Litchfield enquirer., 1842-11-17

1 tom, every voter has one repfesentative and
 no more. By the general ticket system, every voter has as many representatives as
 his state is entitled to send to the House and if that system should be generally adopted. every voter in the state of New | York will have thirty -four representatives, while the voters in Rhode Island will have | only two. and in Delaware only one. The single district syStem was introduced into the appOrtionment bill, by democratic
 member from the state of South Carolina 1 It was neither Whig, nor a sectionally northern measuTe-but the slave represent
 ation, and the northern Democracy soon began to look at it with an evil eye. Null lification took the alarm, because it was
 mandatory to the state legislatures, and
 nullification ifs at the root of Mr. Tyler's whole political system.
 While the bill was on it's passage through
 Congress, the legislature of New Hamp- shire and Georgia, two Of the states abusive ly represented by general ticket, had hoist ed the black flag of notification against
 the single district section. They strutted
 abroad in the Haunting colors of state sove-
 reignty, and proclaimed defiance to the
 mandatory act of Congress. New Hamp-
 shire and Georgia were both Loco Foco
 states: but Mr. Tyler had become marvel
 lously quiescent to their opinions and poli-
 cy, and SD, to propitiate them, with the same
 hand he approved and signed the bill' and sent to be deposited in the Department of
 State, this inceldiary torch of Constitution
 al doubts, to cheer up and stimulate the re-
 bellion of state sovereignty, against the tru- lily popular and democratic principle ot
 single district representation.
 The two Houses of Congress, perceiving
 the direct tendency ot this instigation. by
 the chief magistrate himself, to insurrection
 against law approved and signed by him.
 self, to produce conflict more dangerous
 to the peace and harmony of the Union,
 than that of the New Jersey election in the
 26th Congress, made last effort 10 avert so
 deplorable calamity, They introduced
 into an act regulating the testimony in cases
 of contested elections, section, providing that no person presenting himself as mem-
 ber elect of the House of Representatives,
 should be admitted to seat, without cer- tificate of his election conformably to the
 law prescribing election by single district. This act for the regulating of the taking of testimony, &c., was one of the most arduous
 labors of the session. It had been prepared
 with the most anxious assiduity, by an able and diligent committee, had been debated
 in conciliatory temper, and with mature deliberation, in both Houses-and was sent to MT. Tyler on the last day of the session.
 He neither approved and signed it, nor sent il back with his objections but, following an example of his illustrious predecessor, in one of his most arbitrary acts, put it in his pocket. New Hamshire and Georgia may carry into unresisted execution their threats of insurrectiOn against the law. The fortiiude of the 18th Congress will be called to meet the shock, and the chief magistrate, sworn to support the Constitution and the laws, will be there to head the rebellion against them.
 The first, most embitterred, and most vio-
 lent assault upon the administration of MT. Tyler, was commenced at the meeting of Congress at the special session. It was aimed specifically at the Secretary of State, and it's object was to drive him from his place, and from the councils of the Presi- dent. The close of MT. Van Buren's admi- nistration had been marked by n rancorous and insulting tone assumed in negotiation
 with Great Britain, mixture of the bully and the coward, which had made us the laughing
 stock of the world. MT. Webster had en- tered the Department of State, and the tone and temper of negotiation was instantly
 changed. Instead of sharp and senseless reproach and cnntnn1ely. candid and frlend- ly discussion was substituted-the soft ans- wer turned away wrath, and the conciliato- ry spirit infused itself into the diplomacy of boiiS the parties. It operated like charm, but if reused ic a pitch of frenzy the oppo- sition of the defeated Democracy of the Five Points ;; and in resolution upoE resolu- tion, and speech upon speech, in both Hou- ses of Congress, the Secretary of State WIS charged with having sacrificed irredeema- bly, the interests and independence of the country. before the fangs of the British lion. This internal war was kept up thro' the whole session, even after Capt Tyler's vetoes of the first and second bank bills had smoothed the raven down of Loco Foco Democracy till it smiled. Just before the close of the session, the virulence of this onset upon the Secretary of State was at it's height. had believed his colleagues fully justified in their resignation of their offices-but had advised him to retain his place till the imminent danger of war with England should be dispelled; and by a speech in the House, on the case of Mo- Leod, expressed my concurrence in the thorny subject, and contributed by my open and avowed appreciation, what aid could to shame his adversaries into silence.
 But did not conceal from him that l could not extend my appreciation to MT. in MT. Webster in negotiations with Great less upon the temper With which knew he was conducting ii, than upon his talents could have no confidence in Mir. Tyler At the very threshold of the session, in the convulsive of the South to restore the gag rule against the right of petition, his name and o6ici0l inastence had been used with fatal success in the debates of the House, to re-