Litchfield enquirer., 1843-11-16
FOR THE ENQUIRER.

that body"
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
4" Vesf,am hoe GMgaviun,, UeStrOqWe in numine
7Toja est"
The Wing State Convention held at New-H Haven
on the Sth inst of the best represented and
and most interesting political meetings ever held
in Connecticut We united without the least de-
bate or hesitation upon ticket which we believe
to be equal ntalcnt and moral worth to any which
has offered itself to the suffrages of our citi-
zen voters, and at the head of which stands that
excellent citizen and patriot ROGER s. BALDWIN.
1t will be delight to US to try whether this
ticket, in the face of the cheering victories which
come up to us from the South and are waited to us
from the West can be fairly run down by the
cracked credit and equivocal reputation of gen.
tleman who has been twice chosen to the execu-
tive Office of the State without owing his election
to the people, and whose attainments as states
man and scholar suffer more harm when the lauda-
tons Of his friends bring them to light, than when
the contempt of his enemies permits them to repose
in that sweet oblivion which they love we'll and
for the enjoyment of which nature has so admira-
bly, designed them. AS he came into power unin-
vited by the voice Of the people, we hope he will
make up his mind to bear it with becoming clua-
nimity, when the unstaned hands of that majority
to whom the insignia of executive power belongs,
shall again claim their own, that they may bestow
it with free will and open heart upon worthy re-
cipient
In republican government it sometimes hap
pens that the people will forget for moment their
responsibilities to themselves and suffer the de-
signing and artful to assume rights which belong
to their own disposal. But such slumber is but
momentary. Like him who is cited in scripture as
having yielded to the willy spells of Delilah, until
in the energies of his returning strength the strong
bands with which his enemies had bound him fell
like burned flax from his snewy limbs like him
the old Colony will shortly awake, yes AWAKE,
though state sycophancy may steep her to the lips
in peoples, and the ghosts of alse-hearted, mis-
created, misnamed democracy may hold her SPELL
bound in delusive dreams
1t must be that high talents, we'll toned patri-
otism, and worth long tried in public stations, will
again have their day of asccndency that they will
have their reward not in the spos or even the IT,
ties of Office, but in the warm approving smile of
grateful country.
Unhappy Governor! afflicted associates! why will
not some pitying cleek of your democratic predc-
cessors in Office, who, like Woolsey, have sounded
all the depths and shoals of honor, counsel you as
did that pious cardinal his successor and mnion,
"We charge We, brothers, fling away ambition;
"By that sin fell the angels"
The Convention above alluded to was manly and
possessed Of a dignity rarely known to political
gatherings. The enthusiasm that prevailed in it
was equal that which pervaded the meetings Of the
wings during the canvass of 1910, and the results
can hardly fail to correspond with those Of that era
in our political history.
This great nation, sir, is beginning to grid itself
for struggle, which neither the exhausted wits and
threadbare, shop-worn coat Of Martin Van Buren,,
who has been once fairly voted down; nor the dar-
ing, metaphysical egotist, John c. Calhoun, VINO
would set his heel the Judiciary of that consttu-
ton under which he now asks the privilege of hold
ing the highest Office it can bestow; nor the loud
empty boaster, Thomas H. Benton, whose throat is
the best herald of his worth and the only trumpet
Of his valor,-a struggle which neither one nor all
these champions, though backed with the zeal and
cheercd with the cry Of all the hungry boodhounds
that snuff the spoils of Office in their track
err resist. The election of HENRY CLAY in 1914
is settled. and Connecticut will express for him at
the next spring election deliberate preference, at
the demonstration of which the exultation of his
friends viii be equaled only by the detection and
despair Of his enemies. II.