift! attention bestowed on manuring i\?
The preparation of the land is similar to
.that lor cot ton ; the manure, which most
generally is compos', is strewed (t?v some
at Hie rate of 250 bushel baskets foil per
at re,) in tnejiiieys and iu heavy list piade,
on virt.ich the corn is planted, arid not on
beds, as when planted on beds, the stalks
! ? . t i I i r.<>..,I i
are [oo easjty h.uwh ulmmi. \/i?.hju i.w m
mvarably used as a manure fur I his crop,
I iind is .supposed to cause die greatest yield.
Many planters apply I: in tin.* lull, at Pkj rate
of a pint to each. Otheis res'Tve it until
! nil danger of frosts is over, and apply i:
| around the corn, and cover it with the hoe
| a: the first wtflfrking. By Mr. T. \V. Porcher,
it is placed ai the sides only, width
i enables htm to bury it when it sprouts,
; much more easily than by the usual mode
i of crushing.with the foot and then covering
jt. \V(k?:i it is up. he sends ploughs into
the fi?dJt and a fi iloiv goes ahead of each
with a spa e arid places it close to the corn
and between it and the sprouted cotton seed
?the earth thrown by the plough complete
Iv covers die hitter, while the corn is untouched.
In this manner, ho accomplishes
rnuidi more than those who follow the old
plan. In working i\ most of the Planters,
make hut liulr use of the plough, and the
reason ;ess gned. is the fear ofspreading the
nut grass, which Ins already hrcoine a
osurreof great nunoyancK A plan adopted
by Messrs. Thomas Porcht r, of Whip!
I!..11, R. \V? Raveuel, and p'-rhaps others,
is to work only ey? ry alternate alley at each
thnc of going over, by which course of culture,
the roo's of ' only on<* side are cifl
.. .I.? . I, frudi S' imilllis is
<??!? IlllirJ f IIIUIl Wl'vl ?. W !*npp!ieJ
to the j?vai?ia more frequently, by
j the s iningjof the ground. They spbak
j vny favorably of ibis plan..
; The aver:: go'product or this crop in St.
j John's, is from 10 to 12 bushel's. Dr.
Itavnol usually averagers about 22 bushels
andth.s on fields, which are. perhaps the
oldest on bis t lantntioi), (itself among the
oldest in the Parish.) These wire very
i much reduced wb< n In; took possession,.but
i bv manuring highly, he b is restored' ibem
to their present state of fertility. The B >.
' deucorn has been cjljI ivated in small qya*dties
by a large number of the Planters,
rttid universally condemned. It is found
not to answer in our clynate. The product
; is not much grea'or than that of our
Flint, the grain -very inferior; it is very
i easily Ivlov. n down, is suhj"Ct to rot ii' left
; until tin; usual rrme of harvest in the field,
and when gathered in, is more liable to the
attacks of Hie weevils. For those reasons,
i we be'icyc but li:tie of it will hereafter be
| planted.
A farm of thirty acres cnnneet',d with
the House of Industry at Sou b Boston,
i produced, during the last year, 5:237 dollars
91 cents.
f We do bute?all men have their bates?
a whiskered, musluchot'd, long-haired fop,
; one of the monkey breed, possessing no
brains, but o vast deal of impudence ; or,
provided lie lias brains, they are akin 10
those of a calf, with wi irii animal be lias a
full right and title to claim consanguinity.
We frequently, in our daily promenades
through toe-great fashionable thoroughfare
of die city, meet with the animal in quest on,
i and tlie thought will come across us?we
\ can't help it?that some menagerie lias
i been robbed of its inmates, that the apes
j have broken doose from the cage in wlrch
they bad been confined, ib.at there is a gen^er;4
turn out of the "wild bonstcsscs," so we
pass by, like the Levite, upon the other side
and though we think a great deal, wo say
' nothing. Shame upon the effeminacy of
, the present day! In these hard times, "hard
i hands and honest hearts," should be the
; motto of all; and the sun burnt countenance
i die best passport in* good society.
aerwmrr m i i ?mm1
L Parancrs" CrSEette,
CHERAW; FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1840.
j The Rev. William Potter will, henceforth,have
| charge of our Printing Oliice, and will execute all
i job work that may oiler, on his own account. Be- i |
| j in^ an experienced and excellent printer, lib <
, work, we feci confident, will L?e well and prompt- ;
ly done. I
I Our paper will not again be issued until Wednes- (
' day week. This delay b-necessary to allow time
I* L %
for putting in order the Printing Oliice, which has j
been somewhat deranged by the mismanagement!!
