The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-31


claims and exercises supervisory power over
the laws which can only be executed BY his per
mission and all these startling innov ations on
our free constitution, have been adopted in
the face of the enlightened frsemen Of the Re
public, in the name of democracy, by demo-
cratic President, sanctioned by his mlnions in
the two Houses Of Congress, and thus far sub
mitted to by a majority of the American people
What is it but practical despotism, boldly
erected on the ruins of the free. institutions
which we received from the hands of Washing
ton and his e0mpatriots of the Revolution, Let
an injured, insulted and deceived people answer
at the polls IN the approaching election, and let
thcm as they value their liberties and their pros
perity, rebuke the usurpers who seek to become
their mastersa The practical effect of these
pations Of power under the past and present Ad-
ministrStons must be seen and felt by all classes
of men in this wide spread confederacy We
are redaced to the humble condition of bankrupts
and beggars, from a state of unbounded pros
per1ty in our agricultural, commercial, and man.
ufacturing pursuits; we had circulating medi-
nm, sound and uniform, throughout the country;
IL was recklessly destroyed; we Were promised
in its place better currency, the experiment
was fairly tried, and in a few short years this
Shelter currency" was denounced by its legiti-
mate Father, in the most unmeasured terms of
| reprobaton, and at the first frown of Executive
displeasure, it vanished e'like the baseless fab
ric of a vision" We are now in the hopeless
condition Of a great agricultural, commercial
and manufacturing nation, destitute of cur
rency on which any fixed value can be placed
We are told of gold and silver to replace the
fallen bank issues of the State-it is not to be
seen out of the hands of the officers. and de-
pendents ofthe Government. Property has sunk
in value to one half the price given for it in
better times; the laboring man Cannot find en-
Ployment, his wages are reduced below an edsi-
Valent for the support of his helpless family,
with the most rigid economy. He is cheered by
this new SciolG in political economy, with the
promise that his wages will be still farther. re-
duced to the European standard of six pence per
day, but this small pittance is to be paid him in
hard money! Confidence is DESTROYED between
man and man, and the moral feeling of the COM
munity has sustained shock from which it will
not soon recover. In short, the country has
been brought down to state of universal ruin
and distress. These are the blessings of modern
denlocrGcy-of experiments on the currency, of
corrupt Legislation and of a concentration of
all power in the Executive Head. The farmer
feels it in the diminished price of his products the
mechanic in hiswant of business land the reduction
OF the wages of labor, the day-laborerin his hire
the merchant in all his accustomed sales and the
punctuality of his payments; and the manufac-
turer IN the want Of means and the diminished
demand for his fabrics. This is but a summary
OF the evils which our beloved country now en-
sures, under the influence of the bad measures
and mad ambition of the present incumbent of
the Executive chair who was bloton into the |
high station which he ingloriously fills by |
the breath of his ''illustrious predecessor" The
people have, from all quarters of the Union sent
forth, in voice of thunder, their Decree that |
change Of their unfaithful rulers must and shall |
be made. As one of the people, | thank God |
that light breaks forth in the Uista, and the day
of our deliverance is at hand. The issue is NOT
between Martin Van Buren, and William Henry
Harrison, but 1t is between liberty the censtitu-
ton and the supremacy of the laws, and an cleo
tive despotism in whichth forms of the govern
ment remain, while all its powers are united in
one of its Departments. II is an issue between
sixty thousand office holders who cling to their
idol and fatten on the spoils of the public Trea-
sury, and the people Frustrated and ruined by
misplaced confidence in human virtue and in
tegrity. l feel the fullest confidence that the
verdict of the people will be for reform. and to
that end, fer William Henry Harrison and John
Tyler suitable and well tried agents to carry |
their intentions into effect and operation. The |
calumnies which have been put forth under the
sanction Of high sounding names, by the afilia-
ted presses of this Administration, and by parti-
zans in Congress in addresses to their constitu-
ents to impose on public credulity, and by in
flicting a wound on the hard earned fame of Gen
eral Harrison, to bolster up the slender claims
of Martin Van Buren,, do not merit the animad-
version of an honorable man, and can avail them
nothing in the great contest which is now pend [
ing before free and enlightened people of the Re-
public.
They are contradicted by every page of our
history with which the name of Harrison |
is in any manner connected. Calumny, in
deed, is a powerful weapon, difficult to be
overtaken and resisted by truth. 1t constitutes |
the sole reliance and last hope Of this doomed
administration, and we may look for it in every
orm which it can assume, to mislead the judg-
ment of the people and maintain the present do
minant party in power But their efforts are at
this day so well understood and the proofs in
refutation of their ISLANDERS so generally known.
that their poisoned arrows will fall harmless at
the feet OF the intended victim. No man is fit to
fill the exalted station of chief magistrate of the
natien who has character to make, either by his
own professions and protestation, or the fattery
Of his friends and followers. His claim sbouId
rest on the solid foundations of well known
talents, integrity purity of character patriotism
and long public service in the field and councils
of his country, which belong to history and can
not be affected by the pen of the caiumniators
Nocitizen of the republic possesses these claims
IN higher degree than William Henry Harri- ;
son, the nominee OF the Harrisburg Convention
and no man is more imperyiots to the malignant !
assaults Of the venal press of the Administration
aided by the panders who illuminate falsehoods, 2
as the price of their daily Bread than that man
who snow the terror of the corruptionists. and
the hope OF his Country. That he is a soldier
brave and skilful in war, let his numerous we'll
fought battles and victories attest. That he is |
a statesman of no ordinary merit, the political t
annals Of the country abundantly testify That |
he is an honest man, let the millions which have
passed through his hands and strictly ACCOUNTED t
for,-but above all, let his poverty speak. That $
his private character is without stain or blemish.
no hireling of his opponents is sufficiently har- a
dened in falsehood to deny. He a polished q
scholar; well read in ancient and modern history;
a chaste writer, and pleasing, eloquent public f
speaker He is gentleman 0fthe old school free
from ostentati.n, and of easy access, descended v
from one of the puriest patriots of the Revolutions
signer Of the Declaration of Independence; and o
every pulsation of his heart beats in unison with il
The honor, the gory,and prosperity of his country
At the dawn Of manhood, he entered the tented | Il
field and in the wilderness of the uuest hraasted i