Litchfield enquirer., 1834-04-03

greatly curtaileds by tue present cOhsed state of things. Ba with the e0ce holders te case is quite different They are compensated by permanent and fixed salaries, generally subect alteration dur
 ing their of sersics and liable to none of those
 fluctuations that often prove runOus to men of bu- siness. They receive certain amount. i0 mOney for
 their services though s actual value should be douh-
 led; and such the avOrabeness of theis situation in
 this respect, that they abundantly protected from all the evils resulting from unusual increase of the circulating medium in the eOuniry,-and greatly ben- e6ted, fr their private interest is concerned by ts dminution. a7 .t..ss
 The Presidents saIary is S25, ,OOO auauaIIy-and if by any measure he may adopt, he derange the finances of the naaiOn, and bring about scarcity of money, in just that proportion he increases the real amount of his income. The more he embarrasses commerce and manufactures; the more he can ops press the labOring cass of the cOmmunity, and disrust and jealousy he creaie the more his pr
 interest and that of his dependents s promoted, If this system of oppression could be pushed far ough to raise the demand for money twice beyond i,s ordinary rate would be equivalent to the aidlioR of $25 900 more to his usaal saary-and the eouairy, though they would in ,hat pay him nominaiy bu. $25 OO0 yet would in fact pay what is ordinarily equal
 % $50,0O0. Now these remarks apply to the of the forty thonsand office holders under the General
 Government, well that the President. They all receive the beDe6t of increased reward GEtheir services when pressure is created upon the currency ofthe couatry They fatten upon public distress and amass foriwnes Som the. wrecked hopes of thousands who driven to baokruptcy and ruin by visionary experiment. arbitrary instance legislation Millions are thus bnsey added 10 the millions they al- ready receive-aad the present difficulties increase
 the tide of fortune is poured in upon them wiih acce erated rapidy. Each ofthe heads ofthe departments receives his $6,O0O annuay and all their numerous clerks their thousands also. Custom house officers Postmasters and land agents comprehended with in the same rule, well foreign ministers who sent to foreign courts and recalled and others in their places in order to dverge widely as possible the streams ofExecutve patronage. Yes, all the off, cers of the Government, from the President himself down to the merest tooi ef Postmaster, derive an
 mwediate personal benefit from the injury that has been inflicted upon oppressed country by the hand of an usurpes.
 Not oaly the inserests of these political men, dcan,s promoted by the increased salaries they have procured but land produce and merchandise have fa
 the of ineiing the double calamity upon the business population of paying their exorb.an, n- crease of salary and afording them the nccessares and laxuries of life at rate 30 far reduced as to a mount to little more than mere gratai,y. Thus of fee holders and demagogues are flching from two pockets at once-the con,ea.s of one no. being ade quase satiate their voracious appetites. The Chief
 Magistrate, and his train ofyassals and are still crying aer the people, the dear people bu. is
 base delusion got up ensnare them and bring them aI,~ .c. .L. |
 wiring from ihem the fruits of their labor and honest
 enterprseto reward ayores and parasites for ,heir
 blod devotion to his will obedience to his man dates.
 Frsemen 9, L;tchfeld County! there is no forbear- ance in the government towards you. One step of op- pressio" is bu, the necessary prelude of another.
 you would escape the caamtes of bad administra- ton, your only remedy is at the ballot box. There you may exercise the influence you possess in favor men and measures favorable your interests There you may act. aud there it your duty and your privi- ege to act. Let the event of the election on Monday next announce your jus. determination. BE TRUE | TO YOUR CAUSE, and you are safe. PuBLlcus.
 Methodists Cf Connecticut what think yow of the conduct of man like Mir. Forsyth, who makes spor, of the preachers of your secti Is par, of Jack sonsm thus 10 ridiculc the professors of religion and hold them up to public scorn? Nesc. .Ifuford.
 was to have been hoped that the Tyranny of the Parry which so boldly deprive ire emen Of their political rights, would least have spared RE- LEGION. ltis true that Mr. Page, member of Con. gress from the Saie of New-York used very impi- ous inprecaon, citing scrp.ural language y, and on various other occasions have the reckless retailers of the administration induged in like proane expressORs-buti it has remained for Mir. FOrsyh of Georgia, i0 ridicule of the most numerous pions and retiring sects of Christans-a sect remarkable for its submission 10 the laws and as numbering a. mong it's members Of the most useful and disiin- gnished Of our fellow ciiizensnamey the Meshodsss We ask those who belong to this persuasOn of meek and humble Christians, what be the nature o ha, cause which requires tn it's aid that they should be tus dragged before the Senate and abused by one of its membersf Mr. Forsyth, Senator from Georgia, Certain gentlemen who come here cOmpaining of l the public distress may we'll be compared with Meth- odist Pseachev exhorting his congregation, Gyoan Sinners Gr0Gn {"
 Surely ihat party spirit that could thus waniony buse whole Religious sect. tO sHsiaN their unalow cd violations of law by ridiculing the exhoriaons of Minister ot the Gospel, deserves the execraom of civilized society For what be expected from governmen one OfwhOse principal supporters makes mockery of the most sacred rights of our holy re gion? t}
 MT. Forsyth wus on the occasion 10 which we refer, very psoreriy rebuked hy Mir. Clayton of Delaware and the political par ofhis remarks fully replied io MT. Forsyth hy his silence when charged with he a,- tack on the Methodis.s hy MT. Clayton admitted it 10 be jast.-N. '. Mers. Aav. 1 {. THE JUDICIARY.
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