Litchfield enquirer., 1841-01-28
From Ms N Y. cOmmercial Adrertiser.

NAd thege are Of them. The editors oI the Albany Argus, we believe, dreaSo 0f " black cockades" by day and by. night-and in their fits of nightmare all the furies and hob-gob.- limS dance before them with fiery tails anu! burning eye-balls, and black cOckGdes just un- '. Let Ms, now glance at the history of the blsck e'ekntf. :. in order more justly 10 apRre- Vintet, the ,SirluOus horror, Ot those patriots
 ;IO are thrOwn into fits of deliriuhl tremeNS nj
 it's onipInplution.l In the first place there
 was a n,am once, who, made something of . tjgure. ip .OuE history, ,whosel name was
 GEORGE, WAsAINeTON,o Heled our, armies to
 battle in war with England, which happen ei ini his ltertime; and he wore a black cock- l Gde, as, did all the officers, who were, weak 1 enough to serve under his comnand.,. There
 was ,ap old Congress, who published g ,decla-
 ration of some importance one ,4ih of July, about, the year l776. The mcmbers of that
 CoDgress-all of them who ,;t times played | the soldier r-wore rbiGck c0ekGtes. In process of time, therefore,,n became both by usage and by law, the patiopal eockadc ofl the Uni- ted Slates.j During lhs sb9rt time, hpwever, 1 m which the Amer icAB armies were strength
 ened by an, army of allies frpfna France, a
 small bit of whiis ribbon was, ladded 10 the
 cockade, as ., compliment ltD the Jleur de hs
 oG our friends But op, ths ro4pvSluSiQn 4qv pt | ] troops, Mir. George Washington. and all the
 rest of 'em, took off the bit of white ribbon
 and their ,cockadcs became frigh!fplly kiack
 again, T ' c.lrl >,l, l.syjE rsy., ,jlih, .r3a,.. t7 1 We'll: a few years afterwards 2 horrible
 revolution broke out in France, attended by
 scenes ot barbarity and blood without exam,
 pic in the direful history of man, Nor age, nor rank, nor sex, nor beauty. nor intellect,
 nor innocence. afforded the least protection 1 from, the gory ministers, of anarchy; These
 assassins, and the armies of the rufian Gov
 erplpents of Robesnierre and comPany, wore as their natiopal emblem a tri-colore4 cock. I was 5,ih progress in France, its murderous ae7
 tors attempted to e0rgpllizs Fyeneh Party n | the United States ,Ciiizcn Genel, their am 1 bassi,dor to this countrY, fomented the trea, son here, and was SD successful as to secure l the active, agency, of spm8 lending men, through whom 'nlapy of lhe people Weyfl flses duceds into, the interest of the baTbarians
 then, in the ascendant ip. France. ui The con- spiracY gathered strength and as the atore; said George " ashHigto.', t9cn 4fresident 9 the United Staiss hpppsne4 tp,loye his own country above. all others, he took measures to crush the foul intrigue r-sending Gitizen Genet 9pt 0ffhe capital, and dismisyylg Ed rprnadI mi .dI T 1Randolph and sqms others fFptnshe
 puP Ths %e Game or % Washington sigstai "r "trelire from, the Executive chair, aud 9 grateful peo7 pie gave his place to;the man who first nom mated tim, t0 the, command of the. army ip 1775. and .wbO also moved the saeclGrgtion ,0f Aat, said foYyah D. John !Adans9, But although The, G9psFiFacy had been, crushed by Washington, thel conspiratIors vet liyed, trigues., tTbs condlcs of her rulers ai length became SO bad that the United, States Were l compelled 10 prepare for war, An, army ! was raised, of. which tbe aforesaid George Washington Wns apPointed the commander. under the title of Lieut. General. 7, But the | Freilch Pqrty in ,lthe United States ,clamored | loudly agninsl these, ,preparaiions, apd .at
 length had the aNdaciIy tO'moupl the frs-eol7 ored eockaae, and weat them publicly in the streets of New York | The IblqcE cockade was
 moreover denounced by them as the English cockade.c Thus embel ellshsd with, the bird of victory, Washington having accepted lbe cominand, of ths, nfIny. pgain' mounted .the biack cockade, as aid his officers, of courses-. The people, owing to the intrignes, of Genet. and other minions of France. became, ,divit
 dcd into two parties and as the opponents of their own Government had chosen to de-
 signate themselves. and insult Washington, his army, and the friends of, inc admiristra- tion, by wearing tWsign cockades ;;,J the Amer;- caa Perty, all who were for sIlstaipipg the fa4 thef of his country, the President, and the honor and the glory of the United Stp!csr chose 10 show that they, were. ready to bG. feDd the STARS AND sTEIPEs. by mounting tho pdfioDal cockaae, which was black Those
 of our young men who preferred their own country to that of France, enrolled, them- selves in volunteer companies, and rendered
 their, sarvices to the government. Among others Peter A. Jay, than whom purer patriot does not live, raised,a company , and Mrs, Adams, than whose a tTuer or nsbler never beat in man or Wonan, gave out, the cockades with her, owns hands. and these
 ceckades were black Old TrAxton and his
 men wore black ,cockades when he obtained
 his victories over the French frigates ,L'Inr
 suygen.e and La Vengeance, l799 and lSOO
 proofs, certainly that fhe, black !cockade
 was at least an oyermntch f0r, the tri- color,
 And such. dear people. is the true history
 of ihe black cockade. h was, and IS. the national cockade. The officers of lhe revor lution wore it. And every military officer has, worn 1t, from that dny to this. Mad An
 thony Wayne. and the, youthful Harrison, wore it vt the battle of the Miami, in l794.-- Again. Harrison was so bad us 10 have it
 on in the battle, of Tippecanoe. and at the
 Thames, Brown and Scott wore it at Chip,
 pewa and Lundy's Lane, |, And-horrible eic-
 iu !-Jackson had on a black cockade at the
 battle of New Orleans. n Worse than all,
 when our Tamnany friend General Morris
 reviews the regiment of Colonel Eli Ming-1
 we beg pardon, it is Mir. Hart the ,Rour nler- chGn, whose name is Eli---we a mean
 the real Colonel Ming-we say then that
 when General Morris. Ipst reviewed the regi-