The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-30


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May %, 1910. -. &. ...lsi IS
TO THE ORIGINAL JACKSON MEN.
Men may change their names, and party lead
crs desert their principles, but the fundamental
truths remain the same. have told you that
e'hypocrisy is the tax that vice pays tofrirtue,"
and the only way that you can tell how far you
can safely trust public men, is to try how far thelr
present conduct is in unison with their former
professions of principles ise
When YOU see men use party names to deceive
and nlislead your judgment, you should distrust
them and withdraw your confidence. What
son of the revolution does not veneratei the name
of Wing? Yet you the party in power labor
ing to bring that venerated name into disgrace,
He who now addresses you, was among the
first to use the designation, Wing, as a rallying
word, in opposition to the executive encroach-
ments He has seen it gradually grow instrength
until it has been adopted as the name OF a great
party who are the advocates of popular principle,
in opposition to the concentration of the powers
.ofthe government in the executive. With view
sebring this name into reproach, the advocates OF
federal abuses, and of unlimited executive,
have designated us British Wings. Let US ex-
anime who were the British wings, and the prin-
ciples on which they acted. and it will be seen
that this appellation is now bestowed, from sheer
ignorance, as term of derision, upon the de-
mocratic wings of this country, both by English
and American tories. 1t was imported by and
with that masculine hero, Fanny Wright, the
idol of agragrianism in this country
During our struggle for independence, the
people designated the advocates of royal, unlim-
tied power over their persons and property, as
tories as is well known; and those who con-
tended against it, and for the power and Preroga-
tives of the people, as schigS. The correct
ness of this designation has been attested by the
abroad seal" of Jefierson's appreciation, and been
pronounced, by that apostle of democracy, as the
most appropriate distinction which ought to ex-
ist between the parties of this country.
In the present day, as in the days Of our revo-
1utionary struggle, the terms are still synono-
NOUS The wings continue to be arrayed a ggainst
the unlimited power of the scePtre--the throne
1.-The executive, which has grasped the purse and
the swor1l--and desires a standing army To awe
the people into submission. sf- -
In England, the British wings have occupied
a similar position, without possessing any more
influence over the political institutions of this
country, than the American wings could exercise
beyond their own limited sphere of action
The Earl Of Chatham--the elder Pitt, was a
true British wing, than whom the American colo
MES, both prior to the declaration of independ-
cnce and during the war, had no faster or frIner
friend. His efforts in their behalf were con-
slant and unremittng, and his name will be
cherished and venerated as long as civil liberty
has a votary, Inaugre all the sneers of federal
destructiyes at the name of British wing.
We commend to these revilers of British
wings, the speech of Chatham in defence of the
rights of the American people. They may be
found in the g American Reader" and stamp
him as one of the greatest champions of civil
liberty, England ever produced. ,s-1
is Many of those who constitute our nocturnal
professions on the eve of an election, never
heard of his name, and are utterly ignorant Of
the principles he advocated, of his espousal of
the American cause Operated upon by their
ignorance of plain fact, and the corrupt de-
signs of interested leaders, they have been in
duced to believe that British wing is a horrid
tyrant, political monster; and that an American
whig must be an animal of a similar description.
z 1t is our desire to undeceve Them and for that
5 purpose present them with authority which
they are compelled to acknowledge. Truth
being the same at all times, they will not refuse
their assent to the following doctrines embraced
in a speech of Mr.. Van Buren,, when in the SEN
ate of the United States, against the assumption
of executive power, at a period when he pos
sessed no bright prospect of ascending an Ameri-
can throne. s SIT asss 6 !,
81 sssIhe TORIES of England" said Mr.. Van
Buren,, ssstrive by all the means within their
y reach. TO increase the influence of THE
THRONE, 1.-THE executivel at the expense Of
the COMMONS and THE PEOPLE; and the
WINGS, to counterfeit the exertions Of their adj
,versaries, by abridging that dominion and inau-
ence, or the advancement Of the rights and the
consequent amelioration of the people. The
rory principles, seeking to absorb as far al
,,r.ss;sal,le. ALL POWER from its Legitimate
" eo,,rees. and to condenso it in SINGLEHEAD
the WING being the antagonist Prineipie, iaoo'
ing assiduously to resist the encroachmen's an
se3II; limit the extent of EXECUTIVES IHoR
z ,rY. The former Is essential II the M2tsAi
y and the latter the DiM0 es =
sspirit,of seciety = So
- Here then we have the highest authority =
stating that the iihslplez efsths Bisish = :,
American wings, making ForsF ~ z
= ths respective forms q Bee .sahsrnass' :