The Litchfield County post., 1827-01-26

teresting people, ard help swell the amount Of which will be sent to their re- lief Their oppressed and unhappy situation has already deeply affected our hearts; but our pity simply will not feed the hungry, or clOthe the naked-their wretched, hOuseless,
 naked, furnishing condition, must affect our purses, or our sympathies will not help to
 save them from extirpatiOn and national death.
 We have heretofore yielded a warm and
 free support to the measures of our national administration, because we believed those
 measures were calculated to advance the ma
 tional prosperity, and were in strict accord
 arcc with the spirit of the constitution. So long as the government shall pursue the course it has adopted, SD long shall we give it our
 feeble support, and no longer. But we have never been bought, never been G.Gliated, by Mir. Secretary Clay, as our good neighbour, the Times, broadly declares. It is really a. musng to read this oft repeated charge of the
 opposition presses, ,''against the papers which support the administration. It would not take great sum to buy the whole posse of the anti-administration presses but the na-
 tional treasury would hardly be sufficient to give cool hundred to each editor who is in
 favor of Mr. Adams and his cabinet. Talk of bought up and affiliated presses only
 supporting the administration Who provided
 funds to buy them, and how much was offer
 ed to you, MT. Editor of the Times, to join the clan Or was a greater sum offered, and accepted, to enlist you into the opposition Now We are not apt to be jealous; but real ly, this continual harping about ''bought" presses supporting ?" corrupt administra- tion," almost forces upon us the belief that you are judging others by yourself; and that you are principally vexed that the national purse is not in the hands of those who will pay the highest bribes. 7'ake particular notice we do not go as far as you have done, hy saying that such is the fact; we only hint at the possibility of the thing. This last charit- able remark of the Times, was elicited in con- sequence ofthe removal, by Mir. Clay, of the U. s. printing from the N. H. Patriot, and Eastern Argus, to two other papers in the same towns where those papers are printed.
 This act of MT. Clay is spoken of as an un-
 heardo act of arbitrary and tylannical pow CT. But who ever heard of man giving an appointment, which is purely and simply his gift, to most virulent enemy Is it indceda
 new thing that the printing of the U. s. laws is taken from,a political opponent and given to political friend! Was such thing never heard of before? How did MT. Hill get the appointment? How did the Secretary of
 State under Jefferson conduct this business
 Did he leave the printing with the presses appointed under Adams Administration !-
 How has similar business within few years,
 been transacted in this state Who had the
 state printing at Ncw-Haven last spring? Mir.
 Clay exercised no stretch of power,-he per
 formed no new act, in gi,n the appointment to friend rather than to a foe. The sum is HUI "o' LII CoH'CuuiH6 tahout, -oulJ Sioo,-- and the principle certainly is not an evidence of corruption and bargain.-The article alIu- ded to, was published in the Timesof the 18th inst. As the editor appeared so sens tive upon the subject, and his indignation a. gainst man who dared to exercise his own right in making appointments, waxed so warm, we confidently hoped that in his pa per of. the 22d we should see an article whip ping the It. Governor, Senator Hill, Sc. for their interference with the appointment of a sheriff's deputy; but we looked for it in vain. This was indeed a corrupt act. Had the appointment of the deputy been in their gift, no man could have complained had they appointed Mir. Baldwin in lieu of MT. Winton but it was not in their gift. They had the effrontcry to call upon the sheriG,who receives his appointment partly from them, to turn put a faithful deputy--not because he is political opponent, but because he dared to oppose part of the previous caucus ticket.- This subject presents theme worthy your pen brother Wells-a subject near home-and one, whether before unheard-of, or common, Al AZ