The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-24
For the Pilot.
LIBERTY'S IN DANGER.-FREEME
AROUSEl!

The political affairs OF our country have come
to most important crisis Our free institutions
have been Brought to the gorge of ruin; and
they are at this moment tottering on the brink OF
an awful precipce-the precipicS of destruction,
with the gulf Of despotiSm yawning beneath
With the steOrd and the purse of this nation in
his hands, Mr.. Van Buren, has already the pow
err of monarch. Hs has strongly recommend
ed a plan of recognizing the militia, which
would establish a STANDING ARMY OF
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN, to
be armed and eqltipPe5 at their olcn erpense,
one hundred thousand OF which would be sub
iect to his order and CONTROL whenever he nigh
please to call them out of our State into anoth-
err, and put them under martial la,c, for ten,
tyventy or thirty days at time, on the eve Of
an election to ouerutce the people, and to silence
all who mig ht dare to raise their voice against
oppression These are facts the most alarming
the most astounding. Why does he desire large
military force in time Of peace, if not for the
purpose Of orerGtoiRg us, and forcing us to a
submission to slavery, at the point Of the bay
Onet!
The enormous strides of power;-thc foods Of
corruption, laying waste the good morals of the
people the gross violations of the Constitu-
ton and the iatcS the perversons of truth and
Justice ;-crushing the liberty of speech and the
liberty of the press;-the attempts to destroy the
right of suffrage, or prevent the free exercise OF
it, bv brides and by threats,-by outrage and by
murder ~; are ssme of the startling realities,
which should rouse each slumbering patriot to
resista nee, before he be bound hand and foot IN
chains, tchen all resistance t1iH be in vdiH:-
and Freedom,
-s'Sighing through all her seats,
Give rigns OF NO, that all is lost.''
See your CONSTITUTION broken, lies
Trampled down by power!
There, beneath d tyraut's feet, il dies,
In FREEDOMS fatal hour!
Rouse frecmen, rouse! your COUNTRY calls
To rescue freedoms charter:
Arrest the traitors, who have dared
Our sacred rights To barter.
For shows the day, and now's the hour
To strike for freedom and for laws:
Resist oppression's blightng power,
or nobly perish in the
VIII freemen falter TIL their chains
Are rivetted forever?
And then resist-and strive in vain,
Their CALLING chains TO sever?
See la,vless outrage (9) stalks abroad
With base and black designs!
See ''ucto' spoil, (l the brides, az tine frauds 10y
Your rights TO undermine!
win We be bribed with shining gold,
To Jetray your country's trusl
Will We, like slaves, be bought or sold,
Fo corruptions gilt'rng dust
SRI 1T OF "16."A
Ten thousand thousand voices rise,
In tlrund ring accents 10 the skies
Away, away with tempting gold,
Nor insult dare to add 10 wrongs;
Ye, whr, yourselves, bought and sOld
Like slaves, in forty thousand tlrongs! (6)
Never will we TO tyrant yield,
Nor basely loose our freedoms shield,
The CONSTITUTION and the LAWS.
Wen triumph still, DER hrant's will
RESOLVED Ia be forever free,
Or perish in the cause
For Truth and Justice will prevail:
We trembling tyrantS, towards, fly
Yes, lremble at the vengeful fate
That thunders through the skyl
Never will we to a tyrant yield, sc.
VOICE or THE PEOPLE IN $780,
October 10Th, 1910. ANTEDos.