Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-27
SELF.PORTRAITURE.


 to be, severely rebuked through the ballot box.
 SELF-PORTRAITURE.
 John Cotton Smith, Jr. in his bundle of absurdities delivered at Gaylord's Bridge the 4h inst uttered the following TRUTHS to which we add another
 "The best of causes has ever had its traitors There was Benedict Arnold in the revolutionary army there Judas Iscariot among the disciples of our Lord," and there John Cotton Smith IT, in the whig party until he believed he could obtain profit by initiating Arnold and Iscariot.
 Again-for he seems to have placed mirror direct y in front him. that he might have full length view of himselt-he says:
 "Thirty pieces of silver was the bribe for which Judas betrayed his master but how much it took to purchase traitors ike J. c. s. Jr to the best inter- ests of confding constituents, probably be found by referring to the books of certain most infamous parties.
 Again-"It is very seldom that we ever meet with
 better test of hypocrisy than his that it runs to excess, and surpasses the candid and moderate tone of real honesty-that is, J. c. S. Jrs former zeal in the whig cause, and his present ardency in the tory ranks only shows his Hypocrisy in the he for merly pursued, or is now pursuing. What beautiful portraits he draws of himself no lmner could excel him!
 Once more. "Your superlative [democratic] saint when well scrutinzed generally turns out to be an unconscionable imposter." This likeness needs no cooring, nor no 0r marks to point the individual who sat for it, it is true to nature child or dunce would pronounce it at once to be J. c. s. Jr.
 8-We have rod in pickle for this young dema- gogue; but respect for his venerable and excellent pran nd dfat he heor parent, induces us to withhold it.
 CoPPER.-This useful metal has recently been ob- tained from ore quarried in Tonington Con. by MT. Israel Coe the entepsing proprietor and protector of the Brass Kettle mannfactory in that town-the first establishment Of the kind attempted in the United States.
 So says the N. Y. Star. We have seen specimen ot this ore and have been assured that is very rich, yielding large per centage of fine copper How ex- tensve is the mine we have not learnt.-Enq
 The following article we copy from the Journal of Commerce, not whig nor we believe Van Buren paper but sometimes little one way, and then little t'other, times and circumstances require. It is however on the whole ably and tolerably impartialy conducted :-
 Basis for Circulation.-A writer in the Evening Post inqures-how an adequate amount of gold and silver can be difIused and kept among the people to form solid basis for circulation? 7" He might well ask how pile of bricks could be scattered a. bout and diffused as to form solid foundation for house. The very question is absurd. And equally absurd is the answer which he gives, viz Banish Ne small note circulation And supply its place with spe cie, we suppose. And what then? Specie in clrcu- lation is basis for circulation; It might well be at the bottom of the sea- so far as that matter is con- cerned. We appeal to experience" Let circum- stances arise, as they recently did. when specie IS wanted, nay urgently needed by the Banks; will it come in from circulation? Not at all but it will dis appear just proportion to the supposed necessities of the Banks. It will go out of circulation, but it will not stockings and other "receptaces of things lost upon the earth" If the inquirer would know where to put specie in order to have n constitute solid basis for circulation, tell him very easily. StoD uGnay n the uaults of tse Banks Put plenty Of 1t there- Let the community know and understand that there is plenty of it in the Banks; and so knowing, they will take inc "rags of such Banks, when they would turn up their noses at the specie itself. Why? Be- cause except for small change bills more conve- nient than hard money. They are lighter and less bulky Pblc cOnuenience should be the sole regulator fer one, two and three dollar bls as pocket money, rather than specie why should they not be accommo dated On the other hand if MT Benton, any oth- er 1t humhugs, prefers to lug specie a. hIm load himself down with it, if he likes A few hun dred dollars would break his back An infant could garry the same amount In bank bills without knowing or subractIng from, the real basis of crculation-Gf is in the vaults of the Banks. There let it be- And let De ample: We will go as far a: any reasonable the 90 or 70 millions of specie which was ahoat in inc community the lst of May, been i'm the vaults Inf the Banks-had haLf of it been there-no suspension would have taken place. There was an abundance of specie in the country at that moment; there was more than we ever had before; and more than we shall very soon have ngain: and yet we were compel led to stop specie ayments. The was, because much of e specie iR circulation. And this was the only reason. was the prescription Of small bills