" 1 -- 11 ^ nlio t.r.n til/1 U a 1 r ! ,
oi careless roremen, sis wi-u u.-> ~n?n.p?. ?... . ,
^ of publication 10 suit some of the mails. 9 ^
We refer those of our readers who are subscri- 1
' , bers to the "Southf.hn Baptist Polpit," to
! ' the notice of the Editor in another column. The ;
j work will hcnrefnth l)e published in the same of- j
j fice with the FaiPMkrs' Gazette, and the fitcili-" (
ties of publication will Iks such that the Editor j
will, we doubt not, be able, at all times, as soon^ J
as lie can bring up present itirears, to issue it'r.eg- (
ularly as the numbers become due. Ministers <
j and pritaie christians may do much good by in- ;
! traducing it into families where it is not yet I
j known. The price is so low that hardly any can
feel the expense. .
DESTRUCTIVE FRESHETS. -*<
From the Charleston papers we learn that a (
; freshet in the Savannah has inundated the town
of Hamburg, and overflowed some of the streets
I of Augusta. Three miles of the South Carolina 7
railroad were so deeply overflowed as to prevent ?
I the cars from running'. The two bridges across f
! the Savannah have lieen carried ofT; much pro- ^
j perty has been destroyed, and it is feared lives,
I perhaps many, have been lost. Particulars not
! known, - '
i ^ * ?i
Tlie Congaree and Wateree have also lieen
higher than ldr many years. Fears were enter- .
tuiued that the biaigcs would be carried oil. The '
crops on-nearly all the river plantations have been
destroyed. j
Since the above wtts put info die prmtcr'shands
we have received further accoiuils, through the .
J Augusta and Charleston pipers, but have not time 1
; to l'umislfcjhrticulars. The water in Broad street, I
1 Augusta, was from 2 to 10 feet deep. Boats float- \
r ed through every street in the city, trnme'nsc tie- f
struction of pro-ierty took place, but the oxtraordi*i
. . ... '
nary exertions madoin removing families in lioats
where the danger was greatest prevented any loss ^
* n: /v * ?'
(.OI l!ll\
The water was 9 Jeet do'cp ii i wine of the streets s
. of Hamburg, but no lives were lost. a
| The recent freshets in the Pee Dee have done c
; immense injury to crops on lite river plantations. {
THE W IIAT CROPS were remarkably .
* ' jl
1 luxuriant in all parts of the country in early
I .. .. .. " ij
Spring, and protnised an abundant harvest; but
I we sec complaints at the South, of injury by the ^
Cliineh bug, and at the ^S'orth of. injury by the ^
Hessian fly. * "?? *
^ ^ u
The packet ship Poland, which left New York,
' on the 12ih May, lbr Havre, wax set on fire bv
lightning on the Ifirh, and burnt. Whilst on lire
she was providentially fallen in with by the ship ^
Clifion, which took off the passengers and crew, g
amounting in all to 63 persons. , ti
The Ctlitor of ihe Columbia Carolinian t!
[ seems not a lit lo fretted by n brief para- ^
j graph of ours two weeks since, in whi *h ^
i we b'n'ed at the inconsistency of the PresiI
dent of a Bank unking. an anti-barik
I speech. lie avers that "an'Lbank," in the r
j Camden address, to which we referred. "
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means only "anti..U. S. Bank," and that
wo l4ean scarcely be so ignorant as not to
know" lb.e, because the expression was
? ? in i! I ?
used in connection wen me "retierai r?m
H
lies" of n candidate for a Stnte office. The
j courtesy of lies and oilier passages of the .
