Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-20

| ioe'S1S nave enSueo. LOUIS Phllnppe ana
 hls Court seem entirely engaged with the marriage of the Duke of Orleans.
 MIR. WEBSTER AT PEORIA.
 From Ae W. Y. Erpress.
 The Peoria Qllinois) Register of the 24th
 ut. furnishes an outline of Mir. Webster's speech in that place on the 2lst. Nearly the whole town and neighborhood had assembled at the court house, and Mr.W. spoke upwards ot an hour. The following are extracts:
 "I was opposed to all the measures of the late administration having reference to the l regulation of our currency, from the word co. The late President of the United States, a man of high purpose, ofstrong character, and a gallant and successful soldier, whose hon. est intentions l have never questioned, said, in 1882, he could submit plan by which the monied concerns of the government would be much better conducted and carried on. From that time the "experiment'' has been in pro. gress, and what does it prove? Why, that, | great soldier as he was, he was mistaken in ] his powers as financicr, and that the coun. 1 try is now in 8 condition far worse than it was then. Instead of the Bank of the United States, he has given us innumerable state banks, as Repositories of the public treasure, who act in no concert save the agreement si- multaneously to become bankrupt. A laugh.1 W ASlACL lnCy VIII DC dS uudulDlOuS to re- l sume specie payments remains to be seen.
 The government is the great receiver and dlsburser of the money of the country, and it glves character to the currency. Its effect on the currency is similar to the flowing of your rivers. Your Illinois and Upper Mississippi flow on, till the mighty Missouri, with it's vo- lume of water, pours in and gives to all it's ! own character and force, absorbing in it's course the Wabash, the Ohio, and the others that empty into it, while it pursues its resist 1 less way to the ocean. Thus there must be a controlling power to direct and give force and efficacy to the various state banking in- stitutions in our government. Such an one was the Bank of the United States, and if the government rejects it, it must find out bet ter way. On this subjec little experience is worth more than financial argument. For forty years, while we had national bank, we had the best currency on earth.- Does any man here want better one! For 40 years, repeat, out of AS, since the organ lzatlon Of the government What have the eight years been! Here is one oft them, Anno Domini 1887. laugh1 1872. '13 and "A were three more of them. hold in utter contempt the understanding of men who apprchend danger from nation- al bank guarded by proper restrictions upon it's charter. What did they do, who opposed it's re-charter, when they succeeded in de- stroying the last! They went home and ere ated new banks to the amount ften times it's capital: Gentlemen, you know nothing here of hard times. you cannot know them. Go to the com mercial cities, where men with handful of notes from your very best merchants and land holders of fthe west go to the brokers and offer them as security, at 25 per cent discount, for the loan of sums to meet bank engage ments; and failing to get them cashed, arc the next hour bankrupts. Go to the manutac- turing villages of ow-England, where you come from, and you will see mechanics and manufacturers, who have sent out 10 the south anG southwest their wares and goods, receiv- ing back again the notes they had sent out they depended for bread. EXECUTION, LEVY, RUIN!
 We have at the east driving, desolate wind, that sweeps over our Atlantic states, called the east wind, that oft times extends it. self to the base of the Alleghanies. But it seldom passes that barrier. Yet you may not escape it's baneful influence here. know not what measure of relief the Executive may have to propose, but I am prepared in my own person to suffer all the evils of dcran- ged currency, rather than give my aid to the establishment of a treasury bank, which shall give to the government unwarranted power. Yes, better will it be for me and for you to endure ten times as much, and to endure it forever; yes, rather perish credit, perish commerce, than to confer on the executive unconstitutional power, dangerous to our lib- critics. [Cheers.l
 Gentlemen, know not how long this state ot things is to last. But itcannot be got over speedily. Yet do not despair of the coun- try It is young. strong, and rich, and can bear any thing save too much prosperity" 
 Touching Incident.-Mr. Bussing, trustee of public schools, relates to us the following case of utter Restitution: A little girl, pu- pill at one of the public schools, who was gen. orally remarkable for her vivacity and amia- ble department, was observed one afternoon to be dropping in her manner, and neglect, full in her recitations. To the teachers in- quiry if she were i'll, she replied in the neg ative, but she became more and more inco- herent in her lessons, staring wildly about, and seeming quite unconscious of what was said or done It was subsequently ascertain ed that her strange conduct was the effect of actual starvation; not having tasted food since early the day before. She told her pitiful story with the modest reluctance that always accompanies real suffering; and gave as reason for fasting so long, that her mother was a widow, and could get no mon- ey.-N. Y. Sun.