Litchfield enquirer., 1837-02-09
From the Washington Telegraph.

THE DEED IS DONE I've have just returned from witnessing the last act of the political drama an act of degradation and abasement unparalleled in the annals ofmanknd. An act which, by settling the doctrine that Congress cannot preserve the powers conded it by the constitution, or lawfully resist the encroachments of the Executive, strikes fatal blow at the entire frame of our Government, and converts it at once into practical monarchy, with unlimited powers.
 The deed is done! The constitution has been gross y and wilfuly violated, and the Journals of the Sem ate have been defaced by those who justly merit the ne of ra'ors. The have taken the great charter of American liler-, and hasely laid it at the feet of strnq enough oexpress fe scorn and detestaon that hetit her cnrdLc '' eV mav have rewards for this -oemn nockery, but rhe ntamy of the ;,n.teod of falling on tho.c whom they !.end as victims, will be :heir own gnc,nin".
 The deed IS done! The majority of the Senate, or what was the Senate of the United States-at the midnight hour-an hour suited to such husiness-haye disgraced themselves-declared in the face of the whole world that they are willing to fasfy the public records, and outrage the constitution which they had s'corn to support a order to do homage to the Pres dent ot the United States.
 The deed IS done! In the face of assembled multi tudes from every quarter of the globe the records of .he nation nave been G from It's archives and pub- lcly defaced and fals6ed We did not, we could not witness this last act of individual baseness and na- tional degradation. We fled from it as from pest- lence Indignant and disgusted, many pursued the same course and. under the canopy of quiet heav-
 
 The deed is done The constitution is struck down by the paricidal hands of obsequious vassas. There IS no barrier left to the usurpations of power. The spirit of our once free institutions is gone and the life less skeleton of dead forms alone remains for and our cn,iiieil.
 est of what is to come. An American citizen, with out the slightest evidence, stranger in the gallery surrounded by hundreds, was rudely dragged before this midnight inqusition, and in defiance of every Amenca0 liberty. ia his defence!' This accorded with the whole pro ceedings of the day. They who knowingly trample rights of private citizens The time is past-the con test is over-De tiUe aoD under q despotism.
 The deed is dope But the voice oi G: insulted peo rys honor and the yioaors of her constitution, have yet to answer for the deed before the bar of public opinion They ask bnt for the gusrdon whichthe act dsse5yss Sf1p o They fNr w get 1.-THE BLASTING
 Uncle Sam is the name of a town in Louisiana, where the sale of lots off according to advertise ment on the l7th. Prices ranged from 100 to $500 lot of fifty feet front, and purchases freely made
 The United States Bank of Pennsylvania has pur- institution has perpetual charter and branches have been established in Savannah, Macon and Augusta.
 An Irish woman was murdered at Stonington Point on Sunday last. Her husband has been arrested on suspicion of having committed the horrid deed, and was undergoing an examination when our informant left The arch enemy of tke human race, Alcohol, is supposed to have been the chief prompter in the bloody work.-Norwich Courier.
 Ohio Seno'OT-What will the supporters of the right of instruction say. when they learn that the voices of te" Ou'0nd majority at the late election in Ohio has been utterly disregarded by the Legislature of that State in the choice of U. s. Senator The election took place at Columbus on "Wednesday last, when MT. William Allen was chosen by strictly party vote on the 18th ballot The vote was for Allen s5 Ewing 5s, blank h.-E0itiMore Pet /.