: Carolinian's article is worthy of all praise,
j soring how great cause of provocat on wo
I . .1
i had given Itini. ile must have been trying j.
to shew off.his amiability and complaisance .
J to the fair belles of his fair town, who, f
doubth'ss, till read his fair paper. But this
; only in passing. ,
In the couatry are seven hundred hanks.
; and anti-bankhm means only opposition to
I one and no more of them! Well, this in
j lerpretation has the merit of novel.y at
: least; an i the learned philologist whose
j fruitful brain concocts it, I'urjii-dios alum- .
j danl evidence in otiier pans of the same
I aiticle that he is an acute and eminently .
i discriminating ve; ba! critic. Willi his in- r
...
, lerpretation there is no inconsistency at a IT ,
; in the managers of local hanks In coming
the most determined ami-bnnkitcs; for a
mong t!i so who hive he -n most profited (
; by putting down the late United States r
j Bank, local banks and brokejs hold the i
highest place in the first rank. Alid if .In- t
' change in the currency, avowedly con:em- 1
i plated by the loudest declaimers against f
banks,should be e Hooted, it requires no t
Ureal sagaci y :o perceive that banks and f
j other owners and lenders of money, would, j
; in the first instance at least, be the greatest *
, j .
j gainers. Let the etfiorts to sttbsli uto gold { a
I and silver fer paper, as the currency of the
j ii .
i country, produce such a change that one i
I i dollar will represent and procure as much 1
property as two did before the commence-1 !
; men: of these efforts,. and then tlie firmer i
! who owes t!ic bank 81000, must soli tw ics
1 as much to raise the sum as would bo r?*.
i quired before the change ia tlic currency;
J and the bank stockholder who guts tins
.
I money* can buy with it just douhjo as much
I as ho'could before. Vorilv, then, there is ,v
^
f * . c
some sense in bank managers being nntibunkitcs.
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^
" The sagacious Editor finds our short
paragraph eminently pregnant wi;h meaning
and consequences. Hear hint.
The advocates of Bank reform, have
long hefji thai the thorough-going partisans
of die Banks, and opponents of such reform,
are the worst enemas of those jns'iuitionsj
and we think this has seldom been
more strikingly illustrated than in the
irticle of the Gazette."
[lore is the "article'*. After quoting a
sentence from the Camden address. and
mother from the report of proceedings
stating that Col. W. M<:Willie addressed
4 fc# . *
:he meeting in support of it," we said only;?
'Col. McWillie, who thus conspicuously
dentifies himself with an "Anti-Bank" parly
is President of tho Camden Bank. IVV
notice the fact only as nn instance of the
inomnlies of tiie times. Why itmy not the
Presidents of our Colleges next "be loaders
jf antf-college parlies, or t^ie Pivsid-'nfa
)(Agricultural ConFentions beleaders of
Anti-Fat mors' 01 Anti-Planters* Socie.
lies?"
How 11strikingly" is here 1'illustrated" the
Carolinian's position that "The ndvocntes
)f Bank reform4lave long hel<l".?o and so.
>an tho banks now hold out any longer,
vhen they learn, and with such potent
llusiration, that their partiz-ms nre their
vorst enemies. Wind up, Sirs, with the
test grace you can. It is n gone-cuse with |
T0U. . * *
4<As to the comparisons" says the Cariainn
"between the Banks, and Colleges,
md Banks and Airricul ura) Conventions,
vill the Gazette seriously undertake to spy
hat either is a jiwt and fair on<7"
Such comparisons we never made', The
inconsistency to winch we pointed wns
tompared to supposed acts, and not to the
nstiiulions or societies in relation to which
lie acts were supposed to have been done. I
kVe will nor ho #ever, say that the editor
)f tlie Carolinian "can scarcely be so ignoant
as not to know" this. We admit he
Hd not know.it, although he studied our
'article" so profoundly as to draw from it
o much more meaning than either we or
iny other less learned reader than himself
tould ever suppose it to contain. - The in..
:onsistency to winch wc refercd would
lave been, as well illustrated by comparing
t to the President of a horsc-thief nssociaion
making a speech in support of an antitorso
thief address ; although we would he.
