, 1840-09-12

brand with the epithets of traitors and con.
spirators, men who met to adopt measures o.
relief; who have gone in opposition to such
judicial reform as it greatly needed, and par.
t~icularly in open defiance of public sentiment
long felt and repeatedly expressed, by refu.
sing to pass the "bill for the reorganization
of the city court''-a reform demanded by
the present embarrassed situation of the pub.
lie finances, as well as necessary for the pro.
motion Of higher and holier objects. A par
ty which has given signal illustration Of their
attachment to the 'emigrant from Germany
and Ireland" when in reference to this class
of adopted citizens, the following language
was held by a distinguished member OF the
Wing party in the Senate of New York:
"Loaters who swear falsely with perfect i'm
punity as it respects punishment in this
world, and according to whose !aith, perhaps
the price of a lady's labor gives them abso-
Lutte security for the next;" and further, he
remarked, I" the soldiers, AND OTHER CATTLE,
combined with the FOREIGNERS, CON-
posed OF the oFFscoURINGs of CREATION, could
turnthe scale in that city New York) with
out some remedy"
There is one topic which in this connec-
ton we are bound to notice. The right OF
opinion and the power TO express it, we hold
10 be the substance of liberty. The time
was. when any attempt to coerce men into
the adoption Of a political creed, would have
been deemed n damning sin. We deeply la
ment that efforts nave been made and are
now making to take from the citizen this
~volition by depriving him Of the means
whereby he lives.
We ask the mechanics and laboring men
Of Baltimore, are they prepared to surrender
this inestimable privilege; they who have
been early taught shat liberty alone can
give the flower Of fleeing lite its lustre and
perfume" to acknowledge that the laborer
is not worthy of his hire, bu; is the recei-
pient of charity. from those vino give him
leave to toll! We warn those who have
adopted this high handed policy, that If they
once array the capitalists against the laboring
classes, they put on foot Il revolution which
may shake the foun ~lationS of civil society;
then will the tiger strife begin, in which man
must vinlicate his personal rights, and show
the preicntinn Of Individual man, by the
might which s.uRJers in = freeman's arm.
Many Of us have chosen our position in
despite Of personal agGrandizement, and We
are willing 10 bear much rs we nave already
borne or the "o3presSors wrong the proud
mans contumely," but there isa point be-
You'd which we canno and will not be for
ced. The rights Of conscience must not be
invaded; we shall adhere to our principles
though we should be "steeped in poverty TO the
lips and wre;ched indeed is the policy
Of Il State which rewards the treachery and
venality Of the apostaie, and casts odium
upon him who has the strength TO stand b.
his principles. When the hour of danger TO
the State arrives, is Il upon the traitor to his
principles she can best rely for support. Or
upon him vino throughout life has upheld his
sentiments even in view OF the faggot and
the flannel Far be IT from us TO encourage a
spirit of intolerance in our own ranks. or TO
forget in political strife, those finer feelings
OF our nature which soften and subdue the
heart of man. We are speaking of Il fault.
ay, Il crime, which loses none of its enormi-
IL when practised by friend or foe.
In viewing, then, the attitude Of parties.
we have every thing to encourage US in adj
Gition TO the promptings of patriotism, and
that sense Of duty which nothing should him
der us from performing. The prominent
measures of the Government have all been
fully canvasSed, and met with the decided
public appreciation. The elections Of last
year have confirmed the policy which Jack
son began. and which his successor has pledg.
ed himself to pursue. Did not our adversa-
rics indulge the confident hope that the sep
aration of bank and State, by the adoption
OF the .Independent Treasury BILL" would
prove the death knell of the party; and are
tEey not now left like "Faganini on the sin
Gle string,"to ring the changes Of panic and
diStreSSl Beaten upon every question, they
resort, in Il land whose proudest boast is the
intelligence of the people, to the meanest
passions and the worst prejudices. Where
is the pride of n party, which once boosted
.AlI the talentP When a man of such sa
feeble temper" should outstrip all competi.
tors, and "oh! shame where is thy blush"
when "all the ~decency' can boast no brigh-
ter weapon than a"log cabin and hard CT.
Vain hope to deceive the people by
such subterfuge. Vain such reliance upon
trick ard hypocrisy!
1t is with feelings Of honest pride that we
turn from such a picture, to inquire under
what banner we fight, and who is the chosen
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