The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-07-31
SHARON. July IL, 1928.
To The Editor Ofthe Hartford Times.

Lear oH---I nave JUST feaO 10 my surprise, In the
Lchted County Post, the following toast, imputed
10 me at a celebration of the 4th inst. in Salsbu-
ry:
"Andrew Jackson---We done good and faithful
servant, thou hast been faithful few things, we
will make thee ruler over many; enter thou into the
| Presidential Chair"
| Now, Sir, instead of the above, which l did not
! give, nor hear, gave the foliowng:-
'Gen. Andrew Jacksonville only living man in
this Union who has 'iled the measure of his coun-
try's glory,"-m his march be onward, until that
country shall have crowned him with highest hon
ours"
Comment is needless the deliberate and wilfnl per-
version of TRUTH by certain who claim to be ouer
p'ons, enlisted III desperate cause, have become
notorious. Possibly might, if could make up my
mind 10 ask il, obtain correction of the foregoing IN
the Post but that man who mpute to me as a
matter OF fact and make his comments thereon. sem
tment which never expressed, on his ''under
standing 1t to be So, Cannot have magnanImy enough
to correct errour, although he might be informed of
it, without attempting to Infllc wound more deep
than the errour itself. ANSEL STERLING.
We have no disposition to assist in rendering the
of the writer of the above celebrated BY con-
sidering him worthy of much newspaper debate
There are certain things the less you medde with them
the better. AS lawyer & as man we have no wish
to contend with Mr. Sits only when he aspres to
be "ruler among the people, "-aspres to rise from
his proper level that his name is worthy of con-
troversy. His opinions, whatever they may be, are
not worth quoting, as those of great man.
As to what Mr.. 5. calls deliberate and wiIful
perverson of truth. "---mpyng that manufactured
the toast ascrbed to him, we Can only repeat what
said last week---that writer ia the Times ex-
pressy declared that the celebration in Salisbury was
got up and conducted by the friends of Gen. Jackson
and gave some ten fifteen as an evidence of
the fact. The we ascribed toMr. S. was of this
numberthe that Mr. S. says he gave, yas not of
the number. Now whether the article in the Times
was intended as hoax upon its editors, ''de
lberate perverson of TRUTH" pretend not to say
We learnt from what considered good authority,
that but real Jackson toast uttered at the ia
Bile, and that that given by Mr.. Sterling Sup
posing the account in the Times to have been true,
AS far it related TO the toass said to have been
given, and also that the authority above mentioned
was good, we ascrbed the profane toast in question
to Mr. S. 1t does no, appear that but one Jack
son toast given the occasion, for Mr.. s. saws
he neither gave nor heard the other. So much for
what is called "wful and deliberate perversion of
the truth" Circumstantial evidence was very strong
in our favor, and men lave been hung upon Just such
kind of evidence. Mr.. s. himself has often plead
it in our courts oustco, without being with the
charge of "~ilful lying
"Orer pious."-This is cant phrase used by GER
the institutions of Christianity. 1t is seldom used by
protested gentlemen, and never before, believe,
was it used in this uanner, by individual who sup
posed himself qualified to represent any part of New
England in our National Congress. As the writer
is anxious, however, to become notorious he has
condescendedto use it for this once.
The charge Of want of "magnanimity," is beg
gng of the question, and really comes one day after
the fair" We last week corrected the error, and
that too without attempting to inhict wound'
upon the sensitive gentleman. In ''comments'
upon the toast the only "attempt' we made at
''wounding' him by indirectly calling him "tol-
erationist and il he is ashamed at that name-which
by his utteIng inclined suspect is the
let him change his coat again, and we will call him
an 'ociagonist"
There is one specimen ofthe genteman's literature
in the above, which we cannot but notice. where he
says, "the deliberate and wiIful perverson of the
truth, &c. shave become Notorious We would
recommend to Mr.. s. to procure forthwith, a new
work, recently announced in the political world,
titled, "the Vanity Of Human Learning," "wherein
are set forth the manifold advantages, in practical
point of view, OF ignorance knowledge, and the
sufciency of the manual exercise for president or
cabinet minister" There also sundry other works
ola like kind he would do well peruse, vis "The
inulity Of ideas to public men, "-"Moderate talents
best fitted for affairs ofstate ---Praise of Folk, &c.
&c.
1t has recently been proved beyond all controversy
that Gen Peter B. Porter, The present Secretary of
War, was in 1901 ,-only q years ago IA federal
st!! and that it this account that Mr.. Adams has
appointed him to the station he now fills. No charge
OF federalism of more recent date is made against
him. This crying political sin of Gen. Porter is bIa-
zoned forth in the Albany Argus as worthy of being
known by every man, woman, and child in the coun-
try No wonder that certain consistent republicans,
like - - ESQ.,, Of s., should oppose
the Administration What! support an adminstra-
ton that will appoint to responsible and lucrative
station man, who, q years ago. supposed to be
federalist, while many that belonged to the same
political schoolS years longer anxious for the Of
fee! Spirit of Timothy Twistum forbid it.
The forth coming Middetown jackson Convention
will n0t be wanting in numbers, ifthe sending of from
three to twelve and fifteen delegates from town can
collect them. The Times ofthe 18th gives the names