The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-07
From the Louisville Journal.
THE PRESIDENCY.-NO. L.
TO MIR. WEBSTER.

The reading OF YOUR recent speech al 1ilch-
mond, has induced one of the humble nameless
million of your iellow-citizens, who admire your
talents and appreciate your capacity for useful
ness, to address you, and point to an achieve
mcnt worthy OF those talents and Of the utmost
Importance to our country.
With much pleasure, we found you indig-
naatly repelling the charge lately made by a
clique Of sol distant Democrats, against some Of
our Revolutionary fathers, that they had fought
for independence but not for liberty. With
equal pleasure, he read your high encomium on
our political institutions, and united IN your
prayer for their perpetuity. So recently after
YOUR nearer personal observation Of England and
her institutions, it is truly cheering to hear you
say that ours are not only above comparison,
but that the exuberance of the imagination even
cannot fancy anything better.
Continue, slr, so to speak and SO to feel, and
you need never hereafter doubt your reception,
| south and west of the Potomac We, Of the
south and west, view those institutions, if not as
| our country, at least as the embodiment of most
of national pride, most of our national glory,
| and all of our national hope. They are the
proud, prc.eminent characteristics by which we
are and wish to be distinguished from other ma
tons He who offers pure heart worship at
that sacred fame is truly our countryman; let
him have been born in what part of the Union
he may. He who best commends and best de-
tends it, we deem best deserving our esteem.
priced, the enjoyment of an unalloyed pleasure
was denied us By your solemn declaration that,
if we are to have a recurrence of the scenes re-
Gently passing in the contest for the Presidency,
these so Wanted and priced institutions can
not last for half century
1t is true, sir, you tell US that in the enjoy
ment of an enviable temperament, your visions
of the future are unclouded by fear or apprehen-
sion. All men cannot be so sanguine. Perhaps,
sir, in truth, you are not altogether so sanguine
Yourself. With 'Esangume temperament"
speaking under a bright October sum- in the
midst Of zen thousand warm Southern hearts,
with every fibre Of the senserium tingimg rap
turously under the influence of their applause,
all met for the enjoyment OF mutual Sr4tulatons
on the near prospect of splendid political tri-
umph 50 circunistanced, you can we'll be cxcus-
ed for not permitting the warning you had given
to cloud the happiness of your delighted audito-
~. You might well be excused for expressing
confidence not felt, and avowing hopes not en-
tertained. But, now that the gala days and their
occasions have passed, if the rule OF boOn-eoin-
partnership is to be extended, so as to exempt
from responsibility all language uttered during
an iutoxication from popular applause, it should
entitle the nation VOL as the friend to frank
avowal of the serious sober thought. This is
what it has right now to demand Of YOU 1t
has a right to Mr.. Websters serious sober think
ing, in his own private closet, upon that subject.
1t Is matter OF exciting interest to the nation,
when such man, upon the nigh responsibility
Of such character and reputation, warns us
that there IS any existing peril, which may limit
the duration OF our institutions to less than fifty
years
You soiemnly ask the Old fashioned RepubIi-
cans OF Virginia, whether 1t can be supposed
that this free Republican Government OF ours
can last for half century, il its administration
cannot be cha ged without such an excitement
oh. ,,.-.
Now, beg leave to ask you whether, when
there IS powerful party in the country, and
a man gets into the Presidency as the head of
that party" he can ever be turned out but by
just such another excitement, Just such another
revolution And, then, | put it to you in can