Ever since the nomination of Gen. Harrison by the Harrisbugh Convention, we have witnessed a constant and malignant effort by the Van Buren leaders, not only to deprive him of his well earned fame as a soldier and a civilian, but to fasten on him the charge of being an abolitionist—an accusation equally odious and untrue.2 We need not be surprised at these effort they have made;—first, because it is easier to attack than to defend; and secondly, because they cannot defend at all. There was a time in this State, when the policy of Mr. Van Buren was advocated by his friends, and the charges against him repelled, if not with facts and arguments, at least with zeal and apparent confidence.—But now, when the people point to the disorders of the currency, they are told that Gen. Harrison was defeated at Tippecanoe!—if they complain of the reduction of prices and labor, they are told he rode Jo. Davies’ horse, instead of his own!3—if they speak of the extravagant expenditures of the Government, they are told he was not at the river Raisin!4—if they complain of the boundless corruption in high places, they are told he was not at battle of the Thames!—and if yet dissatisfied, the people (suffering under the misrule, corruption, experiments and extravagance of the Government) should turn their thot’s[thoughts] towards Gen. Harrison, they are told that he is in favor of selling white men into slavery and of emancipating the slaves!5

There is, to our minds, proof enough even in these miserable evasions, of the weakness of a cause which cannot bear even the advocacy of its friends. But the friends of Gen. Harrison, conscious of their vantage ground, are willing to examine his life and conduct, forming, as they do, a part of the history of his country. They appeal to his votes, his speeches, and his letters, as proof of what he has done, and what opinions he has entertained;—they show from his own words that these are his opinions still; and doing so, they confidently rest on the justice of the American people.