Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-29

Words, not deeds, have signaIized his ca reer. No great public act is marked with the name uf him whose voice, was loudest and longestin the councils of,h nation due ring the most critical period Ofits existence. Such is brilliant man.
 Randolph could never have been New Englandman the production Oi such a being in that country would have been an anomaly in the operations of Nature and had the thing occurred, be would not have found himself in congenial element; he could nos have gained eminence there 1; the Yankees would have put his brilliant qualities tO a test ton rigid aud severe be- fore they greeted him with the title Oi ls New Eng land 5 fasorite son." The ec- centric salliss of fhs maBof Roanoke would l notl have pasaed for wisdom at Boston; ]; land most ass,iredly no forty thousand iIl- habitauts of Massachusetts would have re- turned him to Congress year after year, without tmoreevidence ofhis usefulness than he was accustomed to bear home atthe end of the session. A Yankee will choose his representative as he chooses his minister pr his every day coat-taking care that he wears we'll mud does good service.
 "Holloa you man taking a nap!" cried fellow from the gallery to represents tive whom he spied treating himself to a doze during a narcotic discourse wake up there! inc State don't pay you three dollars day for sleeping" Neither IS the Yankee disposed to pay lis representa- tiyes for talking. The Congress gentle men, it is notorious, are terrible long talk CTS, but among these the New.E England members are the least offenders.
 In spite of this predominant inclination toward the useful, the Yankee is no despi- ser of those arts which adorn and embellish life. The liberal sciences have no where in the country received such encourage ment as intNew- England. The cities, tiie towns, the villages, the country seatss the private dwellings display more elegance and taste than those of any other part Q the Union. 1.-the New-Englander is pru'
 dent, he is also charitable; he has not, like the European, the daily spectacle of pov' erty and suffering before his eyes, to rende' him callous to human misery: nothing IS more pvompt and elfectual than the succor which is here afforded to the needy pr un- fortunate. Some travellers have pronounce ed the Americans a sordid people, wholly occupied with the thoughts of gain, because no two men can be heard talking ln tue tstreets without using the word "doliar-- as ifpe6ple in the streets were accustomed to talk of any thing except what Dronghl them there. The Americans mind their business while they are about t, and do not mix that with their studies or amusensents. Is "pound'' or shilling" the most un- common sound that strikes your ear in the 1 great thoroughfares of London2 Is the mention of " sou'' never heard upon the uuays and boulevards of Paris ! Go where you will. the common business of life will occupy men's thoughts and language in the eternal city itself, your ear IS struck with the perpetual iteration ofa tAe word .baioc," and the Romans, fancy, never l were charged with a predominant passion for heaping up paols and scudi. But some people, when they get abroad, appear new CT to have had their eyes or ears open be- fore; they espy n,arvels which have beer common sights to them in their own lant ever since they were born. Doctor John
 son had these persons in his mind when h' spoke of an individual. not reniAFkable 10
 his shrewdness, who proposed to travel m to Asia for the purpose Of asccrtalninl what curious inventions might exist tber' unknown to Europe" He will bring homo wheelbarrow, and think he has made { wonderful discovery"
 Some one has remarked that the distin. guishing characteristic of the American ]! his .s want of loyality." This, of course was uttered as a reproach, and as the word is not American, it was pretty safe de- vice to make use of it,. What is the loyal tty of am American [ Is it a respect for the chief magistrats 2 He is sure to get all he deserves. Is it an attachment tOthe insti- tutions ofthe country7 Nobody ever de- nied the American this. Is it a. lovs fol his native soil ? Nor can he be proved to be deficient in this affection, till you ind him like the European, leaving his country foi ever. If itbe meant that the American does, not possess that feeling which would b.. stand by tho crown, though it hung upor bash, ,' she charge may be true enough for unless the crown hangs upon head- piece, Jonathan will guess very shrewdi. fiihat it is not worth standing by. To drop the metaphor, he will not fight in support of an old institution that has become use less. This, in fact, is the very head and l front of bis offending in the eye of many oi his {. unfriends, r and they were accnstom- ed to lay to his charge some years ago Inai | he had a sad and disloyal trick of throwing