The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-10
MIR. KENDALL,S GENERAL ORDER
CHOW. GOES THE FIGHTp'


The following is an extract from the Extra
Globe:-
chow GOES THE FIGHTw
s'The Federal party are now in the condition
of the French at the crisis of the battle of ater-
doc They have spent their strength in terrific
assaults upon the firm ranks of Democracy, and
now exhausted with their mighty efforts, can
scarcely be brought to renew the action.
Democrats, now is the moment to charge!
Democratic editors, abandon your defensive
warfare and charge home upon the enemy!
Democratic candidates and orators, be not kept
ON the defence by the numberless unsustained ac-
cusations of the adversary, but boldly charge up
on him his own want of principle, and base means
of electioneering. Hold up to solemn scorn the
Federal candidate standing mute before nation
of frecmen!
Ask the people whether they will surrender
themselves to this Dumb Idol, at the bidding of
the priests who surround him.
Hold up to them the picture and caricatures of
Federalism, their gatherings, carousals, and par
aphernalia, and ask them whether these are such
arguments worthy t. be addressed to in
teliigent freemen, able and disposed to take care
OF their own liberties!
Make the people feel the atrocious insult put
upon them, by attempts to influence their iudg-
ments by such means.
Leaving the military achievements of the Fed
efal hero Tor the occasion, to pass for what they
are worth, charge home upon him his ancient
Federalism-his support of the elder Adams, and
the usurpations of his administration-his oppo
sltlon to reduction of the standing army-his
approving an act as Governor of Indiana for sell
ing white men as slaves, and whipping them for
attempting to recover their hberty-his voting
ior 4 similar law in the Legislature of Ohio-his
support OF the younger Adams-his tampering
with Abolitionists, and refusing to disclose his
principles to the people whose suffrages he
One decisive charge along the whole Demo-
cratic line, and the enemy will be seen flying in
every direction, like the shattered squadrons of
Napoleon before the troops of Wellington. Al
ready they begin to hear the cannon of Bulow
laundering on their right, and save himself who
cam is ready to leap from their tongues"
Here we have the plan of the campaign-it
viii not do to defend the administration will
not do to discuss the measures which have
brought the country into its present condition
it will not do to place Mfr. Van Buren's re-elec-
ton on his own claims to popular favor, nor even
on the preference of Gen. jackson. You must
charge home upon Gen. Harrison that he was
iederalist in 179S-that he was for the elder
Adams
Well, Mr.. Kendall, what if you prove all that?
What them What if Gen. Harrison was fed
eralist? What ifhe did support the elder Adams'
What then? Was not MIR. fancy a federalist?
Was not MIR. Buchanan federalist. Were not
MIR. Rush and MIR. Woodbury. federalists, and is
not Mr. Poinsett fedcralist, and is not Mr..
SFPoinsett's Sedition law worse than the seditio
law of 1913? If MIR. Van Buren, can forgive such
old federaiists as these, and convert them into
good democrats, cannot the people forgive Gen.
Harrison and convert him into democrat?
But, says MIR. Kendall, the merit of this line
Of march is, that inasmuch as the charge is not
true, Gen. Harrison has denied it, and by under
taking to prove it upon him, he will at least di-
vert public attention from MIR. Van Buren,, and
instead of being upon trial for an unfaithful adj
ministration of public affairs, he will put Cen
Harrison on his trial. He will make the
Charge'-"C harge"-thcrefore sECHARGE"
We admire Mr.. Kendall's tactics, and there is
nocause to apprehend that any of his 'mihtia' will
bring themselves under sentence ef a court mar
tial. They obey orders, and accordingly we have
certificates and afidavits, to prove the Charge
Mr.. John Fowler, superannuated old man, GER
fifes in letter to Mr.. Daniel, that in 1898 Gen.
Harrison wore s'black cockade," and two 9TH
ers certify, one of them under oath, the same
thing.
That each Of these parties may believe what
they say to be true, may well be admitted, ara
yet no one else, who considers the plain state
mcnts made by Gen. Harrison and Judge Burnet,
can believe it to be so. Beth of these gentlemen,
who, from their peculiar relation to each other
and the subject, cannot be mistaken, are much
more to BE relied ON than the recollections of
persons indifferent to both, as to matter so far
back. Gen. Harrison can well say that he never
wore the Adams black cockade, because he knows
that he never was so much the partisan of Mr..
Adams, and that he never did take upon himself
fne badge Of his party. So also of Judge Bar
nett, who was Gen. Harrison's personal friend;
he can speak with confidence, because he and
Cen Harrison, although personal friends. were
politically opposed The circumstances enable
them to speak with precison-but how easy is it
for MIR. Fowler, with most sincere desire 70
speak the truth, to be mistaken? Who can he
Leve that he indeed recollects whether C,e,er.l
Harrison did or did not wear a cockasle, The
very attempt to be SO minute, proves that these
parties are willing witnesses, and that the wish
Is master to the thought. We do not believe
them. They may think what they say to be true.
but we do not
But we again repeat, admit that Gen. Harri-
zon was black cockade federalist-he is not so
now. He is Of the strictest of the Democratic
school, and although MIR. Webster and few
ethers who have too much respect for themselves
70 deny their name, are for him, there are humid