Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-11

NeW-EURlHIus lItdNIi!p N"C ~~O feet of the public lands, n which his success.
 nrrhaps. had been neither distinguished or satisfactory, and letting go, also, "f the topic of the tariff, he sallied forth in general as 1 sault, on the opinions, politics. and parties of New England, as they have been exhibited in the last thirty years. This IS snatura'. The ..narrow policy of the public lands had prov ed a legal settlement in Suuth Carolina. and was not to be removed. The accurstd P"I- icy' of the Tariff, also, had established lhe fact of it's birth and parrntaSe. ID the same State. No wonder, therefore the gentleman wished to carry the war. as he expressed It, into the rnemy's country. Prudrntiy Wiling to quit these subjects, he Was d"uht''sS oesi- rous of fastening on others. "hlrh could not
 be transferred south of Mason aud D'X"n'S line. The politics of New England became his theme and it Was In thls part "I ms speech, think, that he menaced me WI ltf' s"ch sore discontinue. Disco,niture! why. sir,
 w hen he attacks any thing which malnta'n' and 0, erthrOws it when he turns the right or lief, of any position which take up; when
 he drives me from any ground choose to oc-
 cupy, he may then talk of discOmfiture. but
 not till that distant day. What has he done Has he maintained his own charges Has ] he proved what he alleged Has he sustain
 ed himself, in his attack on the Government, and on the history of the North in the matter
 of the public lands Has he dlspro'ed
 Act retuted proposltl"n, weakened an ar
 gument. maintained by me! Has he come
 within beat of drum of any position of mine
 On, no. but he has "carried the war into the
 enemy's coun,ry" Carried the war into the
 enemy's country Yes sir, and what sort of war has he made of it! Why, sir. he has
 stretched a d: az net over the whole surface of ] perished pamphlets, indscreet sermons, trothy paragraphs. and furnng popular addresses over whatever the pulpit, in its moments of alarm, the press in lis heats, and parties m their extravagance, have severally thr""n "H, 1 in times of general excitement and violence.
 He has thus swept together mass of such 1 things, as but that they are now old, the pub lie health would have required him rather to
 leave in tEeir state of dispersion. Fora good long hour Ur two. We tad the unhroAen pleas ure of listening to the honorable member,
 while he recited, with his usual grace and | spirit, and with evident high g,stO, speeches, pamphlets, addresses, and all the tt ceterds l uf the political press, such as warm heads | produce in warm times and such as 1t would l be disconditure' indeed, for any one, whose
 taste did no: delight m that sort of reading. t" be obliged to pcruse. This IS hss war. This
 it is to carry the war into the enemy's c0un
 try. It is in all invasion of this sort, that he
 flatters himself with the expectation of gain
 ing laurelS, fit to adorn Senator's brow.
 MT. President, shall not, it will. trust,
 not be expected that should, either now, or
 at any time, separate this fa1rago into parts,
 and answer and examine :ts components.
 shall hardly bestow upon it all, a general re-
 mark or two. In thS run of forty years, sir.
 under this Constitution, we have experienced sundry successive violent party cOntestS.-
 Party arose, indeed with the Constitution it.
 self. and, in some form or other. has attended it through the greater part of its history
 Whether any other Constitution than the old
 articles of confederation, was desirable, was,
 itself, question on which parties formed if a new Constitution were framed. what pow
 CTS should be given to it, was another question; and, when it had been formed, what was, iD fact, the just extent of the powers actually conferred, was third. Parties. as we know, existed, under the first Administration, as dis tinctIy marked, as those which manifested themselves at any subsequent period. The contest immediately preceding the political change in 1901, and that, again, which exist
 ed at the commencement of the late war. are other instances of party excitement. of some thing more than usual strength and intensity. In all these conflicts, there Was, no doubt, much of violence on both and all sides. It would be impossible, if one had fancy for such empIoyme to adjust the relative qSa's- tuas of violence between these cOntending par ties. There was enough in each, as must al- ways be expected in popular Governments
 With great deal of proper and decorous dis cussion, there was mingled great deal. also. of Reclamation, virulence, crinlination, and a. buse. In regard to any party, probably. at one of the leading epOchs in the history of parties, enough may be found to make cut another equally inAamed exhibition, as that with which the honorable member has edifed us. For myself, sir, shall not rake among the rubbish of by gone times. to see what can find, or whether cannot find something. l by which can fix blot on the escutcheon of any state, any party. or any part of the coun- try. Gen. WashingtOns administration Was steadily and zealously maintained, as we all know, by New England. It Was violently ] opposed elsewhere. We know in what quar- ! ter he had the most earnest. constant, and persevering support. in all his great and lead Ing measures. We know where ms private l and personal character were he Id m the high 1 est degree of attachment and 'eneration and We know, too, where his measures were opposed. his services sighted. and his char acter Viliied. We know, or we m'Sht know, II we turned to the Journals. wh" expressed respect, gratitude, and regret. when he retired Irom the Chief Magistracy; and wh" refused [ Af has