The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-04-14
emarks of Judge Hanson before the ConVen-
ton in Baltimore, April 10th 1910.

1t has become apparent, to the great bulk OF
the American people, that the present Admin
istrati0n OF their government is not fitted 10
increase or preserve the blessings and prvi-
leges of a free and intelligent nation to foster
the pursuits of laborious, ingenious, and spe-
Tited population; that it is not in accordance,
with the genius, past history, or future destinles
ola vast epubcan'Empire; that its principles
and measures, are as i'll calculated, to console
date the credit, strength and resources of
State Sovereignes, as they are TO bind toge-
Their, and cement confederation; that it has
failed to engender or keep alive veneraon for
the constitution or to cherish an unallenable
love for the Union; that it has on the contrary,
by nceSSant and unrelenting assaults upon
capital, good faith and enterprise, disunlted the
interest and thereby torn asunder the good
feelings, which bind men to each other; that
it has destroyed that sautary confidence winch
is essential to this Commonwealth and all the
communities that compose il; that IT has IN hne
chilled the hearts and the hopes OF the poor and
shut the hands of the rich. 1t is therefore, that
we hail the approaching whig national con-
vention, to be held in the city of Baltimore on
the 4th day of May next, as an unerrlng har-
binrer to the coming of better things; that we
greet the numerical power, Composed as it is
of all classes,) and to which the intelligence
from every quarter, daily adds rank TO rank,
and squadron to squadron, as perfect mani
festation OF the thorough and sweeping change
in the conduct of public affairs, resolved upon
by the people. We rejoice, that our fellow citl-
zens (since what is past cannot be recalled) are
so far benefited by present suffering, as TO be
awakened TO a sense of impending evils, more
serious and caamitous; and of which few can
fail To perceive the inevitable ruin Surely
our administration presents us to the whole
world, as nation Of cOntrarietieS and contra
dictons; we are held up to other nations in ev-
ery fantastic and antagonist position, that
people can be regarded; our principles and our
practice are perfect antipOdes to each Other;
theories, distractions, solecisms and paradox
es, make up the sum of our political economy:
while the political empires, driven from their
mornings the once fast anchored axiOms of the
constitution, constitution to which Washing
ton had affixed his seal and given verify by ex-
perience.
Orr perversons and absurdities indeed almost
afford plausbiIity to the assertion OF the an
Gent Philosopher, that there once existed a
race of men of a conformation entirely diff
ferent from those of our generation, and who
shall undertake to deny the possibility; that at
some distant era, when History shall again be
handed down by allegory and tradition, that a
people who are perpetually moving one way
and looking another, shall not be represented as
a race ofmen, who carried their faces behind
them, and turned their backs upon themselves.
So singular is the incengruity between our
words and our actions, that no dlsenterested
spectators, even of the present age, can fail TO
be struck with amazement, by professions, con-
tinuay at variance with conduct; with results
Numerically opposite To those protested TO be
intended; and of causes Stimulating effects, be-
81 hae n orA IF (which
Meeting consequences, ever existed. Vain
however, would be the attempt, to enumerate
all the inconsistency of those who deal with
the obiquity of partizan tactcians, instead of
applying the established principles of states
men.
The poor man is to be enriched, by reducing
the wages of labor; the rich are to be impov-
ershed by the boarding of their gold; the pro-
ducts of the earth, instead Of being cultured by
the sweat of the brow, are to wther and die
amidst idleness, hunger and desolation; all
surplus produce is to rot in the granery of the
Farmer, for the want of markets, furnished by
the empoyments Ofar:sans, and labourers, fish
cries, factories, work shops, roads and canals;
the condition Of the country is 10 be improved,
by arresting all improvement; debts are to be
paid by the humiliation of property. The
interest on loans, is to be discharged by bor-
TOWlliS liOlIl liC lChuCio vi thC CuPltoI3 pOu
silver are to represent, instead Of being repre-
scented by paper and credit; and whilst the
precious metals are promised in abundance they
are again buried beneath the face of the earth,
the vaults of banks or the strong boxes of a.
varcisus thrift; or melted down for the gold SER
vices of plate which adorns the Presid entail
dinner table, of the very republican nabob at
Washington.
Domestic productions are to be encouraged
by bounties upon foreign fabrics; and whilst
there is to be abundance of poverty, to furnish
plenty of rags, readily converted into Hiro-
glyphc shinplasters, and these are to be the
only manufactures, which are sure to flourish,
with or without tariff; with or without for
.eign use or domestic consumption; unless indeed
the treasury notes Of the Government should
enter the list as competitor and thus clearly de-
monsrate the financial ability of the head of
the treasury, and with the aid ofMr. Buchanan.
a (capital Old FederasD home markets are to
be discharged, and all labour to be re-
warded at penny day, as in China
Amidst these eanomalies, all Banks are to
be put down by the destruction of one,
whilst in the place of that one, thousands are
to be erected and fostered, by way of proving
that none ought ever to have existed; and
whilst that consisting of three ourths of its
capital, of the hard. earnings of husbands and
fathers,for the support of widows and children,
is to be crushed, at all hazards, myriards are