Litchfield enquirer., 1843-04-13

intention is to be inferred from his acts and
his declarations. The jury are to take into
consideration all the circumstances relied
on by the state and by the defendant, and il
they find that Mr.. Savage left Middletown
with the intention Of abandoning it as his
home, and without intending to return to it
as his place of residence, he was at liberty
to acquire, in the same manner as any other
citizen, residence in New Haven.
In the view taken by Judge Dazzling, it
became unnecessary for him to express an
opinion on the constitutional question which
a different construction of the act Of 1912
would have presented.
HENRY CLAY-AN EXAMPLE THAT FEW MEN
WILL FoLLow.-A near relative of Mr.. Clay,
residing in his vicinity, who has been large.
ly engaged in the purchase and manufac-
ture of hemp for bagging and bale-rope for
the New Orleans market, by the fall ia val.
ue and the endorsements of the times
which have been felt with prodigious force
for year past in the great southwestern
emporium, was lately compelled to make an
assignment of his property TO trustees for
the benefit of all his creditors. The whole
amount of his liabilities was near $4,000.
about one half of which was due to Mr.. Clay
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prosecute his business, so advantageous to
hope of an improvement in the condition of
| things so that a suspension of the work and
ofthe payment might be avoided.
The sale of the property took place about
fortnight ago, and as usual in such eases
attracted several hundred persons, and
among them many of the creditors. MIR.
Clay then told them in substance that the
assignment was for the benefit of the CT edi-
! tors, himself included-tha the amount due
him was as large as all the other claims
combined that from the relationship in
which he stood to the debtor, it was proba-
BILE some, and perhaps many of the credi-
tors, had become such under the expectation
that if difficulty occurred, he, Mr.. Clay,
would protect them - that although there
was no ground whatever for asking him to
do so. yet rather than that any man should
think he had the slightest reason to com.
plain of him, and in order farther that every
debt due to others should be paid, he now
released all interest under the assignment
until every dollar due 10 others was paid,
and then ifany thing was left he would take
! it. The sale was made--the other creditors
were all paid, and what little remained was
all Mr.. Clay got for his $4,000. How diff.
ferent this from the ordinary course when
Mr.. Clay, being the ccre3sntial creditor,
would have been first paid, and in this case
the only one paid. and who but Henry Clay
could be found, under such circumstances,
TO reject the whole or at any rate his share
Of the proceeds Cleveland Hera2
AWEsrwARD. Ho!D--Mr, Calhoun in his
speech on the Oregon question, during the
late session Of Congress, gave the following
i aAn. sc
munities westward:
have elasped since took my seat in the 9th.
er house, the Indian frontier has receded a
| thousand miles to the west. At that time
our population was less than half what il lie
now. It was then increasing at the rate of
a quarter of a million. annually It is now not
less than six hundred thousand, and still In.
creasing at the rate of something more than
three per cent. compound annually. Atthat
rate, it will soon reach the yearly increase
of million.
If to this be added, that the region west Of
Arkansas and the State Of Missouri, and
south of the Missouri river, is occupied by
half civilized tribes, who have their lands Sc.
cured to them by treaty, and which will pre-
vent the spread of population in that direc-
ton, and that this great and increasing tide
will be forced to take the comparatively
narrow channel to the north ofthat river and
south of our northern boundary, some con-
ception may be formed of the strength with
which the current will run in that direction
and how soon it will reach the eastern gor.
ges of the Rocky Mountains. / say some
conception, for feel assured that the reali-
~ will outrun the anticipation. In illustra.
ton, / will repeat what stated when first
addressed the Senate on this subject. AS
wise and experienced as was President Mon
roe-as much as he had witnessed of the
growth of our country in this time. so made.
quate was his conception of its rapidly. that
near the close OF his administration, in the
year 1924, he proposed to colonize the Indi.
ans of New York, and those north of the
Ohio river and east of the Mississippi, in
what is now called the Wisconsin territory,
under the impression that it was portion Of
our territory so remote that they would not
be disturbed by our increasing population
| for a long time to come. It is now but eigh-
teen years since, and already, in that short
period, it is great and fourishing territory,
ready to knock at our door for admission as
one OF the sovereign members Of the Union.
But what is still more striking-what is
really wonderful and almost miraculous, 10
that another territory, (Iowa) still further
west, beyond the Mississippi, has sprung up,
as if by magic, and has already outstripped
Wisconsin, and may knock for entrance be-
fore she is prepared to do so! Such 10 the
wonderful growth of a population which has
attained the number ours has, and is still
yearly increasing at the compound rate II
is and such the impetus with which 1t is
forcing its way resistlessly westward. il