Litchfield enquirer., 1842-12-08
THE ENQUIRER.
LITCHFIELD, DEC'R 8, ls42.


 LITCHFIELD, DEC'R 8, Is42.
 WMa STATE CoxvENTIox.-In another column will be found the call of the State Central Committee for Convention to nominate candidates for the se- veral State Officers to be chosen in April next While defeat has been the portion of the Wings for the past year most of the States the signs of the times in Old Connecticut are altogether favorable to the restoration of the Whg ascendancy at the spring election The little town meetings have resulted on the whole very favorably, and leave no doubt that when they TRY, the friends of good government can succeed in general election.
 Another Whig Victory-At the annual town meet. ing in Hartford, the regular Whig candidates were elected by majori.ies varying from 400 to 800. The Couraut says-" The Wings of Hartford have well maintained their ground, and we think have now won the title of "t3ibraltar ef Whiggery" from their brethren of New Haven" The Wings have carried A4 cut of tho 22 towns in the county.
 PRESIDENTS MEssAsE-BY ExPREss.-The Phia' X3Slphia U. s. Gazette says" The Message of the President will probably be sent to Congress at noon on Tuesday. And we learn with pleasure, that the Post Office Department have made arrangements
 
 Philadelphia Railroad Company, to run an express to bring the Message; and probable that the arrange. ments are made with other companies to expedite copies of the document. the roads are not blocked up with snow, the track impsded with ice, we may Jock for the Message between and o'clock. P. M. on Tuesday" And it will reach New York by 10 or Il o'clock the same evening.
 MIR. BENToN's LETTERING copy, by re- quest of democratic friend, characteristic letter from the great humbugger of Missouri. The reader will perceive that the Administration of MT. Tyler can expect no aid from this champion of ocofocoism. The Exchequer scheme is denounced as the proge- ny of Biddle aud therefore unworthy of the support of the enemies of National Bank. MT. Benton evi. dently looks forward to the entire restoration of the loco loco party tho readopton of the sub-treasury scheme, and the ultimate overthrow of the banking system throughout the country. In this he will be disappointed. Disastrous as have been the elections in lS42 we cannot believe that they are in any de. gree indicative of disposition on the part of ma orsy of the American people to restore the govern ment to the control of the friends of Thomas H. Ben ton, or the adoption again of measures which have brought evil and only evil upon the country. When She great party which triumphed in nineteen of the twentysix States of the Union in ls4O shall recover if pm the apathy produced by the singular course of Mr. Tyler and those members of his Cabi ,et whom shey have heretofore delighted to honor, they will come forth in their strength and under leader wor- thy of theiv confidence, carry out those principles and adopt those measures which will restore the ton once mora to happiness and prosperity
 In 1894, Col. Thomas H. Benton was among the
 most earnest advocates of the election of Henry Clay and in an address to his constituents dated at St. Louis, Oct. T, 1884, holds tho following language:
 "The principles which will govern MT. Clay's ad- n,inistraton, if elected, are well known to the nation. They have been displayed upon the floor of Congress for the last l7 years. They constitute system of American policy based on the agriculture and manu- features of his own country; upon interior well foreign commerce; upon internal as well as sea- board improvement; upon tie independence of the Mexico and South America. If tits said that others would pursue the same system, we answer that the founder of the system is the natural executor of his own work-that the most efficient protector of Anne. vican iron lead, hemp, wool and cotton would be the triumphant champion of the new Tariff, the safest friend to interior commerce would be the statesman, who has proclaimed the Mississippi to be the sea of improvement inn M would be the President who has tri. umphed over the President who opposed the con- struction of national roads and canals the success full applicant for treaties with Mexico and South America, would be the eloquent advocate ot their own independence"
 ar Such was MT. Benton's opinion of MT. Clay in 1924. Who has since changed-Benton or Clay7
 MT. EprroR-l see that in your paper of the 24th u, you allude to the growing manufacture of cider in the parish of Milton and in rather equvocal strain, speak of the gude temperance people" there as looking back toward " old tmes"-and as willing to revive the "long time ago" enioyments of fire side drinking Now whether you actually meant to complimens us or not = we would disclaim the very large credit which you are pleased to give us. We are really too modest silently to acknowledge all that proprietorship which you are pleased to attribute unto us in those "one hsusand barrels ef cider "- That amount may have been wade within our limits, for auaht we know-but great part off by others thsn a!lton people. Other parishes tand among the number your own. Litch6eld. is sufficiently prOmi- s..n A... h..n willing to make Milton the 'eaps- rec to bear away the knowledge oftheF sln' from thsir owa immediate vicinity. We gre willing to take the responsibility of our own work-to bear our iuvt burdens but as we have necessarily so much of cur own to bear we think it hard to groan under the heavy loads of other men. We cannot shouidsr au GAas ci5sy. MILTON.
 eor Our hat is of ., this - and we are ready to msks the amend honorable to the gude people, The fact is, we never should have swallowed that wholesale c;Ses report had it been recorded to us from any other than an undisputable source-and S.ysher. our belief in the matchless and often almost imprebabls accomplishments of the Miltonians.-
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