The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-23

men Of Office and party, who governed By
! the principles of John Randolph, to witt the five
loaves and two fishes, seem TO have their carr
constantly directed to the bell at head quarters
to indicate how the little ones shall ring.
| But to return, have but to remark, that my
anti-federallsm has been tempered by my long
service in the employ of my country-and my
frequent oaths to support her general govern
ment; bnt | am as ready to resist the encroach-
mcnts on State rights, ! am to support the le-
Ultimate authority of the Executive, or the ge-
neral government
Now, fellow-citizens, have very little more
to say, except to cXhort you to go on, peacefully
if you can-and you can-to effect that reform,
upon which your hearts are fixed What Gala
mitous consequences will ensue to the world, il
you fail! If you should fail, how the tyrants OF
Europe will rejoice. If you fall how will the
friends of freedom, scattered, like the few plan
cts Of heaven, over the world, mourn, when they
see the beacon light of liberty, extinguished-
the light whose rays they had hoped would yet
penetrate the whole benighted world.
If you triumph, it will only be done with vi
GLANCE and attention. Our personal friends, but
political enemies remind each other, that otter
nal vigilance is the price of Liberty" While
journeying thitherward, observed this motto
waving at the head of a procession, composed OF
the friends of the present administration From
tins inferred, that discrimination was necessary
son, Madison and Monroe, the eye of the People
was turned to the right source-to the admins
tration. The administration, however, now say
to the People, EEY GU must not watch us, but you
must watch the Wings! Only do that, and all is
safe!' But that, my friends, is not the way
The old fashioned republican rule, is TO watch
the government. See that the government does
not acquire too much power Keep check upon
yonr rulers. Do this, and liberty is safe. And
if your efforts should result successfully, and
should be placed in the Presidential chair, shall
invite recurrence to the old republican rule, to
watch the administration, and to condemn all its
acts which are not in accordance with the strict
est mode of republicanism. Our rulers, fellow
citizens, must be watched. Power is insinuating.
Few men are satisfied with less power than they
are able to procure. If the ladies, whom I see
around me, were near enough to hear me, and of
sufficient age to give an experimental answer,
they would tell you, that no lover is ever satish
ed with the first smile of his mistress.
Itisnecessary, therefore, to WATCH not the political
opponents of the administration, but the administration
ITSELF and to that it keeps within the bounds of the
Constitution and the laws of the land. The Executive
of the Union has immense power do mischief, if he
sees fit exercise that power. He may PROSTATE the
country Indeed this country has been already pros
tratcd. 1t has already fallen ros pure republication,
to monarchy in spirit if not in name A celebrated
author defines monarchy TO be that form of government
which the Executive has at once the command OF
the army the execution of the laws and tlescontrol of
the purse. Now how is ii will our present Ekeentivei
The Constitution gives TO him the control of tie army,
and the execution of the laws He only awaits the
possession Of the purse to make him monarch Not
Monarch simply, with the power of England but a
Monarch with powers of the Autocrat of Russia. For
Gbbon says that individual possessessed Of these
powers twill, unless closely watched, make himself
despot."
he passage of the Sub Treasury bill will give to the
President accumulation OF power-the single add
tonal power that the Constitution withholds from him
and the possession Of wiiyl will nuke hiIa Monarch
The catastrophe 10 eeaein should be, and eau be, pre-
/ vented by vigilance. uifon audi perseverance,.
fssWe will do il, y resounded from twenty Thousand
| voices, sswe VIII do it'll
In conclusion, then fellow eitizt ms, would impress
| il upon all-Democrais and Whss-give up the idea o.
watching each oter and dircctyOur eye to tbe Govern
Do that and your children and your cllildFens
children, tic latest posterty viii be as happy and as
| free as you and your fathers hive been.
At the close of this speech, the vast multitude gave
"three time three" with unanimty and heartnes:
which spoke eloquently the unanmtty of their senti
the force, truth and beauty ofthe speech, ant
the WORTH merit and virtue of the speaker.l