Litchfield enquirer., 1840-12-10
-WAsH1Nc TON. Dec. i, le40.

sg-----zg- -y WASHING TON, Dec. I, 1640.
 The congratulations of Whig members ot Congress, and strangers from the different States of the Union as they arrive here, are among the most interesting spectacles of the day. They meet as on glorious field of Wateroo-like old Generals of brave bat talions, that in a great campaign, have stormed down all the perils in their way The Capitol is in their eyeshot, and its ten- ant sits abdicating there ,.r.
 know of no man who can so much enjoy the spectacle as John Quincy Adams Twelve years ago, he was banished by the fiat of popular indignation, under the im- pression that his administration was corrupt, and by inc promises of his successors of purer one. The venerable old man now comes to Washington admired and Venera- ted by the whole people, with the gratitude of his country impressed upon it's history, and the stamp of condemnation written on his successors, who deceived the people, The tear-drop ever in his eye must now be livelier than ever, and the mp-handle shake of the hand he gives, given with more l velocity than ever. He is good man, and alas, he must too soon be gathered to his 1 Fathers.
 long to see Henry Clay's bright face, and peering eye in theU s. Senate. For l2 years, he too has batded against corruption, often hopelessiy, almost always in vain, al- ways amid contumely, aud in storm ot abuse. The noble statesman will stretch higher than ever his long and attenuated form, and the open smiles on his face, always there though, even in the darkest hours of the Republic, will illuminate his counte- nance more than ever. The People have brought him back. too, to Rome from his cx- file, and he has realized his anticipation of the Goths aud Vandals driven out.
 And Daniel Webster, whose bolts oflogic, driven with his sledge-hamsner power, for l2 years, against the battlements of, at times, an almost impregnable administration, comes here too, Q victor at last. Welcome, welcome, most gallant and deserving sol- dier! l trust that no senscieSS clamor of the newspaper Press will drive him and Mr. Clay into collision; for, mark my words, the effect of such a collision will be similar to that of Locomotives, that rush together on common track-whcreas. if each pursues the lsihgle tenor of his way, the Republic has its honOrS for both. ''.5 .'
 There is sde-door in the Senate Cham Der, whence Senators enter from a Saloon. l ] think see Benton and others sncaking in there. Calhoun is to thrash again in the Serbonian bog, g,as long as mad ambition raves within him. 1t Is not Strange that BroVn is not here. There has been a havoc in the Administration ranks, and it will work till March 4th. ..s
 The Presidents last will and testament has the interest of death about it. The clos ing scene of any thing is worth description. shall be in ut the curtain. fall.-Ecpress. ] Much in small space.-We hope tho fol- lowing excellent remarks from the Frede- ricksburg Arena will not be lost upon the politically denuded old gentleman to whom they are particularly addressed:
 We had hoped, and indeed expected, that the Richmond Enquirer, at least, would fall gracefully and die deceDtly. But we have been grievously disappointed. lis long pro- fessed democracy, it seems, is not ofthat or der which induces prompt, a cordial, and unquestioning submission to the popular will. One would have thought that, in u de- feat such as the one just sustained by the To. 60 loco party, there would have beon no pre-. text for the use of the ordinary apologies and splenetic examinations of the vanquish. cd. Had the election of Gen. Harrison been effected by small majority of the electoral votes, and questionable majority of the popular suffrageS-as was the election of Mir. Van Buren--there would be room for cavilling. The cry about fraudulent voting and bribery, would not be absolutely ridicu- lous. There might be some latitude allow ed 10 the expressions of party which barc- ly failed of success through those contingent cies of battle which off ba1lle generulship, and render courage and discipline of no avail. But, in the present instance, when
 MT. Van Buren is sustained by six States on- ly, if, indeed, six there be, and those States giving in the aggregate but 60 votes; when Harrison's majority of the popular vote Is more than l20O0O, and when the defeat is more thorough and overwhelming than any ever sustained by Presidential candidate the whine of the defeated about frauds and bribery, Abolition and Anti Masonry, "un- hallowed combinations of odds and ends of various pariies," is rot oiily ridiculous init self, but insulting to the people. In thetleSy e,l mGSSe, there must needs be odds and ends of various parlies." But what mark of reproduction upon the party in power does l this very extraordinary conjuncti0n," as the Enquirer has it, imply. The attempt To assign the success of Gen. Harrison to the influence of the aboltionists is too ridiculous 10 merit serious refutation. Why, deduct from his majority the votes of all the States in which it has been falsely alleged that the abolition question was pressed into the can vass, und he would still have enough to elect him.
 | All this slaEg then about abolition is the sheerest nonsense. Was there ever a more national party, than that which has just the Presidency! Look at the table of cleo to;vl votes and look at the map. All New England. with one exception. All the mid dfe States, with no exception, All the South, save Virginia, South Carolina, and perhaps Alabama. All the West, this side of the Mississippi Slave-holding and non- Slave-hoidng StateS-planting and colnincr-