The North Carolinian

General Harrison and Abolition.

Silence on this subject is treason; treason to the South—treason to our firesides—our families. Party management—party zeal—and party excitement are sometimes excusable; but when a party of Southern gentlemen, proud of their intelligence and proud of their country, become so intoxicated with the madness of party as to pander to the disgusting caprices of fanaticism, to yield their own well-grounded predilections and give a triumph to those who ridicule and abuse and endanger the institutions they advocate—When Southern gentlemen convened in a Northern city so far forget their homes as to allow every principle to be buried in that miserable idea of 'availability' in selecting a candidate—then—then, we say tis party madness—party desperation. 'This, we think, is the melancholy history of the Harrisburg Convention. Harrison was nominated, in our candid opinion, not because he was the choice or the favorite of that body—but because its majority were immovably determined not to nominate a slave holder, and because Harrison had said and done much to conciliate the favor of abolitionists. Are we asked for proof? Are we charged with making partizan assertions to answer partizan purposes? In reply—we beg candid attention to the following extracts to satisfy any honest inquirer after truth.

We charge it upon the Opposition that the nomination of Harrison is claimed by the abolitionists as a triumph. In proof of this read the following: —

From Garrison's Liberator.

"Nomination of Gen. Harrison.—The National Whig Convention, assembled at Harrisburg on the 6th inst., nominated William Henry Harrison for the office of President of the United States. On the first and second ballot, the vote stood for Henry Clay, 103; for Harrison, 94; for William Scott, 57. On the third ballot, the vote was for Harrison, 148: for Clay, 90; for Scott, 16. All the slave states went for Clay. We regard this as another important sign of the times—as a signal defeat of the 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 be permitted to fill the Presidential office in this republic."

From the Emancipator, the organ of the Abolitionists in New York.

"The Harrisburg Convention.—Well, the agony is over," and Henry Clay is—laid upon the shelf. And no man of ordinary intelligence can doubt or deny 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 a great 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 O'Connell hear it—let the slaves hear it—A slave holder is incapacitated for the Presidency of the United States. The reign of slaveocracy is hastening to a close.—The rejection of Henry Clay by the Whig Convention, taken in connection with all the circumstances, is one of the heaviest blows the monster slavery has received in this country."
We charge it upon the Opposition that Harrison has said and done much to conciliate the favor of abolitionists. In proof of this, read the following extract from his address to the people of Ohio, when a candidate in 1822.

"TO THE PUBLIC."

"Fellow-Citizens:—Being called suddenly home to attend my sick family, I have but a moment to answer a few of the calumnies which are in circulation concerning me."

"I am accused of being friendly to slavery. From my earliest youth to the present moment I have been the ardent friend of human liberty. At the age of eighteen I became a member of an Abolition Society, established in Richmond, Virginia; the object of which was to ameliorate the condition of Slaves, and procure their freedom. by every legal means. The obligations which I then came under I have faithfully performed. I have been the means of liberating many slaves, but never placed one in bondage. I deny that my votes in Congress, in relation to Missouri and Arkansas, are in the least incompatible with these principles."

The Opposition of the South affect to call the above a forgery! Why does Harrison maintain such stubborn silence? He knows if it be a forgery.

Let him come out on this subject.