Ai? ihomlitr /'nmniirinfr flip to
tljf HJI IIUIII HfX- ?v"7 vvn.|/u. ?-?v ]
pected President of ihe Camden-Bank lo
i horse thief, or the Camden Bank itself to j
horse thief association. *
Again, the Carolinian says:
,lWc are satisfied that the Gazette does
im [Co1. McYV.] flagrant injustice, in ip.-v.
umittg bis pecuniary interests in the Bank
o ho greater than in any other matters unonnected
with it; or, even if they were,
hat he would selfishly cling to them in conlict
between them and his high duties and
latriotie feelings as a citizen."
Where did the Carolinian learn that we
(resumed any such thing? We neither knew
tor presumed any thing of Col. McWA
nteres!8 in either the Bank, or other
wallers unconnected with it. We knewhat
he was President oft[ic Camden Bank,
Hid saw it s'aled that ho made n speech in
upport of an. addcess containing a s'rong
inli-bnnk parogrnph. Theso facts we?noiced..
If wo hud presumed on the subject
n regard to his "pecuniary interests" it
vould li$t?e been that bo had an interest in
he bank and that an anti-bank speech would
>e adverse to this interest. The Carolinian's
nterprelation would seem however to cast
lew light on the matter. But it does not
ipenk "by authority," and may therefore*
vith nil its philological acumen, be in error.
The truth most probably is that the speech
vas made for mere political eff*ct, without
m expectation of its affecting the interests
if any bank in any way whatever. We
lie people are so ignorant tbnf, for the bene,
it of our lioalth, many things must be
trammed down our throats of which we
tnow neither the composition or design.?
riiese are things known only to the doctors.
IV e must judge from ultimate results-.
The evidence in regard to the abolitionism of
5en. Harrison, we now publish, according to pronisc.
He was a member of Congress from the
State of Ohio when Missouri was admitted into
he Union as a State, and was among the few
nembers from nou-slaveliolding States who voted
lgamst tllC condition proposed 10 oe annexeu itr
he admission, that slavery should be excluded
roin the State. At the next election he was opposed
and violently assailed for this vote. In tfnwer
to his opponents lie issued a circular, from
vhich we copy all that relates to this subject:
"Fellow-Citizens:?lining called sudlenly
homo to attend tny sick family, I
uive but a moment to answer a few of llie
:altunnies which are in circulation concernng
me.
"I am accused of being friendly toslave y.
From my earliest youth to the present
moment. I have been the ardent friend
)f human liberty. At the age of 18,1 be:ame
a memter of an Abolition Sticicly esablished
at Itichmond, Virginia: the object
if which was to ameliorate the condition of
Slaves, and procure their freedom bp every
.
legal means, My venerable friend Jdc$
Gatcb, of Clermont county, was .also
member of ttat Society, and has lately g-i
en me a cerufieato that I ? as one. The qI
ligations which I then come, under 1 hot
I ^faithfully performed. I have been th
means of Jilier atirig ninny slaves, hut ncvi
placed one in bondage. I deny that my vo?
in jCungP'S-., in relation to Missouri an
A rkansa^jire in the least incompatible wit
these* principles. Confess bad no mor
.legal or constitutional .right to emaricipa
die negroes in tho-e sections of Lousian:
without Hie consent of their owners, tliu
they have to free those of Kentucky, Tims
People were secured in tlie.tr property by
solemn romcnant with France, when th
country was purchased Irotli that Powei
j To proiiibit tlv emigration of ctizens of th
I Southern Stales'to the part of the countr
; the situ it on and donate of which ft as p<
J Cuharily suited to tlnhn, would b'<**e bee
highly uuptst, as it had heeo purchased 01
of the common fund; particularly, too, whe
it is recollected that all the immense territor
| to ine northwest of th O.no It id been ce le
hv Virginia, and that, with an uiiexarnple
liberali iy, she had herself proposed, by ex
eluding slavery from n, to secure it for th
em graiion of those States which had n
slaves.- Was it proper, then, when her r<
I served territory was in n measure filled u|
j to exclude her citizens from ev? rv part ti
| the territory purelias.-d out of ih" etnnrrm
| iiir.'l? I was the first person to introduc
into Congrrss the proposition that all th
country above Missouri (which, having u
inhabitants, was free from the objeetio
' made to Missouri and Aikmsis) shout
| never have slavery admitted into it., 1 n
| peat what I have before, said, thai as on
i Union was only effe cted by mutual conces
j sion.so only can it bo preserved.
