Litchfield enquirer., 1837-12-07
MR. WEBSTER ON THE MESSAGE.


 Our adversaries stand aghast at this revol
 of the People-this out-breaking of the mass for the People have broken out, and ask achat did a? What did it 1! Why will tell them what did it. The Message did it--the odious, the abominabIe, the frightful doc trines ofthe Message. Sir, that Messa"e pro- posed to extiDguis6 all the lights of civiliza- ton. It proposed a return to barbarisln. IL threatened to bring back the People, who created the Government, to the time when the Government created the People. It threatened to set up Government which should have nothing to do with the People who were governed. IL proposed, after 1t led the People through the Serbonan bogs and horrid ouagmires of destructive Experiments, to abandon them to their fate. It proposed to take the precious metals to itself, and to commit the commerce, the agriculture and manufactures of the millions governed to a depreciated currency of paper. It cut itself adrift from the community m which It was, and safely moored, cried out, Go, aban- don you to your fate. You speculated, you deserve it. You have overtraded. You arc Rag Barons Monsters, and all that " Sir, the People revolted from these monstrous propositions of the Message. They cut loose from the Government that put it forth. They set up for themselves. Even Maine, that the Administration considered its GppGndge, that no power could tear from it, raised up in re- volt. The Message scathed the Party, all a. long the line as it run through the State. Old Massachusetts was up in arms against 1t. It had not left for it Senator, solitary and alone even, in the State. Pennsylvania quiv- cred under the shock. New York! it had not left a, corporal's guard-there were not Coroners enough to bury itin the State. The
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 cial, anti every thing good. It struck at prop great revolutionary propositions in all our ideas of trade. It proposed odious distinc- tions of classes, and odious distinctions in currency. A howl against the merchants had been set up in it. A whole vocabulary of slang had been invented to deck them out with new adjectives and new tails to their names. It began to be crime to be a mer- chant in some mems eyes. We were told we could do without them, as if 1t were not step in the progress of commerce and civilization to have the merchant come in and effect the exchanges of the producer and consumer When they ask me, then, what has throttled the Administration, answer the Message did it. The Government committed suicide. It strangled itself. My friend (Mr. BelD and myself struggled day after day in vain. For eight long years have laboured, by day and by night, toawakep the People to the Exper- iment, and the progress of Executive usurpa- tion-but in vain. The Executive all atonce saved me the trouble of writing another doc ument; or making another speech. Its cold even of its friends. It struck its own party with palsy. As it entered the mountain glens of the country, or ran along the stream lets, it shocked every body. The farmer left his plough to fight it. The mechanic seized his hammer to knock it in the head. It re- minded me of the fable of Eolus. The King struck his cave, and let loose his winds, and as the storm gathered, and the winds howl ed, the big rollers of the ocean dashed all to pieces. The People would have nothing to do with Government that had no soul, no ympathy-nothing for them but new Expe= dients to delude them again into new bogs and new quagmires, worse than the old they were struggling in. @
 The President, however, perhaps has done and is doing as we'll as he can in these quag- mires where he is. He can't go back, for pledges, vetoes, letters, all obstruct his way. , He can't go ahead, for the people wont let him. What then can he do but founder where he is? The new Message on Monday next, perhaps will tell us, Lands ahead"- daylight is breaking -" the people are not so sick as they were'-"the Treasury Notes are, doing well"-" Land sales are to come on"-" and the Monster has paid up two mil lions we expected to lose." But the Sub- Treasury Scheme must be kept afloat, for it Is only scheme that can float the Water-log- ged Administration now. The Sub- -Treasu- ry Scheme, it is true, has been laid upon the table by the Representatives of the People, yet itwont lie there still, though the scorch- ing of public opinion is upon it. It will have its throes, and will turn aside, like the fabled giant under the burning mount-but never theless, we must keep the scorching fires of this mountain of public opinion uponit. Our duty as Wings is clear. We must wait till the time when the revolution of the people reaches the servants of the people. Many a battle has yet to be fought, before we can make these servants of the people hear what their masters have to say. My word for it, they will hold no man to instructions when instructions go against them-but the more they are defeated, the more desperate they will become. Asthe people cast them off, they will beg the harder at the Executive door for Foreign Missions, Consulates, and Charges. Our duty then is clear. Keep the whig flag fying-enduret to conquer. Keep the whig flag flying, that has never failed to lead the peo- pie to victory, aeuer, from the English Revo- lution of '60, to our own glorious Revolution of '76. It is flag of l50 years standing, and there is magic in it. Every body Knows what 1t means Itisthe adversary of power. It IS the friend of man, and the rallying cry of Liberty. Keep then, the Whig flag flying, andendure to conquer, for victory never fail ed in the end under such a banner. N
 a agaia sgssa5esW Aah ". Express.
 Inaportani Operation n--On Saturday an CD. eration was successfully performed in Exc. ter, of the utmost importance to the medical