The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-09-05


iasotiveS. ANDREW JACKSON"
Now, sir, cannot comprehend, and must leave
you to explain hosU you could consider General
Jackson's "position" perfectly justifabe, right
and proper, in refusing to answer respectful in
terrogatoriss, propounded in the most imposing
form, by the Senate of sovereign State, and
communicated by the Governor of a sovereign
State; and then, with the minutest particle of
justice, characterize Gen. Hanison's s'positien"
as "audacious and insulting" in the reply he
directed his friends to make keeper of ten
pin alley. If the American people, upon whose
opinions the publication of your letter was in
tended to operate, should select your own cpl
thets and characterize your sspostion" as "auda.
cious and insulting" to their intelligence, i
would add another to the many instances in
which 'ewicked inventions have returned to
plague their inventors"
But allow me to place the first objection of the
s'quite conclusive" class in juxta position with
your class of "much graver objections"
Your FIRST fquite conclusive" objection is, CHS
refusing to disclose his opinions"
| Your "much graver objections are, tsHe is a
National Republican, holding all the doctrines
a'ad principles Of that party; he was nominated
BY that party, and Wiu sustain every measure
which may be proposed by its great leaders,
Ysu first object that his opinions are unknown
concealed, and that he refuses to DISCLOSE
them; and this is fEqteite cOnclitsice"
You then say, in effect, that his opinions are
so well known that you can, not only assert
with the utmost pesitiveness what they aye, but
venture to predict, without qualification, what
they tOiI be, and what measures he soiH sustain.
How gentleman of your great intelligence and
intellectual acuteness, s'new retired from party
contests who FEis able to look at the contest for
the Presidency, with perfect freedom from pas
sion or prejudice" and who is e'not partisan
of Mr.. Van Buren," could thus involve himself
in what, to my view, bears strong resemblance
to an inconsistency, and what, in others, you
would be apt to term ga gross absurdity," is, by
me, inconceivable.
Your second objection of the eFquite concur
sivs" class is, e'tAe disgusting mummery of log
/ cabins and beer barrels, which would disgrace
the orgies of the lowest demagogue, by which
his nomination has been heralaed forth even by
the highest of his Partisans."
Now, sir, without stopping TO inquire how
Gen. Harrison is at all responsible for this, let
US proceed to inquire what there is in the poPu-
lar enthusiasm for log cabins, that is s'disgust-
ing" or (which conld disgrace" any plain re-
publican.
The LOG CABIN Is associated with the sacred
"reminiscences of the earliest settlement Of our
country 1t was the first humble dwelling which
protected from s'the peItngs OF the pitiess .orru
our fathers and mothers, when they sought free
dom and home ON these then Wilderness shores.
1t is sacredly associated with hardy enterprise,
with indomitahle bravery, with frugal habits,
with prudent economy, with Persevering in
dustry, with all the social virtues, with the ar
dent and pious devotion of our pilgrims fathers
and mothers around the family altar, and with
that undying love of an enlightened civil and
religious liberty, which brought our fathers
here, which conducted them, in triumph, through
scenes of toll, and suffering, and blood, over sa-
wage hordes and British legipns, saada them
great and independent nation; and which Is the
basis of the glorious institutions they have be-
queathed to US.
As tho log cabins on the Atlantic shores be-
came for the most part substituted by more COM
| Mouio"e o"eiithbSJ W ''iO hluustEJ Oh our Ia
= theirs, and as
a "Wessward the star ofcmpire took its way"
the log cabin sprang up in the western wilds to
shelter the enterprising emigrant and the hardg
!. pioneer. At this moment, where will YOU find
better specimens Of industry, honesty, integrity
economy, republican simplicity, apd all those
!. noble qualities which distinguished our ances.
tors, than among the bold, hardy, and enterpris-
d ing freemen who tenant the log cabins Of the
II | west.a
There are those now living, who remember
/ | when the log-cabins Of the Northwestern will
derness, were exposed to the depredatiens ofruth-
t less savages; when the blood of helpless women
D and infant children, following the temahawk and
scalpingknife, stained the hA .a hearth; whon
: army after army was cut TO pieces and dispersed
: by the savage foe, whom they were sent to sub.
l due; whilst the afTightea neither pressed her
sleeping babe more closely to her bosom, when
, she heard the sharp crack of the Indians rifle,
and the appalling war-whoop.
La the midst of disaster and alarm, came a
gallant band, who triumphed in battle over the
ruthless foc,and gave peace, quiet, and protection
to the tenants oflog-cabias In that hand was
youth, with the blood Of signer of the Declare
ton Of Independence in his veins, and a conf
mission from the immortal Washington in his
! pocket, whose E'gallant conduct" won the admi-
ration of all. He linked his fortune and his
fame, and made his home with the generous peo-
pie he had aided to protect. Entrusted by the
great and go9d men, who successfully adminis-
tered our government, with the most important
and extensive civil powers and appointments, he
was always found equal to any emergency and
faithful to every trust. When the log-cabins of
the territory he was appointed to govern, were
again sssailed by savage foe, be marched for