The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-29
FAILURE AT BLADENsBURG, MD.

After all is said and the worst done, it has
turned on t to be perfect failure. The demo-
cratic loco-foco meeting which has been sound
in,r through our ears for the last week, has Jest
terminated; and were to tell you how many
acres of ground were convened by the meeting
of locos, it might astonish the natlvesj there
fore, | will give you somewhere about the num-
bers From the best judges that Were ON the
ground where they assembled to hear the orators
of the day, speaking within bounds 200. Two
hundred at the outside, some say, one hundred
and fifty, exclusive of the honorables who adj
dressed the crowd From what can be accu-
rately arrived at there were not over sixty voters
of Maryland on the spot. The majority OF the
meeting was composed of citizens of the Dis
trict-one third of whom were wings who went
as spectators.
The honorables who addressed this audience
were Col. r. M. johnson, the other was Col.
G.. III. Hopkins, of Va, who has turned about
and wheeled about, equal to Jim Crow-the
conservative sub-trcasurer, who, after using his
exertions to put down this ruinous project-has
hoped over to Van, and supports his eXecrable
measures the other, the famous Doctor Duncan
the Ohio abolitionist, who abominateS the
murderous practice of keeping human beings in
abiect slavery; the that is so hostile to UNI
conditional bondage, his education, Sc, taught
him to have more constitutional sympathy Tor
Sambo than us southern folks. The other, MIR.
Colquet, the invincible Georgian, who will have
leave of absence from his own State next fall;
and many others of the Van guard band, who
are the champions of the independent treasury,
and the advocates of the northern man with
southern principles.
After all was said, and the great guns were
fired, not one shout could they raise.
The Ohio abolitionist, DIR. Duncan, was met
on the spot with the subloined hand-bill, headed,
sSWho is Dr. Duncan" This gentleman said
4. L., .Y,1sv lnnl h1,p tr,.t
lated it. and he would show that he had been
dashed. Yes, presume he could speak for him
self his own conscience was dashed to the quick;
for the impotence he possessed to appear III the
midst of shareholders, entertaining such feel
ings as he does for the slave holding States. He
had better be cautious how he treads upon the
land, which, to use his own language, the ven
gcance of God is upon. Yours, p.
The following is copy of the hand-bill al
luded to by our correspondent
WHO IS DIR. DUNCAN2
HEAR, YE VOTERS WHO HOLD SLAvEs!-An
abolitionist lccturing the people of Maryland!
Dr. Duncan says the thought is horrible, that
one man should hold property in anothcr-that
he should hold him in involuntary and unlimit-
ed slavery, in unconditional bondage in this land
of liberty! Three millions of the human race
in unconditional bondage! He says, 'sthere is
no man living who is more deadly hostile to
slavery than am" He says, "step from the
free State into the slave State, and the anger of
God and the vengeance of heaven, seems to rest
upon every thing upon which you cast your
eycsm F'Slavery," says Dr. Ducan, ''is an evil
which involves in its present possession, as in
its future operations, crime, fraud, theft, rob
berry, murder, and DEATH"
What say yc, Maryland Shareholders VIII
you hear man who calls you murdcrers, thieves,
and robbers? VIII you suffer him to cross your
thresholds, who pronounces "curse on the heads
of all who sustain slavery" And yet he is
political emissary, to deliver lectures among
YOU See 10 it, before frebrands, poison, and
death, are scattered among your
(See DIR. 'Duncan's letter, of September Is,
1888, published in Madisonian, 23d Feb, 1889,
and in the National lntelligencer, June 10, 1910.
The Globe refused Hon. Mr.. Stanly room to
publish it, May 2S, 1Sd09