Litchfield enquirer., 1829-07-16

Ertrocts from tRe speech cf MT. EvEEETr, de-
 liuered Gt q public dinner giren to hins by the
 citizens cf I.eringtOn, Ken. on tte 17th utt.
 What have we seen of the newly settled portions of the Union the hardy and en- terprising youth finds society in the older settlements comparatively filled up. His portion of the old family farm istoo nar- row to satisfy his wants or his desires, and he goes forth, with the raternal blessing, and often with little else, to take up his share of the rich heritage, which tue God of Nature has spread before him in this Western World. He quits the land,ofhis fathers, the scenes of his early days, with tender regret glistening in his eye, though hope fnansles On his cheek. He does not, as he departs, shake off the dust ftlie ven- eratcd soil from his feet; but he goes on the bank of some distant river,to perpctu- ate the remembrance of the home of his childhood. He piously bestows the name of the spot where he was born on the spot to which he has wandered; and while he is laboring with the difficulties, struggling witl, tue privations, languisl,ing perhaps under diseases, incident to the new settlement and the freshly opened soil, he remembers the ncighborhood whence he sprung; the roof that sheltered his infancy i; tue spring thas gushcd out from the rock ot bis fathers door; where he was won't to bathe his heat- ed forehead, after the toll of his youthful sports the village school-house the ru- ral church; the graves of his father and his mother. ln few years new country has been formed; the forest has disappear ed, beneath the sturdy arm of the emigrant; !; his children have grown up, the hardy offs bring of the new cline and the rising set- clement is already linked in all its partial ities and associations with that from which its fathers and founders had wandered. d.--- Such for the most part, is the manner in which the new States have been built up 1; and in this way foundation is laid, by na- ture herself, for peace, cordiality, and brotherly feeling, between the ancient and recent settlements of the country. ,,t ,'%
 1t is, however, the necessary course of things, that as titc newly settled portion of the country is organized into States, possessing each tho local feeling and local interests of separate Rolitical communities, some prejudices- like the domestic disscn- tions of the members ofthe same family -should spring up among them, or be- tween them and the older States. These
 may owe their origin to the more exclusive settlement Ofsome Ofthe new States, from some of the old ones respectively to snp- posed inconsisfency-o -of aho interests ofidif- ferent sections of the country; to the di- versity ofmanners incident to the peculiar fly of geographical and social position, and the leading pursuits of life; ol to tho con- flicts of party politics which are of neces- sity, in . free country, otten capricious.a .and as violent as they are uncertain. From these and other causes, on which need not dwell, and without any Impeachment of the prosperous operation Of our system, prejudices may arise between che differ en: sections of the country, calculated to disturb that harmony for which deep foundation Is laid in nature, and which it is all important to preserve, and t possible, to increase. Torcmovc these prejudices, to establish kind feelings, 10 perfect good will between the different members of the political family, appears to me, without exception, the most important object at which patriotic citizen, in any portion oi the country, can aim. Our union is our strength and our weakness too: Our strength, so long asl it exists unimpaired and cherished; our weakness, whenever discord shall expose vulnerable point, to hostile art os power. Even the sepG- rate prosperity of the States, supposing they could prosper separately, which they cannot-is nos enough: I had almost said, is to be deprecated. They ought, fol their perfect safety, to owe their prosperi. in some degree to each other; to mutual dependence, to common interests, and the common feeling derived from it, ,or strength ened by it.
 It is with these sensim ents, (if l may be permitted to allude to my own public con- duct, before a company of gentlemen oi opposite political opinions, and on an oc- casion consecrated to the oblivion of eve- v topic of party strife,) that since have been member of Congress, ! have sup ported tho policy which aims to open oT perfect the communications between the different section of the country, particular ly by the extension and preservation ofthe National Road. The State of (which am a citizen has already paid between ono and two hundred thousand dollars toward the construction and repair of that road 1; and