The pilot. [volume] (Baltimore [Md.]) 1840-1840, 1840-05-02

exhibited All inns, repeat, is not IW39lna-
| lions picture, but a stern and fearful realty.
| Ny experience has been that The PEOPLE
will bear TO be told these wholesome truths; l
am quite sure there is honesty and virtue e.
nough among US to render such admontiOns ac-
ceptable TO The great body Of the people, not,
indeed, Of the FEW who are of the true loco
foco grit; they are Bile, but to the very
many mistaken and deceived persons Of worth,
who love their country. and have adhered TO
the administration through false pride, through
idle and rulnous party zeal, through long de-
luded hopes, through many vdunling, but now
broken promises. Now, then that this respec
table portion flour fellow citizens begin to open
their eyes, would hail them all as beloved BROTH
ers, as men true to their cOuntry's glory, and
willing and anxious TO repair, as far as in them
lies, the evils inflicted upon the nation by ignu-
rant, wicked, ambitious. and selfish leaders,
| The IncurableS, as | trust, are comparatively
! few; and, if all the rest of the people will now
rally, and form one great party, composed OF
all who respect law and the protection OF eve
ry right-if all, whether poor or rich, who de-
sire to prosper, will now unite with those of
the sound faith in genuine democracy we shall
then have party composed OF ntnety.tiUe per
cent. of sterling democracy, and Of tiUe per
cent. Of thorough radicasm, of uHalloyed de-
structiveness and locoocoism! Such poison
cannot then hurt, aud the nation will be safe
and perpetual.
Under Providence, and with care we may
all prosper. We should have but two parties;
the manu-, composed Of all who respect law, be
they with or without property, but who de-
sire to obtain ii; and the fer, composed of
the opposite materials however rich they may
be, or poor they may be. That small minority
of the deluded and reckless may, ifthey please,
retain the much abused name OF democrats. -
We, the large majority. will be content with
the potent and vital substance of democracy,
which, in time like great and wide spreading
forest of our sturdy oaks and pines, will rise to
the very heavens; and, extending their ample
limbs, far and wide, will, in due season, so stint
the miserable underground (nourshed by false
democracy that health and happiness, securi-
ty and prosperity will every where abound!
Should tile ensuing election effect change
in our national councils, o.. which | enterta n
no shadow of doubt, we may all once more,
> set under our own vine and fig tree; the New
School will vanish, and the Old School of tie
golden times of our young history, will come
back with "healing upon IFS wings" But, if
from an unforeseen cauSe-Whlch may heaven
avert the present incumbent should again be
elected, should lament for the people, as one
without hope; generations yet unborn would
feel the calamity, for we are now on tremen
dous precIpice Before us is wide gnlph: be-
hind we have left rich and verdant valley;
Canaan Of the richest promise! Let US not
then, cast ourselves into the pit beneath us
but retrace our footsteps, and establish our a
bodies forever, in that goodly land. We are
now on Pisgah's heights; the Jordan is near
us; the land o. promise is in full view; let us
avoid the Gulph, and adhereing to the God oil
our lorefathers, let us foresake Dagon and Mo-
lock- and all the false gods of heathenish and
false democracy and cleave To the true demo-
cracy of our progenitors-al will then be
"paths ofpeace.'
To no individual could the call with which
your honorable body have hOnored me,be more
unfortunate, than to myself. Circumstances
for two years past, have concentrated at this
very time, a mass of engagements OF the great
est possible interest to me; but these must, in
large degree yield to that bidding. Every
man that hath tongue, or can use pen,
should now belong to his country; the stake i'll
issue is an immense one; for veal, or for wo.
the next election must fix the destiny Of our
beloved country If the former be our happy
lot, we shall have fought good fight; If the
latter, | am not rash in saying that believe 1t
will be the last ballot shall ever cast-the
game VIII llleH Dt llO lOHSCl HOltI
the Vandals will have overrun the empire
the dark ages will ensue, and the august office,
already much suled, will early meet the in
evitable fate of that imperial diadem which,
when no longer worth having, was struck of
to the highest bidder, (and there were only two
in all the Roman empire,) of that rich mer-
chant, Didus Julianus. Soon after, the ma
hobs, pursuing that contempt still further, will
will no longer chatter for a dignity, once be-
yond price, because the free gilt OF a virtuous
people, to the highest merit in the nation; but
the then degraded people will give it to him
alone who shall minister the most largely to
their base passions! Such things have been, in
other times, and among other people; history
should admonish US that what has been, may
be.
But, if we now retrace our steps, if the peo-
pie will hut open their eyes, and cast off their
treacherous counsellors; ii they will but see
with their own eyes, the deplorable condition
ola once most happy and thriving nation, they
will not fail to summon 10 their aid, with
| shouting accamatons, William Henry Harr-
son, as the next Chief Magistrate; and, as in
the revolution, and since, we preserved our
liberties by our Gown FIGHTIEG"-so now,
we must renew them by our "oton roting."