The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-01


one papers that had circulated the falsehood, and
thus whatever influence his name was calculat-
ed to exert, however small it might be, (and
from his official position it might be more than
as private Individually it would be thrown into
the wrong scale.
HARD PUT TO IT.-Those opponents Of
Gen. Harrison, who clamor about his vote to sell
Migrants and persons who have been convicted
of crime and are unable to pay the fine and
costs, manifest the utmost contempt for their own
party. There is scarce a State in the Union
where such laws did not exist before the cree
ton of penitentiaries, and in many of them they
exist now. But is it not plain, that this appeal
is to Migrants and conyicts, for none else but
such as these to be operated on by the law,
and is it not directly telling the people that they
are Migrants and convicts, when their orators
charge that Gen. Harrison proposed to sell white
men? Admit all that charged, and all that can
be said is, that he proposed to make Migrants and
convicts work instead of permitting them to steal
and live in idleness. But correspondent of the
Richmond Wing quotes the following, as an ex-
tract from the statute of Virginia. and one of our
own correspondents writes to us that there is
similar provision statutes. Why do
not these disclaimers set to work to repeal these
wise provisions? VIII any of the candidates for
the State Legislature set out upon the principle
that he is the patron of rogues and vagrantsa
The extract is as follows:
| 81 had intended merely to state that there was
a law in Virginia by which white men can be
sold. 1 allude to the vagrant law. For the ben
eft of MIR. Richie, win make an extract from
| it.
"And if, on due examination, it shall appear
that such person or persons are within the true
description of vagrant, such magistrate shall,
by warrant, under his hand, order such vagrant
| or Migrants to be delivered to some one of the
overseers the poor of the district or corporation
in which such Migrants shall have been apprehen-
ded, to be employed in labor not exceeding three
months, and by the said sverseer of the poor hired
kout for the best wages that can be procured, to
be applied to the use of the poor. If any such
vagrant shall, during the time of such service,
run away from the person so employing them, he
or they shall be dealt with in the same manner
as other runaway servants"
81 RAscALITY OF PosTS4AsrERs- There has
been SO much looseness on the part of Kendalls
(now Nileso deputies, that, as Mr.. Van Buren,
once said5 ''our sufferings is intolerable," and
we may reasonably calculate on having them
" more" and ''mostn intolerable, before the Pre-
sidential campaign is over. Without the extern
sion and suppression, which this engine can
reign is nearly at close.
Hence it is of great Importance satisfactory
answers should be promptly given to the two
questions hereunto appended
!. Do not the post-ofice laws require every
postmaster, before he enters upon the duties of
his Office, 30 take an oath &C honestly, faithfully,
and inpartially to discharge his duty ? II they
do,
2. Has. not the administration OF that oath
been, for several years purpesely dispensed with,
to enable postmasters, without perjuring them
selves, (and, otherwise, they consider it their
duly as "hirelings'o expressly to bring that de-
partment, with all it's extensive machinery
s'into conflict with the freedom of electlons,o
and more efficiently into the service of the adj
ministration ?
The Penany.-The New York American of Saturday
has postscript, thus:--
Peter Bmthelemy Louis de Bouillon convicted of
gross libel the Rev. Mr. verren were this day sem
fenced by the Recorder.
LIE Douhoh 10 one years imprisonment IN the Peni-
Tertiary, and fine of two hundred and fifty dollars
Barthelemy to nine months imprisonment in the Peni-
tentiary and fine of two hundred and fifty dollars
both to stand committed until the fine is paid.
Colon's sentence put off until the next TERM in
| consequence of afhdavits in exculpation.
| Mr.. B,Tton.-Ths inimitable comedian is now per-
| forming limited engagement in New York, to the de-
light of crowded houses. II will in all probability be the
last opportunity the New Workers will have of enjoy
ing his sterling acting, which, free from buoonery
never fails to elicit the hearties laughter by its quiet
and natural humor Mr. Burton's new theatre in Phil
adcipbia progresses rapidly the arrangements pre-
paratory to its opening demand his return to that c
y Immediately upon the termination of his engagement
in New York.
Z. NJ. Chdse-This Canadian patriot, whose term of
Imprisonment in the Canandaigua jail for violation of
our neutrality laws, expired Sunday last, says the
Rochester Democrat passed through this city yesterday,
In apparent good health, although quite weak from his
long confinement He speaksin high terms of the gen.
emany and kind treatment he received from the Sher