Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-17
Roxbury, March Is, A. D. 1886.
"TEMPEsT IN A TEAPOT"


 Mir. Editor :-In the columns of the Patriot and Democrat oflass week, you will find paragraph which runs as follows :-
 "It is evident that the Wings are ralying to the 1 approaching contest with unusual vigor. There is a simultaneous cheering from their venal presses in ev- cry direction. What has so suddenly ed their courage and infused extraordinary vgor into their limbs? Democrats of Connecticut you little sus- pect the It is distant in it's location, secret in | its operation, tremendous in it's power. IL is more dangerous 'o the rights Of freemen, ia ial to purity and patriotism, awful should il triumph &c. Ii is taking it's secret measures to grasp np Connecticut and proclaim is first trinmphs in the destruction of her democracy. You arW feel | i' in the yoke upon your own neck"
 | "AngeIs and ministers of grace defend s!" What is the cause of this alleged encouragement, har,y, and general joy in the case, and of all this deep gloom, terror, and awful consernarion in the other What indescribable, what fatal calamity, moral, po- Iitical, physical, is about to bcfa the " exclusive ! immacuaies'' Of '35! What terrible and deadly in lection, secret in it's operations" and dishearlen ing and appalling to the simon fures, is now impend ing this land of pumpkins! What inhuman what partial and uneelng despo,, with treme ndous 1 power" dursi menace the "iwadders'' and " con- spiraiors" with alject suhjugalion, the extinction of their liberties in general, but with the destruction of their democracy in particular! What frghtful colIos- what canniha Of Cyclops is abost invade the fair borders of our peaceful State, and, without morse, and with appetite most keen, threatens to de. vour our loco focos and patent demos,'' Bank monopolis's and twaddIers;'' leaving unscathed and undis'urbed both in person and possession objects of special grace, the genuine Republicans of the land 1 "Where and what art thou, execrabe shape," that in secret measures" doth "grasp up old Connect cut,'' and swallow down her quasi democrats and pa 1 reniees! "Art thou spirit of health, goblin damn'd ]" Brng'st thou airs from heaven or blasts from hell7"
 Let him of the Patriot answer :-"It is the Bank' khe Bank he Bank $ aliue :! Ae old one!! Oh! Li6erty Liberty! Patriotism Patriotisns! thy rave $ d~g and theu in all thy beauty mast 6e entonbed for the " Bank the Bank is alive the old one"!!
 But, sincerely, ifthe above extrac: from the Patriot and Democrat can be gravey considered by its sub scribers without exciting the visibility of their nature, then indeed they odd specimens of humanity-per. feet boa constrictors beyond doubt The Kry- Stone Stote in the exercise of its constitutional and egisla. tive functions, deemed ths incorporation o single Bank, e matter of public erpediency; and chrslened l i, inc U S. Bank" "'rhe head and front of her offending hath this extent, more." Hence the Pa 1 triols affectalion of alarm, terror, &c
 l But, Mr. Editor, let the Patriot understand, that know ledge of the real Of this zeal activity and full alton of the republicans of this State achieve a triumph lhe approaching eleclion is no, found in the incorporation of any banking institution but, as patriots and democrats, io fact is entirely attributable 10 deep conviction of sense of du,y.- Their earnest desire is neither "iOaves fishes, !" bu, the consummation of the public good-o wresl the goVsrnment the ship of State from the hands of vile