Litchfield enquirer., 1837-09-07

TUI,,f eyiH fhe &pOiIS RGfty 60 y0r Aseessf ss-- 'sshe fs,ilowfng article from the Boston At.ss' hiIS olT Tin happy and lively vein' tnS a..n; M .cr,lty with which the spOils party WI. nna themselves enveloped the coming sess.Ua - sSnncresa. for the want of able and quaii1ed lenders. They are all good at scramble, or at fhe previous question, but here their ahility ends. We cannot even distinguish U pre.nonitory symptom of union, or aplilty and as f5 any man of sufficient talent as lead sr of such a discordant set of materials as now compose the Van Buren party, they may look for him among the rank and file, and look in vain. They remind us forcibly of curate on the coast of Cornwall, who was disturbed in the midst of lecture to his congregation, by the cry of 'creck-a Ureck- when finding his hearers preparing to desert him, to gather up what they could for themselves, he detained them for mo, ment, by requesting of his dearly beloved brethren that they would wait till ne cOulo say five words when coming down IEotn the pulpit, and placing himself at tneir neaa, a he said. !" Lei ,is on start fair - and ran.otf with inc fleetesf of them. And so 1t IS, the Jackson Van Buren party are all on the a oui yiye'' and anxious to start fair to save what thev can from the wreck of the good shin . Experiment !"-N. Y. Mercantile.
 ssIt herins to be a matter of question axvhefher fife spoiIs men will have majority ;n the next House of Representatives, in Con- press. They have been cut up and confound- cd so unmercifully in the late elections, that they will not have time to recover their sen. seslsuch as there are, ,)and number theirkilied and wounded, before the extra session con- mences.
 ]" But admitting that they are successful in retaining their majority in the House, ~hat soiA they do tor leaders? The only bell-Wefn- 2 CTS, who, used to guide the flock in the track pointed out to them by their keepers nave severally disappeared, until now the herd IS Jeff without a competent chief. Amos Lane, Mason of Virginia, Cave Johnson, and some half dozen others, who used to give the cue 10 the subordinates, and conduct the skir- mishes with their antagonists, have been put out of the way, and none have been supplied, able to make good their places. From Maine, to be sure, they have Mir. F. o. J. Smith but he is of little use to the party, except in his exertions to muzzle the press and persecute the disloyal. MT. Cushman, of New Hampshire, has wonderful talent 2 for calling the previous question but this is very limited sphere of usefulness, and he will be of no service unless there is some one to take care of him. and tell him when to cry out MT. Speaker"
 "The New-York delegation of Spoils-Men is equally deficient in men of talent. Cam- breleng hardly has wit enough to shut door to without iaInning his fingers. As chair man of the Committee of Ways and Means, his inefficiency and imbecility were sufii- ciently exemplifed. His own party regard ed him as dunce: and he is remarkable for nothing except for the amount of igno- rance, which he brings to bear upon every subject he attempts to discuss. Henry A. Wise can frighten him into silence merely by the shake of his forefnger. From Penn- sylvania, Van Buren has no one, who can as- sume the responsibilities of a leader in the House: The defeat of Ingerson deprived him of his last hope. Connecticut can pro- duce only six negative quantities. worth noth- ing, without 8 nnmeral to lead them. Me- Kim of Maryland has none of those qualities, which should characterize party tactician. He has not the power to originate, compel, and sustain.
 Patton of Virginia is man of ability, but his sympathies are all with the opposi-s . ton, and he is committed against some of the prominent measures of the administrations Bynum of N Carolina, who fights all the du- els of the administration, is fiery, ssnpGrliG- mentdry debater, who sputters his words forth in a manner, which destroys their effect ' He is us little calculated for leader as he is for an orator. Mir. Claiborne of Mississippi has a happy facility of eating his own words. 1 He may be found available in reconciling the professions of the President with his ac- tions, or in adducing arguments to prove that white is black. Having comnitted himself against National Bank and subsequently, in favor of one. he possesses an advantage one day engage the Loco Focos by his blan- hn nvf 10 Jvy full in alluriH the Bank men to his support.
 ~ We arc Hclined to think that Hamer of Ohio is the only man in the administration ranks in the House who can assume any of tho authority of a leader; and even he is not to be depended upon. Being quite . young man, his assumptions may be laughed at, and being mercenary man, his fidelity may be questionable. What a pity some of those great men in Massachusetts, designated in the Globe as the men, who are to put down the nioneyed aristocracy of Boston, could not be present at this juncture in the House to SUD- ply the alarming deficiencies of the party.
 While the Spoils-men have been losing their strongest men in the House, the Whigs have had an accession of strength, which will make their array formidable indeed. John Sergeant of Philadelphia, Fletcher of Boston. Hoffman of New York, Southgate and Mini. fee of Kentucky, will increase the host. which was already sufficient for all the pur. poses of controversial warfare. If the Spoils-men have majority in the House, they will have to carry all their measures by brute orce-decent argument and intellect- ual opposition will be weapons they cannot undertake to handle against such adversa- rIes as will be arrayed in opposition to them. The Previous Question will be their only re- sort: and Mr. E. Q. Cushman the great and einclent man of the party. "--Boston Atlas.
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