The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-01
vOL. 1...NO. 1872.


tious: at the close of never equalledl political
contestant at the initiation OF an adGlnistra-
ton brought into power on the pledged Princi-
pies of reform, not merely of practices which
The successful party has charged to have been
abuses Of existing power, but also OF those
fundamental errors of the Constitution itself,
which experience has shewn to require correc-
ton. Now is the time and here are the means
presented where and by which men of talent
heretofore in poWer,but now in defeat ,nay and
ought, by every consideration Of patriotism, to
hold those 10 whom the destinies of the country
will be committed for the next four years to a
strict redemption of the pledges of political vir-
tue and constitutional reform which have been
so freely and so fully made Whatever honest
differences of opinion may exist in reference
tofhe existing administration, enlightened men
OF both parties know and lament that the short
lapse OF time from the institution OF the govern
ment has shown great and vital errors to exist
in the constitution ITSELF errors not to have been
foreseen by even the wise men who framed it;
but developed only by experience and even
now requiring the best minds and the purest
hearts 10 be engaged in their rectiication.-
Here then, is a common field on which those
minds and hearts should meet to labor in the
work of reform; that the Republic may, if pos
sible, be made perpetual; by SO repairing the
were On a rock, never to be shaken by the
| fierce winds of revolution, nor undermined by
| the secret workings of any set of men how
| wicked soeYer, to whose hands in all future
| time, il may be committed by the inscrutable
| designs Of Providence.
Let me, add Messrs. Editors, in conclusion, for
the better information the public and their
greater assurance of the faithfuness with which
il would appear. that this work intends tocarry
out its avowed purposes, that specimen
number accompanies the Prospectus, contain
| ing al least two articles calculated to exhibit
| its character, and which | will add, appear
| fully to sustain IFS promises. One IS entitled
| 'Revolution in disguise, or the process of in
fusiag new principles into Constitution of
| Government without changing its form" The
other Review of treatise on Currency and
Banking, by Condy Racquet, L. L. d. 1t is
| admitted in reference to the former of those
articles that at time like the present,
''When trifes light as air
Are, TO the jealous, combinations strong as
proofs of holy writ"
The title sounds very like partisan bugle to
the array Of its followers for the fierce onset;
but be not alarmed, or if alarmed read on,
and YOUR alarm will soon subside, i'll mistake
not, into quite philosophic repose, if not into
a feeling approaching 10 active disgust that any
man at a time like this, when the political
clemens are melting with fervent heat, could
be so provokingly cool as not even TO mention
the name of either Van Buren, or Harrison,
but calmly TO keep the even tenor Of his way. in
his philosophical analysis Of the orstitution
and his inquiry into its practical administration
absurd condits-to the present hour.
1t were impossible for writer to have been
, more dispassionate ad he lived in the succeed
ing age to the present. in his abusive structures
: on the existing and the past administrations
: while bis searching remarks involve the who'll
series of administrations in greater or les
departure from the principles of the Consitu
ton
The Review of Mr.. Raguet's Treatise will
be bon bouche for the most delicate palate Of
the best friend of the hard money if not of the
Sub Treasury system.
1t may be well in conclusion TO add that it is
suruised, though not certainly known, that the
leading contributor, ifno the Editor-in-chiefof
this work, will be distinguished ornament of
our Judiciary, already so well known through
the columns of the Literary Messenger" as an
able and elegant Essayist. z.