Litchfield enquirer., 1838-03-29

il another handwriting" having the same import 40
the unknown characters on BeltshAzxar's wall. They
forget to rave about Monsters and talk about well
regulated banks" IT'S the only thing we have seen
in the county deserving the name Of speculation
All, these Post Office spectators, and Probate over
traders, at last at the last quarter Of the eleventh
hour. when the haltar is tightening to suhocatiOn
around the neck of the party, have discovered that
well regulated banks are necessary. But you did
not tell US that " well regulated bank as you un.
dersand IT. is bank regulated by the sub-treasury,
Just as the anaconda when hungry regulates living
rabbit.
There was one question which occurred frequently
in my last communication, which yet remains unan-
swered. How are those who employ US to get that
specie for our which the government has so long
promised? Have you an answer? You cannot vote
next Monday Understandings without-for you then
vote for men who will support the administration and
the sub-treasury or you vote against both Can your
employer exchange that note which he receives for
the very article your labor creates for the gold or sill
yer at any place within your knowledge? Can he
exchange for rags at that bank when the govern
ment shall have destroyed it? Will the sub-treasury
loan him the specie, or put it in your pocket? No
that box is locked by law from the people, There s
inscribed on its double and treble guarded iron 'front.'
in the hand writing Of your government these heart
less and repulsive words :-"THE GOVERNMENT TAXES
CARE OF ITSELF, AND THE PEOPLE OF THEMsELvEs'>
Where then again will you get it? You may repeat
the question till death shall have palsied your tongues
and your starving children around your grave can on
ly answer where
Fellow citizens! open your eyes on this subject
Why spurn that blessed gift OF your Creator, your
reason? Why not exercise the prerogative of thought
the only attribute which makes you differ from the
brute ? Why become subservient to that Office hold
er who fattens on your flesh The government has
been at work for years professedly to give you gold
and silver, and just in proportion its effort have
troubles increased around you.
How many thousands of you were thrown out of
employ last spring with scarce an hours notice when
the government first entered the market to buy spe.
Gle for your benefit? From that moment, had you
not less god fewer bank notes. less employ, and less
bread than You ever had before II this happened
when the, government had but part Of the specie.
how much OF either will you have when they get it
all? Look back few years previous to the golden
era, before Andrew Jackson had baptized himself
"Me g0Uernnlent'
Can your eyes rest on such time of gloom as the
present? From some point Of former prosperity fol-
low down in the broad path ofruin trod by the governs
ment, and see how in each imprint Of its heavy foot
lies some one of your crushed and bghted hopes
Shall your patience hold for one such year longer
till the government shall have inflicted that final blow
which shall leave no resurrection for hope Where
the office holders and the government shall be all in
al" and we be spurned as things too ahectly mean
for further use Until Martin Van Buren, shall adj
dress us in these words, borrowed from the Yelled
Prophet"
Ye would be dupes and uictins, and gle are.''
Fellow citizens sought communion with you at
this time for no other purpose than interchange Of
sentiment. We have been through the whole circle
1ODpfhpP. hpCn n1o TN
be thankful for your company; and 1certanly am
know not what impression you have received while
on the way, but will give you mine in few Words
find not in this county that sinful speculation. that
guilty overtrading for which unjus,ly pun
shed and because find none OF il here, do not be-.
eve that it exists in the country to any thing like
that extent which should have called down npou our
heads this exterminating storm Of wrath. And it
am endowed with that attribute which men call com.
mon sense, speak the words of truth and soherness'
when say that the GOVERNMENT" and the PARTY"
the two thieves between whom our interests arc
crucifed. and the office holders the soldiers who
cast lots not only for our rament, but our BREAD.
A. WORKING MAN.