The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-18
TO AMOS KENDALL.
No. ;.


SIR,-Were it possible to arrive at your real
state Of feelings by any thing you may say,
should be led to suppose that the Conventions by
whom General Harrison nominated, have
given you much pain, because they did not think
proper to issue an address, and with view oil
relieving you from the exquisite agony with
which YOU appear to be afflicted; lest you may
go off in an aromatic, will tell you what pre-
sumo vese the reasons which influenced them,
and ia so doing, pray leave to assure you, that
only give utterance to my own views, not
deeming it at all necessary to consult any one
upon the subject
You are aware that General Harrison is well
known to the people of this country. With his
military exploits, well as civil acts, all are
familiar, who acquainted with our history
from 1894, up to the period o his retiring from
Congress The public journals, as also his bio
graphy, have long since heralded forth his opin-
ions upon every measure OF any Importance to
the public. Why then should the nominating
conventions burthen his coantrymen with re-
petition of detail of his principles and views.
Sure there occasion for 1t, as his senti-
ments are so well known, as to have become
species of household goods. And, indeed, if they
had not been so, the Indifferent manner in which
former pledges and promises, made by the friends
of Gen. Jackson, were redeemed, was OF itself
sufficient to deter them from following an exam
pie which appears only to have been set to de-
of the promises and pledges prodigally made'
Can you point me to a single measure of the
government for the last eleven years that may
be truly called real reform? If you can, ana
ready to confess that you the only man in this
nation competent to make the discovery. All
the reforms that am aware of having been made,
consist in the dismissal of good men from office,
to make room for hungry ofice-seeking vampires,
like yourself; the destruction of the credit Of the
country; the palsying of enterprise; the impair
ment of confidence; the decrease of labor nd the
depreciation of the value of its reward the stag
nation of commerce; the curtailment of mechan-
cal and manual employment; war upon lifelong
established institutions of the country; the eo-
pardizing of the appreciation of almost every
species Of property-and what is still more de-
interchangeable government, by its mean subser-
viency to bad men, has become the patron of
swindlers and defaulters. If these be reforms,
then the two last administrations have been pro-
life of good deeds. But
Ddbh Deus his quoque .tfllenl.
The other play thing, which was held up, to
attract the attention of children of larger
growth, was contained in the talismanc word
Retrenchtment-Aye, yetrenchnent of eXpcndi-
lures, it was proclaimed from the housetops-
from by-ways and highways, would be Of
the manifold blessings which was to crown the
glorious event of Gen Jackson's election-and
MIR. Martin Van Buren, was to tread in the foot
sir, do enlighten lae with detail of the hume
rous expenses that have been retreached. Have
the officers of the government been decreased?
No-they have been greatly multiplied. Have
the number of clerks been reduccd9 We were
told that there were great many useless ones
under Mr.. Adams administration, who were to
be dis pensed with; but instead of the number be-
ing reduced they have been greatly augmented,
and instead of the people being relieved of their
onerous burthens-instead of the economical
government that tcaS to be, carrying on the af-
fairs of the nation fer less amount, the peo-
pie promised, the expenses have been tri-
plicated. The ertTnvagont administration ofthe
prodigol John Quincy adams, cost the people
Of this nation, the enormous sum OF thirteen mil
lions of dollars in year, whereas that of the
saring, economical, Martin Fan Buren,, in the
same length of time, was carried on for about
THIRTY-NINE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. Is this the
retrenchment expected by the people? If it is,
they understand the import of the term, as did a
distinguished British general, who wrote home
to his government from Holland, that he was
<fddodnci7lg 6dcktcdrdS."
Ii, in the discharge of those arduous duties of
the department you have recently retired
from, your time was too much engaged in devil |
sing ways and mems to defraud its contractors,
or to withhold their Just demands, to read those
letters Of Gen. Harrison in which his views and |
principles were so clearly stated, now that your
netc location of fabricating slanlers and false |
hoods will afford you much patient leisure, be-
seech you to devote few hours to their perusal |
Should you do so, hat.er myself you wilt be |
that the Old Chief has saved the Con-
vention the trouble, and relieved them of the |
necessity of making known the Eeprinciplcs"
which 'swould control his administration, if |
elected" Let me conjure you, as a friend, to |
read and inform YOURSELF as it NAV TeRere uo1t |
from the awkward position in which YOU have
SO unfortunately placed yourself, of being igno-
rant upon matters of deep moment to your peace
Of mind, and thus enable you, for once in your
life, to wear the senlblance Of. frar,kness, vir-
Tue which, l fear, has been an alien to your
BOSOM ever since you touched the accursed price
'f your ingratitude and treachery towards that
peerless man, whom Americans delight to
honor. ANTHONY WAYNE.