The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-13

ven, literally kicked into it, like so many gall,
slaves, before they can understand.
Why, Mr.. Chairman, without intending am
disrespect to the honorable member, must be al
lowed to say that to refuse obedience to instruc
tions upon such a shallow bubble, is trihing
| contemplate and absurd in the extreme. Sir,
| would respectfully submit to the gentleman u
say, ii dog that has been well raised will moi
| go out of the house when he is hidden, and will
not wait to be kicked out.
Now, sir, the resolutions adopted by the LIE
| gislature of my own State, to which have al
ready referred, go much further tkan those of the
Legislature of New York, of which the gentle
man SO loudly complains. They are much more
| extraordinary in their character, it would seem
to me; and, from the tenor of the gentleman's re-
marks, cannot doubt but they would suit his
taste and that of his party precisely; for they not
| only instruct the senators of that State and re-
quest her representatives in Congress to vote for
this obnoxious and pestilential measure but all
others, which have been or may hereafter be, re-
commended by the President! 1 repeat, sir, that
l and my colleagues are not only requested to
support in good faith the FtIndependent 1'reasu-
ny scheme" and all its concomitants, but all
Others which have been may hereafter be
''brought forward" by the present chief magis-
Understanding army and all!
Yes, sir,-here is & measure, intended to ope-
rate as one Of the adjuncts ofthis tremendous and
fearful engine of power-I mean the Sub-Treasu-
~ bill, which proposes to organize the militia
of the United States into grand and magnif-
cent Standing Army of two hundred thousand
men, to be at the beck and call of the President,
recommended by the Secretary of War and en-
dorsed by the President himself. This measure
has been "brought forward" since the adoption
OF those> resolutions. But, sir, it is so bold a
movement-such open and undisguised at
tempt to clothe the President with absolute pow
er over almost one fifth of all the voters in the
Union-it has produced SO much CONSERVATION
and ALARM and has become odious and often
sive to the people every where throughout the
country, that even their own friends in Congress
do not dare to give it countenance. 1t is SO PAL
pably unconstitutional that the most ultra and
INSCRIPTIONS of the adherents of power in Con-
gress will not venture to stand up in its defence
The Committees on the militia in both branches
of Congress have reported against its adoption,
and could do no more, even on the part of the
friends of the administration, than to make pit
tiful and beggarly attempt to white-wash it over
and shield the administration from the odium
which attaches to it, by showing that it resem-
bles in some respects the plans heretofore propos-
ed by some other distinguished men, for organic
ing the militia of the country And yet, sir, the
Senators from the State OF Tennessee are instruct
ed, and the representatives requested, uncondi-
tionally, to give it their support
Now, MIR. Chairman, l submit, Sir, to your
candor to say, il ever you have known set of
men, uRder any circumstances, to place them
selves in an attitude before the country, so SUI
premely Ridiculous Do you believe, sir, that
such an instance of consumate syccophancy, and
base party servility is to be found in the annals
of the world
Sir, if those worthless, who composed the ma
jority Of the last Legislature of my State, should
ever again have it in their power to instruct the
representatives OF that heightened and indepen-
dent people, (cf which thank God apprehe,. nd
there is but little danger,) should thin IT would
be We'll for them to wait until ttley see whether
the friends of the administration in Congress will
support their own measures, before they instruct
those opposed to them to do 50 in advance.
But, Mr. Chairman, will only dctain the COM
mittee a few moments longer with this part OF
the subject can command no language suff-
GENTLY strong to express the sovereign and inca-
bic contempt entertain for these resolutions, and
their authors and which every honest and indie
pendent freeman OF whatever party in that State
must feel | cannot speak of them, sir, without
denouncing them as the offspring of set Of base
and subservient party-slaves, who acted p-.der
the command of one of the most unprjLcipled OF
all the serfs and vassals of power and as this
would be rather uncourtenus AID disrespectful to
the ma ority of the ,sla pre and the Go, or Tor
of my State, l will not do SO.
will only express p.y firm and decided belief
that these resolutions, are not only not in con.
formity with the will of majority of the people
of Tennessee, but directly opposed to it and that
her enlightened and independent sons will never
be content until they wipe off the deep disgrace
thereby cast upon her bright escutcheon. Nor
will they fail to infct condign punishment upon
those political harpies who drove the illustr'-
| and lamented White from their service nd thai
| of the nation
Sir, need not say in this place how much that
great and good man was beloved. honored re-
spected, may, more-=im 9 .,sav. almost idolized
by the people of that sts te He had been in theii
service for forty years and had filled almost every
once wifna thelf gift, with fidelity and devo
~ol 10 ieir inte test and prosperity almost with
out a. parallel in the history of this nation or o
4 lightene'.mos patriotic son. His character fo
| honest y integrity, frmness, and purity of inten
i top was unsullied as the driven snow.-Th,
| poisonous tongue of calumny and detraction wa
never able to fix the smallest stain upon his pr
yate or public character. Amidst all the vIcissl
tudes and changes Of party strife through whicl
he passed during his long and eminentiy usefu
career he was the same firm, inhexible and con
sistent Republican, and pursued the even teno
| of bis way looking to no ether end than hi
country's veal. With an enlightened and soun'
Judgment, and unwavering devotion to TIN
Constitution he adhered to his political faith
&C without variableness or shadow oil turning" t.
the latest moment of his life. And he had been
ESQ clear in his great office, his virtues
Will plead like angels trumpettongued, agains
, The deep damnation of his taking of;
And pity, like naked newborn babe
Striding the hlast--or Heavens cherubini, horses
Upon the sightless courser of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind"--
But, sir, because he would not abandon all hi
long cherished principles and chain himself un
| lxr 70 fhe Of
fused to lend himself to a band of political pi
rates and plunderers, and aid them in perpetual
ing their power, regardless of every other consi
deration but the spoils of ofice-because he re
, fused to follow them in their own abandonment
Of all their form, principles, and join them il
their mercenary and corrupt crusade against tn
r credit, the currency, and every thing connecte'
with the happiness and prosperity of the people
and because he refused to connive at their usur
; nations of mower. and their attacks upon th