Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-16

iS u uuZzhAIAS dH0lrS III WnlCn Au1gS uhu Queens, Peers, Lords, and Ladies. with all the pride and revelry of Court, appear all the pomp of wealth and power, so that the very air seems to shine with jewelry-and with scarlet and purple. There the note oi is heard months before hand, and the affair is talked of as some ninth wonder fthe world! When saw the Foreign Min isters and Charges in the area of the Senate Chamber to-day, the breasts ofsome of whom glittcred with the stars of their order-their bright and dazzling uniforms and polished air contrasting curiOusly with the plainnesS and simplicity ofall around,I was struck more than ever with the great change there is in and customs, and feeling, between the other side of the water and this. Our most distinguished men appeared in their plain coats of dark or blue. There was Clay, who had distinguished himself as ne- gotiator abroad, begging of Prentiss his usual pinch of snuff. Rives, who had figured at the Tuilleries, was buried up in his big-armed chair. Buchanan, who had been on that eX- ile mission, which has been the Siberia ot our Politicians, was hanging down his leerlng head. The Tecumseh killer was in the Vlce Presidents chair. All was as plain, as sim ple, and as transformations as If q few Of us had gathered together in town meeting to set- tie about town tax---when one ot the most august ceremonies ever mortal man engaged in. was going on, and that, whole people making one man their chief ruler Thus have we now in almost every thing, cast off all forms, and all the mockeries of false dis play, trusting to severe and rigid simplicity, the which believe is well-for if we cannot preserve liberty and law, aoithou delusive ceremony, do not believe that we can long preserve them Wutb.
 The ceremony of inducing Col. Johnson into the Vice Presidency, was performed m the Senate Chamber at an early hour. me Colonel made short address, in which he felt sensible of the honor"-but it did not require half an eye to see, that the Colonel
 was "not at home" and m most uncomiof- table berth, which the country has given him. However excellent the Colonel may have been in " Injun-killing," it is quite clear, his gun will 20 amiss in settling points of order.
 About half past l2 o'clock, MT. Van Buren and Gen. Jackson, attended by the Senatorial Committee of Arrangements, and the Secre- taries of Departments, and the officers ot the Corporation of Washington, came into the Senate Chamber, upon which the Senators arose. They had been escorted to the Capi- tol by a company of cavalry, and ofinfantry also-and the Phaton made of the timber of " old Iron sides" was driven by four grey hor
 ses, MT. Van Buren sitting on the right, and
 Gen. Jackson on the left After sitting but minute or two, all retired, the Chief Justice, the President, and ex-President, the Secreta- ries, the Senators, and the Foreign Ministers, to the Portico of the east front of the Capitol, where Mr. Van Buren walked upon little platform erected on the steps, and read to the multitude around and below, his Inaugural Address. His voice was so weak, that he could be heard but short distance off, But tEe mass waited patiently until he was thro'; and then arose feeble shout. would do allthe justice could to the appreciation there liar occasion, for such mass, did ever see so little of enthusiasm or vivacity-and what there was seemed to be awarded to the move ments of the Illustrious Ch1ef'-and noI to the President elect. The concourse was great-larger it is said than in 1928, the pe- culiar facilities of travelling bringing more strangers in-but in 1928, the whole air rang with deafening shouts, while now but hat waved here and there-and the applause was sickly to the ear.
 The Inaugural was read few moments
 before one o'clock. Copies were then circu-
 lated among the crowd, and by this time also,
 it was on its way to New York. cannot say
 think it remarkable document. It has
 the fault of all Van Buren's compositions,
 many words and but few ideas. As to the slavery question in the District of Columbia, he is more explicit, but why that subject shouldhav been selected to occupy prom inent place in an Inaugural Message, I am left to conjecture, not to know. As to the Farewell address accompanying the Inaugu- ral, it is "Old Hickory" from beginning to end. The "Hero" could not go to the Her mitage without another kick at the monster' the U. s. Bank-and then again, we have a homily on paper money, when during the administration of this old Hero, who gives us the honily, has measures have tripled the pa- per circulation of the country
 The Farewell Address was not read. Af- ter Mir. Van Buren had finished the reading of his Inaugural, Chief Justice Taney admin. istered to him the oaths of office-and then all retrcd-the President and ex-President to the Ph9ton, and the crowd to their homes, or to the levee which Mir. Van Buren gave at the White House immediately after-whith- CT rushed the innumerable crowd-to see the East Room, or to shake the new President by the hand.
 The ex-president will, on tomorrow or next day, wend his way homeward to the Hermitage. Ihope he will not forget to leave that Currency Bill. which he has thrust into his brooches pocket. The idea of President stealing bill from Congress, then giving the
 People Farewell Address full of pretty
 things, and then not giving up the stolen bill
 from his brooches pocket, is not just the thing
 in this year of our Lord 1887! But Gen.
 Jackson is going home to kill two "mon- sters" there-John Bell and Bailie Peyton-
 whom he will not find it so easy to thrust into
 his brooches pocket, as the bill regulating the currency-but "mollSterS" he must have to kill, for the old man never lived day of his life without monster in his eye, from the time he tried to "assussinate" Col. Ben-