The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-05-14

whore pyfsUns- ltsving business ei''ee
will please Ggallllss9A9 a,ssr.E zEsE7E h,L
ii CORRESPONDENCE OF THE ls'i 2 HOT %
Eadf lss s. = w AsHINGroN, May 18th; ls4o.
when the Senate sketch was sent to the FIlota
yesterday the question was not takenon Inc
= ,;,i ca, s relief of Hannah Laighton; it now
nsas,Ie to inform you that the bill was
= u be engF5ssed by vote Of 81 TO p
This bill though private, aAEakens m our minus ~
the recollection ofeyents connected with our gio-
rous struggle for independence, before aeiraT
,,ognes and @ily politicians had corrupted the
.15s,aosls Hannah LaiehtSh is the living widow
Isaac Davis Of Massachusetts, the first
fell il, the Revoiution, and is now in
= penury atthe advanced age OF "a years. Z MT
Webster, who took great interest IN TINS TINS oiii
rave vivid description of the galantry OF rhat
,o,,uo, hero, her husband. So heart stirring was
fhs painting ~ memorable event that all the
~ scenes yyers bcfsreyoi fresh and green q Though
they were then. only just being enacted Mr.
- Calhoun; Benton, King, ballard, and Ailen, OPP
esq This measure on the ground Of impeley,and
swelling theperasioulist opening the door,to all
the d ecendents Of the revalaien, but opposition
melted away. under The eloquence Of Webster
Preston, and crittenden n know not how 1t IS
Sc but really the best specimens Of American
orators thatI ever heard, have beeni ION private
bills connected with that sventful epoch, the A
"a Toer;can revolution Probably it may be on that
subject any honest heart is warmed by the noblest
and restimpuises Of our nature. In the patrl-.
otto labors in which yasa am am a
ware that YOU can have hut little time or space to
devote to prixatematters, yet such cases as tlPse
of Hannah Laighton are the property otzthe pa
ton. yonr READERS cannot fail to be interested
. in athing that gratitude still sNGlls N the Bo
SONS of American Statesmen, towards all who
participated in, such event eFenJlived IN that
tide of time. s4a1 ~ z ,e5e.st
Allen" in his remarks onthe 4snsiOnrsys
a tenn, said that pensions should be predicated on
service and in this cases, there had been no ser
VICE. G4vRat (sait Bft. Preston, with his form
extended to its utmost attitude, andhis eye dia-
ted no seryice?, Is blood no service? where
could the gentleman find higher or heller evil
dence efsefgice, than laying down life for conii-
fryn Mr. Benton,- that political JHsdus, that
turns ell hetoaches TO party effect, endeayofed to
say that this anatteInpt to graft an heridito-
~ pension system on the country, Could you
have seen the look of whitening scorn which
Critenden gave him, you would have been as
founded. Mr. Crittenaen said, in a case like
that before them, CHE living relique of the first
martyr Of the reyolutior,) he could not sit there
and boldly talk Of party az sxPeaieney=zhe uaast
obey the generous impulse of his nature; he
could never consent that this old lady should be
dismissed to heaven, with an opportunity to say
tohcr husband ssthat country for which you shed
your blood, left me Y. expire in peDuery'-the
effect was electric4a 'a,iiF y 7'ss p el. ,
After this bin passed, Mr. Benton endeavored
tomake political capital onaa report Prom the
Treasury Department containing letters from
the disbursing officers Of the government in an
ssssr To- questions put as to their selling or ex-
changing government drafts fof Bank notes He
launched out into a violent tiradc against the
Bank icfIithe u. S. that sent agents TO- way
lay government officers and extracts their
drafts for bills on broken Banks. 7.-4ess : = =
Mr.. Webster very cody told him, that il would
be better to look after corrupt agents who sold
these drafts and pocketed the discount, than fight
an institution over which the government had
no control. He desired no better commentary
than was afforded by the papers before them to
show the deranged state ofthe currency, and the
utter mpracticability of the government paying
specie alone, whenspecie was not the entire me-
Misunderstanding. Just solong as the present state
of things was persevered in by the government, |
so long should we have one currency for the peo-
pie, and another for the government, and the |
end, Would be that corrupt agents would sell gov
ment drafts and pocket the: discount, and Leave
the honest tiller ofthe earth, and the industrious
as1tt