The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-21
For the Pilot.
VAN buren, DEMOCRATS.

Who are the bsasted Democrats oil our land
They are the blind followers of the reckless and
ruinOus administration Of Martin Van Buren,
And whs are they? They are,
LIST. The host of ofice-holders, at high sala
ries, who, like the Egyptian locust, are devas-
tating the land, and eating out the substance OF
the people
3D. The same horde, embraced in body Of
contractors, agents, SIC. who receive their pay In
gold and Silrer, sell it at premium, and pay
their debts in paper, which they proclaim as
worthless.
5. The disturbers of peaceable assemblages OF
the people, whilst their lips are contaminated
with the cry of Democracy and Equal Rights
4. The foul accusers OF their opponents as abo
litionists, whilst they support man who adVo-
Gated the right of negroes to vote, and who saw
nothing wrong in servants and Slares giving ties
timony against the officers Of our gallant navy
5. The friends of a candidate for the Presl-'
~ency, who recommended a standing army Of
200, 900 men, to overawe the people, and aid him
in perpetuating power in the hands Of the Exc
eutive and transferring it to his successor.
6. The spendthrifts of the public money, who
could not conduct the affairs of the nation fer
less than forty millions of dollars in one year,
whilst that OF a preceding administration, de-
nounced as wasteful and extravagant, cost only
| one third that sum-becauss it was necessary
for the former to 'divide the spoils" among their
friends, agreeably to promise.
7. The members of the old ultra federal par
ty-thas party which originated a gag law to 81
Ience investigation-and which now uses threat:
of personal violence, and occasionally, when
darkness affords them protection, resort to club
law, for the same purpose.
s. The fdlsifers of the authentic history and
glory of their own country, and the denouncers,
as false, of every fact, though plain as daylight,
which has been urged against their candidate,
whilst the truth has no abiding place with them
g. The friends Of mobs and personal violence,
as suitable weapons to oppose open and manly
discussion, as may be proved by reference to the
columns of the Republican, whose editor recon-
mended the destruction of the building in which
the late Bank Of the United States in this city
transacted their business, and cnjoins upon tn
blind followers Of the party to meet their oPPo-
neats at the polls with ''unglovcd hands"
TO- The forgers OF 'ECirculars," with names
Of respectable Wings attached thereto, as was
the case at Columbus, Ohio; willis. at the same
time they denounced professor "Holland's life Of
Van Buren, as Wing forgery, until Van Buren,
himself certified to its authenticity.
IL. The pensisncd editors Of the Administers
| ton, who necessarily and falsely alarH THEN
partisans with criss of fraudulent voting, p
"spurious tickets and foul ballot boxes, THAI
they may, like the burglar, who is the first t.
cry ''stop thief" commit those immoral acts anG
escape under cover of the dust they themselve:
throw into the eyes of the ignorant and credu
lous.
We might greatly extend this catalogue, but
in all conscience, it is long enough. Examine,
you have been so often mised and deceived, and
you viii find it true to the letter.
Why, then, will not the honest and rejecting
cease to aid such party, and come out fsr their
country?
| Row is the allotted time. Separate yourselves
from the wicked. Break the CALLING chains OF a
faction, bent upon running the country, to glut
their own avarice and love Of power.
Com: out from among the era doors,
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