The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-03

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 At length these rumOrs of Caucus prOcee- dings, here, under the yeil of profound secre- sy, and under the mantle of night, arc cOnfr- med to us from authority in which we have implicit confidence. We assert, without fear of contradiction, that such caucus was held; that it was composed of materials the most ln- cOngruOus and heretofore discOrdant-OfFed- eralists. of Quids of Democrats Of divers sorts -that it was therefore convened, not upon the ground of a common sentiment on great fundamental rrincipLes. such as heretofore has been held to justify caucusses, but upon the ground ofa common object,strOnger even than the repugnance OfthOse who composed it to one another, (and Heaven knows how strong must have been the attractive influence to counteract the natural lrepulsiOn between some of them.) We have the names of most of these gentlemen, but We shall drag no names unnecessarily before the public. We should not have used even Mir. Van Buren's name in this discussion, had he not placed himself conspicuously in the van, and had it not been that he evidently deserved the honor, which the Advocate claimed for him, of being the .Master Spirit" by whose agency this eau GUS machinery was put in operation.
 The operations in regard to the public press began here by the prescription of the Nation al Intelligencer. by u political inquisition.- They carried on elsewhereb by different means. In some cases by direct menace,as in the case of the Harrisburgh Inteligencer; in others, by an operation of a different sort. which some times succeeds, and sometimes does not. In other instances, we find presses rising like ex- halations, blazing for awhile, and which, expiring for the lack of aliment, will soon leave nothing but an offensive odOurby which to remember their existence.
 Our object, however, is not at this time to fatigue our readers by asking them to go over again all the ground we have already trodden with them, but to place before them, in few words, the conclusions to which we have been led by our investigations. which are as fol- lows:-
 That there exists an organized Opposition to
 this Administration, right or wrong, which,
 though chiefly observable in Congress, is
 connected very extensively with the pub
 lie Press.
 That public measures have consequently been
 decided in Congress, upon the principle of
 party expediency. and with reference to
 the Presidential Election, rather than to the
 respective merits of those measures. That an influence has been visible in the Sem
 atorial branch of Congress, different from
 the influence of purely Constitutional con-
 alterations.
 That rumor imputes the influence to the de-
 cisions of a small Caucus or Junta, occa-
 sionally held in :his city, whose procee-
 dings have been wrapt in the profoundest
 privacy.
 That contemporaneous publications in New
 York, and communications to journalists
 in Richmond, make boast of this Organi-
 Zation.
 That, though the main purposes of this Com
 bination here is the regulation of the Presi-
 dential Election, it has other and subsidiary
 purposes.
 That one ofthese purposes is the subjugation
 ofthe press by means unknown to the law
 and inconsistent with principle.
 That the effect of the success of these opera
 tions would be to place the government of
 the United States in the hands of an organi-
 zed and disciplined party. instead of the
 hands ofthe legitimate sovereign, the Peo-
 pie.
 That the Hon. Martin Van Buren, a Senator
 from New-York, represents this party, and
 is necessarily the life and soul, and bone
 and sinew of it.
 That the success of this organization would
 be, therefore, necessarily, to place the whole
 ofthe routine of the high public offices, and
 all the important legislation of the country,
 under the absolute control of that distin-
 guished citizen.
 That such success would he an usurpation of
 the rights of the People, and a tyranny of
 odiOus complexion.
 Whether our deductions are just or other wise. is for our readers to decide, and for the present We willingly leave the question with them. Whether the concerns of this great nation are to be placed under the control of National Caucus, anticipating and superseding the ordinary forms of legislation, as well as the process of a free popular election, is grave question which we call upon the People of the United States to examine and decide That the attempt has been made to introduce this system into the General Government, there can be no doubt. Emboldened by par tal success, the Senate of the United States, subjected to the dominion of this system. has been exultngly proclaimed the controlling power of the Government, and even the ex- animation the Speech of a member of the boasted majority of that body has heen pro- duced as dangerous breach of privilege.- We shall see, in the result, whether these cor ruptions of our political system-these high toned aristocratic principles-this combination of secret purposes, with boasted power and asserted privilege, will be countenanced by the appreciation of an intelligent People, or will receive their indignant condemnation.