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President Harrison On Abolition

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
May
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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While uttering these sentiments his countenance wore a playful smile, but suddenly it assumed a sterner cast, as with increased energy of manner and voice, he enquired: "But how could a Virginian, who sees in every thing around him the reminiscences of his youth be an abolitionist? How could a Virginian bred and born on the Lower James River, bred in a house noted for some memoriable incidents in the Revolutionary struggle be an abolitionist? How could a Virginian whose sires received many distinguished tokens of confidence and esteem at the hands of the virtuous old commonwealth be an abolitionist? How could a Virginian be so irreverent to the ashes of his honored ancestors, as to be an abolitionist? Could such a Virginian, be called an abolitionist by another Virginian and that other a true-hearted Virginian and sound to the core? The thing was impossible. - The besom could not be freed from taint that harbored such a suspicion.