Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-11-22

= isha block IN which this accident occur. Il
rrd. kcoEluists Of five stores, and It's lower
floors were not originally sufficiently high 10
go beyond the reach of high water. Three
Of these stores have subsequently, had their
floors raised about 2 LIZ feet-and Mr.. Palm
er's, adjoining the one which fell, was under
going the same process. which made 1t ne
cessary to cut away successive port ons of
the front wall, in order to give the stone piers
a corresponding elevation. The acct dent
was caused either by this operation, or by
defective foundation, which gave way under |
the change in the points of pressure caused |
bv the successive removal of the wall.
From The Ne.U.YOrk Morning Courier.
Clarke and BrOnSOR.-JOHN G. CLARKE has
been reelected to Congress by a majority OF
$40 votes ISAAC H. BRONSON has been de-
| feated in his struggle for reelection by an
opposition majority Of $50 votes-and this
| in district where he was chosen in 1905 by
| majority of l,Ol7 votes. Among the most
I gratifying results of our recent glorious VIC
| tory are the triumphant reelection of CLARKE
and the signal defeat of BRoNsoN.
! At the commencement of the Extra Ses-
sion of 1897 these gentlemen stood side by
side. They both believed that the Sub
Treasury was odious to the people. They
both pretended to be conscicntiously opposed
to it, They both condemned the Loco-Foco
tendencies of the administration. They were
both opposed to the Court-and on the side
of the Country. , -,. O.; sa., ,,..,9. ,r.,-. -.
Mr.. Bronson was tempered with by the
administration. He was menaced on one
side with the terr6rs of political excommu:
nication. The great guillotine of the cabat
was set in motion-and the headsman, BAR,
stood ready to decapitate every deserter. On
the other side he was solicited with the pro-
mise of preferment--and the prospect OF
seat on the bench, was brilliant enough to
dazzle his feeble integrity. To the united
menaces and promises of power, ne yielded
his pledged faith and his better Judgment
He acquiesced in the most radical doctrines
of Loco Focoism. He endorsed the vile
SANDER of Mr.. Van Buren, that the People
had been bought by the Banks He went all
lengths for the hard money doctrines OF Ben
ton and Calhoun, which were designed to
",tr;lnsfer the commercial sovereignty from
the banks of the Hudson to the banks OF the
Mississippi,"--and to reduce New York and
Philadelphia and all the Atlantic cities, to the
condition of Cairo and Alexandria. He
thought irredeemable Government paper the
best possible currency" He thought that
II the Government had been going on for half
a century in violation Of tho Constitution
and that Mr.. Slas Wright's safes and vaults
were the only Constitutional Treasury--and
that gold and silver were the only constitu.
i tionaf currency. He thought with Mr.. Van
Buren, that the People expected too much
i from the Government-and that it was quite
\ time that the Government should pursue its
own private interests without regard 70 the
\ People. On these issues he wclt before his
constituency IA generous, liberal, high.mnd-
1 ed constituency, who never desert public
servant, honestly discharging his public du-
ties in accordance with the dictates OF his
+ judgment. BY that constituency he has been
rcjscted-and is now a branded and dis
graced mana man who deserted the People
for the Court, and is now thrown. for the re-
ward of his subscrviency and treachery, ON
4 the reluctant and. failing bounty OF the
Crown! ss aa, 81 b. - a" % @'''-.
How different has been the course Of Mr..
Clark---and how different is his reward He
tah tb biees n;cffssles 81 Ire Country T
He saw small and profligate cabal urging
measure upon Congress, which was odious
4 to the People, and which, if executed, could
not but be fatal to their liberties. Regardless
of the ties and prejudices Of party-looking
with single eye to the honorable and con-
scientious discharge of the high trust with
which he had been invested came out in
open and gallant opposition to the Govern.
ment, throwing himselfon the liberality, the
intelligence, and the justice of his consttu-
ency. On his return from, Congress he APP
peale6 to TINT constituency in letter expla-
natory of his public course a letter as dis
tinguishcd for its conclusive and admirable
reasoning, as It is for its manly and high
toned spirit. Tt was not letter of cringing
apology or timid depreciation. 1t asked no
filvor-it besought no forbcarance. 1t pre-
sentcd plain statement of facts-with the
judgment which Mr. Clarke had formed up
on them. " Such" said he, " has been my
course such have been my reasons for pur.
suing it, My fate is in the hands of my con-
( Stituents." ef. .5nlan-ls .s,N,u,4e oalt .,.fr.
s The Globe Numbered and denounced-thc
Executive promised and solicited in vain.-
Mr.. Clarke poised himself on an elevated
sense of duty-scorning the seductions of
patronage, and defying the mcnaces of pow.
err. They have given him the Invaluable
verdict of their appreciation. They have
sent him back to Congress--strong in the
consciousness of popular confidence and aft
fiction; nerved to new perseverance in his
course of opposition by that Judgment
which no public man can resist, armed with
which, no public man need falter or fear. He
enjoys the double qualification Of having re-
tanned both his principles and his place
while his colleague Bronson has lost his self
respect, his political principles, the favor of
his constituents, and his Claims upon the fa-
vor of the Executive. On tho long cata-
logue of official pensioners, VIC apprchend
there will be no room found for the name Of
Bronson. There are too many decayed pol
iticians just now Yet adriit to admit of uni
versal provision. The charity fund of the
Executive will be hardly large enough to re-
munerate all Of them-and Mr.. Van Buren,
can hardly afford to part with his places ex-
cept for value received. And what has Mr..
Bronson left, to offer as consideration for
office =! A bankrupt character--and a dis.
gusted constituency-political DEFEAT and