The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-30
RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE.

KESkECT~ FOX THE PEOFhEs
The Federal otIice-holders charge the great
republican party Of the Union, now supporting
Gen. Harrison, with want of respect for the
people, If the imminent peril Of the republic
did not Danish all such disposition, we might
well make ourselves merry at this singular dis
covery. 1t is no time now to laugh at the extra
VACANCIES of our adversaIies, nor to pass by,
with silent contempt, any of their calumnies,
however ridiculous. We must meet them, and
disgusting as may be the task, refute them. We
deny the charge. 1t is false, and they know it.
And VIXEN did these spoilers ofthe public trea-
sure, show any respect for the people Was it
in their disgusting revels at bull feasts Was it
in their midnight, riotous professions through
the streets, with insolent transpareneies Was
it in their brutal hootings, and groanings, and
hissings at the doors of their political opponentss
Was it in their roofing up the pavements, and
planting their hickory trees Was it in their
President again forcing on Congress his Sub
Treasury, though thrice rejected by the repre-
sentatives of the people' Why, this charge
coming from them, against the republican party,
absurd as it is impudent, is equalled only by the
drunkard who,i in a sober moment, harrangued his
more temperate neighbor on the vice of Gpling.
Our log cabins show a want of respect for the
people, say they; because, as they urge, we have
so poor an opinion Of the good sense of the Anne
rican citizen, as to believe he can be gulled, or
imposed on, by such mummery. This is the ac-
eusation; and it is not at all surpriring, that it
comes from such quarter. The old rule applies,
of the rogue believing every other man to be
rogue, like himself So it is with these federal
demagogues. They have, for twelve, aye, for
fourteen long years, been quilting, and humbug
cling and holding out false hopes, to an abused
people. They have INDUCED in every outrage
on common sense, and common decency-spread
out every delusion--have dazzled us with fine
republican doctrines in messages, resolutions.
and addresses, and in the end, cheated us with
practice, in all respects, the reverse of their theo
ries, and now they are alarmed lest we should
resort to the same hollow and shameless means.
They are in terror, lest we, too, should take up
the trade of humbugging. But they are ms
taken. Stick to your vocation of deceiving, and
we will adhere to our more honorable Ole, Of
truth and common sense. Be not afraid of our
snatching the foul instrument from your hands.
You are accustomed to them, and we are not,
nor have we the least desire to soil ourselves
with them.
The ultra federal demagogues, who now hold
the reins of government, have ever been blind to
the high tone of their public adversaries They
never cease to ascribe to us the selfish and grow
cling spirit which actuates them. They seem in
capable of imagining that there is such thing
as disinterested patriotism. And we now tell
them again, that our log cabins are not intended
to gull or to insult the good sense of the people
They are intended to rebuke calumny uttered
by one of themselves, that the virtuous Harrison
could be bribed off by the donation of log cabin,
a barrel Of cider, and $4,000 year. They are
meant also to show that we are not ashamed OF
our candidate because he is not affiuent, has to
labor on his farm, and is plain and simple in his
habits; and that he possesses all that purity of
character so generally ascribed to the farmer or,
if they will have it, to the dwellers log cabins
They are intended to show that are the bone
and sinew, who live in plain and unpretendins
bouses. and are determined to 1iberate our coun-
try from the weak, corrupt, and ruinous admins
tration which has so long abused our confidence,
that they are type of the republican manners
of our ancestors, who, with their stern virtue
freed us from foreign yoke, and gave US the
free constitution which zoe reverence, and which
you have polluted, which you are attempting to
destroy, but which zoe sciH preserve. 1
These are the 1audable objects Of the log cabin
emblem. 1t is emblazoned on the standard which
is leading US to victory over as faithless band
of public servants as ever existed in any age.
Like the stars and stripes in the days of Wash
ington, it has carried terror into the ranks of the
enemies Of liberty.