Litchfield enquirer., 1840-01-02

spendld, but, in many instances. protesa, EaToads ana canals absorbing to 2 great extent m interest plus fruits of national industry for years ccs and secuEng to posterty adeqnate return for the com ,ors whlch the labors of their hands might otherwise secured It is not by the increase ot this debt .ut !ehet IS to be sought, but to it's dmnuton. Up- on tnls pon there is am happy to say, hope hetefe us not so much in the return of confidence abroad, Wnich will enable the States 10 borrow more money, as m change of public feeling al home, which prompts people to pause in their career and think are contracted
 v.,a we would escape embarrassment, public and pri- ns,e we must cease to run in deb except for objects qt necessity, or such as will yield a certain return Let the faith of the States, corporations andindivid Ials' already pledged, be kept with the most punctl- lous regard It is due to our national character, as wen as to ustice that this should on the part of each pc hxed principle of conduct. But it beoyes us all 70 oe more chary in pledgng it hereafter, By ceas 50 and deS and la apPys the surplus o gallons, buying less and selling more, and managing e aTalrs, public and private, with strict economy md lugalty, we shall see our country soon recover from
 temporary depression arising not from natural ana permanent causes, but from those have enumerated perlty.
 Fortunately for us, at this moment, when the bal ance o trade is greatly against us, and the difficulty ol meeting It enhanced by the disturbed state of our money affairs, the bounties of Providence have come
 ne ,eese us from the consequences of past errors
 
 oors o the last season will afford partial relief for the present, and perseverance inthe same course will, in que season, accomplish the rest. We have had full which can in this respect Dc brought about in short perod, by the united and Welt directed efforts of community like ours. Our surplus profits, the energy vantaees which Providence has bestowed upon our country m its elmaterI Is various producLons, indis pensable to other nations, will, in due time, afford apanaant means to perfect the most useful of those fhn cfnfAc hoVn hno Nh,rnO Ovnfv tnemselVes Of late in embarrassment and debt, with tul burdens
 But let it he indelhly engraved on our minds that relief not to be found in expedients Indebtedness cannot be lessened by borrowing more money or by changing the form of the debt. The balance of trade IS not to be turned in or favor by creating new de- proved by the creation of new banks or more issues from those which now exist. Although these devices sometimes appear to give temporary relleitney almost by retrenchment ard reform. by curtalng public and pr'vate expenditures, by paying our debts and by re- tormlng onr banking system, that weare fo expect e fectua relc security for the future, and ap enduring prosperity. In shaping the institutions and policy of the General Government as to promote, as far it can with it's limited powers these important ends, you may rely on nay most cordial cooperation.
 Ibat there should have been, in the progress ot re- cent events,tdoubts in many quarters and Tn some heated opposition to every change, cannot surprise us Doubts are properly attendant on all reform; and It IS peculiarly in the nature of such abuses as we are by means of the influence they have been permitted to acquire. is their result If not their object to gain for the few an ascendancy the many, by secur- ing to them a monopoly of the currency, the medium through which most of the wants of mankind are sup plled-to produce throughout society chain ot de- pendence Wn:cn iaads all casses to look te nrige associations for the means of speculation and extra vagancc-to nourlsh, in preference to the manly vir tues that give dignity to human nature craving de Slr0 for iuXuEOuS eniOVmHnt and 9udQen wealth winch renders those who seek them dependent on those who supply them--to substitute tor Republican simplicity and economical habits, sicky appetite for effemnate indulgence and imitation of that reck less ,extravagance which impoverished and ensaved the industrious people of foreign lands and at last. to fix upon us, instead of those equal political rights the sed reward of our Revolutionary struggle asystem of exclusive privileges conferred by partial legislaton. To remove the influences which had thus gradually grown up among us-tO deprive them of their decep- and tfuh-to oppose the force which they concentrate in their suppor-al this was necessarily the work of as that of the United States. lnmost other counties, perhaps, it could only be accomplished through that series ofrevoutonary movements whchare too often found necessary to effect any great and radical re- that they create and noursh in the vast majority of our people, disposition and power peaceably to medy abuses which have elsewhere caused the efil- son of Oo and as H 9Sns Sono
 
 rable to the sefdenia the intelligence and the patr. ofism of our citizens; ustfes the confident hope that they will carry through the reform which has been so well begun, and that they will % still farther than they have yet gone in illustrating the important truth that people as free and enlightened as ours, will, whenever it becomes necessary, show them selves to be indeed capable of self-goyernmenf by voluntarily adopting appropriate remedies for every abuse, and submitting to temporary sacrifices ,howey- CT great, to insure their permanent welfare
 My own exerions for the furtherance of these des- L..I hnnv, kaofn hNnf official career with zeal that is nourshed by ardent wishes for the welfare of my country, and by an un- mited reliance on the wsdom that marks its ultimate pressed with the solemn obligations imposed upon me by the Constitution desirous also oflaying before my fellow citizens with whose confidence and support have been so highly honored, such measures as ap- Dear to me conducive to their prosperify-.and anx ios to submit their fullest consderailo the grounds ,inon which my opinions are formed, have on this, as on preceding occasone freely offered my views on sent time most prominently to require the acton of the Government. know that they will receive from Congress tba, full and able consideration which the importance of the subjects merit ana can repeat the assurance heretofore made, that shall cheefully and readily cooperate with yon in every measure that will tend to promote the welfare cf the Union.
 December, 1899. M. VAN BUREN.
 CoxoRrss -Fr;day, Dec 20. was the latest date in our la.4t paper, on which day the New-Jersey whig members were excluded from being swcrn. by the vote of ll6 to lH, We have room for only very brief statement,
 Fr;ddy, Dec 2i,-Ths Speaker being chosen, and the Jersey members excluded the next business was the choice of officers of the House. Along debate sprung up on the propriety o rssortng tcfhe ballot, instead of the vua pooe tsiand up awl made of cleo ton. It was finally determined in favor of the latter mode, by vote ofl42 to 7S The election of Clerk to the House then came on, when Mr. Gari1n nd was re. elected, he having lls votes. MT Clarke lOS. Nr. R. c. Mason 8. Roderick Dorsey was then re-eiacfed Sergeant at Arms, he having Al votes, and Dr. Wc'. Jones. late P M. at Washington, 76. The choice of Doorkeeper and Assistant and Public Printer was