The Litchfield County post., 1828-08-21
GOuNTX 9eOSC.
LITCHFIELD, AUGUST 81, 1925.

LITCHFIELD, AUGUST 81, 1925.
The accounts we give this week Of the assault made
upon DR.. Armstrong, and also Upon Judge Williams,
both of Tennessee, may well alarm every friend ofhs
country, at the distant prospect there is of the
of that bood-thrsty spirit which is alb road IN
our land. DR.. Armstrong knows the character Of
Gen. Jackson ;he is a citizen ofthe same state with
him. and he is determined that fthe people of tins
country will madlv elect him to the presidency, they
shall do it under full knowledge of all his enornit!es
and blood outlines. With this view lie has PUBLISH
ed several numbers over the signature ot"A Tennes-
| seean," which were well calculated to excite alarm in
a guilty breast. 1t beng known that he was collect
.ng documents for cont nuaon of the series, it
thought necessary that he should be put out OF the
way, and the attempt to accomplish the murderous
deed hasb been made Whetherthe Hero was Access
sorry to the deed not, is OF course not known hs
| example, however, can be plead in its justification.
Judge Williams had rendered his life prey, by his
having certified that Jackson partner in the
Burr conspiracy, in 1906. The Cheftain wrote to
him in June last, requiring him reract that stare
ment; which instead of doing, he fully supported by
the most conclusive testimony. Hence he must fall
victim to that spirit which is determined to elevate
Andrew Jackson to the presidency, even if it must
be done at the point $50 600 bayones." Jefersons
sentiment that might be tolerated when reason
left free to combat it, appears to have exerted
influence in these cases. 1t was known that these
statements were not erroneous and that the candid
judgment of every man would embrace, rather than
combat them; hence brute force must be applied to
thaIr ir1A I'll,
old proverb --Jackson has ever made free use of
the dagger and the pistol in settling all his
verses and his partisans are showing themselves
pert in the of the same, similar weapons. 1t
| would be superfluous to enumerate all the bloody
deeds Of his "blood and carnage followers; or
fer the assaults of Duff Green Russell Jarvis, Geo.
Kremer, and others, to prove that the practical motto
of the party u.s. "what be gained by fair means,
shall be got by lou
Every body has heard the vulgar EXPRESSION "feed-
ing treasury pap;' but every does not suffer
his judgment bear rule when reading the accounts
Of the expenditures and receipts of our public
wants. For effect the partizans of Gen. jackson
loud in their complaints of extravaganza in the pres
! ent administration. They know that to speak of hun
dreds Of thousands, and Millions being expended by
government sounds large and startling to the
muItitudes in land who the habit of dealing
only in dollars and cents. Thus the sum total of the
expenditures of particular officers under government
given, without stating any of the peculiar crcum
which required thousands, instead ofhundreds
of dollars. The reader without consideration, per-
laps startled, and ready say at that change
absolutely necessary for purposes of economy. But
with all the extravaganza of our government, its
pendtures tor other purposes than for the OF
the Navy, the erection of lortfcatons &c. which
permanent valuable pubic property, are not one half
of the income of the country, winch is derived with
out the laying of one cent of direct tax upon the peo-
pie. The Gnanciers of Europe, in comparing their
expenditures with ours, point to us as an instance of
the mos unheard of economy in the history otnaons
Their expenditures hundreds to tens. But
it is complained that our expenditures increase annu-
ay,---hat during the three years and half of Mr.
Adams service, nearly three millions have been
consumed than during the three and hafrst years of
| Mr. Alunroes Administration. But has nation
increased in ratio commensurate with this. and our
necessary expenditures comparatively far beyond it
Within this the expenses OF our foreign relations
have necessarily almost doubled. The republics of
South America, with other parts Of the world where
commercial treaties have been entered lnto have cal
led for large for the support Of minister's charge
de affairs, and consus. BY an old law our navy re-
ceives very large annual increase, and with it has
increased the necessary expenses of the naval esab
ilshment. Fleets now supported in different paris
the world for the protection Of our commerce. which
formerly was not done, a, least at so great
pensc. The growth of ourscountry has very greatly
increased the necessary expenses for public officers,
well for the support of greater number of rep
resentaves and delegates from the states and
territories. Ia this whining about expenditures,
travagance, waste of public money, sc. there is
shameless want of truth and candor,wel or,ny .tc
jackson party. They know ,!.ls the government Of
the country is strictly economica.tha, were not
sos the faalt is in the executive, which has no au-