"My vote against the restrietion of Mm
souri in forfning In r constitution was not
1 conclusive' one. There would have bee
' tune enough, had I continued to, be a mem
i b?r before the question was decided, I or m
cons i ueuts to h ve ins'rucu-d me; and
should have rejoiced in any Opportunity r
sacrificing-rny neat le pri ciples, it thpy ha
ins rueted inn tit opposition to inv construe
lion of the Constitution. L'ke many othc
m>>mh(,r?i from I hi* rmn-sl.i villi ildiri.r State;
... - ? ' ;c
ol' whom Ijnention Shaw. Holmes, Ma so
of Mas>aohu?etls, Lannnn of "Cooiieeticu
and Baldwin ofPei-nsylv.inia, I could se
Hoihing in tlx; Constitution, which I ha
| sworn to support, to warrant such "an inter
(rpwe wish iho rights of din States, an
I which had nt-vcr before "1>eeo allempVu
I And where is the crime in ojih set ??f ine
I not being able to interpret <11 As we hai
all sworn So support the crime wtml
haVfc been in giving it a const!'.n'lion uhie
our coiisce-nces would not sanction An
let me ask, for whrt good is tins qu>>tio
again-brought lip?.I lias buen mi'tiled, as a
our family differences have b-eu seri|.-d, r\
| lie? firm basts of mini d compromise. Am
I patriotism, us weli ?s prtrfence devoted ih
cfietls of that awful discussion- to eterin
| oblivion; Is it not known mat, bom tin
! cause, the great fahric of our Uiuon wa
| shaken to its foundation? Is it not know
j that-Missouri would not have submitted t
the restriction, and the other slavehoMm
| Stales had determined to support lu*i? Bi
fur this compromise, tlx* -probability isjln
at this moment wo might look upon die oj
posite shore of Ohio, not.for nil aff 'Ct'Onal
sister S ate, but an armed and- miplacabl
rival. ;VVhat patriotic man vvoul l rrot joi
the gallant Eaton in execrating the head an
hand that could devise and execute
scheme productive of a calamity so uwfu
' Upon tue whole. fi How cit Z'-ns, our pal
is a plain one ; it is that market! out as wi<
by humanity us duty. We cannot cmanc
pale the slaves of lie other S altis, within
their consent: but by producing a cynvulsio
which would undrf us all.
In explanation of the character of the "abolitic
society" in Virginia to which Gen. Harrison n
1 fers, we copy tlie following extracts from a lett<
df Tarlton W. Pleasants, of Virginia, recentl
published!
MIn the yp.tr 1798, 1 was a member of
Society in Richmond,railed, the ''Human
Society." Robert PlensuiUs'of Curies, ?vr
President ol'tin? Society.. The object (
J this association was, io conjunction with th
1 parent Society in Philadelphia, to aid i
abolishing the slave trad'-, and to assist n<
gro's who wre illegally held in bondage, 1
1 obtain tliuir rights m the Courts of Justice,
"1 have no recollection lirat Geii'Ti
Harrison was a member of the Riehmoti
! "Hurnuno Society;" but I have no d<?u!
this was the very Society of which lie was
member, about which so much has latter!
been said in the public journal-. I shoo
i have s'a'ed, that Gov. James Wood wr
Vice President of the Richmond Society.
The Italicised portions of the above extrac
from Gen. Harrison's circular, it is said, proi
him to be in principle opposed to slavery. II
. Southern friends reply that Gen. Washington ai
Mr. Jefferson were also in principle opposed
slavery, but that they were Presidents not le
safe or less acceptable to the slave-holding Stat
on that account. They say that no President, <
candidate for the Presidency, ought to be rcquin
to approve all the local policy or legislation of e
ery State, otherwise no man could be lound qu?
ified for the Presidency. All that ought to be r
quired of a .President in this respect, they say,
that he be disposed and feel bound, to let tl
States manage their local affairs in their own wa;
and this they say Gen, Harrison avows of hitnsc
in the very circular objected to, wlien he adin
that Congress has no power to interfere \vi
slavery in Kentucky, nor, of course, in any oth
State.
