The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-17

tO some degree or ueriStOus u IOrgeUlng the things which are around us, and before us, and which immediately concern us, we should employ our tongues, our pens, and our presses, upon any one topic, to which he had alluded. And was it any more wise in us, because we have differed on those topics, to resolve, that we would not now unite, in a regard to those objects, in respect to which our sentiments, our wish eS, and our hopes were the same. 1t was quite obvious to him, that the admin istration could only be supported on its own principles. When the President came into office he stated frankly and honestly that in his opinion, sacrifice of party feeling, and party prejudice was to be made. His sentiments had been full, and emph atic, st.ing out upon this basis, how could.it be said that the administra- ; ton was supported by those, who, while they professed friendship for it, denounced and prescribed others, who felt as much friend- ship for it as themselves. For his own part he thought it no want of charity to distrist such pretensions. How was It to be expected of men, who had no more in- terest than others in the matter, that they would be willing to breast the Opposition with which the administration was assail- ed if at the same time they and their friends were 10 be held out as objects of distrust and jealousy, and made the subjects of a narrow, selfish and exclusive policy? Had we not seen enough the result of such course In alluding to the inaugural sen- timents of the President, he did not mean to say, that they were any other than might have been expected, from either of the other candidates. Most of of them, if not all, he believed, had expressed similar sen- timents. Certainly the distinguished cite izen, who is candidate in opposition, had expressed such sentiments.-They were the necessary result of events. Differing in many other things, all parties had a. greed, in welcoming the peace 1915. The French revolution with all the sympathies and its antiquities, was then at an end. { Our own foreign relations were amicably adjusted, and the alien of party was con- sumed. So apparent was this, that he re- collected to have heard gentleman equal- ly distinguished for quick perception and forcible expression, say, at the moment of the peace, to the manner in which corpo- ration are sometimes dissolved, each of the two parties will now break its common seal. '
 1t was said to be lawful to learnsfrom an enemy, and the admonition m ght be aP- plicable to the present subject. If Mr.. Chairman were to imagine two leading gentleman in the opposition, to be confer . ing in Washington on the mode of sO intiu- encing the course oftwo different states, ,as to bring them to the parties of the oppo- sition; if he should suppose then, to sug- gest to one of these States, having the ma jority ofone political party, that it was im- possible for the present administration ever to treat that party with kindness or re- spect, and by the same post to urge in the other state, a dangerous partiality on the party, and press the necessity of crushing both it, and the administration together if he said, Mr. Chairman were to imagine such an occurance, he doubted whether his fancy would very much outrun the facts. 1t was notorious indeed, that this sort of topics was not used according to the lati- tude and longitude of the place where wan- ted. When it was thought peter by those who are opposed to the administration, to preserve party distinctions, they were pre- serued, and they are disregarded when it is better for the promotion of their own ob- jects, to disregard them.
 In this state of things he did not know, what benefit was proposed, by those who were friends to the administration, by dis union and division. They who had cleo ted the present President, if they remain united and firm, were capable of sustain ing him, and maintaining him in all just measures. But nothing short of 6rlnness and union could accomplish this object. The case was not one to be trifed with.
 Mir. w. said that he wholly abstained from any local subjects with which the en- suing election might be connected and he purposely forbore, also, from any re- marks on particular measures of the gen- eral government although there were one or two of these measures, on which it might naturally be supposed he should he desrous of saying something to his fellow citizens.-Iie concluded by saying, that in any effort necessary to maintain the ad- ministratisn against the undeserved oppo- sition, to uphold the government and car ry on wise measures for the improvement