The Litchfield County post., 1827-09-27

look no turtner IMAM Tue prOKtnate cause.
They demand the abolition of particular du-
ty, or tear an obnoxious individual to pieces.
But they never think Of attacking the whole
system. II Constantinople were in the state
Of Manchester and Leeds, there would be a
cry against the Grand ViZier or the bakers.
The head of the Vizier would be thrown to
the mob over the walls the seragliO-a score
of bakers would be smOthered in their own
ovens, and every thing would go on as before.
Not a single riOter would think of curtailing
the prerogatives of the Sultan, or of demand
ing representative divan. But people ia
miliar with politics carry scrutiny farther;
and justly or unjustly, attribute the grievan-
ces under which they labOur, to defects in the
original constitution Ofthe government Thus
/ It is with large portion of our mechanics.
| 1t is not too much to say, that this is season
ripe for rebellion. This is acknowledged by
all the tory writers of the time. But all this,
they tell us, comes of educatiOn-it is all the
fault of the Liberals. We will not take up
the time of our readers with answering such
observations. We will only remind our gen
try and clergy, that the question at present is
moi about the cause of the evil, but about its
cure and that unless due precauti0n be used,
let the fault be whose it may, the punish
ment will be their own.
/ Logic.-It may seem strange at first glance,
but it is susceptible of demonstration, that the
last war in which this country was engaged,
was occasiOned by trespass committed by
Rhode Island pig. Yet it is very cleyerIy
proved in the extract copied below. Com
pared to the chain of evidence by which Mr..
Clay's corrupt bargain is made out, 1t is as
clear as any proposition established by Eu-
( cid:
CAUSE OF THE LATE WAR WITH GREAT
BRITAIN.
Some time since party Of village wise
heads, assembled in the bar-room Of the Far
mers' Hotel in S.--Rhode Island, where
exhausting their learning and temper in dis
GUESSING the causes Of the late War. AS the
dispute waxed warm and seemed about COM
| ing to the decision, so common on such "cca
sions, of bloody heads and dsfgured faces,
thus proving that we have enough Of the War
spirit among us, to make slight causes snlli-
cient to light the fame, say just at this crit.
ical period, plain honest farmer stepped foI
ward and interposed, with "dont loose your
temper gentlemen, you are all wrong. can
explain the whole matter to you. Orders in
Council, Berlin and Milan DEGREES, Free
Trade-Saors rights and all your nonsense
had nothing to do with it. The war was en-
tirey owing to neighbour Ms pig getting in
to neighbour Us garden. Hold still, gentle
men, and will prove it. Burrill you knew
was Ms lawyer and got the case for him. II.
was representative to the Assembly, from the
town of S. now you know Rurri and
Howell were candidates for Uncle Sans Sen
ate, and every body was at work enc side and
t'other, and after counting noses Burri!I's
friends thought all was safe, but when the
vote was taken, T. though he was a good
staunch Federalist, and of course bound to
vote for Burrill, remembering the pig law suit
would not vote for him, so that Howell by vo-
ting for himself, got elected by one majority.
Now, if it had not been for the pig law suit,
T. would have voted for Burrill, and he would
have been chosen Senator. Now don't inter
rupt Gentlemen nov, you all remember that
when the question of declaring War came be-
fore the Senate, Mr.. Bayard moved to post
pOne it six weeks, to give time to hear from
England, and his motion you know was lost
by only one vote-one Jerry Howell voting
against it. Now if Burrill had been there he
would have voted for the motion, the declara-
ton of War would have been deferred. Be-
fore six weeks expired news arrived that the
Orders in Council were repealed, and thus
l have proved that neighbor MS pig getting
into neighbOr Us garden, was the real cause
of it."-Hurrah from all hands-six more
mugs of flip; our town of S. has the
honor of having produced the cause of the
late War, aud of making gentleman of Gen,
JACKSON into the bargain.-for # it had not
been for the War he would never have been
the i" Hero of New Orleans''-& in that case
no body would have ever thought of him for
President !-Brooklyn ADJ.
Marine Court-Nep- York.-John Hudson
vs. James NJ. French, James Anderson. and
John Russel.-Clizbe for plaintiff-O'Con
for defendants.
This was an action of assault and battery
committed on board the Am. ship Ct. Britain
on her last voyage from New-YOrk to Liver
pool and back, of which French was captain
and the other defendants mates.
1t came on to be tried before Mr. Justice
Schieffin, one of the justices of the Marine
Court, on the ed of Sept, inst.
1t was proved by the witnesses for the
plaintiff, that, when this voyage commenced.
certain, regulations were read to the plain
tiff and the rest of the crew--among which
was one threatening punishment to any one
who should "S,Uear" while on board the yes
sci.
| That the captain, under pretence that the
plaintiff had violated this regulation, caused
him to be tied up, and had 90 lashes inflicted
on his back and loins with great severity
that the sailor had nothing on at the time but