In a letter of Gen. Harrison's* dated Sept. 1
1822, and addressed to the Editor of die Inqui
itor, a paper then published in Ohio, whilst t]
General was a candidate for.re-election, after 1
! vote on the Missouri question, he says:
I believe that the existence of slavery
our country is the proateRt evil that we
present 1 e under; and I believe it to be tl
duty of the non-slavchnlding States to off r
! their si6terStates every inducement, and aff?
thfm.cvery facility, to get rid of this curse. B
lam equally convinced thai,vpon constitulio
al grounds, as those of expediency and propria
i? m? ,V
rn all the measures for the accomplishment of tk9
\ important object of emancipation must be begun
a and supported by the States holding the slaves, .
the Constitution having given no power to inter- ^
). fere in this domestic concern, without the consent
,e of those most interested; and every step which we
may take without their concurrence will assuredl'
ly jioet the chains which we icish to break.
Gen. Harrison did. also in-a public address, v
^ j some years since, expressed an opinion in favor
I i ef appropriating the surplus revenue to the cmancipation
and transportation of the slaves, witti
^ the concurrence of the slave-holding States*?and
his friends ask, ff the slave-holding States resolve (
j themselves to abolish slavery, would you have the
| President of the United States say it shall not be
n done ? All thev action in favor of which ^e has
|H expressed an opinion, is with the concurrence of
the slave-holding States.
c It is also sometimes alleged, as collateral
^ evidence of the abolitionism of Gen. Harrison,
tiiat the Emancipator exulted in his nomination
() fQt the Presidency. This, however, is not so.-?
j( I The Emancipator exulted in the defeat of Mr;
(( Clay, because he is a slave-holder, but not in the
! nomination of Gen. Harrison. We did not prej
' serve tlie number of the Emancipator in which
I ; the subject was discussed; but we have a very distinct
recollection tlrat it considered Gen. Harrison,
(> ' as a candidate, more objectionable to abolitionists
than even Mr. Van Buren, because his demonstrations
in favor of slavery (we think this was tfa* ..
expression) were both more recent and more dej
j cidcd than those of Mr. Van Buren.
We close the evidence with the following ex,tract
from a public address delivered by Gen. Hare
: rison, at Vineennos in die State of Indiana, in
1835:
o
n | " I have now,.fellow, Citizens, a few more
d words to say oik.ariothej\ subj *ct, and which
is, in my opinion, of more importance than
r any other that is now untie course of disciis- *
i. sion in uny part of tho Uujoii. 1 allude to
the societi'-s which have heeri formed, and
i. the movements of certain individual^ in
a some of the Si ales itt relation -to a portion of
n tl?" population in others. The conduct of
-these persons is lite mme dangerous because
v tneir ohjeel is masked under the garb ol disI
interestediless and benevolence, and their
if course vindicated bv arguments and p/opod.
sit ions which, io the abstract, no cine can
i deny. But, however fascinating may betho
;r dress wife which tneir schemes are presen,
s, fl*d to their feliow.cihp us, with what purity
u of intention they may have been for??.od and
t, .sustained, they will belbund mcarry in their
e iram mischiel to die whole Union, and hord
rors to a large* portion of i:, which it is pro
liable some of the projectors and many of
d their supporters have never though! of. Tnof
I! latter, the ties; in ihe s hes of evils that ara
n to spring Irom their source, are such as vou
rl have read of to have been perp -t rated on
-I lite fair- plains of Italy and Gaui by tlieScy.
