Litchfield enquirer., 1837-12-07
From tke Knicker6Ocker, for NOUember. THE DYING BOY.


 knew boy, whose infant feet had trod l Upon the blossoms of some seven springs, And when the eighth came round, and called nm out l To revel in its light, he turned away, And sought his chamber to lie down and die; | Twas night he summoned his accustomed trlends' ] And on this wise bestowed his last request: Mother, I'm dying now! There's deep suffocatiOn on my breast,
 And on % my brow browys Iri feel the cold sweat stand Say, mother, is this death? | Mother, your hand! Here, lay it on my wrist,
 And place the other thus beneath my head; And say, sweet mother, say, when am dead, Shall be missed :?
 l 'Never beside your knee
 Shall kneel down at night and pray,
 Nor in the morning wake, and sing the lay You taught to me. ! Oh at the time of prayer, l When you look round and see a vacant seat, You will not wait then for my coming feet 1 You'll miss me there! ! 'Father, I'm going home! Where s6ere is one bright summer, always bland, | And tortures do not come; From faintness and from pain,
 esnsss doss nSs srs and Shall meet again!
 Brother, the little spot
 used to call my garden, where long s hSuIs aov.rs
 
 Plant there some box or pine, Something that lives in winter, and will be verdant offering to my memory, And call it mine. Sister, the young rose.tree,
 That all the spring has been my peasadnt nd sae' And when its roses bloom, shall be gone away-my short course run | And will you not bestow sing ono Upon my tomb? 1 .Now, mother, sing the tune
 You sang last night; I'm weary, and must sleep: Who pas t caued my name? Nay, do not weep You'll all come soon! Morning spreads over earth her rosy wings,
 And that meek sufferer, cold and ivory pale, Came through the open window, freighted with The fragrant od0rs of the lovely spring.
 He breathed it not The laugh of pesser-by l Jared like a discord in some mournfnl notes But worried not his slumber. He was dead!
 Second SigA-The New-Hampshire Patriot, after a!udng distinctly to the result of the late election m New York, aays-"T The intelligent observer will see clearly in the events which are transpring, the stea dy. onward progress of the principles of democracy and the certain success of the democratic party in the
 ws ye.s S ss s be :s sighted observer who can see any thing of the sort We are inclined to think that there is some error in the principles of democracy, does not in fact strike the vision of even the editor of the Patriot in exactly the point of view in which he would wish to have It, the following S ,ns R York E Assembly, Feder al Tories lOl, Democratic Republicans 27-Federal majority "A. Last year the Democratic majority 64 c principles. we wish may continue go on in the same way at least until the New-Hampshire elecuon
 How CAanged!--It is really amusing to notice the change of tone and manner of expression n the Loco siaee the late election. Every will recollecs with rably greeted Scarcely has she been alluded to ex- ceptin terms of the highest prase-such as "the En- pre stste," the "Pillar of dem9cracy. the corner manry" have been hailed the champions of liberty -the pride of their country-the flower Of democracy and every thing else noble and praiseworthy. In l fact, New-YOrk has been pointed to as an example for all true democrats throughout the Union.
 But 10! change has come over the face of things 1 New-York has thrown off the shackles which have rious democraey~ has spurned the foul spirit of Loco-Focosm-she has nobly refused the test which modern radicalism would have forced upon her-and 1 promulgators of these new-fangled notions. New York is but miserable bank-ridden State, of no consequence at all, compared with Pennsylvania or language of the Hartford Times at best but shl ly-shally bank democrats" and we suppose, always were cowardly set of vagabonds, without firmness l
 But what are we to think of the democrats of Maine of Rhode Island, of the twelve thousand addition in Massachusetts? Are these also mere "shiil shally bank democrats ?'' And those States at the South. what has possessed them7 All "shiIy-shally bank democrat" we suppose. bought bribed & corrupted | The democrats of Connecticut, however, according o" "sterner stuff" We shall ere long know what they are made of, and much mistaken if they do moi prove themselves of sterner stuff than to be more easily curbed and bitted than their brethren of New can see through humbug as soon as any other pec pie, and the first Monday in April will see them fol lowing the example 90 nobly set them by Maine Mas sachusetts. Rhode Island and New York.
 "Snee the New York election, -four has risen co 50 | per banel."-Hartford 1SMes. I P. S-Snce the Loco-Foco Convention last week whshey has risen cent sallou.-H Hastford C69y.
 TRerigAt sort ef ElogManee-" That rhetoric, says Seldon lis best which is most seasonable and catch ing We have an instance in that old, blunt com mander at Cadiz, who showed himself good orator. though not much accustomed to public speaking; = What shame,' cried he, to his soldiers, when oblg- ed to make speech to them' will it be to you. Eng ly Spaniards beat you that have nothing to live upon but oranges and lemons.
 The Van Buren men ssseEt, that t is only in sea- sons of danger and distress, that the Whgs come into power-and seem quite at los so account for ths. Nohing is mose obvious than the reasons for this It
 s only at such times that he PEOPLE get fairly reused un and attend to their own business and manage ther sa in their own way-and z. z tnsn a only n;s .ne and real patriots and statesmen ot the land called up on to render it theR assistance: The Whig then of ! course, come into power-and quacks and empincs sicians Greater praise could not be bestowed npon the Whig statesmen than the spontaneous and univeE