Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-08-16

position h this, that therefore, the poor must
wage perpetual war against the rich. Nor
Is this an idle theOry-it is attempted to be
made practical question.
1t Is advanced-not as in some obscure de-
batting club, by a set of raw and green lads,
just escaped from the trammel of their mi
nority, but in the halls of Congress, and by
men OF experience, standing, and character.
1t would be an insult to ask, whether such a
doctrine is to prevail among American citi-
zens. And If did, how is the line between
rich and poor ever to be drawn! Fix it
where you will, there are tens of thousands
of the rich who would consider themselves
as among the poor, and as many thousands
of the poor who would find themselves among
the rich. Nor could it remain fixed for a
day or an hour; for he who is rich to-day,
tomorrow may be Il beggar; while on the
other hand there are thousands among US,
who are born poor, and also go out (espe-
cially into the WcsD to seek their fortune
and find it.
Such doctrine should be trampled under
the foot of every American freeman-it is q
viper, and should not be suffered to show its
head. Let US put it to death by common con-
sent.
There is another precious vital interest OF
the Republic, which is assaied with no less
desperate rashness-it is our UNION itself
This is ATTEMPTED to be destroyed by array
ing local prejudices in mutual hostility-by
stirring up sectional warfare of the North
against the South-of the East against the
West, as though the common glory and the
common interest of the whole confedaracy
was not more than sufficient to outweigh a
thousand times the small and minor matters
in which we differ.
But though politicians, actuated solely by
selfish and parricidal ambition,seek to rend
asunderwhat God has himself joined in ever
lasting bonds, there is hand that will ar
rest the infamous design, hand they des-
pise, but hand they will find too strong for
them: Imean the hard hand of MECHANICAL
LABOR. Yes, Sir, that mighty hand, and long
may it be mighty in this free and equal land,
that mighty hand will link these States to-
gether with hooks of steel. The laboring
population of this country mean to live to-
gether as one people, and who shall disannul
their purpose? See how they are conquer
ing both time and space! See the thou
sand steamboats, that traverse our lakes and
rivers; aye, and that, Leviathan-like begin
to make the ocean itself to boil like pot
Look at their rail road cars glancing like
fiery meteors from one end of the land to
the other ;-blazing Centaurs with untiring
nerves, with unwasting strength. and who
seem to 20, too, on the grand temperance,
the total temperance principle, laboring all
day on water only. ..f..
Think you the people will suffer their cars
to stop and their rail roads to be cut in two,
because politicians choose to drawa dividing
line between Northern and a Southern
empire! Never, Sir, never. Proceeding on
those great national principles of Union
which have been SO LUMINOSITY expounded
and so nobly indicated by your illustrious
Guest, they will teach these politicians who
is master. Let us but hang together for fifty
years longer, and defy the world ever to
separate US. Let us but get safely through
the crisis, and our Institutions will stand on
a firmer basis than ever. True we arc threat
ened from without as we'll as within. When
/ left my far distant home, left not far dis
tant from it thousands of warlike Indians,
and armed by the policy of this
Administration, consulting, plotting, medita-
ting vengeance. They number, it is said,
10000 fighting men.
You have given them rifles and nature
has given them in the vast prairies in their
rear, tens of thousands of wild horses, which
they we'll know how to break in and to ride.
Their hearts burn with wounded pride, and
boil with meditatcd revenge; and who knows
how soon they may return on us, MaZeppa-
like, to pay us home for all their injuries
know, that in stating the dangers of the Far
West, shall not be heard with indifference,
though speak in the Far East. No, we are
one body; and where one member suffers,
all the rest suffer with it; where one men,
Der prospers, all the rest rejoice with il; and
I hold it q high duty of those citizens who
come from distant parts of this wide Union,
to assure their fellow citizens of the perfect
sympathy and unanimity of feeling which
pervades the entire people Of this vast con-
federacy. Yes-we are one people, for veal
or for woe.
When | cannot come from Mississippi and
call the men of Boston my fellow citizens,
my kindred, my brethren, desire no long
er to be myself citizen of the Republic. -
No: we are all embarked on one bottom and
whether we sink or swim, we will sink or
swim together! (Here the Hall rang with
triumphant shouts, clapping of hands and
rounds of cheering; handkerchiefs waved,
and the trombones of the band pealed a note
of union with the cries of the assembly,
Mr.. Prentiss concluded. by offering the
following toast: '.E e.
The Commonwealth of Massachuseils-Fir
among the States in the establishment of this
Republic-second to none in the ability, in
tegrity and patriotism which she contributes
to sustain it. tt
I" Passages from the Life Of Great States
men. Under this caption an able writer in
the Columbia Telescope traces Mr.. Calhoun's
course on the National Bank question. from
February, lSl4swhen on has motion. the Com
mittce of Ways and Means "were instructed
to inquire into the expetiency of establish
ing National Bank" down to September,
1887, when, having just deserted his ''late al
lies" he said, +" belong to the State Rights
party, which at all times, from the beginning
of the Government to this day, has been OPP
posed to such an institution as unconstitu.
tional. inexpedicnt and dangerous"
On the 2Sth Of October, 1914, the House
of Representatives, by a vote of 03 to "a. de-
clared that it was expedient to establish a