Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-31
From GIs NsY- York EEprsss.
No. 2,

of khe ISC0 POELies, Aaguss @Ss iO"t'
 ID inc People of the United States an gemef0''
 and the sound Democratic Family ~ PH'-
 ,.. TNrr~a.v c:tTTzENs-In my last telI'd you
 ,here was no way of gitting along out of our
 nresent troubles till we got rid of the cause
 that i,,t lis into trouble-and that was PGTty
 .nanageuaent. I mean that kind ofparty man.
 aCement that, once gittin into power, contln- mes to keep power, by turnin all kinds Of pup lie measures right into their own mlli.- When the water don't run clear, it is pritty sure sign the old spring wants cleaning out'
 and | hone every man will look well to this pint. or else all our work is good for noth- ing. know it is pritty tough job to upset
 a party that has got hold of the biggest eena Of the stick but it must be done, or win them very sticks "we the people" gave them, they will crack our crowns. 50 tnere are no two ways about tive must teach our public servants to be content with me wages
 and the honor of office which we give en-
 and to execute the laws we have made TOT lM1r avn oood-and we must teach lem, too, ithaf if we find any snookin round, and plan- ming 10 keep their places by using power, Tor
 their own party purposes, which belongs alike to all parties and all classes, then they
 must expect trouble-they must change their nJans or change their places. Will any man
 tell me that the country would be in the state
 it is. if folks in ofce for the last five or eight wears, had gone accordin to law! don't
 believe word ont, for I know to the contra ssry.s I, for one, am willing to run the risk of going to'the Devil, iii is according to law but Iwon't go one step that ooay agin the law; and don't mean to let any man or any par . ty drive me that aoGy, unless he can show law
 for it. I am for the Constitution and the Laws-and if we can't go accordin to that arule-then say let every man up stakes ter off there than here-for if we once git our Constitution and our Laws out of joint-the hull coilsarn will go all to smash--and he who happens to have the strongest and long. est arm will grab most. ;
 When I was rav'ling round solitary and alone,D as Mir. Benton says-over that beau tiful country call'd Spain, (fOr have been pretty much all over that country)-I used to stop sometimes on the top of hill and look about and say to myself "my con tshens,', says I, .what a country this is, ,'- there was wide and long ranges of beautiful meadow land all around little rivers and streams streakin about-and some on en running head -long down the side of hills : and there warn't . COW on them pastures not mill or factory on them streams mo 2 Q road LOT canal, and not house-all in { state of stark naked natur--and all in the ii . nest climate the world: jist such coun , try, if you could put into one of our States
 any man who owned 50 acres ont Woult
 come plagy nigh havin a town plot or fac
 tory or mill site, or canal or a railroad, or
 his farm and every part ont would be alive with q happy and prosperous people. In ' stead of this, what do you see i'll that fine country Any man who wants to know, lei him 20 and look for himself-and the only advice ! have to give him is, not to take any thing along with him worth stealing; and il he has an extra life like cat, that will stand stabbing, let him take that along with him for he will want it: they kill every thing ! there worth killing, and steal every thing : worth stealing except Bank paper money they won't steal that for they. don't know what it is; they go for hard currency entire
 They go the Gineral's doctrine about money ,. matters, up to the hub they keep bank mat
 ters and state matters entirely separate, anG so wide apart you can't see nary one on 'em ask d somelon lem there why they did no 2 go to work and earn an honest livin' and pu on decent clothes, and feed their starvin z afamilies-but they said there was no use il
 trying that, for as soon as any man got lee tie forehanded in the world, all their proper
 ty was taken away from lem to feed the SO
 gers, or pay, taxes-Or was stolen. We'll
 says l, why don't you take the law on em then? Law? What Law? There ain't nc Law here, but jist such law as "the Govern ment" chuses to make-and "the Govern lnent" has got all the sogers and all the of
 flee holders on their side, and they outnum-
 Der sls two to one. We'll, thinks I, as far as < that goes that sounds democratic at any rate; but shows the difference between " Govern ment democracy" and a "people's democra-
 cy." And this put me to thinking consider 5ablo how 1t comes about in the course oftime N that Government can manage to work along, first with power granted by the people for the
 good of the hull people, and then sometimes
 with leetle glory (for Spain has had it's
 glory too, and is now so full ont there ain't no vessels in port, or industry in the country
 there ain't no room for any thing but rags
 and misery,) and then again, with leetle < party management, contriying to bring things
 So as to akeEpower beget power, and smash every thing that dares to talk agin the party
 that has the control. And what is the con- ' sequence? All the laws that were made for the good of the hull people are put aside, and
 only sich laws are made as suit the party in ! power-that party has got all the offices and got all the hard money--and they won't
 allow any other kind of money--they won't
 encourage commerce, or trade or manufac- turing-b because they know that trade, and
 commerce. and manufacturing would create
 q power right off that would upset their ap-
 ple-cart. These callings would atonce ere
 ate D credit money mix'd up with coin, and
 every man of good character would come in
 fora share ont--and borrow upon his credit
 leetle somethin till his labor would lift him
 out of the dirt and rags he is now in. Trade < and commerce, too, sharpen the wits of folks
 generally, and makes lem keep sharp eye
 on the law makerS-and fhnt dfn,f sllik soma