Litchfield enquirer., 1835-04-02
A PoLTTTcAL cATEcHIsM.

ol RuiirRge the poor3 Who dispemsed wi'n Ooe nasuber of judeesf Who reformed lhs School sichf q n h ,I,rs," o"en ,I,e doors or she Siate Senate Who repealed the taxes On UiR'rs and appre"ucrs Who produced the State Prison reSormI Mao eeHD' iahed the free eniOymen' Of religious ~OFsO'P "'OS' discrimination? l
 q. Who ssood forward ia the rspubIican ranks da. ring a that time
 A. samuel A. Foot.
 l Who aa re,,uhiiean representative from llse re. paLiican town ofCheshire, Speaker oG the Honse! Menber of Congress aNd Senator, Gtays merIieu and received the confidence Of the repubicsu par.yl
 A. Samuel A. Foot.
 Q. Why do the Jaekson party labor to destroy him A. Because he is On !s.9Nesf tTa0s
 e. Who is Thaddeas Betsl
 A. An old Republican.
 O. Why are si,e republican, party called Whigsf
 A. Because they are fghtng for the liberties Os ihe people, agains, more thaR kingiy power.
 e. Why are the Jackana party called 'Torseef
 A. Because they huid ,he wiil of Andrew Jackson 10 be the supreme law of the and; because they n"! he may the Consultation us he H"derstaHas n' and thereby absorb she all the Oiher depart
 enis of the Govern,nenI; and becaaee they h.se ale ready annou need Martin VaO BuFe0 As Gea. Jnckaone RePGbicaRs ackaouIedge no fighf C sncces siop.
 e. Who are the leading Jackson msai .,,
 A. Tue 60, 600 office holders dependeaf on tne VIII ofGeneral Jackson pr their snpIori ana isaDle o he disRissed at bis pleasure, and othess looking ior gov pa.rusge t,he lnilans of annu al reveSne being in Gen. Jacksoa's sole k.eplneI
 o. Did the JHcksonpary ever have majority !" the General Assembly of this State :?
 A. Yes, tn l833-never befjFe ur since.
 Q. Did the Jackson party ever have aay hand or a- gsncy ," any oos q the above reio'"s a"d "p'e's-
 A No; not the sliehes, in any one instance.
 @. Whatthen have the Jackson party dohs Tor 'n's
 A. The laws passed at the General Assembly in 1853 show 1H that that party has ever dOne.
 Q. What those laws? -
 4. E0riy-seyen charters gsanted by them. Str BaRks chartered with capital of two millions eish, hU0dred thousand; Of which, single Jackson Da"k at Hartford had capital of one million five hundred ed plan of the Jackson party tast sprisg t they had majoriiy1 to establish d hank al New hasens with capital Of three millions of dollars, and branches iH each county. under the management of Van buren partizaDe and thus cbntrol the monied operations aud the eleeii0ns of the State.
 @. Did the Jackson Legislature of 1883 gsant a.y other chartered monopoliesf
 A. Yes, ra-soad company with capital of one mitiAn faallars irosn laxason Ill the dividends should amount to percent on the whole eapat--she charter ets.as aud Si,ion any sepsa"s similar and fee from tasatioa.
 C. think they must have been coe'eGt with that
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 O. Has tha, company large powers?
 A. Most enoTmoHs--most arisiocrac. unIieard of and absorbing; they may acs as executors and goar' syihout giving boads act Savings Banks, take advantage oT intancy, wid0whood and poverty they may lend money, lives aud spenalas iO alns"s' every thing N" despo,ic gosernssat ia Europe ever RfaDied such q chHrtef.
 Q. To whun was thai chasser eEan,edf 4-.A. To Raipa lngsrEail, Wm. H. Jones, Wm. II.
 O. You astonish nc: But sho dld li.e slockhOldere appoint siireciors vl that cnmpaMyf
 4. The stockholders ha. n0 anfhoriiy ny the char ter to cho0se direciOTs. They ai nplOinle by ihe same Jackson Legislature. He hand of JOab Wan BuseDl wasi~every lari 0fit
 n hA dir@e
 A. Yes--Jas. kanman, Wm. Nix, Wm- Mose'ey, Samuel tagi,aD, Wn. II. Es, Wm. H. Jonrs. Chas. T. Pond, Philip A. Cannon. Their names yoa viii find in all the printed charters.
 0. How lang io the directors hold their offce7
 4. During t.fe, unless they are convicted of some offence or teco@e pour. ,
 A. Every director must be . rich man-he must hold ., leas, thousand dollars of stock, and f he ceases i0 hold that amoun of stock. he ceases nIne. dia,ely i0 be director. Q. Dsyou asser, that such charter granted by fhe Jackson Legislature in l8332
 A. h s cerlai9 as ihat there is a sun in the Heay aaisldays SA e. And ,sose are the men who profess to he opposed. all monopces. who proiess ,obe the friends Orequat rights and of the poor !
 A. Yes-1hey Pr0fess much, "but he not deceived, for by their fruits ye shali know ,hem."
 Q. presume the Jackson Legislature of 1883 did nothing more?
 Company ni Hartford to lsaac Toucey lJacksn" eau ddate for Congress) an,l Isaac Perkins, Gideoa Welles, J0hO M. Niles, &gc.r notorious Van Bnrem men,, with capita, of 500 900 dollars, mad perpeiu. n and sreyocable ctar,er, and these ihe friends of ,,oor people aud opposed to nonopoiiess
 O. You astonish me--mOnopOy urOn nonopoly, all granted to the file leaders of the Jackson party?
 4. Exactly 90.
 O. Do they come to us with iis in their mouths when they declare they arsiocra,s, but lave the poor and are seeking only 10 establish the equal rights Of the peoplef A. Lock as their acisudge o their sincerity by tue Good Book. Domen gather grapes oi ihorns or 6gS | or lhisies7" There isA lOuchsiOne for yon. @. What hypocra. and deception! Did the Jack sou Legislature do any thing ese iN 1853? A. They did make one ia.p'orsmsnt" as they call h, that year. .
 @. What wasitf A. They passed the "boil up iaw."
 Q. What was lhal :?
 A. Look 'in the law hook for 1888 and you will ind ie. h s called the 6oit sp tos because Il au,horisrs tia hody ac psss nsaa a be toird sp cnegp &r. Ea poor man dies without kindred op ir,ens cU,s. ing to demand tue corpse within 36 hours ailer his death, the selecmen are authorized 10 deliver up tue body ai that pOnr mah tor dissectioM. @. S1ppnss living a Osfard ttor instance have p0Ir decFepd tn0lher with age aud poverty, lising in New Lnndoa, aud she dies saddeny. and ] dn1t hear of ilia slIir.y-six honrssus, the ieclmeR send me noceS or al least buy cheap wind. grave and decent hnrialT A. No. They may deliver up your moiherys body to any cannhal who has license practice physic will shock your feelings, by telling what he ny do with W But you guess for t 6 his proltef,y. Q. Sinp-l am faint A heart. Bal | thought the poor. whatever ihcir saiferines tn life might he. and God knows they are enough at asir raways found rest 4, They did-,ill the Legislature Of 1888 denied them che rights 0f burial,