Litchfield enquirer., 1834-03-27

this subject, ne says reeuOm Ot etecUOn being essential to the mutual indepeNdenee of Governments. and with the different branches l of the same Government, 60 Vitally cherished I by most of our consultations. it is deemed im- | prOper for officers, depending on the Execu | tive of the Union, to attempt to control or influence the free exercise of the elective right" He furthersays. to the officers under him, that !" he expects they will not attempt to influence the votes of others, DOT take any part in the business of electiOneering, that be- ing deemed fSncOnsistent with the Constitution and their duties to it."
 "In support Of the opinion entertain, will refer tO sanOther high authority. The pres ent Chief Magistrate, in his inaugural address, when speaking of Executive duties which demanded particular attentiop> refers directly to the % correction of those abuses that have
 brought the patronage of the Federal Cow ernment into conflict with the freedom of elections" Strengthened as I am by these expressions of opinion, feel the less hesita- ton in saying, that every officer Of the Fed eral Government is entitled to a free and Hnin-
 terruptef right of suffrage, and should not he { disturbed in the exercise of it; but when they
 become partisans in elections, andattempt 10 l control the elective Franchise in others, they
 should be dismissed from public employment;
 aud should be gratiied t0 see this principle acted out to its fullest extent, whether the of.
 Rcers thus engaged act with Or against the party to which belong. When see aa of- ice- holder Interfering. in electiOnsr the frst
 idea that strikes me, is, that he is thinking of his office and his. bread; and, therefore, aB
 unfit adviser OG those whose only object is the public good"
 | 1.-the honorable Senator will take the tF0U- 1 ble to visit this city, shOrt time before an election, he wiM have an OppOstunity to satis-
 fy himselEr that notwithstanding all that MT. JelieFso1 has saidy on this subject, that there is. perhaps not quite an army, but formida- ble corps of office-holders herer who are we'll drilled and oficered, and are engaged in car rying on the preliminary measures of Pres l idential campaign-who are among the most active of those who attend public meetings, and wifi be the most busy at the polls when the time of voting arrives. He will here have an opportunity of ascertaining the necessity, spoken of by General Jackson in his inaugu: ral address, of correcting '' those abuses, that tavs brought the pasronoge of the Federal Co., ernment isto conflict sciih the freedom of elec- tions." Although Mr. Jefferson declared it was highly culpabte in Federal officers, to in- terfere in tke business of electiomeeriag," Mr. Grundy will indv that. things have changed essentially since Mir. letfersOn's days, and that instead of it's being considered at this time as culpable. it is the highest evidence of patriOt. ic loyalty, and of course the sure and certain
 means Ofsecurtng Executive favor and friend ship.-N. y. Daily Adv.
 At Pittsburgh, Peun, public meeting was held on the 9th inst, fOv the purpose of re- ceiving the Report of the Delegation from that city to Washington. We extract some
 parts of the Report, which recite the Presi- dents share Of the conference between him
 and the delegation :-
 "Our reception was courteous. After the ! usual common place remarks. the President proceeded 10 notice the existing complaints of ] pecUniary distress-" The bank had, without any necessity, cut of the usual facilities in the west by refusing to buy bills of exchange ex- cept on the eastern cties-there was no ne- cessity for this-the bank had ample means to relieve the ec0Mn1Wnity-ten millions Ofspe- cie; when MT. Riddle acknowledged before Congress that six millions were enough The hank had begun to distress the whole country by calling in too soon-to protect the State banks, directed the deposites to be re- moved to them--if the deposites had not been removed, the State banks would have been crushed before this time." @a Ii The President said-. the Bank was call ing 10 100 1ase. LOOK AC the re0uctbOO Sne mas
 made in the west, without any necessty-re- l fuses to buy bills Ofexebange on New Orleans. She has ample meaus to relieve yOu---ten ml-
 lions of specie-when Mir. Riddle acknowl.
 edged that six millions were enough" The
 chairman was going on to explain why, at | Pittsburgh, the reductions of tlle Bank were
 SO great; and why. for time, the cOmnuni-
 ty met those reductions. He said that the
 reason why there was no great cry of distress,
 before Mr. Wilkins left home. was, the intro.
 duciion of what was to US foreign capital, in
 the stock of new Bank, the principal part of which had been taken in Philadelphia. and
 the increased capital of the Bank of Pitts ] burgh. Mfr. Wilkins here interrupted, saying -"geotIrmen, yea have taken h wrong view of the subject--you in,pute your distress to the wrong callse-y0u blaMe the adnsinistra tion instead of the Bank. The Bank began to call in before the removal of the deposites."
 He was going on enlarging, when the chair. man stopped him, saying" MT. Wilkins. am not capable of making set speech, in re. ply to what you may say, and beg io be per.
 mitted to reply to what may be said as yau got along. in a conversational way. The val ue of the President's time will net permit long 1 speeches-Me have not much to say, and
 beg that we may not be interrupted" While saying this, the President said-" Mr. Vii.
 kins Is right--Mr. Wilkins is right-hs takes
 right view of the subject" Mr. Denny