The Litchfield County post., 1828-05-01

We approve the tone ofthe following arti- ce from the New York Telegraph of Satur- day. Every man who has at heart the hon. or and welfare of his country, should openly dlscOuntenance the violent and disgracefui acts, which the editors of the Washington Telegraph have been guilty ofcommitting at the capitol.
 Outrage.-Without departing from theline of strict neutrality. which we determined at the outset of the Merchants Telegraph to ob- serve, in relation to politicks,our primary ob- ijeLt being as we then stated It, to render this paper worthy of the strongest support ofthe community, yet we cannot forbear to repre- bend, in terms ofrichly merited censure, the unmanly outrage committed by a conductor of the press. on the son of the president 1.-the United States while engaged in the dis charge of an official duty, as private secretary of Mir. Adams. and quietly walking beneath the roof of the capitol, from one body to the other of our national legislature. The accri- monious bitterness of political feeling, during the present hotly contested struggle between adverse parties on the presidential question, may naturally be expected to vent itselfin vi- olent acts and language, which the excitement of the occasion wIll, in some. measure exten- uate, though it cannot excuse, and which will
 
 s'laged the portentious moral fever whic now infects the nation, with emotions of shame & regret.
 1 That any onepossessing the least regard l for his country or himself, for decency or law or for any of the ties and obligations that bind | society together, could be found, at any. l section. who would suffer personal or polit- lcal antipathy, pubIick or private revenge, SO far to obtain the mastery OfreasOn & man | Illness, as to make such an attack, in such a I place, at such moment, we could not be- | lieve. We most cordially hope that this second | insult to the dignity of our national councils this second outbreakng of indomitable rage l and venOmous hate, beneath walls that should l at any rate afford protection, if the laws are | to be reverenced nowhere else.---may meet with severe and merited castigatiOn. Persons l of all parties should unite in reprchensons, loud and deep, against such rancorous con- duct; which no provooaton can justify, and no cessation mitigate. Eie who shall have the l temerity to step forward as the apoIogist for an assault, at which every reasonable man, to. whatever political sect he may helong, must blush, twill exhibit an instance of analogous au- dacity, without being able to plead the palIia- tive of sudden impulse. We trust that none will be fool hardy enough 10 do so but that the press, from Maine to Florida, from the Atlantic to the Rocky Mountains, will join in one cry of shame.
 DUFF GREENE.-E,erybody. that is every newspaper reader, knpws that Duff Greene. senior editor ofthe Washington Telegraph, is compmented with the title of General :" but few of them. we presume, are acquainted with the manner in which he obtaiBed this appellatIon. We extractan amusing acc oun; of the way in which he rose to distinction. | from the Illinois Gazette-" Duff was one of the beef contractors for the army when he resided in the state of Missouri. Being of l an Overbearing disposition, few of the other l contractors wished to travel in his company; but it so happened, at one time, that four of the droves met n the wilderness, on the way to the army. The others were not pleased with the .juncson of forces and the company of such reptile as Greene. Yet one of them possessed good deal of adroitness, and well knowing Greencs consummate vanity, con- cluded to turn the misfortune to advantage :: He therefore styled the collective droves the % Missouri brigade" and gave Duff Greene, the appellation of" General of the brigade.'' By this policy he made Greene very social companion, and as obliging for the time as ne udu IOFuleTIy Ueeu UTuASL. lie EaS ever since styled himself" [" General,' & shortly af- ter began to huzza for Jackson and the mar tial law. And although he was never Gene ral over any thing but brutes, yet the people to the eastward actually think that he was G. lected General of human beings in the State. of Missouri. Gaz.
 Shocking E:fects cf lntemperance.- learn that, at an early hour of the night be- fore last, woman named Mary White, was taking up in the street. much intoxicated and put into the back room of the Belvidere Watch House. Yesterday morning, at the time, of releasing the prisoners, one of the officers remarked that a woman who had been put in, had not been taken out, and on examination found a lifeIeSs body. It appear ed that she had tied her handkerchief to one of the window-bars of the window, and fas- tened her garter so as to form loon. upon which she had hung herself. The deceased left children, who, unlike their wretched mother, are all well behaved. and placed in good employment.---N r. paper.