Litchfield enquirer., 1841-12-02

SPEECH OF HON. GEORGE E. BADGER, Al Publc Dinner at R0leigh, ". c. On the 18th inst
 The Wings of North Carolina-remarks the editor of the N. Y. Tribune last week-frieOds and compa- triOts of Hon. GEORGE E. BADGER pressed him to par take of Public Dinner with them at Raleigh on the occasion of his return to them consequent on the breaking up of the Harrison Cabinet. MT. Badger finally acceded to their wishes, und the Dinner was given on Monday of last week. sentiment expres- sive of the warm admiration felt by the Whgs of the Old North State tor the talents and services of their distinguished guest, having been offered and received with unbounded enthusiasm, MT. Badger responded in powerful and impressive Speech of which the substance is thus reported in the last Raleigh Regis ter:-
 MT. BADGER commenced by remarking, that he should indeed, be wanting in senslbily, not to be touched by the testimonial of undeserved appruba this day offered him, and by the complimentary sen timent which had just been so kindly received. He was fully aware that there were considerations other than personal, connected with this mark of respect and it no doubt expected, surrounded as he was by his old friends and by those best able to estimate his motives, that he should say something as to the dissolution of the late Cabinet the present posture of affairs. and :he course proper to be adopted by the Wing party of North Carolina.
 It was we'll known to his friends that he had never sought ofice that he had fondness for it, and that he took it from considerations nowise connected with his own personal interest and advancement. Had he believed himself at liberty to consult only hs own wishes and his interest, he would have remained m his native State, and been content to attract that degree of respect and esteem to which he might be thought entitled. Having been influenced by pubic considerations take office, he :et deeply gratlhed on laying 1t down. to find his cunduct approved and his motives justly regarded, by those who had tho best opportunity to know him.
 The events of the past year, continued MT. B. must have excited the astonishment of every ohservant If rs, nnIv n " Grove was filled with thousands of determined Whlgs, collected from every part of the State-brouSht !o' gether by no base or mercenary motives put oy tne solemn conviction that the fate of the whole country involved in the issue of great political struggle They fired by the same spirit o liberty that im' peleG Revolutionary foreta hers, and like them. the welfare and happiness of their posterity They did succeed Day after day, the cheering ndlngs came in, that State upon State had declared tor the Whig cause. At length, the voice o the whole Amer ican People collected, and HARRISON, the Patriot, Sage, Statesman, Soldier, and best of all, Christian, was called to direct the nation. To his voice, sad Mir. B., yielded, and became member of his Cabl, net. And when, Sir, saw and knew that noble old man, and those whom he had called about him when heard him in the midst of thousands ot ms countrymen take that solemn oath which bound him 10 redeem the pledge then given of talthtHl deyot9n to his country, felt deep assurance that mlsrnle was al an end-that the one.man power was rePudl' ated from system, and the Nation secure of a true Representative Government.
 d There is voice heard As of mourning, and teeI'ng of dstrus seems pervade every part of the coun' try. Why is this Are Whig principles less vaua. hle now, than they were twelve months ago Are Loco Foco doctrines less traught with destructive tl-socia and anti religious qualities than sney tneh were? Are the Wings more ready now, than then to embrace them? None will answer these questions in the affirmative. Mo- though there are many good, wse and excellent men in the ranks of our opponents !he tendency of their party principles Sill dsorgan- izng and destructive, and the Wings as much as ever .. l,N,k ehnn aspect of things. or seven States of the Union, m which elections have recently taken place, and where, last al the Whig majority was toId by thou sands five exhibit Loco.toco r'Hmr,sh Mhy IS !n,s mus opnion this result is to bs attributed to the same causes which led to 'he disruption of the late Cab net. And what are they The wings nave fasea e as a Wbig, professng to be Wing and believed to be Whig. nevertheless. either does not justly under stand, or truly val luc and consistently pursue the great constitutional principles of that party It was neither his purpose nor wish, continued MT: B, to apeak in terms Of severity of MT. TYLER but the President of the United StaIes though the Chief Ma. gistrae, but public servant. and. as such hls con- duct is a fit subject for examination and remark. His conduct towards Congress and his Constiiuti0nat e visers the main cause of the dseolution oa the Cabinet and the same cause has led to our recent defeats There is no abandonment, of Whig princi. ples any where. but uncertainty and dstrust have produced. for the time. inacton among the Wings !,
 Attempts have been made. know, sir. continued Mr. B to dlscredit the statement m MT. Ewing letter. of what passed in the Cabinet meeting Of the 18th of August; but say here, in the presence of this enlightened and respectable company, on the re- sponsibity of my reputation for truth Of which none are better able to judge than those address, that that statement s Tue-in its leading anu essen- tial facts, absolutely rue-in all its details, s"6stan tially true.
 The Cabinet would not have been dissolved simply because the President vetoed the Bank bills: His scruples. f sincere, however unreasonable, and even absurd. would have been entitled to tenderness not eok h1o hgn visited with the harshness O censure the errors of man who sought after truth with willingness 10 ind, and desire to embrace it, merely because, through feebeness of understanding, or early prejudice, he was disabled to perceive it. It was the want of sin. cerity and ngenuousness-ot directness and candor; i was the disregard of courtesy and respect It was the manifestation ot vasciI,atlng ana unsteady m!na; avows it's own errors and scorns by concealnent or evasion to visit then on others, that compelled the Presidents confidential advisers to aba ndon their po slion Consider the circumstances Ot the case for moment, and judge # this be not so One Dlh haVing been defeated he proposed another. and indu. ced the members Of his Cabinet to urge its pass1Ee The bill pnssed and sent to the President. Did he sign it Sir, after his Cabinet had induced ther
 friends in Congress accept as the olive branch ot Peace he not only did sign it. but he sent it back with scorn, as measure that every one must have known he could no, sanction. How then, e'r, was his Cabinet situated The bill that they had been indu. ced recommend was 20 repudiated, as plainly. but
 indirectly, to exhb, the Cabinet as false to truth false iO Congress, and false to the Country. What would he though, of that master who having commits stoned hs servant to make purchase, should, alter
 the execution of his order deny the contract and put him upon proof of his authory1 Every man must perceive that total loss of confidence having taken place. there end. at once, to ell hope ot ier. dernR service the country. Ot the future conduct of the President, we could only judge by the past and from that what could We infer. but disregard of all that justly due to us as his confidential M adv'' sers '? His conduct, then. standing as n d'd to me, totally without any explanation of its apparent deyi.
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