Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-04-26
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
PRESCRIPTION.

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/ From the N. Y. Evening Post.
PRESCRIPTION.
That our readers and the public in gener-
al may not be deceived as to the rumors in
circulation respecting the prescription of the
federal merchants of this city of their en-
ployees, we insert the following note, address.
sed to us by one who has suffered by their
unhely crusade against the rights of man.
Mr.. Editor Il have been cartman in the
employ of Nelson, Carlton q Co., and Glib
son, Sons & Co., and have believe, given
I them every satisfaction but since last fall
election have received not q load from eli
Their of them, and have satisfactory reasons
for believing that they withhold their orders
from me on account ofmy politics-they be-
ing tederalists and myself democrat
| There is only one circumstance to console
me in this prescription, and that is, the hous-
es in question cannot do their own labor, but
must employ others to do it for them, and
their employees must be democrats, or am
much mistaken in the character of those who
live by the labor OF their own hands.
New-York, 18th April, 1888.
GEORGE w. SHOURT,
Cart No. 46.
AS this is matter in which we wish to
make some remarks, we take this as an oc-
casion, without knowing any thing of the
parties concerned in this transaction-though
the conclusion of this Mr.. G. w. Shourt
seems very sudden, for he may have been a
very good for nothing Cartman, and on this
account others may have been preferred to
him.
The Evening Post seems to think it a very
! bad thing, that Merchant should prefer a
Wing Cartman to a Loco Foco, and yet the
Post is Of that party, which just introduced
practical prescription into all the affairs of
Government. Why can't Wing obtain
employ in the Custom House-why, but for
the fact that he is n Wing? Why are no
Wing Members of Congress employed to
fill Foreign Missions-why, but for the fact
that they are Wings! Why are not Wings
made Postmasters of-and Harbor Masters,
and Inspectors-or why rather, is every maj
who holds an Office of any importance, who
but merely expresses an opinion conflicting
with the regular machinery of his party,
thrust out of Office, and prescribed at once
Who begun this prescription! And now it
is begun, where shall we stop, or who shall
say, that the merchant or manufacturer has
not as much right to select his employee, as
the Government? Aye, and more, for the
Government belongs to the people-to the
minority as well as the majority, whereas,
what the man of business does he does of
himself, and therefore has right to exercise
his own discretion.
We have ever looked upon this prescription
for opinions sake, as one of the most unhap-
py signs of the times. For that policy ever
practised by Mr.. Van Buren,, we have despis-
ed his administration more than for any
thing else. But does the Post expect mi
nority will always put up with it, and never
the very basis of society to be at stake, is it
natural to suppose that the policy will stop
with the Government and will not reach all
the relations of life? Thus, for example,
the qualifications of the Evening Post and the
Express being equal, the Express has as
much right to the Government advertising as
the Post-but the authorities at Washington
would laugh at US, if we made the request,
and yet the Post thinks if a Wing Merchant
prefers Wing Cartman to a Loco Foco, this
is an "unholy crusade against the rights Of
man! !"
The Government of this country has been
for the last year directing all its mighty en-
ergies against the Merchants and the Banks
1t has called them all sorts of Is Rag Barons,"
(" Ragocrats'' and Aristocrats," and the like.
And yet this Government is seated in power
by no hereditary right-but by the suffrages |
of the People. Its patronage, therefore, be-
longs to the People, and all the People, and |
not a part, nor a party. The Government is |
the greatest employer, the head master-vork-
man OF the country. Can Wing get aught
from it? If man happen to turn Wing
when in its employ, is he not hunted down,
and his place given to another? 1t is very
true, that the patronage of this Government
| is mighty-but it has not a tiftieth part of
the power of the Merchants and Manufacture
ers. The Merchants patronage in this city
is worth ten thousand times that Of the Co.
vernment, and is ten thousand times as pow
erful. Why then do not the Merchants car
ny all before them at the Polls! For the SIM
pie reason, that they seldom, or never use
their patronage there! The Government al
ways employs men of its own party the
Merchants seldom or never. The very re-
suit ofthe election proves it.
! If the Evening Post wishes to strike at the
true source of prescription, 1t must strike
home, ut Washington, where it began. If
this Mr.. Shourt feels aggrieved even for
what he alledges is true, he has only to take
some brother Wing Cartman to Jesse Hoyt,
our Collector, and ask him for an Office for
him as whig, and then he will see the very
great difference between tweedie-dum aud
twecdle-dee. The probable reason why Mr..
Shourt has had SO little to do. is, that the mer-
chants who employed him have had but lit
! tie business. Mr.. Shourt's party has had
power for eight or nine years, and he and
such as he, were SO much wiser than James
! Madison, that they destroyed the United
States Bank Charter this Republican Presi-
dent signed, and the currency OF the country
with il, and in this destruction fell the mer-
chants and their cGrting with them. II is
very wrong in this Mr.. Shourt, then, to vote
down all business at the Polls, and to de-
nounce all these as arsiocrats," and then to