Litchfield enquirer., 1842-11-03

been OeIu0e0 ana OIt0n Oetf0yS0 Oy tue charming catchwords, would Iook to the quarter whence it issues with their native kee mess, they would estimate it at it's true worth. Doos it come from the hard wDrking, the industrious, the thrifty sons of the soil Never! It issues from those patriotic spirits whose real grievance consists in this that they cannot live without work quite so splen. didly as men who do work; who declaim in bar rooms upon equal rights when the only species of equality they desire is that the loafers shall share the wages of the laborer. Let them put their hands and their heads to the same exacting labors-let them pursue the same career ot tircless industry and rigid self-denial, day after day, and year after year, which they have whom they traduce and vilify, and if they then fail of success. and can point to any thing but inevitable misfortune as the cause of their failure-let them sound the trumpet and armed men will spring up from the earth to aid them. ] know that misfortune and disappointment are the common lot of man,-that the laD- guage of Burns may be addressed to every child of mortality:
 "For care and trouble set your thought,
 Fen when your end g attained;
 And a your plans may come te naught,
 Where every nerve IS strained"
 but know too that our holy religion teaches us, not to viify and envy those who have escaped them, but to bear them with manly fortitude. If the condition of American la borers be such as have represented, and they are acting nevertheless upon the belief that there must be perpetual hostilities be- tween the rich and themselves, they clearly fall within the category of what Sheridan declared to be the extreme of folly. One may run his head against wall by accident, but this is the building of wall for the ex- press purpose of drumming ones head against it,
 The people of this country will tolerate any honest use of riches. There isa deep feeling with the many, that man may do as he pleases with his own, and they rarely speak of extravagance and ostentation in any other terms, than those of commissera- ton. But they will not tolerate. in foreigner or native, the lordly patronising and conde- scending airs of asserted superiority. They are fond of giving and receiving titles, but they will not endure naughty deportment.- And this is the glaring fault in the manS:.srs of wealthy families. We have :.o aristo- cracy, indeed, but we haze a clan amongst us who ape the airs, aGd set up the preten- sions of all the Towards, and who may be in fact as Offensive and injurious as the hsughticsl nobility that ever existed. can conceive how an hereditary noble. who bears name of historic renown, whose halls are hoary with ancestral glories, who is " native and to the manner born," should inspire feeling of loyalty and love among the tenant ry of his estate, or even the inhabitants of q Kingdom. And can conceive as easily, how one, who has mingled with his fellows in the dusty conflicts and remorseless rival ries of business, and risen to aff1uence, should inspire, not disgust merely, but deep relent- less hate, when he assumes rank and state, and tells his old associates. by his deport- ment, that he belongs 10 higher order of beings. It is comman remark. that there is scarcely family that can trace their line age back for three generations, without rum ming against lapstone, or an anvil. or a work bench. ..........
 And let it not be imagined that this sub- ject of manners is one of little importance, or the discussion of it unsuited 10 this most important occasion. A great political phi losopher has remarked, that manners are more important in a republic than the laws i; for they exert an hourly and all-pervading influence upon universal society. Insult is more keeniy resented than injury. The pride of nobility is more difficult to tolerate than all the exclusive advantages which they possess. "Numerous and serious as the grievances of the French nation were," says the ablest of the royalist writers, !" it was not they alone that occasioned the revolution.- Neither the taxer, nor the letters de cachet, nor the other abuses of authority, nor the vexations of the prefects, nor the ruinous de- lays of justice, have irrtated the nation; it is the prestige of nobility which has excited all the ferment." It converted Q nation of gentlemen and cavaliers into nation of as- sassins, and her sunny fields into vast acel- dama. The insolence of the privileged or- ders gave a character of ferocity to the pro- longei and fearful conflict which ensued, that has never peen paralleled in the history of the world. And a far-sighted philosopher, seeing the spirit which existed among the people, might, years before. have uttered a startling prediction, which sprang from the lips of Anthony:
 "This spirit raging for revenge,
 With Ate, by his side, came hot from hell,
 Shall, in these confin es, with monarchs voice,
 Cry havoc-and let slip the dogs of war"
 Much, very much, can be done to remedy this unhappy state of things by the laborini: classes also; and had the action and utter ance, words and worth, would exhort them for their own sakes, by the consideration of the immense benefits they will reap by uni ting their energies and their numbers to those of capitalists, which more than doubles their powers, to let nothing be wanting on their part to harmony of thought and action What might not be accomplished by cor dial union between them in enterprises of great pith and moment? Those who profess to be their champions and friends are the assailants, aud the rich are compelled to stand upon the defensive; and they cannot fail to look with an evil eye upon those who make them the objects of vindciive and in- cessant attack. Let them disdain the coun-