Litchfield enquirer., 1837-09-28

what do you think, sir, a woman in the house, sir, set out n report that Jim Me- AvoiftS was not dcad at all. but alive and well in New. Orleans; aud when the bo, heard this he thought bo might get int lrauble if he married another mans wife aud so, sir, said he this morning iO Mrs McAvoirty,--s Bjddv,' said he, Mrs. Me. Avoiriy's name is BidJv. sir,-' Biddy, says he, : I'm tOuld Jim McAyoirty is not dead at all, and if that's the case, says lie, Biddy, might get myself banged if mar ried yu,l, and you know Biddy, that would not be the least good in the world either to yop or. |. * We'll sir, Mrs. McAvoir.y tOstld him uf course, that JiH was dead and bu- ried, ,--heayen be his bed--and that she could get the coroner to s0rt.fy it, and the boy said that if She did he'd bring her to the priest this very evening, ,-and that's the whole truth of tlIe matter, is it not Biddy? .I s... ,,. 3,.,t
 Itis indeed, sir, said Mrs. McAvoirty, with modest smile, that's exactly tue truth, sir. h 5-szf
 The coroner soon after came into the office, and Mrs. McAyoirty got the so much wished for certificate that Jim McAvOirty was really dead, and Mrs. McAvoirty and her companion tripped out of the office, seemingly as cheerful as if poor Jim never lay cold and dead by the river side.'
 AMERICAN REsTLEssNEss AND RAPAc1TY. Tie following eloquent extract from Dr.. Channing's letter concerning Texas hits off prominent trait in the American charac- ter .,
 Did this country know itself, or were it disposed to profit by ,self-knowledge, 1t would feel the necessity oflaying an imme- diate curb on it's passion for extended ter ritory. It would not trust itself with new acquisitions. It would shrink from the temptations tO conquest. We are rest less people, prone to encroachment, impa- lient of the ordinary laws of progress, less anxious to consolidate and perfect, than to extend our institutions, more ambitious of spreading ourselves over wide space, than of diflasing beauty and fruitlnlness over a narrow field. We boast of our rapid growth, forgetting that tlhroughout nature. noble growth are slow. Our people throw themselves beyond the bounds of civiliza- ton, and expose themselves to re!apses into scmi-barbarous state, under the in-
 pulse of wild imagination, and for the name of great possessions. Perhaps there is no people on earth on whom the ties of local attachment sit so loosely. Even the wan dering tribes of Scythia are bound on one spot, the graves of their fathers; but the homes and graves of our fathers de,ain us feebly. The known and familiar is often cI,, I c.na ah Asala nj and nnfRndhAn n md sometimes the unlrodden is not the less eagerly desired because belonging to otl'- CTS. Wa owe this spirit in measure, to our descent from men who loft the old world for the new, and who advanced by driving before them lhe old occupants of the soil. To this spirit we have sacrificed justice and humanity. and, through it's ascendancy. the records of this young nation arc stained with atrocities, at which communities grown gray in corruption might blush. It is full time that we should lay on our- selves serious, resoluie restraint. Posses sed of domain, vast enough for the growth of ages, it is time for us fO stop in the ca reer of acquisition and conquest. Already endangered by our greatness, we cannot advance without imminent peril to our insti- unions, union, prosperity, virtue and peace. Our former additions of territory have been justified by tho necessity of obtaining out lets for the population of the south and West. No such pre.ext exists for the oc- cupation of Texas. We canno, seize upon or join ourselves to that territory without manifesting and strengthening the purpose of setting no limits to our cMpiIe. We give ourselves aD impolse which will and must prccipita,e us into new invasions oi our neighbor's soil. Is it by pressing for ward in this course that we are to learn self-restraint lslcupidity to be appeased by qualification Is it by unrighteons grasping, that an impatient people will be 1 instructed how to hem themselves within
 the rigid bonds of justice
 Texas is country conquered by our c't-
 izens; and the annexation 0i Y 10 our Un-
 ion will be the beginning of conquesis., which. unless arrested aud beaten back by just and kind Providence. will stop only nt the isihmus of Darien. Hence forth. we must cease to cry peace, peace. Our eagle will whet, not gorge its appetite on it's first victim; and will snuf a more tempting quarry, more alluring blood. in every new regiOn which opens s0ulhward. To annex Texas is to declare pefpetual war with MoxicO. That word, Me1icO, associated in mems minds with bOUndless wealth, has already awakened .apscity. Already it has been proclaimed. that the Anglo Saxon race is destined 10 tl'e sway of ihis magnificent realm. that the rude form of society, which Spain established there. is io yield and vanish before high CT civilization.