The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-15
WHTG MEETING.

papers on Saturday, that addresses would be de-
livered by the Hon. James Garland and Others,
in the evening, in Monument Square, large
number of persons assembled there between six
and seven o'clock. CHARLES H. PITTS, Esq. be-
ing loudly called for, presented himself to the
meeting, and was warmly received He deliv-
cred short but forcible speech, in which he re-
viewed the leading measures of the administra-
ton, pointed out their disastrous effects on the
prosperity of the country, and argued the ALSO
Lutte necessity of change of rulers and ofmeas-
ures to revive its sunken credit, and bring it
back to where it stood prior to the commence
ment of the numerous experiments for which this
Administration was so much distinguished. He
also took up the charge of cowardice made
gainst Gen. Harrison, and showed ITS absurdity
and falsity, and condemned, in indignant terms,
the malicious and indicative motives Of its au-
thors. MIR II. then introduced Col. Strap,
soldier of the Northwestern Army, who had
fought under General Harrison, and he made an
animated and spirited speech; in the course of
which, he related, with much enthusiasm, the
great efforts that are now making in the State
of Indiana to defeat the reelection of Mr. Van
Buren, and to put in the Presidential Chair man
who will command the confidence of the conn
try, and to do his utmost to promote its prosper
ity. He recounted, in reference to the charge of
cowardice, alleged against General Harrison, the
scenes where he had witnessed the General, ex-
posing himself to imminent danger, when within
very short distance of the enemy. He conclu-
ded by expressing his sincere conviction that the
much traduced, but honest, worthy and indepen-
dent General Harrison, would be the tenant of
the White House on the 18th of March, 1S41.
loud applause)
z. Collins Lee, Esq. after short and excel
lent speech, introduced the Hon. James Garland,
of Virginia, to the notice of the meeting; and he
was received with reiterated bursts of applause.
He commenced by observing that he would not,
in what he had to say, resort to the slang and de-
famation, usually dealt in by political partisans;
but would appeal to their reason and Judgment.
He said that he had given his support to the Ad-
ministration of Gen. Jackson; that he had been
friendly to the election of Mr.. Van Buren,, and
confided in his promises and his professions of
publicanism; but that he had been greatly de-
what he would do, while seeking Office, and had
failed to redeem his pledges, when in it. For this
reason, then, he (Mr Garland) had withdrawn
his support from the present Executive. He adj
verted to the introduction of the Sub-Treasury
scheme, by Mr.. Gordon, of Virginia, into the
House of Representatives, in 1885, and the de-
feat that it there met with at the hands of the
Administration party. He said that so much OPP
posed was the Administration to the Sub-Trea-
sury, that at their earnest entreaty and greatly
against his will, he had consented to become the
candidate for Congress in his district, in opposi-
ton to Gen. Gordon; and, yet strange TO say, at
che last election, the same party who had elect
ed him because he was opposed to the Sub-Trea-
sury, had brought out this same Gen. Gordon, to
Gust HIM of his seat in Congress, because he had
refused to turn round and support it, upon the
orders of the President He was its enemy then
had been since, was now, and intended to pur-
sue it to its death. Tremendous applaase.)-
For the course which he had deemed it his duty
to take on this question: all the doodgates of de-
nunciation and defamation had been let loose
against him, and he had been called renegade
and traitor, because he refused to give the mea-
sure his support. If the party was honest, in
1885, in reference to the Sub-Treasury schsme,
then, it could not be now. The Administration
had also exhibited the grossest Inconsistency in |
regard to the State Banks. He noticed also the |
proposition for a Standidg Army of 200, 700 men,
and happily explained the mcnstrosities of that /
scheme, and set forth the dangerous consequences
that might result to the liberties and happiness |
of the people of this great republic, if they give
their sanction to vest so much power as the bill
in the hands of the Executive. He IL
Illustrated his argument by citing the fate of the
ancient republics, and warned the people to be
ware how they vested the power of the purse and
the sword in the hands of one man. He then in
stituted comparison between the claims of Gen.
Harrison and those of Mr.. Van Buren,, for the
Presidency, and commended, after stating what
each had done for his country, that Gen. Harri-
son was infinitely more worthy of the SURFACES
pie would select him to fill the highest Office in
their gift, on the 4th of March next.
In conclusion, he referred to the charge which
had been so frequently made against Gen. Har-
rison, of having voted for bill to sell white
men into slavery. He declared that the most
gross injustice had been done the General in re-
atisn to that measure, the object of which SEEM
ID to be generally misunderstood. He said that
he law of Ohio, for which Gen. Harrison voted, i
vas introduced into the House of Representatives
f that State, because, under the previous law, 1
many persons had been committed to the Peni- 7
eptiary for very small offences, until the system
ad become very expensive on the Government
The proposition for which the General voted, b
yas that persons convicted Of crime, for which g
hey would have been imprisoned in she PeniteA- il
AIRY, or confined in prison, might, at the dis
retion of a Judge, be sold as servants, not as d
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