Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-03-15

ma those WHO IRE guittyi et mem De punshed but
we End those who are innocent in regard to the char
ges preferred against them by the government" let
US claim for them exemption from suffering. We can
in this way detect the guilty. and discover the inno
cent, without the aid Of of all that tribe Of blood
sucking hirengs who rewarded just in proportion
to their ability for deceiving US.
Let US begin with ourselves, the laboring class
How have you overraded? By applying with all your
might both your hands instead of one to the instr-
ments of your vocation ? But the government" will
hardly call this crime. What then have you done to
merit the charge? On looking around you on those
who came on the stage but a few years before you,
and seeing many, very many of them in fair way of
gaining a competency for the wants Of life, have you
incurred the heinous guilt of aspiring to the like good
fortune, and have you ever dared dream of acquiring
Ii by the use of the same means and facilities which
they enjoyed? Then are you condemned ON suspi-
con of wishing perpetuate that infamous system by
which only poor man can expect to thrive. You
bought by that little monster, and are a rebel
against "my government" You have lacked faith
in the golden humbugs, and because you would not
believe that the money which you have all your life
handled was not money, the whole power of that 60
vernment which was created for no other purpose un
der Heaven but to promote and cherish your interests
is concentrated and exerted to destroy that currency,
and while the conflict lasts, can you prosper? As
might you escape death if ligature compressed
each artery leading from your heart. Why is the
hand Of your government raised for this purpose?
Why, to prevent you from SPECULATING. How
have you specialized? You have invested perhaps
the time spent in seven years apprenticeship. togeth
with all the skill thus acquired, in what in bank
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the digent pursuit Of that vocation which you have
chosen, from which to gain an honest livelihood. Is
this the speculation of which you have been guilty?
And to prevent you from reaping your honestly anti
cipated reward, must the Banks be annihilated?
But lest you should escape, and still claim exemp-
tion you charged with having traded on "borroD
ed capital" and therefore ought to break" Fellow
citizens. of the working class must all plead guilty
to this charge; but whether the penalty annexed is
ustis quite another thing: but while we plead guilty
we may surely urge in paliation of our crime the
character Of that banker Of whom our capital is bor
rowed. II is borrowed of none other than of our Gre
ator himself; and while he, all merciful, profers us
the loan Of health and strength, shall ungratefnly
follow the example Of that wicked and slothful SER
want who hid the talent his lord loaned him because
forsooth the fiat has gone out against borrowed capa
Fellow citizens, have you overtraded speculated, or
traded on borrowed capital in any Of these ways, or
in any other way to that degree that the interests of
the great whole were in jeopardy? Then is the des
truction OF your currency just. But it, the other
hand you have not, why are you suffering that pun
ishment which, if due at ALL is due to Others In the
winding of great national calames, there may be
distress in other quarters but the suffering, the hung
ering, the nakedness falls the laboring classes
AT such it is theirs to say when il is morning. would
to God it was even, and when is even would to God
it morning. They ask your aid at the ballot box
to bring this final calamity your own selves
Esau sold his birthrght for fpotage his hum
ger was his excuse he tasted the pottage. and his
hunger was assuaged but will you suffer your eyes
to be dazzed, not with the shining metal itself, but
with an unhallowed promise AS well might you
stand in long and eternal night looking with longing
expectation for thegaddening light of that which
should never rise.
viii the scanty pttance of silver or gold which
may fall to your share mine years hence, Heaven
only knows when, compensate for year after year OF
change, inactivity, gloom anxiety and uncertainty,
lost now in the prime Of life, when health and strength
and audable ambition oil prompt to action Shall
we leave the world any the less reluctantly because
we may have happened during long life of toll to
have boarded paltry particle two of gold just suf
fcient to bury U.s. even should they happen to bear
the image Of Andrew Jackson, and the superscnpton
Of Martin Van E:ren?
But there is still another charge brought against you
BY that man who by way Of pre-emnence has been
called by his worshppers 81 the Greatest and Best"
and lest The free people Of this free country should not
be sufficiently illuminated and humbled in the eyes of
the whole civilized globe, it has been echoed and sent
to every quarter of the world embodied in Presiden
tia Message emanaing from that man whose vile and
crawling ambition aspres only to tread in the foot
steps Of his predecessor. What have You now done
hch makes it necessary for your guilt to be publish
ed in every court in Europe, and in every other place
where your names as American citizens were never
before mentioned in connexon with infamyl? Here
is the charge: You have been bought by the banks
Fellow citizens, if this be true, let our banks be cut
mp root and branch and let your heads hang in ever
lasting shame; but first ascertain the fact. If the
banks in other States have bought men, then have the
banks in this State, and fin this State then has our
monster overtraded" in the same way for must
suppose that bank is like other banks in it's capac
ty for good or evil. Who Of YOU have been bought
Where is the proof Of the purchase Search among
oil your acquaintance throughout the county for If
there thousands in these United States over whom
the Banks have acquired ownership some few at least
can be found in this county. Who are they? If
none is found then again comes the question does
this modern Pharaoh require US to make our full tale
Of brick without straw Fellow citizens if your con-
sciences acqut you Of this charge, oueht you not to
cast back the foul imputaon into the very teeth of
your calumniators?
Hope 'hcsc who may read these remarks will re-
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