Litchfield enquirer., 1838-11-15

not on the face Of the earth, more firm, pat
riotic. and intelligent set Of men than the
Whies OF Connecticut. With the tirmness
Of the early settlers Of the State, they have
inherited that unquenchable love Of liberty
which bore the Wings of '76 SO triumphantly
through the mighty struggle OF the kevoiu-
ton. The attempt OF Xerxes to bind the
waves Of the sea in chains, was not more
fruitless, than the vain effort of Van Buren,
and his associates, to shackle the free born
Wings of Connecticut. Where is the man |
among them all, who can be inundated by |
the power, or bribed by the wealth OF the ad. |
ministration! Let the corrupt and perlured
partzans of Van Buren, attempt to practice
their vile acts of deception and ialsehood up
on them. Let them go forth among the high
minded independent farmers, and the read
ing and thinking mechanics OF the State
They will find them as well informed as they
are pure and patriotic. They can DC decelV-
ed by no artitice, and sllenced by no threats.
Upon their own farms-beslde their own
benches, and by their own anvils, they have
reflected, long and deeply, upon political SUBJ
iects, and the everlasting hills can be over
thrown by the summer breeze, as easily as
their principles can be subverted by the false
hoods of loco foco partiZans. NOtWithstand-
ing the present calmness of the Wings, we
assure our friends that they are not dead,
nor even sleeping. The quiet that rcigns
throughout their ranks, is only the calmness
of conscious strength. The loco focos-rous-
ed to action by the energy of despair, are
! vainly striving to infuse into the breasts OF
their disheartened followers, the necessary
strength and confidence for another CAM
paign. Let them struggle. They are only
contending with destiny. The sun is not
more sure to rise, on the morning of the first
Monday Of April next, than the Wings are
sure of a glorious victory. Let our friends
then retain their confidence. We have only
to make the necessary eXertions, and all will
be we'll. Wings of Connecticut! What say
| you! Shall John M Niles be our next Co.
vernon! Shall the SUBJ Treasury scheme
| receive your sanction? Shall locofocoism
run riot. and keep high festival throughout
/ the land?
| Who can doubt with regard to the answer
| the Wings of Connecticut will return to these
questions. Calm and immovable, they laugh
| the impoient efforts of the locotocos to scorn.
They await inpatience the day of battle, and
if they sleep, they sleep on their arms.
| Hartford Republican.
| The Van Buren, men have always been
exceedingly uneasy under their rather flashy
title of loco. tocOs-though it was hardly UNI
meaning in its origin at Tammany Hall. 1t
commemorated a remarkable event, and
painted specific feature of the party char
acter. Of course the move decent portion
of the concern disliked the new cOgnomen,
but the ground tier patriots-the under crust
of the democracy, were delighted with loco
focoism. They thought it was something to
eat, and most Of them are still looking up to
the size of old Parson Leland's cheese. The
aristocratic" faction, however-the "peo-
pie who 60 to the luxury of shirts" who are
| really the fiercest aristocrats in the country,
maugre all their false professions of affec-
ton for e the people''-this department of
! the i" democracy" kick at their title. 1t pleas
eth them not, and they have finally hit upon
the beautiful sobriquet of Hoco-Poco," and
have been for some time stultifying them
selves by the application of that stupid abor-
ton 10 the Wings. We do not recollect
which of the members of FOOLS Paradise
| first stumbled Upon the unmeaning nonsense,
but it has been cherished with great JUNCTION
| by all the leading loco-focos, and appears to
| give great comfort to the brainless through
out the land. Now and then an individual,
however, has sense enough to see the utter
senselessneSS of the poor platitude and are
endeavoring to shake themselves clear of it.
The Eastern Argus, whose Editor acts as To-
co-foco pro- consul for Maine, thus speaks:
We can discover no wit nor point in
christening the federalists Hoco Pocos-in so
doing we not only initiate their example in
comforting nick name, but steal their wit
in its selection. Hoco POGO is but small
parody on Loco-FOco. If we must give our
opponents new name, let there be some ORR
ginality about it,"
For our own parts we approve of the fol-
ly, for we like of course to see our enemies
make themselves ridiculous.-N. Y. Gazette.
Elopement "A young lady, daughter ofthe
Hon. - of Lynnfield, left her fathers
house few days since in rather singular !
manner. Miss N went, as she stated, |
to visit her friends in Danvers. After some
days,as she did not return, inquiry was made, |
but nothing could be learned concerning her. |
Soon, however, a letter was received from |
her, dated at New York, in which she wrote |
that she was married to a young Scotchman, !
who had been, her fathers hired man, for |
some two or three years-and that they were
then on their way to the far West. The af- |
fair has occasioned no small excitement i'm |
the little village-but as the young man had |
few hundred dollars in his possession, and |
has good character, we have no doubt they |
will " drive a good business" at the West.-
Many worse runaway match has happen.
ed.-Boston Advocate.
The Huzzas Of Posterity.-A little boy near
Hagerstown in Maryland was one day point |
ing out to me copse Of trees as the place
where Washington at the head of the Vir-
ginian Rangers fought battle long before |
the Revolution with some Indians headed by /
the French from Fort Duquesne, now Pitts
burgh. The little fellow had some balls of |
lead which had been fired in that battle, chop |
ped from the centres of the now massive and |
aged oaks. Isaw the sunbeam of some NOR
al emotion was in his eyes, and asked him
further of Washington, the brave youth who
led the Virginians into that thicket when the |