The Litchfield County post., 1828-03-13

electors. was not only preIniture, hut inCor- rect. The National Intelligencer says:
 "It was not probable that Mir. Madison & a retirement which they had sedulOusly cour tcd-ihe former of these gentlemen for iei years successfully resisting every attempt draw them forth int, the political arena. B why should any " reaction he produced b such an incident as their declining tO serve as Electors! His not the personal presence of these iliustrious citizens that is considered important, hnt the influence of their known opinions. We have long ago said that it would be contradictory tU the whole tenor of their political lives, to suppose that they were in favor of calling in Gen. J. to Onst from the Presidency Mir. A. who was ina ! manner, educated by themselves. He was brought into public life by both of them and placed by Mir. Monroe in. the office of the highest trust of the Government: which se- lection every reader knows was highly ap- l plauded by Gen. Jackson himself as it was by the whole nation, as being the best that he could have made. The opinion of these eminent citizens being knoton, we dc not see what effect pre- judicial to righteous cause, can be produced by their declining. at their time of life, with their retired habits, to make ] winter visit at Richmond. Even if it is supposed, that they will decline the visit, we do not see any ,reason why their names should be withdrawn. Those names indicate the pos iticaI Character of the whole Ticket; and if the hoDored individuals to whom they Belong fail tn attend the Electoral College, there is a provision, doubtless, made, by which vacan- cies in the Electoral Body might be filed"
 The Congress of the United States is still in session. Wethnk it necessary to state the fact thus emphaticaly, lest our readers, look ing in vain for some evidence thereof in any public acts or discussions of general utility & interest, might suppose it had adjournrd. This would be an error. Ii is still in session, 1 and has been sitting upwards'of three months during which some two or three appropris- tion bills have been passed, and the admins tration, in all its acts and members. has been constantly, intemperately, and undiscrimina- tingly assailed by the s,Dsmld be's. The sub jact actually before the House of Represent 1 atives relates to the continuation of certain surveys ordered at previous session to be made in reference to canals and roads. Moth. ing else apparently offering, upon which time | might be wasted, and the government be up braided. this topic has been seized upon, and the constitutional question, Iugged in by the ears, has furnished forth many long and weary period, by tedious orators to listless ears. Nothing in short is presented to the lconsderation of this enlightened body, that does not appear to be seized, upon, as me dium of detraction from the merits of the ad- 1 ministration; and the rule of action appears to be.-attack, vilfy, abuse, with some show of reason if possible; but at any rate, attack, ylIify and abuse. sGOnthis head we find the following observations in late National Jour nal: N Were any new evidence required to show the disposition of the Jackson party in rela- ton to internal improvements, it is to bt found in the tone and tendency of the discus siUns of the last week, on the appropriation to continue the preparatory surveys, under the act of 1924. There appears to be set tied determination. in that party, to cut up. or cut down-we will not be fastidiOus as to the precise expressiOn--every thing. whether institution or practice which has benefited, pleased, or honored the country. The attacks on the navy. on the army, through the mili tary academy. and now on the system of in- ternal improvement, through the surveys. & the clearly indicated design to strike blow at the manufactures of the country. either by the refusal to grant protection, or by the en- actment of bill which will niure what it professes to protect, all show the existence of this Ant-American and Anti ti-Administration party. "Perish the institutions and interests ofthe country, SO the Administration may be made odious ]" that is the motto and the po- Hey of theaparty. It is admitted by nine tenths ofthe House, that the question of con- stltutional power is not necessarily involved in this measure. They, therefore, who have wasted more than a .week in discussing the clause, cannot find any justification in their conscientious ScrupIes, Mere money has been taken out of the public treasury 10 pay for the time thus uselessly expended, than woudhave met the expenditures asked fol on those surveys; and this expenditure of time and money has been for no other pur- pose than to evince the deadly hostility of the party to measures of internal improve ment.--N. Y. Am.
 %W CONGRESS-,
 FIRST SESSION.
 Monday, Feb. 95.
 In the Senate, sundry resolutions were a. dopted for attending the funeral of General