The Litchfield County post., 1826-07-11

be felt in the destinies of inc nation. You have right then, this day, to De proud of your native state; to be proud of being mem bers of the only community in the wOrlds which annually. receive more from their gov ernment, for the gratuitous education of their children, than they repay in taxes for its supp port.
 Though the soil you cultivate is rough with rocks, and though the air you breathe is often bleak and chilling, Yetrenlember that thebar- ren and rocky soil, the bleak and chilling cli- mate have made you hardy, perseyering and industrious. The true patriot will not be dis satisfied with his lot, because the mild gales of orange groves breathe not over his domains, or the richness and luxuriance of tropical re- giOns teem not in his fields; he will be satisf- ed that providence has cast his lot among the rough rocks, and in the cold and piercing air, and inc iron bound soil, of Connecticut.
 As members of this vast republic, you have many duties to perform and none more ne- cessary than forbearance. It has been propheE sled of us in the tyrannical atmosphere of Flu rope, that our government would be too ,nwiel dyt to hold together; that the separate interests and prejudice of it's different sections would soon destroy the artfully cOntrived equilibri- um of our constitution. Mutual forbearance can alone render futile this prophecy. There never was period of our government, when the American patriot could look back with a more grateful feeling at its success. The two parties, which, for so many years, ragged like a hurricane, on the ocean of our politics, have died away and the calm that now reigns, is serviceable to the best interests of our nation. The future historian of our country will un- questionably find much to blame, in the preju- dices of that excitement, and, in the influence, which the then two contending powers of Eu- | had wfs h.,%k
 ces, and the irascibilifies of these parties have expired, and the contest for power in our na- ton will hereafter, depend upon other causes than the old party divisions. Such was the character of the late presidential conflict
 any one of the candidates then offered for that high station would have yielded the govern ment of this country with an able hand. Your favourite candidate was successful; but, as, m his support you never assailed the reputa- ton or questioned the merit of his opponents; so, in the triumph ofhis success, you will pre- serve the same admiration of their military skill, their personal talents, their tried probi- ty, and their public services.
 Had they been successful, tho disappoint- ed, you would not have murmured. You would willingly have supported them, had they deservedit. Yes, fellow citizens: Iknow the temper and the feelings of those to whom \ never have been of those, who would have formed an opposition of the disappointed dem agogues of all parties; uniting, in an almost miraculous way, e"the lion and the lamb" in politics; connecting the frantic supporter of state sovereignty, with the advocate of con- solidated rights; associating the strenuous as serter of domestic industry, with the no less strenuous supporter of foreign commerce. You would never have opposed the favourite measures of any administration, because your chief magistrate was not born in the same sec- tion with you, or because he had appointed to ] office the intelligent of all parties. The peo- pie of New-England will remember, in sorrow and in anger, one thing, and trust one thing only, In this bitter conflict, that the main ar gument, brought against their favourite can didate, was, that he was northern man. They would not have felt thus and as suc- cessOr to the present incumbent, would never hesitate to give their votes for any one, who was worthy of the great gift; whether of southern or western or northern extraction. There was mani to whom Connecticut would have given her support with cheerfulness, with alacrity. Though the south saw his birth {; he was an American in feeling, in principle, and in action: but the waters of the Atlantic roll over the remains of William Lowndes and the admirers of his excellence can only lament his loss. There is yet another of the 1 sons of the south, over whom Connecticut claims by adoption, the rights of parent, and for whom at some distant period, when age 1 and experience had matured his virtues, she had prepared her suffrage for her greatest l gift but "oh! how fallen, how chang'd" is this her adopted son Forgetful of the dig nity of his office, of the responsibilities of his 1 station. of the future hopes and wishes of his country, he has destroyed the confidence of 1 New England and sacrificed to the malice of his opposition, the bright hopes of his future l career. --.j
 The extent of our resources, the reputation of our arms, and the enterprise of our people, are securities to Us against invasion from a. broad; the intelligence and virtue of our pop
 ulace must be security to us from domination at home. Our danger arises from the sec tional prejudices that may occur to divide and scatter our community. Let it be the aim then, of every lover of his country; of every
 one, who is desirous that liberty should re- main with LIS, and with the world, to put down every effort to excite these prejudices. Those continued bickerings of sectional spirit, those constant irritations of geographical interests will soon destroy the happiness and ruin the stability of our government FOrbearance should be the motto of every American; a II 1v,lxy <ho