Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-04

an,, foss of temper; but, if provoked, as s.';s, never shall allow myself to be, in- to elimination and recrimination, the hon. orable members may, perhaps, find, that, in that contest, there will be blows to take as we'll as blows to give 1; that others can state comparisons as significant, at least, as his own, and that his impunity may, perhaps, demand of him whatever powers of taunt and sarcasm, he may possess. commend him to prudent husbandry ot his resources.
 But, sir, the coalition The coalition! Aye, the murdered coaliion!" The gentleman asks, if I were led or frighted into this debate by the spectre of the cOalitIOn-" was it the ghbst of the murdered coalition" he exciaims, which haunted the member from Massa- chusetts |; and which, like the ghost of Ban quo, would never down ," The murdered coalition !' Sir, this charge of coalition. in reference to the late Administration, is not original with the honorable member. It did not spring up in the Senate. Whether as fact, as an argument, or as an embell'shment' it is all borrowed. He adopts it, indeed, from very low origin. aud still lower pre- sent condition. It is. one of the thousand calumuies with which the press teemed, dur ing an excited political canvass. It was charge of which there was not only no proof or probability, but which was, in itself, wholly impossible to be true. No man of common information ever believed syllable of it, Yet it was of that class of falsehoods, which, by continued repetition, through all the or- gans of detraction and abuse, are capable Of misleading those who are already far snsIed, and of further flaming passion, already kind ling into flame. Doubtless, it served its day. and in greater or less degree, the end design. o1 hv uavinO dnnu fhaf if hnS sunk into the general mass of stale and loathed calum- nias. It is the very cast-oE slough of pol luted and shameless press. Incapable of fur ,her mischief, it lies in the sewer lifeless and despised. 1t is not now, SIT. in the pow er of the honorable member to gi,e it dignity or decency, by attempting tO elevate it, and to introduce it into the Senate. He cannot change it from what it is, an object of general disgust and scorn. On the contra ry, the contact, if he choose to touch it, is more likely to drag him down, down, to the place where it lies itself.
 But, sir. the honorable member was not, for other reasons, entirely happy in his allusion to the story of Banquo's murder and Banquo's ghost. It was not, think. the friends, but the enemies Uf the murdered Banquo, at whose bidding his spirit would not down The honorable gentleman is fresh in his read ing of the English classics, and can put me right, if am wrong; but. according to my poor recollection, it was at those who had be- gun with caresses. and ended with foul and trsacherous murder, that the gOry locks were shaken? The ghost of BanquO, like that of Hamlet, was an honest ghost. It disturbed no innocent man. It knew where its appear ance would strike terror. and who would cry out, a ghost It made itself visible in the right quarter. and compelled the guilty, and ths conscience -smitten, and none others, to start, with
 "Prytbee, see there behold look To!
 of stand here, saw him"
 Zheir eye-balls were scared (WaS it not SO. sir 2 who had thought to shield themselves, by coDcealing their own hand, and laying the imputation of the crime on low and hire ling agency in wichedness, who had vainly attempted to stiAe ths workings of their own coward conscenccs, by circulating. through white lips and chattering teeth, "thou canst not say I did it." have misread the great Poet, if it was those who had no way parta- ken in the deed of the death, who either found that they were. or .Jsared khat they should 6e, pushed from their stools by the ghost of the slain, or who cried out, to a spec Ire created by their own fears, and their own remorse, "avaunt and quit our sight,"
 There is another particular. sir. in which the honorable memhrr's quick perception of rcsemblAnceS mlEnt, SnOulO lnlnK, nave seen | something in the story of Banquo. making it not altogether subject Of the most pleasant contemplation. Those who murdered Ban quo. what did they win by it? Substantial good? Permanent power? Or disappoint- ment. rather. and sore mortiAcation-dus and ashes-the common fate of vauting ann bition, overlapping itself? Did not even- handed justice, ere long, commend the poi soned chalice to their own lips? Did they not soon find that for another they had filed their mind ?"-that. their ambition, though apparently for thU moment successful had but put barren sceptrs in their grasp? Aye, sir,
 "A barren sceptrc in their gripe.
 60 Thence tO bs srvenched by WRiineal hand,
 "No 30" ef teir's succee6ing.'
 Sir, I need pursue the alusion m farther. leave the honorable gentleman to run it out at his leisure. and to derive from it all the qualification it is calculated tO administer. lfI he fluids himself pleased with the associations, and prepared to be quite satisfied. though tho parallel should he entirely completed, I had almost said. am satisfied also-hut that shall think OE Yes, sir, | will think of that.
 In the course of my observations the other day, Nr. President, paid . passing tribute of respect to very worthy man, Mr. Dane, of Massachusetts. It so happened. that he drew the ordinance of l7S7. for the govern