Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-01-30

nigns we not expect from the coutnuanoo and entire
success Of these destructive measures! The imagS-
nation can scarcely conceive Of the Tuinous results
which would tulOw With the prices OF real estate
and OF produce reduced specie standard, the rate
the rich capitalist was made richer by the increased
value OF his money, the poor wauld be reduced to
more hopeless poverty, and those who are in debt
Tha; such will DO the effect of the hard money
plans ot tne administration. which are to be consum
mated oy That grand scheme Of injustice and oppres
slOn-the sub.tFeasury SYSTEM no man of intelligence
can doubt Against this system the electors OF Con.
nectlcut have twice recorded their deliberate and
solemn Judgment; AT the next election it will once
more be presented tor their consideration and unless
we greatly mistake their character, it will again re-
ceve the rebuke at their hands it so richly merits
For several years past the attention Of the people
has been directed towards the subject of the tspos-
ton Of the public lands These lands exceed in
quantity one thousand millions of acres, and at the
government price of one dollar and ty-ve cents
sand millions OF dollars. This vast domain is the
common property Of the Union 1t was either acqui-
red by the Revolution, and It's price paid by the blood
and treasure Ut our ancestors, purchased from
FRANCE and Spain, and paid for from the common
treasury OF the United States After the Revolution
i was found that much Of this land was claimed by
INDIVIDUAL states and one Of the first measures
American Congress, after the Peace was to call upon
the several states which owned public lands to cede
them TO the United States for the common benefit of
following resolution was adopted by Congress Re-
solved, That the unapproprated lands that may be
coded or rellnquished to the United States by any
Congress Of the 9th Of September last s1a be disposed
Of for the common benefit Of the United States" On
the faith OF this solemn pledge. all the original states
consideration magnanimously renquished their right
to the United States. Connecticut, worn and ex-
haused as she by her pnlroc efforts in the war
this act Of magnanimi.y. Her domain was Of vast
extent, and OF almost nestimable vane vet she hest.
lated not when the harmony Of the Union required it,
to throw her rch inheritance into the common fund
mode similar sacrifices, and in their deeds of cession
il was expressly provided "that the lands ceded
should be considered q common fund for the use and
benefit OF the UAited States according their res
pectlve and usual proportion in the general charge
and expenditure, and should be taifuiy disposed Of
for that purpose, and for other use purpose who.
ever"
Notwithstanding this solemn pledge, attempts have
been made Tor several years to deprive the old states
Of their interest in the public lands In the Western
States this intention has been openly avOwed and
several years since, President Jackson one Of his
Messages, recommended chat the land should be
coded 10 the States within whose limits it was situa
ted A project like this was likely to meet with but
little favor in the old states, and although, since his
inauguration, has been fnvorite administration
measure, 1t has been sedulousy concealed. and
gantly denied by the parzans of the Executive in
Connecticut 1t is now however too late for conceal
ment or denial. The crisis has last come, and un.
less the people Of the old aroused to
the danger to which their rights are exposed the out
Introduced into the Senate Of the United States at the
present session. cede the public lands to the states
N which they lie." 1t was introduced by MIR. Cal.
dence Of The administration. 1t was evidently the
fruit OF that remarkable interview in which the Presi.
dent Of the United States and the Father Of MULTI
cation, lately met at the Presidents Mansion, and for
tho first fue tor many years, gave each other the
hand OF friendship, and agreed to forget the past in
their united efforts to advance their mutual interests
for the future. From this interview Mr.. Calhoun re.
rnnHf N in Nkah
which Is to deprive OF rights in the public lands
at single blow. The reference Of the bill to the
Committee on public lands was opposed by Mr. Clay,
on the ground that this Committee was composed ola
majority OF members from the new states, who We're
committed in favor Of the measure. The vote on the
reference was considered test Of the views Of the
ministraon was ranged in favor Of tile bill. Among
the members who on this occasion showed their rem
dness to outrage tho rights OF the Old States was one
recreant Senator Of eclicut-the only member
Of Congress from our State who supports the ruinous
measures of the administration contrary to the will Of
his constituents.
the greatest cause for alarm The danger is no lon
ger prospective. The measure is already common
ced-not the selfish project Of an individual, but
iayore measure r OF .he Executive. Sp PM az
is anxious by the most ohsequious submission, TO wipe
out the record Of his former opposition: and under
such crc1mstances as fully show that II is both the
by which Mr.. Van Buren, is to be reelected to the
Presidential Chair, and John c. Calhou" to be declared
has SUCCESSOR
We feel assured that this high handed attempt at
robbery need only be exposed to the people OF Con-
neccut TO arouse them TO earnest and united OPPOSE
ton. They will never submit to be plundered Of their
inheritance. to advance. the fortunes Of parszan
President, or an unprinciped Office seeker.
We are told in the late report of the Secretary Of
tho Treasury that il may soon be NECESSARY to "re
ment. When tha, day arrives, as it certainly must.
il the measures Of the administration persisted in,
the people will see and feel that those who warned
with regard to the public lands, have raised no false
alarm.
As means Of calling the attention of the people of
Come cjcut to this important subject, and making
known their sentiments with regard to it, the Conven
ton have recommended the circulation Of petition
to Congress, in all the towns OF the state, which shall
declare in temperate, but firm and decided tones, the
determination Of Connecticut never to submit TO the
robbery and breach oftrust, contemplated by Mr.. Cal
houn's BILL Every party consideration s merged in
ger Of being sacrificed to the inordnate ambition Of
few selfish individuals. and trus, that this petition
will be signed by every citizen OF the state without
Al the las, election Tor the choice Of Representa-.
tves in the present Congress, the popular viii was de-
nitively and fully expressed on the subjects TO which
and va; appsIsm OF a S
minority. To prevent this, plan was devised and
executed which for bodness and encrmity, is unpar
hi hs 81 o The 80
states that il demands the attention OF every member
Of the confederacy. .s-rs..
At the commencement Of the session. the right Of
Ave Of tho legally elected and commissioned members
Clerk OF the last House took il upon himself TO decide
The question against them He refused to insert their
names in the roll u members, although their commits
sion and credentials in all respects according to
the law, and precisely similar to that OF one member
from the same State, whose seat was not disputed
The candidates who claimed the Of the returned
members had no credentials whatever, which were
their advOcates have never claimed majority Of the
legal votes. They have never denied that the votes
which would have given majority aere illegal, aud
IN NeW Jersey the fact Is admitted and snisersay notO
riOus.