Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-05-19

FeHHSy lVtlnla ueDL aus III august ileAt. an
extra session of the legislature will be held
in the course of the summer, but it will be
impossible for any tax bill passed at such
session to bring anything into the Treasury
by the month Of August. What then is 10 be
done? No aid can be expected from the
banks. Halfthc banking capital in the Stale
has already been sunk through bad legisla-
ton, and not one Of the banks which survive
has either the ability or the inclination to eX-
tend the slightest assistance to the State
The only course left for the Governor of
Pennsylvania, to save his State from dishon-
Or,is to call an extra session of the legislature
for the purpose Of raising the amount needed,
by laying tax which shall be available in
time to enable the State to meet their en-
gagements promptly. Tine Chief Magistrate
who refuses to do his duty in such a crisis,
richly deserves impeachment.
Before leaving this subject, we will take
the liberty of remarkng, that Pennsylvania
must change the character of her rulers if
she wishes either prosperity or respectable
ty. Ifher people have not virtue and intelli-
gence enough to select men Of integrity like
Rtner and Sergeant for their rulers, instead
of such an impersonation Of corruption as we
take Gov. Porter to be, they must prepare for
worse evils, and greater disgrace than they
have yet endured. 1t will be of no use for
them to grumble and repine at their hard
fate-if they are mad enough to select polit-
cal knaves and scoundrels to administer
their affairs they must pay the penalty of
their madness. For such is the irrevocable
decree of nature, and one which is never vi
olated with impunity.
And who can say that such decree is un-
just! Are not the people sovereign Do
they not make their own laws, and choose
khn;n AVol tLnn
the evils resulting from bad laws and bad
rulers, 10 fall upon their own heads!
There are as good men, and as wise men
in Pennsy lvania as in any other state; and
their fellow citizens employ them constantly
in the discharge Of duties requiring strict
integrity and undoubted pecuniary respon-
sibiity-as guardians, trustees, legal advi-
sers, &c. &c. But the misfortune is, that
when men Of this stamp are nominated for
office, they are discovered all at once to be
"great aristocrats," friendly to monOpo.
lies" bank ruffians,' or entitled to some
other epithet equally odious and equally I'M
meaning. The consequence of which nota-
BILE discovery being their defeat and the
election of some low pettjfogging fellow,
whom no one would trust for one moment
with any private business of Importance, but
who is nevertheless considered as marvel
the State. AS if the public business of
great commonwealth, like Pennsylvania, did
not require to be conducted by men of equal
wisdom and honesty, wit those by whom
the private business Of an individual is con-
Quoted TROY Wing.
A WISE DIsTR1cr.-Mr. Wise some weeks
since glorified his District on the ground that
no newspaper was published within its linn
its. This indirect attack upon the fraternity,
has provoked some member of it to look into
the condition intellectually of this happy
region. The following is the result, as we
find it in the Cincinnati Chronicle:
"The District, is composed of the counties
thews, York, Warwick, James City and
Williamsburg. The population of these
counties is composed thus:
Whites, 25,127
Free Blacks, 1866
Slaves, 22,24O
Census of 1910 52,993
Census of 1880 1890
The District has therefore decreased since
1880, 4,357. The want of newspapers has
not added to its prosperity.
There are in this district about $4,000
white persons over 20 years of age. OF
neither read nor write
The whole State of Connecticut, with 300,.
600 white inhabitants, (miseruble land of
schools, newspapers, factories and pump
klns,) has only 526, who do not read or write.
That is, there arc just so times as many igno-
rant people in proportion, in Wisc's district,
as there are in Connecticut"
The LocoFoCo PARTY Us. AMERICAN INDUS
TRY.-In the course of his speech on the re-
solutions introduced by him to the Senate,
Mr.. Clay charged it distinctly upon the loco.
foco party, that they are opposed to the pro.
lection of American industry-and neither
Mr.. Buchanan or any other locofoco, rose to
deny the imputation. The following are
Mr.. Clay's words: "And what is the exist
ing condition of parties in the two Houses of
Congress! l hope in what l am about to
say that shall give offence to nobody, and
that If | miss-state any one | shall be in
stantly corrected. No one can possibly be
more willing than shall be to receive cor
rection. The members of the democratic
party are opposed to protection for itself;
they are opposed to the American syStem;'
they are against the encouragement of the
productive industry of our own country, op-
posed to the industry of the democracy
and to home system in any form; and are
in favor of n foreign system, and the en-
enlargement of foreign industry under the
specious and dclusive name of Free Trade
1t in this statement l am mistaken, repeat
that hope | shall be promptly corrected,
| state It from facts before my eyes. The
great Ajaxes of the tariff policy came tor
merly from the State OF Pennsylvania we
had her Baldwin; we had the lamented
Todd; we had her Forward, and host of
n oil thA
State. Where are now The voices which
once resounded within these walls and OF
those of the other legislative hall from the
uem( cratic marty in Ia vnr of this nnninenilr