The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-08
n tte Editor ofthe Pilot =

Is the Wing press OF Baltimore muzzled OF II
not why does the atrocious outrage which was
perpetrated on Monday remain unrecorded ana
uncondemned The second day has now passed
since the murder of Laughlin, and the victim has
been consigned to an untimely grave, but neither
the Patriot nor the Pilot has expressed its abhor-
renee of deed which should be denounced from
one end of the Union to the other in the most IN
dignant terms that language can devise Should
our fellow-citizens, in the peaceful exercise OF an
undoubted right be struck down by the hand OF
the assassin in open day and no voice be upiliteo
In reprobation of this act OF rufian violence
Surely these papers need not fear to speak OF
this occurrence in the terms which it deserves
WHY then are they silent Verify our Wings
are peaceabIe people, and our wing papers most
Peacssble.
The writer will find that we were yesterday
compelled to notice the unfeelins manner IN
which the Globe had spoken of the death of Mr.
Loughlin, and we trust that he will also fnd IN
the circumstances necessarily connected with the
administration justice, sufficient reasons to for
bid any attempt to excite public indignation
against the unfortunate individual who perPe-
trated this appalling murder
But it does not follow that because we have
forborne to speak of the deed, we have been in
sensible to the enormity of the crime, or of the
necessity of rebuking, in the most emphatic man
ner, the influence in which it originated.
Murder, itself the highest crime known to our
laws, may be aggravated by the circumstances
under which it is perpetrated and we cannot
conceive of any circumstances which could be
more aggravated, in political sense, than those
attending this tragical event.
We learn that some half grown boys, bearing
q figure, intended to represent Gen. Harrison in
petticoats, was carried with the procession. 1t
was known that this was intended as an insult
and what makes this more apparent was, that
party of athletic bulles, prepared for conflict, fol-
lowed them in the rear, as fto protect them. As
long as they kept out of the procession, they
were not noticed, but emboldened by this forbear-
snoe, they attempted to take position in the line
when MIR. Loughlin, one Of the Marshals, APP
pointed to preserve order, in attempting to re-
naove them from the ranks received the blow
which caused his death. He fell, and was carried
into store near by, where he died.
The Globe says that his death was treated with
Indifference, and sneers at the convention, be-
cause no stage effect was attempted. We con-
fess that we have felt embarrassment-we have
felt the difficulty of speaking of this murder as
we feel it should be spoken of, without subject
ing ourselves to the imputation of an attempt at
stage efect-without seeming to wish to make
political capital out of it. On the other hand, it
is one of those things, and the circumstances at
tending this horrid murder, were such that we
are compelled to feel Inundated in permitting
such an instance of the demoralizing and destruc-
tive tendency of the measures which bear such
bloody fruits this, to pass without the severest
denunciation. Would the citizens OF Rome, In
her days of liberty, have been content with
mourning procession and largess OF money to
the widow and orphan9 Would not the bloody
corps have been publicly exhibited Would not
the suffering people have been called to look upon
their murdered fellow citizen? Would not they
have been told that this deed is the consequence
Of the liberation and the protection which the
government gives to the worst men who enlist In
their service!
We feel that demonstrations Of public senti-
ment--indignation at public outrage, are as ne
eessary to protect the body potic,a is individual
resentment atpersonal indignty; but there is that
In our institutions-ours is government OF the
people, who have selected the constitutional
mode Of avenging their wrongs, and on this occa-
sion the outbreak Of public feeling was restrain
cd by the reflection that the time is coming, and
4 even now, when the people will place the
power of the government in other hands, and
thus rebuke the influence which has done SC
much to demoralize the country, and overthrow
her institutions
THE FEDERAL OFFICE-HOLDERS CON
vENTION.
The Republican Of yesterday contains state
nent of the proceedings Of this Convention. Vir-
xinia, South Carolina, Illinois, Delaware, and
Connecticut were unrepresented They adopted
and promulgated political creed, and adopted ar
address, yet to be published ;nominated Mr. Var
Horen spIit upon the Vice Presidency, and ad