Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-08-18

cry neld Is teemlng win rat.
e... "This wealth is but name
That leaves our useful products still the same
True we have not as much bank money
(paper) as some people want but we have
us much as our previous abuse of it allows
1t is true we have suffered a revulsiOn of bus.
mess. We have oyertraded, and now called
to settle our accounts, we find that nature, who
never deals in fctiOns, has indicated her VIC.
lated principles, and now exacts pGlue for vG9-
us because promise for value has been car
ried too far. But nature is supreme. 1t is the
law of God, and must be-obeyed.
No country can be ruined that boasts an
increasing population. Population itself is
| wealth. We have an industrious people, and
! these are banks that never fail. Nature is
the stockholder. God grants the charter, and
labor makes the dividend. The treasure
| swells to millions in the bosom of our moth
er earth. The harvest is to him who sows,
not to the sluggard who signs and cries out
-" ruin ruin /! ruin -
We have heard enough of "h0rd times"-
The words mean only the comparative facil-
ity OF obtaining money, and the comparative
diminution of quantity. Granted that thus
understood, the times are hard. Well, it is
only the consequence of a transition from
high to low prices; and the natural reluc-
lance of men to measure the same quantity of
goods for less quantity of money. Como
down to the smaller measure, graduated by
the less quantity Of money and the times will
not be so hard. barrel of -four and an acre
of land are still the same. Nothing can de-
stroy the comforts and necessaries oflife but
the elements. We have all that can render
a people happy, if they will betake them.
selves to the soil, and cease to grasp at sudden
greatness By unnatural means. Initiate nature,
respect her laws, and be happy.
"Speed the PLOUGH ~ is the motto of repub-
lican virtue. After that comes COMMERCE,
spreading her white sails on the broad ocean
and scattering to distant lands our surplus
treasures. Then follows MANUFACTURES, I'M
locking the iron jaws of our mountain mine
rails, and the focks of the valleys and noun
tains yielding their fleece to the devouring
loom. When our mountains break, it is to en-.
rich the world. Those are the banks for
colossal people who claim boundless re-
gion, where hundreds of millions will! one day
toll and think, labor and sorite, to astonish the
world! Talk of ruin to q people, who in a
few years will advance and flourish in glori-
Gus victory over the empire that CaZar won,
and Alfred civilized! Talk of ruin to such
a people, because house or an acre of land
are measured in value by some few hundreds
less than formerly! How prepos.erous how
absurd how cruel!
We have wealth still left, we have enter
prise, we have industry, and a glorious PopH-
lotion that will overcome allthe impediments
of reuulsion, temporary discredit, frauds, plum
ders, and even swindling, by Wholesale
Suffer we may but triumph sce must.
Corresponding Of the N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, August 10.
In the House, after some unimportant bu-
siness, the VRTo MESSAGE was taken up, q
large audience having assembled in aHtici-
patton of the debate.
Mr.. Adams occupied the first hour, mani
Testing on this occasion of excitement a COR
responding additional warmth to that usual
ly displayed by him; he said that the ,oar
had now begun-that the issue was COM
plete between the Legislative and Executive
Dis"ohas nf Government, and that the re-
sort must now be to the God of battles, assu-
ming the position that there was nothing
further 70 take pluce between tnIS Dranch
OF GoverApnent and the Executive at this
session, (Which it was his opinion could not
be done witho.t disgrace he proceeded to
review the proceedings of the Executive
and OF Congress, shce the commencement
of the Extra Session WITH the view to an in
quiry where the prostrason of the public
interests had originated. The Bankrupt
| act, that great measure Of relief TO the suf-
fering portion of the community, had been
| enacted-with the concurrence, Ee acknow-
lodged, of the President. He next -eferred
| to the establishment as far as the acson of
Congress was concerned, of a National Back,
that great and indispensable measure Il
the prosperity of the country, the support
of which was one of the principles on which
the Wing party came into power. and to
| the act Of the President thereon, preventing
any relief to the people; to the passage of
| the second Bank bill, which taken from the
Presidents hand in such form as it was
| understood automatically it would be appro-
! we'd by him, was passed and-another veto
came it was "VETo AND D1TTo." Touch
ing then upon the "Veto under mask" of
| the Apportionment bill, he came to the We
toes on the two Tariff bills-the passage of
which he said completed the system Of Wing
principles in the two Houses.
On the President rested the responsibility
! of defeating the action of this Congress
| which had done more for the good of the
! country than any Congress that had prece-
ded it, and which had accomplished in the
| face OF the most adverse circumstances, all
! for the country within their power. He re-
| ferred to the charges that had been made
| against this Congressional it had been en-
gagged in President making, and occasioned
| burst of laughter by saying that the Wing
party stood on vantage ground of their OPP
| porients, having but one candidate, whereas
/ on the other side there were several-he
knew it for he had seen it in print 1t was
known, he said, that within twenty-four
hours after the call of the Democratic party
at the White House, on the night of the first
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