The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-30
| HOLLOW HEARTED MURPHY.

s unfortunately the common lot of all, but it is
our privilege to correct the error when discover
ed and atone to the extent of our abilities for its
consequences, say it is our privilege, should
not say it is our DUTY to make PREPARATION for
all injuries to the Commonwealth, or to indivi-
duals, which are the result of an error, be the
same printed or spoken, and we the author, the
broad proposition is assumed in accordance with
our notions of Christian responsibility to the
command sDo unto others as you would have
them do unto you," for example, to satisfy the
cravings of a deceased appetitc-to sustain a
political conclusion or to convince the reading
community Of my thorough knowledge of men
and things, l publish to the world in semi
weekly paper of which am the editor, that in
the hard money island of Cuba, the laborer re
ceivcs three dollars per day for his labor, and
the skill of the mechanic is rewarded at a much
shigher rate that the maintenance of himself
and family requires no more money there, than
it does here, because " flour is seven dollars per
barrel, and the other necessaries of life are in
like proportion" this paper is the organ of
strong and powerful party, at this time in the
possession of the might and wealth of the nation,
and who are now striving by means of stand
ing army proposition, Z" to teach over the backs
and shoulders of the people their souls to shrink
back into slavery" Forty thousand permanent
oficehoulders, and an innumerable host of others
who are occasionally benefited by the patronage
of this wealth distributing party, together with
their friends and dependents, for phalanx, who
are directly and immediately interested from ecu-
MARY considerations in giving wide and ex-
tensive circulation to all papers, this among
others, which contribute to perpetuatc their
place-elevatcd positions. Not county, nor
district, nor town, nor village, nor hamlet, nor
corner of this State, but what is covered by this
paper, as was the. land of Egypt by the destroy
ing locusts.
The industrious poor man, deprived of the or
binary opportunities of maintaining himself, and
those who are dependant upon him for support,
in consequence of the hairless and destructive
measures Of the administration, has his attention
suddenly arrested by this publication he ex-
amines the subject as infinitely as its Importance
demands The price of labor is much greater
than it receives this country; the cost OF pro-
vidingfor his family no more. Hedetermines to
bid adieu to the green land of his nativity; he
relics upon the truth of the statement. Why
should he not? He has voted to place the power
of the nation in the hands of those who now
wield it. This is paper devoted to the inter-
ests of that party, when il has denounced the
merchants, mechanics, and traders of the land,
as Spectators and rag barons, he has believed
it. When it has solemnly and emphatically pro-
nounced that call who trade on borrowed capital
ought to break" he has agreed with it. When
it called upon &'thc democrats to arm themselves
and patrol the country, because the wings had
placed arms in the hands of the slaves to MUIR
der their democratic masters" He becomes hor-
ror struck, and forthwith picks the flint of his
rifle, and nerves himself for the deadly strife
True, his neighbor is his brother, and drew ''the
living liquid pearl Of democracy from his patri-
otto mothers breasts together with himself; is
the tenant of a EEnigger cabin" and a wing
He cannot, does not believe that he is party to
such ferocious and blood-thirsty design; onr
does he believe that others Of his neighbors and
friends, who are divided from him by an honest
difference of opinion upon political subjects, are
guilty of even the knowledge of such neiari-
Gus project Yet it is SO asserted by the organ OF
his party; and if those wings whom he knows
arc not guilty, others whom he does not know
must be- and he believes it. Is it asking too
much of him, then, to place faith in the declara-
ton that he can better support himself and iami-
ly in a foreign land, than he can in his own
The editor, from no ostensible motive other
than to exemplify some favorite political doc
trne sets forth the fact with priccs-current-lilte
exactncss. IT'S true, the reader is personally I'M
acquainted with the character he bears, where he
is personally known; but then the party have
endorsed it, by permitting him to be the herald
of their opinions and the conclusion is irresista
BILE, that he is to be believed in all things by
member of his own party. 1t is not mere specu-
lation to catch the unwary, but positive as
surance, which challenges the scrutiny of the
most cautious; nor is he called upon to behold
a mere glimmer, which sparlkles occasionally in
the gloom of the distance, but broad and pow
erful stream of light, which is to illumine the
narrow road to competence and wealth.
The period of examination has passed away,
and the time for action has arrived. He gathers
together as much means as he command,
leaves sufficient to support his family, if he
spare it; if not, he leaves them to support them
selves the best way they can, until he may be in
a condition to remit, and departs for the nearest
seaport town, to take passage for Havana, which
he finds will cost him fifty dollars and sometimes
seventy five. Upon his arrival in Havana, the
business of boarding up money is to be begun,