The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-09

candidates NOUld Oe equally ldNOIdole 10 al
effective organization and to successful lcfon
in the succeeding contest. This can hardly be
presumed. Much, it is thought, will dep end
upon the issue of the present election. Many
distinguished friends of State Rights Look up
on the coming four years as the proper time to
re. organize parties upon principle, and not on.
" so-but that such re organization will be inc
vitable, if General Harrison is elected If the
election of one of the candidates will afford a
more favorable opportunity For an organization
upon principle than that of the other, then, not
to vote far that candidate, equivalent as ii is to
voting against him, is to act in opposition to
our own designs. If, under the Admnistra-
ton of one we may, and under that of the o.
Their cannot organize with the prospect of sue
cess, then, our refusing to vote for the one,
wishing TO elect the other, defeats our object.
The course, then, seems to be plain one-to
vote for that candidate whose election affords
the farest prospect for distant and effective
organization upon the pure and cherished State
Rights doctrines.
Can the party be organized under the Ad-
ministraton of Mr.. Van Buren,? II is thought
not. Many causes will operate to prevent it.
There must be dissolution of personal parties
first. While they continue, a re organic alton
is impossible. The personal party, organized
under General Jackson, and now sustaiping
Mr.. Van Buren,, composed as it is ef the most
discordant materials, and bound together, as a
distinguished member of Tat present, once said,
by the cohesive attraction of the public plum
der" is united by no other common tie. Dis
solve this, and it is scattered to the winds
This tie, the reelection of Mr.. Van Buren,
will strengthen, ifitdoes not perpetuate 1t will
at least hold his personal party together for
four years more, and certainly postpone an or
ganization for eight. Moreover, the power of
ii - -
been, be exerted to cast the succession upon
the Presidents favorite-and whoever he NAV
be, one thing is certain about him, that he will
be acongenial spirit-one versed in all the arts
BY which Government retains power, and with
principles adapting him to their INSCRIPTIONS
use. 1t can scarcely be hoped that this power
will be exerted in vain Already so grown as
to be almost too powerful for the people, a con-
tinuance of it four years longer in the same
hands, it is greatly to be feared, will so increase
it as to make resistance vain. Mr.. Van Buren,,
then, will appoint his successor. He will come
into office sustained by party bound together
by the common tie of a participation or a hope
to participate in the spoils. continued use
of the same means will keep him in power--re-
elect him, and transfer to his chosen successor
the same party-and so on, ad infnitum, until
State Rights men become, ''like angel visits"
and State Rights principles are talked of only
as things that were. The defeat of Mr.. Van
Buren,, Givesting him of the patronage of the
Government, taking from him the dispensation
of ssthe spoiIs," win inevitably dissolve his par
ty. His reelection, while it unites and
his party, will divide and distract
still more the State Rights party The principles
and policy ofhis past Administration, hostile as
they have been TO State Rights-being, as they
no doubt will be, his principles and policy still,
ic-hf oNff ha Twill he cVthi
more frequent and more daring assaults, until
their friends shall have become faniliarized
with the most fragrant outrages and encroach-
ments, and, having nothing left worth contend
ing for, the party will become too dispirited to
be ever rallied. But even should it Withstand
all this, and awake TO determination to throw
off the shackles of personal party and rally upon
principle, it will find, when too late, that Exc
sutive patronage and Governmental power have
woven a web around it too artfully for it to an
ravel and too strong for il to break through
1t will find itself poWerless for good, and its
unsuccessful efforts at resistance will only in
volve it mere deeply in calamity, and render
its overthrow more certain and complete. The
State Rights purity can gain nothing, then, by
the reelection Of Mr.. Fan Buren,.
But, while the reelection of Mr.. Van Buren,
will continue, strengthen and perpetuate his
party, the election of General Harrison will as
surely dissolve the party which sustains hIE
That party. too, is composed Of discordant mata-
rails. One common tie binds tn em together.
They have but one objest in common-that OBJ
ject is Reform-ts check Executive power-to
stay the floods of offisial corrgptior-to reform
abuses, and to purify the Administration of the
Government. This object the election itself of
General Harrison will accomplish. For, what
ever else may be said of him, none doubt Of his
being uncorrupt and inc orruptible; and being
sbed ba1-
mon object. must fall lie pieces. Unpledged to
his support any further than his Administration
shall aim at carrying out the important scheme
of Reform, the State Rights members of his BAR
ty will feel perfectly free to oppose, and will
oppose him, whenever he assails their principles
Should he administer the Government upon their
principles, then their party calls to its aid at
once the power of the Governments and enters
the field more than equal-handed in the succeed
ing contest. Should his Administration be neu
trail, then their principles no longer assa1led
and they rally at once reunitedly with the State |
Rights men who have sustained Mr. Van Buren,. |
and make head upon their own principles, and
under their own men against all latitudinarians |
That his Administration will not be adverse to |
State Rights, his pledges, already alluded to,
give sufficient guaranty. All personal party |
being dissolved-every personal tie broken, State
Rights men will naturally fall back at once
upon their own principles, rally under them
and so complete and effective resrganization
of the whole party be produced Moreover,
State Rights having respite from attack for
four years, their friends, longer farniliarized
with, and if not inscnsible to, yet unresisting
the aggression made upon them, will be ready
to take alarm at the slightest infringement, and
band together in their hearty defence. Again,
however disposed Gen. Harrison might be, so
to exercise Executive patronage and to direct
governmental action, as to unite and perpstuate
his personal party, and to cast the succession
upon some lavorite Of his own; yet, in this res
pect he would be comparatively powerless Ex-
ecutive power is alsrmingly cumulative when
continued in the same hands, especially if cor
rupt MIR. Van Buren,, by long acquaintance
and intimate connection with all the elements of
Executive power, with its exercise, by loag
practice, reduced to perfect system, and brought
to bear upon every great national interest, and |
upop every political, if notevery social relation
of the whole country, appealing to every passion