Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-09-20

ere Presently we heered the British run for
dear life, and take right across the road, full
slip. Now, says ], my harties. up aud let
drive at 'em, right over the wall F! Well, we
got on our knees, and cooked our guns, SD as
to have all ready, and then we juInp'd up AN
eend. and seein' nothin' but great cloud O.
dust, we fired right into it, and down we
heered 'em tumble :; and when the dust clear
ed of, we saw the matter of twenty white
breechcs turned up To us sprawlin' on the
ground. Gist ut that moment we heered
three cheers from the enemy at the fort, and
a great shout of latin from our army too /;
they haw-hawed like thunder. Well. says
!, us so0l as could see, if that don't bang the
bush. I'll be darn't if it amt flock OF
sheep belongin' to Elder Solomon Longstaff,
artcr all, and if VIC amt killed the matter OF
q score Of 'em too, as dead as mutton-that'S
fact. Well, we returned considerable down
in the mouth, and, says the Gineral, Captain,
pretty sheepish, didn't you! Well, if the
officers didn't larf, it's pity /; and, says a
Varginy officer that was there, in sort of half
whisper, that wall was well lined, you may
depend sheep on one side and asses on the
other! Says I, stranger, you had better not
say that are ag'in, or Pill. Gentlemen,
says the Gineral, resarve your heat for the
enemy no quarrels among ourselves, and
he rode off, havin' first whispered in my ear,
do you hear, captain, d-n you there are
two sides to wall. Yes, says !, Gineral,
and two sides to a story too. And don't, for
gracious sake, say any more about it. Yes,
we military men all swears a few-it's the
practice of the camp, and seems kinder
material. But Ill go and make friends with
the minister.
Mr.. NAYLoR, of Penn, in his reply in the
H. of R. to MIR. Pickens of S. C. thus eloquent
ly indicated the Mechanics of the North.
"Mr. Naylor, of Pennsylvania, said, it was
with great reluctance that he rose, for the
first time, in this Hall. He felt himself obll-
ged to rise. Yes, (said Mr.. NJ am smPeH.
ed to speak. cannot remain silent. voted
for the introduction of this bill to our delibe.
rations some days since, on purpose to afford
the honorable gentleman from South Caro-
lima, (Mr. Pickens,) an opportunity to ex-
press his views in relation to it. 1perceived
his anxiety to speak, and felt friendly dis.
position to crafty him. If were surprised
when heard him draw into the vortex of
discussion, the excitive topics of abolition,
Texas, slavery and Locofocoism, topics which
have nothing to do with the subject; what
must have been my feelings when ! heard
him denounce the institutions Of the North
as mercenary and slavish, and exalt those OF
the South as ancient, patri0rchoi, and almost
perfect boldly avow that the laborers OF
the North were the subjects Of the Northern
capitalists; put the Northern workmen on q
footing with the Southern slave, and threat
en- to preach instruction to the laborers OF
the North. Yes, preach insurrection to the
Northern laborers!
am Northern laborer. Aye SIR 1t mas
been my lot to have inherited az my only
patrimony at the early age OF nine years
nothing but naked orphanage ana utter 9es-
titution; houseiess and homeless 1atneriess
and pennyiess, was oDllged' from tnat gay
forward TO earn my daily preao Dy my oaily
labor. And now, Sir, when ] take my seat
in this Hall as the free representative OF
free people, am to be sneered at as NORTH
ern laborer, and degraded into comparison
with the poor, oppressed and suffering negro
slave? Is such the genius ana the spirit OF
our institutions! II De; Inen 9ld our "a! "a
theirs fight and bleed, and struggle, and die
in vain! ~ .a,.> s,, :,
But, Sir. the gentleman has mlsconcelved
the spirit and tendency OF Northern instltu-
ton. He is ignorant OF Northern charac-
ter. He has forgotten the history OF ms
country. Preach insurrection to the North.
ern laborers! Preach insnrrection 10 me
Who are the Northern laborers? The his
tory Of our country 10 their history. The
renown Of our country is their renown. The
brightness of their doings is embiazoned on
its every page. Blot from your annals the
deeds and the doings Of Northern laborers,
and the history Of your country presents but
an universal blank.
Sir, who was he-that disarmed the Ihunc
derer, wrested from his grasp the bolts OF
Jove, Gained the troubled ocean, became the
central sun of the philosophical system Of
his age, shedding his brightness and efful-
gence on the whole civilized world-whom
the great and mighty of the earth delighted