The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-01

lndeed1 my Fellow citizens, haSnot tins AZ
ready come upon us' Do we not see that the
Executive has already become the first power
in the Government, around which all the others
revoive Do we not see that his influence pc
netrates every part of our system-that society
and government, federal, local and municipal,
is divided in relation to his will, and that the
most insignificant offices are conferred or with
held, even by the local and state authorities, as
it may or may not be acceptable to the President
of the United States ?
Do we not see that almost every measure of
legislation is made to depend upon the Executive
will, and that the whole energies of the govern
ment are brought to bear upon the Presidential
election, to the prejudice and neglect of other bu
siness before Congress? Do we not find that the
most important measures are supported or oppo-
sed in reference to the bearing they may have
on the Presidential candidate9 And is this not
the inevitable consequence of permitting the Elk
ecutive to use the whole power and patronage Of
the government to reward partizan printers and
partizan members of Congress-? Is it not mel
ancholy to see members of Congress neglecting
their public business and wasting, not only days
and weeks, but months, in contesting the seats of
members, more in reference to the election Of
printer than to the public interests? Is it not a
melancholy prostitution of official station, when
members of Congressman who aspire to be con-
sidered distinguished for intelligence and public
virtue, make it business to distribute, under
their frank, thousands and tens of thousands of
the Globe, filled with the falsehoods Of PEN
stoned hbeler, so deeply interested in deceiving
the people?
l beg you to remember, that with us it is
matter of little Importance who administers the
government, so long as the people preserve due
control over their public servants. But if you
re-elect Mr.. Van Buren,, what follows? He comes
in as the party candidate; the party who placed
him in power will again nominate his successor,
all the questions which they have already made;
all the machinery which they have put in motion
all the corruPtions which they have already
Practiced-all the neglect of public business will
be repeated under the sanction of the popular
voice, and the result will be that the public vir-
tue will be subdued, and it will be difficult in
deed to rally upon any other effort to reform the
government. The success of Mr. Van Buren,
will be triumph of the Executive and party or
gaRization, over the people. Whereas, the cleo
ton of Gen. Harrison will be a triumph of the
people themselves, who will indicate their own
intelligence and public virtue by demonstrating
that all the power and patronage of the govern
ment, in the hands of the most adroit political
tacticians, have failed to secure Mr.. Van Buren's
reelection. Gen. Harrison will have no long
string of party dependents; he will not be cam
didate for reelection nor will he be the partizan
Of any one who is The great measures of the
Tariff and of the Currency, will be taken up and
discussed, in reference to their bearing upon the
public interest, and decided without the undue
control which their decision may be supposed to
have upon any aspirant for the Presidency. As
it now is, members of Congress do not ask them
selves how any measure before them may affect
the interest of their constituents. They ask how
will their votes affect the interest of their party
and thus it will continue to be, so long as the
President shall administer the affairs of govern
ment first to secure his own reelection, and then
10 dppOiHI sutCtGsOT. ohOuIQ we elect Gen
Harrison, we will have accomplished this great
Reform.
We have therefore, On the one side, every thing
o lose by the re-electicn of Mr. Van Busen, and
IN the other, every thiag to gain by the election
If Gen. Harrison If BEr Van Buren, is reflect
ID, a. tation must contnue--the same measures
which have convulscd the country and impover-
shed tse people, Will continue to DESTROY conf
dence, both public and private, and affect most
injuriously, the legislation of Congress, and the
Of the laws, and of public affairs
We will be divided, distracted and unhappy
people Let Gen. Harrison be elected, and the
picture - reversed, The Presidential election.
which IS the great disturbing cause, will be ia
ken out 81 the Legislation of Congress, and the
administration of public afflirs And the conse-
quence viii be that we shall have peace. quiet
and prosperity. The power of the people will
be restored and their confidence in and affection
for the government revive
lhese are the considerations which prompt me
to separate myself from. many political friends
) hese are the great objects which we should all
have IN view. And let me again entreat YOU as
you ioxe your country, as you venerate the mem
DRY OF your fathers, as you would transmit
public liberty as an inheritance to YOUR children.
that you separate yourselves from Mr.. Van Bu-
rem and by your votes denounce, in language to
be heard by generations yet unborn, the pension
ed hbeier' who has been suborned, by your mo-
ney, to deceive you.
FRAUD FALSEHOOD. AND FOR