The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-15
REMARKS OF JUDGE HANSON before the Conven.
ton in Baltimore. April 10th. 1910.


1t has become apparent, to the great bulk of
the American people, that the present admins
tration of their government is not fitted to I'M
crease or preserve the blessings and privileges of
free and intelligent nation; to foster the pur-
suits of laborious, inventive, and spirited Popu
lation; that it is not in accordance with the ge-
MUS, past history, or future destinies of vast
republican empire; that its principles and meas
res, are as il-caculated to consolidate the credit
strength and resources of State sovereignties, as
they are to bind together and cement confs1aeerr
alton; that it has failed to engender or keep alive
veneration for the constitution, or to cherish an
unalienable love for the Union; that it has, on
the contrary, by incessant and unrelenting
saults upon capital, good faith and enterprise;
disunited the interest, and therby torn assunder
the good feelings, which bind men to each other;
that it has destroyed that salutary confidence
which is essential to this commonwealth, and all
the communities that compose it; that it has, in
fine, chilled the hearts and the hopes Of the poor
and shut the hands of the rich. 1t is, therefore,
that we hail the approaching wing national con-
vention to be held in the city of Baltimore on the
9TH day of May next, as an unerring harbinger
TO the coming of better things; that we greet the
numerical power, Composed as it is of all class
esq and to which the intelligence from every
quarter, daily adds rank to rank, and squadron to
squadron, perfect manifestation of the
thorough and sweeping change in the conduct of
public affairs, resolved upon by the people. We
rejoice, that our fellow citizens (since what is
past cannot be recalled are so far benefited by
present suffering, as to be awakened to sense
Of impending evils, more serious and calamitous,
and of which few can fail to perceive @the inevi
table ruin" Surely, our administration presents
us to the whole world, nation of contrarie-
ties and contradictions; we are held up to other
nations in every fantastic and antagonist position
that people can be regarded; our principles and
our practice are perfect antipodes to each other;
theories, distractions, solecisms and paradoxes,
make up the sum of our political economy; while
political empires have driven from their moor
ings the once fast anchored axioms of the con-
stitution; a constitution to which, Washington
had affixed his seal, and given verify by expe-
rience.
Our perversions and absurdities, indeed, almom
afford plausbiity to the assertion of the ancient
Philosopher, that there once existed race of
men of conformation entirely different from
those of our generation and who shall undertake
to deny the possibility, that at some distatn, era
when history shall again be handed down by al
legory and tradition, that people who are per-
petually moving one way and looking another,
shall not be represented as race oil men who
carried their faces behind them, and turned their
backs upon themselves? So singular is the in
congruity between words and actions,
that no disinterested spectators of the pres
emit age, can fail to be struck with amaZement
by professions constantly at variance with con-
duct; with results Numerically opposite those
protested to be intended; amt o. o. causes stimulat
ing effects, between the beginning and end of
which, no connecting consequences ever existed
Vain. however would be the attempt, to enumer-
ate all the inconsistency of those who deal with
the obliquity of partizan tacticians, instead of
applying the established principles Of statesmen
The poor man is 10 be enriched, by re.
duciBg the wages of labor; the rich are to
be impoverished by the boarding OF their
cold the products of the earth, instead oil
being cultured by The sweat of the brow,
are to wither and die amidst idleness, hum
rer and desolation; all surplus produce is to
rot in the eranery of the Farmer, for the
want of markets, furnished by the employ
ments of artisans, and laborers, fisheries, fac
tories, workshops, roads and canals; The
condition of the country is TO be improved,
by arrestng all improvement; debts are TO
be paid by the humiliation oil property.
The interest on loans, is to be discharged
by borrowing from the lenders of the capt.
tai: roId and silver are to represent, in
stead of being represented, by paper and
credit; and whilst the precious metals are
promised in abundance they are again bu-
ried beneath the face Of the earth, in the
vaults of banks--the strong boxes oil avari-
cious thrift, or melted down for the gold
services of plate which adorns the Presiden
tal dinner table, of the very republican ma
bob in the palace at Washington.
Domestic productions are to be encoura--
ged by bounties upon foreign fabrics; and
whilst there is to he abundance of poverty,
to furnish plenty of rags, readily converted
into Hieroglyphic shinplasters, and!these are
10 be the only manufactures, which are
sure TO flourish, with or without tariff
with or without foreign use or domes-
tic consumption unless indeed the treasu-
nv notes of the Government should enter
the list as competitor and thus clear
ly demonstrate the financial ability Of the
head of the treasury, and with the aid Of
Mr.. Buchanan, be (eaptal Old Federalist)
home markets are to shut up, and all labor
to be rewarded at penny a day, as in Chi
ma and in Cuba.
mAmidst these anomalies, all Banks are to
be put down by the destruction of one,
whilst in the place of that one, thousands
are to be erected and fostered, by way OF
nroving that none ought ever TO have exist