h liiiaM hor-les of A die and Alaric ;and such . *
I, as most of you apprehended upon ih u me
n iftorable mglit when toe 'oina|iav\ I; and war- *
if 1 clulis ol the followers of Tecuniseh were ratn
; ti ng in \onr suhuibs. I regard not tiiedisd
avowals t.f .my *u?:h uiitiiiioir upon die pari^^, 4
c of the autno s of these s themes, smcy upon
il | the examination of the publications winch
i* nave been made, I'ney will la* found to cbif*
s tain the very fact and \ery argmnem which
u have been used if such would have b**en
o their object. I am certain that there is not
g iri tins assembly'one ol these d< lyd d men,..
it AftnJ thrl til 'To are lew w thin th" UturiuU of
ii -tun Slate. It there ;ir?- a , I wouJ t
> esily entreat I!r? -r11 to forbear, lo pause my
e ilicir career, and if M>ent? ly consider die
*. eoevrpciiee t,f jhoir conduct to the whole
n Uii'oii, aud to those lor wlins" h n-fit ihey
d profess to net. That the lafu<|f will he the
? victims of the weak, injudicious, presumptu.
I? oils. and UHConsiitunou.il efforts to serve
Ii diem, n thorough exuuetmtmn of the sul>j* ct
II must convince them. The struggle (and
i* Struggle there must he) may continence ^
l with horrors such as I hove d? scrib al, but it
n wll ?nd with more firrr.ly rivet.ng the uliaiii*,j
or in til" utter ex irpution of those whoso
J cause ihj y advocate.
! " Am I wrong, fi Uow.ej ize ,s, in npply~
i ing the terms we ik, pr< sumptuous, nnd un.
cons'iluiiori'*I to the measures < f tlmemany
I ? * t-?i? . ?.*n i
cjpators ( j\ migoi c.\.'iiii it;iiiuu win, t
Ihiiik. show l!ia; I am not. in the vindica'a
lion of the objects of a convention. whiefr
f> was la-ely held in one of the towns in Ohio,
IS which I saw in a newspaper, it was ?ai(J that
nothing more was intended than to produce
e a state of public feeling which woulu lead to'
11 an amendment of the Constitution authorizing
the ahobtion of slavery in the United
? States. Now, can an amendment ol the
j Constitution be t(T c cd willioul the consent
; oft lie Southern States ] What, then, is the*
''' pro|.s:t<?n to be submitted to them? It is
')! 11 ii>:'The present provisions of h"Gons:itu>
:| lien secure to you the right (a right which
l.v you held la-fore i' was rntlde, which you havo
'u' never given up) o manage your domestic
,s concerns in your own way ; hit as we are
convinced dial you do not manage tie in'
ts properly, ue want you to put in the hand#
i-e j ol the G neral Government, in the councils
is j of which wo have; the majority, tin C;ig rol
,d ! over tlio.se matters, the elfet of which will
to I he virtually to transfer ll?o power from you'
ss into our hands.
es 41 Again, in sogr.o of the S'ates. and in*
or sections of ohms, the black popu'a ion far
;ti ' exceeds that of the while*. Some of hee
v. maneipalors proposenn immediate abolition.'
d_ What is the proposition, then, as it regards
e.. these States, and parts o' States, but the al..
is tentative of amalgamation vv;|l? the blacks/
ye j or an exchange ol snu ijions with them } 1$
^ there any man of common sense who does*
;lf j n"' heli"VH ihat thi: emancipated.blacks, be^
i ir rr ?? iiir.nl v. will mt! insist nnnn a full na.
?w " F VT" V - ?- I , ?
th li' ijw'Jutt ol political riiih:s with th" whites ; ^
er and. when possessed of these, liicy will not
contend (or a full share of social right a'so 7
a XVtint hut the extremity of weakness and
" ? t
s- holy co-Id induce any one to tr^nk tl-at fcucli
tje jironosi ions as those could be hs ened in by
iis a people so intelligent as the Southern
Sates? Further: The emancipators generally
declare that ii is ihejr intention to
3" 1 treet ile ir oi>jecl (although their nctg itotr
fj,, irmhci the assertion) by no other means
to 'hau by convincing t!>e slaveholders ;hat the
rd immcditt'c emancipation Qflfee slaves is
ut
n- * We have not the Address at hand, or wc
y, would quote his words. '
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