The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-31
From the Cincinnati Republican.
REIGN OF TERROR ABOUT TO BE
REVTVEnI

| We ask the attentive and unparalleled consi
deration OF every reader, to the article in this
days paper, from the Baltimore Pilot, addressed
more particularly to the seo7iginat Jackson
men" Read, ow.citizens, the alarming pro-
position of the Secretary at War, which Presi-
dent Van Buren, tells Congress CHE CANNOT RE-
COMMEND TOO STRONGLY"
Let no man fatter himself that, because not a
single member of either House of Congress,
friendly to Mr.. Van Buren,, has had the audacity
to rise in his seat during the present session. and
defend this mOnstrous plan for the organization
OF standing army, that, therefore, the plan is
discarded, and will never again be attempted to
be carried out. We repeat, let no man who
loves his country, permit himself to be lullea to
sleep, with the idea, that this proposition of the
President, which now finds none to defend it. is
hereafter to lie quietly on the shelf? No, MOI
fellow-citiZens-be not deceived. Reflect Mar
tin Van Buren, and it will be deemed conclusive
evidence that you are in favor of the proposed
organization of this odIous standing army bill
Can it be, that an intelligent people have so
soon forgotten the past9 Will the experience of
the last eight years pass for naughti
Look back to the years 1S30-'31. 1t was in
his annual messages of those years that the for
mer President FIRST took bold ground against the
U. s. Bank. There can be no doubt that at the
period OF time referred to, large majority of
the people OF the country was in favor of that
institution. Many citizens voted for the Gene
raj, who were induced to believe that, although
the President had declared against the institu-
ton, 1t would nevertheless be chartered by the
peoples immediate Representatives, who at that
time aoas the acknowledged Iaec-gicing poaceT.
But what said the President after his rc-elec-
ton! 81 am the representative Of the people
of the United Stqtes, as soeH as are the mem
6erS cf Congress-" ssI'hese people hare t,i-
tt'1lphaatty reelected me, soith the precious
k7'oDfedge that acdS opposed to that iastitas-
t,on-this IS Evidence that the people loear OPP
posed to it, therefore put doton my Ueto.o-
This was in effect President Jackson's language.
Fellow-citizens, does not this piece of history
tell an instructive lesson2-Now, re-elect Mar
tin Van Buren,, and what may-what WILL be
his language-efI told the people of the, Uni
ted States, in my message Of December, '39,
that 1 could not sToo STRONGLY RECOMMEND
this standing army organiSationw "Ih;S plan
soas published ia eoe7y journal an the country!
Nth this plan before them they haze reelected
me President. This is conclusive eoidence to
my mind that the people SIRE in faUor Of this
plan, and soM therefore press ii, until it be-
come the law Of the land"
We entreat our fellow citizens, then, not to be
deceived. Whilst a proper degree of confidence
is commendable, yet cannot zoe keep, too strict
match ooer those in high places. The President
IS commandments of regular force of
$4,000 men-he has, by the late Sub-Treasury
act, complete possession Of the entire revenue.
of the nation-he now proposes that Congress
shall invest him with the enormous power, to
control zoe, 900 of the militia of the country
to put a paddock upon their mouths when draft
ed into active service-in short, to ssbject that
militia to law, IN comparison with which, the
&c Scdition Laaon Of SO, iooiHd lose all terror
For, let it be promulgated far and wide-let all
the people understand-that whilst under the /
act of '95, the citizen indicted could not be de-
prived of that most glorious privilege Of trial
by js1y--of that inestimable blessing Of having |
his case submitted to t,cetre Of his free peers
by the present proposed plan of the President, if
free citizen drafted into service, dare open his
mouth in derogatiost Of the President, he is |
tried by an officer, not Of his own choosing, be-
fore Court Martial, and immediately made sub
ect to such punishment as the "rules and arti- |
cles of war prescribe
Fellow-citizens, read the article from the Bal
timore Pilot-and ponder well before you corz-
nit the fortunes Of the country to chs alarming
proposition.
?. S.-Since writing the above, and after it
Was in type, we found, upon examination, that |