The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-24
From tue National mteUigencer. POLITICS OF THE DAY.


 POLITICS OF THE DAY
 We think that men of candor, of both of the present dominant parties, will concur in the prspriety of the subjoined remarks, taken from the Pennsylvania Gazette. It must be obvious to all that the old parties of federalst and republican are not array ed exclusively on either side of the pres- dential question. When therefore reproa- ches are aimed at either side, on the score of party opinions they may be set down, without offence, as the result of defective information, or deep-rooted prejudice. To show how completely the old parties are dispersed on both sides of the present lines, we might cite many of the names dis tinguished of old in federal and democrat- ic strife ; but that course might seem in- vidious. Let us then, take the body of Congress as representing substantially the truth of the case. We there find perhaps majority of the federal members among the supporters of General Jackson; but there are, some also in favor of the admin istration. So it is with the public journals Some of the most bitter of the old federal papers are arrayed on the side of General Jackson, but others are opposed to him yet the papers on each side of the North- ern States, Gin New York especially call their party the Republican par ercellence, and denounce their opponents as the fed eral party. The truth is, that there is not now at issue single question, nor has there been for years, in dispute, single one of those points about which the feder- alists and republicans contended in former times. They are as completely buried as the disputes between the Guelphs and Chi benines, or those of the Round Heads and the Cavaliers and it is just as wise, nec- cessary and honorable, at this day to quar- rel and call names about the one as about the other. We were on the point, some weeks ago, of expressing an opinion upon this subject, on observing some remarks in the Delaware Gazette Ia federal paper, & warm supporter of General Jackson) to the same effect, in which it remonstrated against the prints of its own side forlacer- ating tho feelings of their federal friends, 5y necessarily abusing their adversaries as the Federal party. 1t is in fact, an evid- ence of the devotion of the Jackson Fed eralists, so to speak, to their party, and of their determination, to sacri- flee private feelings to the cause which they espouse, that they bear without murmurng, the revilings which the Jack son presses daily pour out upon then, over the shoulders of the administration. It is time that every print, on both sides claim ing character for candor, should cease warfare of obsolete epithets, which no lon- ger deceive or influence public opinion.
 From the Pennsylvania Gasette.
 The National Gazette, of last evening, contains a we'll merited rebuke of the im- polite and offensive practice of political writers reviing and denouncing the feder- alists; and exception is justly taken to the vention. It is as illiberal as it is unjust but the present time is not the time to dis pute about words. There are higher du- ties to be attended to: and no Federalist will forfeit his exalted claims to true patri- otism by revenging personal insult at the expense of his country's welfare. Itought to be remembered that this prescription is not indulged in by one party alone. It was commenced, and is most offensively prac- tised to this day, by the opponents to the present administration. It is them that O. riginated and that continue the cry of fed eralist,' Hartford Conventionists,' Blue Lights,' &c.
 The spice of intolerance exhibited in the course of political denunciation allud- ed to, is doubtless sufficiently distasteful to the prescribed: but the simple fact that the true and genuine Federalists took part in the Harrisburgh proceedings is ample proof that love of country is indeed the ru- ling principle, and that their traducers pay them no mean compliment in relying upon it in the extent they do.