Litchfield enquirer., 1834-02-27
Extract from Mr.sWehster's Speech in reply Io Mir. |. atia5.r 4 Wright, Of New York. -


 another topic. Thisis an eventful moment,
 On the great questions which occupy us. we all look for some decisive movements of ppbIic opinion. As I wish that move ment to be free. intelligent. and unbiased ---the true manifestation of the public will --I desire to prepare the country for apo,h- CT assault, which perceive. is about to be nude, on. popular prejudice--another att tempt to obscure all distinct views of tho public goodl-;o oyerWhelm all patfiofisns, and all enlightened selfaintercst, by loud cries against false danger, and by exciting the passions of one class against another. am not mistaken, in the omen--T see tue magazine whence the, weapons of this war fare are 10 be drawn.saI already hear the din of the hammering of arms. preparatory tothe combat. They may be such asnis, perhaps. as reason, and jusriee, and honest patriotism, cannot resist. Every effort al resistance, it is possible, may be feeble and .powerless; biit for one, I shall make an tffort rt-aTd an effort to bts begun now, and to be carried on and continued with untir- ingszeal, till the end of the cpnfest comes. A Sir, | see intliose vehicles whictlcarfy .toihe People sentiments from high places, plain declarations that the present contfo- versy is but strife between one part of the :comnibhiis and another. hear il boas- ted as. the unfailing security, the solid ground, never to be shaken, on which re- cent measures rest, thGf ike lo0oy naturally hGte the rick. know, that under the shade of the roofs of tue. Capitol. within the last tweniy-four hours--anlong men sent here to devise means for the public safety and the public good--it has been vaunted forth as matter of boast and tri- umph, that one cause existed, powerful e. nough to support every thing, and to defend every thing, and that was---the natural ha- fred Of tAe poor Co tAc rich. 4.r.ss.; ts.. as Sir. | pronoupceah ahe author of such sem timents to be guilty of attempting detes- table fraud on the community. A double fraud; fraud which is 10 cheat men out of their property, and out of the earnings of their labor, by first cheating ahem out of their understandings.
 x. 1,ke ndthrdl hatred of ths poor to the rich" Sir, ii shall not be till ille last mo- mont of my existence--it shall be only when am drawn fo, the verge of oblivion. -when shall cease to have respect oraf- feciion for any thing on earth, thatI wiIl believe the People of the United States ca pablo of being cffectually deluded, cajoicd, and driUen about in herds by such abomi- nable fradds as this. If they shall sink to that poinr-if they so far cease to be men ---thinking men, intelligent men---as to yield to such preteuces, and such clamor. they, will be slaves already :; slaves to their own passions s--slaves to the fraud and knaveryl of pretended friends. They will deserve 10 be plotted out of all the records of free dom; they ought sot to dishonor the cause of self government, Ey attempting to, exer- else it they ought to keep their unworthy hands entirely off from the cause of Repub- lican liberty, if they are capable of being the yictims of artiices so shallow--oftrickss so stale, 50 thread4bare, so often praciised. so much worn out, on serls and slaves; and the victims, too, of wicked and nefarious design, so thinly cloaked- designs deep in, purpose and in wickednesss, but ,shallow in thsir pretences.9a .se, as,. 3f .s,osaa43ex4 sasl zHe natural hatred cf ths poor against tkc rich!'ie.Thc dangerofa a moDeyed ar. istocracy !'i'T A power as great and dan- gerous as that resisted by tic Revolution Y : A call to new Declaration of itidepen-, dence!' Sir, admonish tho People a. gainst the objects of ,outcries like these. ! admonish every industrious laborer in the country to be on his guard against such de- lnsion.l | I tell him.. the attempt is to play off his passions against his interests. and to prevail on him, in the name ofliberty, to destroy all the fruits of liberty. iI the name of patriotism, to injure and affiict his coun- try and in, the name of his own indepen- dence, to destroy that very Independence, and make him a beggar and slave, Has he . dollar.3 he is advised to do that which will destroy hall. its value., Has he hand to labor3 let him rather fold them sad sit still, than be pushed on, by fraud and artl- fee, to do what will render his labor uSe- less and hopeless. la'tts. ,a4 Ffs a'Qsss'ta
 SIR, THE VERY MAN. OF ALL OTHERS, WHO HAS THE DEEPEST iETEREsT IN A SOUND CURRENCY, AND WHO SUFFERS MOST, BY MS cHIEyoUs LEGISLATION IN MONEY MATTERS, IS THE MAN WHO EARNS HIS DAILY RREAI BY HIS OWN TOLL. saA sdecGyed cnrres9y sudden change ef price, pepper money. ta. ding betscsen pnsorsiHg sssd aOon, aud Ja.
 diag still loscsr betpeea noon dAd aight wkea au these things ezist, t is .ths per, kayDest time of specaIatOrs, and of th.
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