Litchfield enquirer., 1837-09-28
foR THE ENQUIRER.

MT. Editor-I send you the following conversation which Happened to overhear in store the other day. thinking some of your readers may be little unused, asI must acknowledge was. .,4
 Mir, Az, who is violent Van Buren man, was rating out agsnat the whigs and charging all the trOu- be Ofthe hard times, &c which we are experiencing, to them, and to 0verradng and banks, and the like, and stating that Van Buren was doing all in hispow CT to assist the people. When MT. B., plain far ner, and an old fashioned revolutionary whig, who had fought many battle tor his country, walked up to him and asked him what he meant by oUertrGding, and how that was running the farmers and mechanics as he claimed? ,. s,,..
 Says he, I can tell you, and will give you an ex- ample. MT. M. a neighbOr of mine, went last spring and borrowed money Ut the bank. and bought drove of cattle, paid high price, and had to sell them tor about twothirds what he paid for them-ths is what Ical overtrading'' MT. B. "Then you think if a man buys more property than he cnn selihe next day at profit, that is overtrading'' A Precisely so that is exactly my idea of overtrading'' B. "Well Sir, how does this injure the farmer? You say they got high price for their cattle-I don't see as that was njuring, them; and as for the merchants and spectators, you say you want them to suffer. You care for no class but the poor farmer and mechanic
 A. "WeE, can state another case :, MT. J., mer- chant, went and imported great quantity of goods last fall he has had sell them off at auction at half cost to meet his payments; and now, since Jackson has put the U. s. Bank down, so that our bills wont go in Europe, they have been buying up the specie and carrying it out of the country to pay for them you cannot deny but this inures the farmers; to have goods sold to raise specie to send out of the country" B. lido not see as they were under any obligation to buy them, and even il they did buy them, which would be the worst for them, to pay half price full price for them? And as for the specie being sent out of the country, instead ofbs you have assigned pre- csely the and the only correct reason which can be assigned. A, "Well, there is one kind of speculating and overtrading which think you and every other candid man must acknowledge injures the country, and especially the farmer that is land speculation" B. "How ?. A. "Ican tell you by making people neglect their farms at home and they had better stay home at work and let the new land alone" B. But, sir, if man buys new land, he either buys it to improve himself or sell to some one else to improve for SO long as it continues waste wilderness it is of no worth to any one, and the only way make it rise in value produce any pro fit is by having it cleared and cultivaed and if a farmer can raise two bushels of grain there as easy as he can one here, do you think that will undo the country?' A. II see you are old revolutionary whig, and want nothing to say do with such men and as for Jackson and Van Buren, am determin- ed to do as they do, right or wrong Upon tha; he walked off in great passion. A SPECTATOR.
 DoINGs IN WASHINGTON.
 The summary of the doings in Washington seems to be this: A proposal of the subTreasury Bank to keep the gold and silver of the country for the Office palm off upon the people the Mint Certificates, the Treasury Notes, and the issues of the Banks. pro- posal next, to create National Debt of $l2O00O00 Jackson that he had paid off the National Debt; and then proposal to take from the People the $l0OOO GOO of the surplus Congress has given them. The Government in shortsw of dollars to get
 If in 1884, Whig had predicted this as the result o the miserable experiment., what torrents ot denun- caton would have been poured forth on the bead of p0nic-m0ker For eight years now, the party Tn pow CT have grasped the helm of the Federal Government and here now lies the ship of State, stranded. bank rupt an and ashore leave this great people prosper
 Trenty-tino millions of dollars in time of profound peace, with no caamities of Pestlence or War, the Government wants to get along! Thousands and Our ships are rottng in port Real estate drug on mems hands. Commerce is palsied Gold and silver are driven from crculation The Government now 1,
  experiment. has been rather bad one-but let us ex- pertinent again4 Genius of Humbug! thou god of Van Buren dolatry, thousands of party slaves leap, ready to tumble themselves under thy Juggernaut car
 a ". Y. EEpress.
 Maine.--Haye you heard from the "Saw-Mil! State, reader from the land of pines and shingles has been visited with h3rricdne, which has produ ced tremendous convulsion! The tempest of pub lie opinion passed over the State on Monday the llth inst. and totally annihilated Loco Focoism-.that
 InfNHE body polite It was mighty conflict-but when and where has any stupendous achievement ever been accumulated by other than gigantic efforts The % People are " Lords of the ascendant" s.a
 The scheme now under discussion, for the issue of Treasury Notes. providing for the creation Of ten mil
 lions of paper money by our hard money GoCernaenf, is another specimen of consistency. In relation to this subject, in connection with the law withholding the of the depOses MT. Clay, ,n the Senate on Friday last inquired of Mr Wright wheth- CT the money now in the banks was to be used as bank notes. or if the banks were to be compelled to
 sY s de H Wright 1ps RssH s heg gos sod %sa be used bank noes unless the laws should author ize them 50 to be used. "hen." said MT. Clay, it comes to this we have passed bl to take tunds ou. them to put them into the hands of others who refuse to acknowidge and make use of them. The States would have been glad to receive this money in the shnpe of bank notes and we have taken it from them Goyernment refuses to call them funds in that shape and to Governnent we have made them over by the bill just passed! And as Government, though 1t re- ceives these funds and prevents their being paid to the States will not acknowledge them to De funds there still deficiency existing, and this deficiency is to be supplied by issuing Treasury notes in order to say, Government will not receive the paper in the country, and is about to create paper of its own, which the country is expected to receive And thus, all the promises which have been made to us of the flowing of gold and silver all the country, these promises of better currency result in the iesue often millions of paper money e'-Horyord Corgier. ils