Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-03-15
SENATORIAL FORMATIONS.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.

To the Mechanics and Working Men Of Litch-
field County
= Fellow CrIzENs-In aspiring to address you at
this time, am actuated by no vain motive. have
no bHiancy Of thought. no eloquence oflanguage TO
exhibit for your admiration. My walk from my in
fancy up has been among the sons of toll and if now
for an hour throw by my implements Of labor, wipe
the sweat from my brow and grasp the pen, it is not
because have discovered on apt pancy in my toll
stiFened fingers for such new employment. Neither
is it because have some personal friend who is a
candate for your favor, whose claims for your support
wish to advocate, and who Unsuccessful would re-
ward my labor by allowing perchance to feed on
the crumbs which might fall from his official table. /
have no such friends; and if had, and he my
twin brother, he should stand or fall in your estima
ton on his own merit, on his own known political
principles, demonstrated by his conduct without
assistance from me beyond my single vote. Neither
it because have the most distant expectation that
can say any thing which reach his heart, who for
getting that his freedom to act and think bought
it may be with the blood of his own father, and who
spurning his high destiny, covers down intoa slave
ave. slave Of the most ignobe kind, the slave of par
fy. IL men, free men, can look on an object so dis
gushing let contemplate that man, or rather that
thing, for moment. Yonder he stands, lifting his
shameless brow in the sight Of his fellow men, having
impressed on it in brazen characters the mark Of that
beast whom he serves, and with demoniac mockery is
tramplng his brthght under his sacregous feet, and
making himself merry with the rattle Of his own
chains Does he stir 1t s only at the beck Of some
hirelng wretch in the livery Of his master. Does he
speak? is but to repeat the imperative mandate of
some colared demagogue. Does he think? No,
thought is enchanted, and every attribute of his once
free mind is reduced to an echo vociferous indeed,
but passive that AFFECT minion who tremblcs he.
meath despot's frown. Can such being hear the
voice Of the charmer charm he never so wisely r.
No. fellow citizens, he is without the pale Of argument
and sympathy, and there let him remain till the scor-
pion sting Of his own conscience shall drive him back
manhood and freedom. or till the wheels of that car
on which is mounted his political Juggernaut shall
grind him to powder. have none of the above men,
toned offsets view. shall pass alike the official
incumbent the aspirant to Office, and the whole tribe
Of double faced demagogues and "leave the dead to
bury the dead, rot above ground in the slime of
their own corruption, it being my sole purpose to COM
mune with the living who think and feel, to unbo
som my thoughts to those who have sympathes, and
who have no selfish ends to gain and in whose esti-
nation the common good Of the millions in this suffer
lance the individual ACKNOWLEDGMENT of all the Office
holders from the days OF the wicked son of Nebat down
10 the second year Of him who now reigns at Wash
ington.
Fellow Citizens! can you think (? Starlc not at
ahe question; there many in your acquaintance
who dare not il they they the automatons of
party but if your thoughts and percep,ive faculties
are rs the dealers sny, in first hands," then you are
the man with whom I would converse ; therefore
"come let US reason together"
Why 10 it that clouds and darkness hang their por-
tentous drapery this once prosperous land Has
some prophetic spirit been sent to predict second
deuge, or some equally dire calamity No. the Rev.
citation Of st. John is still the latest. Has war sent
out the ruthless spirits Of devastation and carnage to
burn our dwellings, and butcher our countrymen
NO-with the exception of few savages driven to
madness by our avarice and injustice, there is
peace in all our borders Has the presidential arrow
flown through our land, and are we mourning for the
dead? Move have been spared from that vista
ton. Have the rains Of Heaven refused water
fields. and is the meager hand Of famine laid on our
mouths Move have had the early and latter
rains, and the earth is still fruitful We look in vain
TO the Christening hand Of Heaven for the cause ofour
suffering. Shall then look among ourselves ?
Have the hundreds of thousands that compose the Ia
boring classes Of this country become INDECENT and
have they forfeited that character for which they were
once proverbial as far as they were known No
We are still industrious Where then lies the cause
of the evil But bark, fellow citizens, he who has
'misnamed himself the government" has anticipated
the question the answer comes from Washington, |
not in the calm voice Of benevolent persuasion, but in
the overbearng tone ofimpcria dictaon, and what is
- Won have nvertraded and I will cnt off the /