Litchfield enquirer., 1842-03-24
WASHINGTON, March Ia.

ChOate, OF Mass, addressed the Senate at
length upon one branch of the subject, and
Ehat referring, as you may suppose, to the
tariff. Mr. G. avowed himself the advocate
of the doctrine of protection, and he debated
the merits ofthe proposition as we'll upoR the
power to grant protection under tho Consti.
tuition, as upon the justice of the question, in.
dependantly of any such power. To his
own we'll argued opinions, he added the au-
thorties of the trainers of the Constitution,
and to both Of these multiplicity of facts in
English and American history, all going to
show the necessity aD2 the Justice of the
ground assumed. "The power to regulate
commerce." which. Congress had under the
Constitution, was deemed authority enough
10 protect American labor, and had been, it
was contended, SO considered by the Patri-
archs of the Republic. A similar power in
England had led to the protection Of English
interests. The testimony in support of this
proposition was full and complete. 1t was
literally showered down upon the Senate,
and in all the profusion of abundance and
excess. The argument, too, was a strong
and able one.
To report the speech,-the rich images,
the beautiful metaphors, the appropriate H.
Illustrations, the striking comparisons, would
be quite as impossible as it would be to draw
fire from the clouds by the agency ofpen, ink
and paper. The pictures presented were
drawn with the skill of a tasteful artist.
They bore every hue and shadow of color
ing, from the majestic figuring which strikes
out in bold reliefup the canvass ofthe art
int to the refined and beautiful harmony of
coloring which charms the eye of the be-
holder. There was no "gilding of refined
gold," no wasteful and ridiculous excess"
no effort at display, but without any effort
the ideas and words came together, present
ing q picture as beautiful to look upon as it
was pleasing to see. Mr.. Choate's manner
has power to interest every nearer, and
there is an earnestness about it which some
times seems almost to master the speaker
himself. He is always instructive, too, in
what he says, and his speeches have the
rarely found combinations of good sense and
sentiment blended together.
The House of Representatives devoted the
day to the receiving ofpetitions. They came
in great numbers from all quarters of the
Union, and were upon all sorts of subjects.
They gave some index of public feeling,
however, upon variety of subjects. The
States North and South seem to be speaking
out not only through their newspapers, but
by petition, upon the subject of the Tariff.
The still small voice of few months past in
loud and general chorus. 1t is heard in Vir-
ginia as we'll as in Pennsylvania, in North
Carolina as we'll as in Massachusetts, and in
Georgia as we'll as in Maine and New Hamp.
shire, public sentiment is not what it was,
and every days experience gives evidence
Of more enlightened and more systematic
public opinion. The people are speaking
out also in reference to the waste of time in
Congress, and the growing disregard seen
here in almost every weeks Legislation il
reference to questions of great public inter-
est. The great mass of petitions presented
from the free States related to the right OF
petition and the obnoxious twenty first rule
All these took the usual course,-those re-
Iating to slavery not being received, and the
question of reception being raised upon 9TH
ers.-N. Y. Express.
WASHINGTON, March IL.
The residue of the month is big with COM
ing events. Portentous discussions, it is
said. are entertained in the Cabinet touch.
ing the British dispatches. Measures have
been proposed and urged with great vehe-
mence upon the Creole question and the
RICH: of visitation, which, if adopted, must
necessarily lead to the formation OF new
Executive Council. That there is a want of
harmony among the present Secretaries up
on these momentous topics, am entirely sat-
isfied and it will not be long after the arri-
val of Lord Ashburton that the Cabinet and
the country will understand their true posi-
ton. If CO nsistently with our national hon
or and the rights of our citizens war can be
averted, you, may rely upon it the pacific re:
latons Of the United States and England
will never be disturbed, so Tar as the Legis-
lation of an American Congress is con.
cerned.
The Loan Bill was then taken up in Com
mittee of the Whole, Mr.. Briggs in the Chair,
the amendment moved by Mr. Fillmore, by |
direction of the Committee of Ways and |
Means, authorizing the sale of the stock for |
the highest price after reasonable advertise.
ruent, still pending.
Mr.. Fillmore made forcible and thrilling
speech in reply 10 the remarks of Mr.. Wise
Of yesterday, replying with much spirit to
Mr.. WIS imputation that this provision TO
sell the bonds of Government below par, was
the severest stab that could be inflicted on the
credit of the Government, and that coming
from the Committee of Ways and Means.
They had only been induced to insert this at
the most urgent recommendation OF the Ex-
ccutive Department. He read letters from
the Secretary of the Treasury and the COL
lcctor at New York, urging the course as in
ulSpenSaUtS. was " tuS Soiii'HIttoo VA ways
and Means who had directed this stab ut the
credit of Government, or was it the "pceul-
lar" friends ofthe Administration He was
induced to believe there was deep game
PLAYING here 10 infict blow on one of the
parties of this country. Why was it that the
" peculiar" friends ofthe Administration did
more to obstruct its measures than both the
other parties together! He warned the
House and the country ifthis loan bill failed
the responsibility would fall on those ''pecul-