The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-13

l. snav;ne. for moment, that you were caned
;s,., seyv;ce. and b. simple order of the Presi
Aen4 converted into fegztlar soldiers, to enforce
ths odious tariff, or any other demonstrations
and Impressive measure! and that one OF MI
Van Buren's pet democrats, with ePauletts on ms
shoulders, should give you an insoieii'
should even strike you-as regular soioie-'
often stricken-and you should dare RESIST ''"'
the spirit of your fathers should nerve your arm,
and YOU should return the blow,-or'h huihoieu
hv ,be cords that bind you to the condition TO
LIN ,,o,, ore degraded, you should dare to
-, enectfsAly" of your oPpressor, what
awaits vou9 A trial before Court Mar'iai'
osod of the creatures of your new master,
- the po,Cer to erpose your bare back to
=. zassed 6v the cat and nine taiIsH And this
& no fancy sketch. But this is not all. The first
step of despotism has been taken.
To what uses may not the sub-treasury be
earned. under this system? The plan is to ac-
cumulate specie in the vaults OF the treasury
If am usurper were to seize upon twenty, thirty,
az forty millions of bank notes, the fact OF his
having so taken the bank paper would destroy
the credit of the bank, and the treasure thus
seized would become valueless in his hands.
But. if gold and silver were accumulated, the
seizure of such sum by an armed force would
create a panic; and, as gold and silver would,
under such a panic, be more valuable, 1T would
increase his power The administration have
already taken this step,-we have placed the
vhele treasury under the keeping OF the Presi-
dent; and, re-elect Mr.. Van Buren,, rest assured
that the standing army in some shape will fol-
low. But this is not all.
If we admit that Mr. Van Buren, is tooPure
,,a1Ti644 end too honest to seize upon the public
treasure; that he is SO much the friend OF his
.ountrv that he will not abuse the power asked
r. ,vb.+ assurance have we that his successor
will be equally patriotic, or equally honest
who is to be his successor? His successor IS al
ready designated by the party. 1t is to be
Thomas Hart BentonHi And who is Thomas
Fl. Benton l will tell you'll He is the same
man, who, when nearly or quite man grown,
was a student at Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
and who went to a store and bought lock and
kew. and unlocked his room-mate's chest, and
stole his money.
Yes. this same Thomas H. Benton, who is the
great leader of the party who are for boarding
up the public money in gold and silver, and is the
favorite candidate of this hard money party, de-
lberately planned and executed robbery on his
unsuspecting roommate, and when the THEFT was
discovered, endeavored to turn suspicion from
himself by charging it upon an innocent old ne
4l,a f.cS thpv crIVen to US
by several of the most respectable meH OF North
Carolina, who were present when the money
was found upon him, and he acknowledged the
theft. What think you this man would do-if he
were President, with this militia bill and hard
money Treasury
His hands are now red with blood. He is the
murderer of Lucas. Would this man, who has
been guilty Of theft and of murder, hesitate to
sieze upon the public treasure, or to use the
standing army to place on his head the imPe
rial purple?
Say not this is fancy. Imagine this same
Thomas Hart Benton,a detected and guilty fe'
Ion, pleading before his youthful accusers, and
imploring his schoolmates to permit him to escape
the punishment which his crime deseryed-see
him imploring that they would spare the feel
;ngs of his widowed mother, and his orphan Sis
tiers, and therefore permitted to escape the pu-
nisAment and disgrace due to his crime. See
this same man afterwards sitting side by side ia
the Senate of the United States, with one of
these same roomn,ates, the head OF great party,
and controlling the destiny of the American Peo-
pie. See him now, the chosen candidate OF a
powerful and controlling party in the United
States trace the deliberate advances which he has
made to despotic power-see the treasure already
within his grasp, and the sword within his reach,
and ask yourselves if he would hesitate to plum
der your treasury, and by the men and money
thus obtained, place the Imperial Diadem on MS
broW2
I have long forseen this issue. Seven years
ago foretold the danger in letter to the Edi-
tor of the Richmond Wing, and pointed to
this man as the usurper, destined to overthrow
the liberty of toy country; and he will doit, I'M
less the people awake from their lethergy, and
burst the chains that bind them to the will OF
their despotic party leaders
COL. J0HNsON,S RECEPTION IN