Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-12-14
THE ENQUIRhR.
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AAFCHsraEL OsDECEMB BEN IA. IS43.
Gu-The LrrcHytELD CLAY CLUE will be organ
ized at the Mansion House Thursday Evening,
Dec. 14th, at o'clock. 80
COVE giyeup our columns this week principal
ly to the Presidents Message and the proceedings
of Congress- and shallscontinue during the session
to give a tolerably full report of the doings at
Washington. M
The Message is very moderate document. In
style it is inferior to any Of its predecessors, and
the effort to show the good resulting from has ad-
ministration of public affairs is IN exceeding bad
| taste. The country has indeed been greatly bene-
fitted by the wing triumph in 1910, which brought
John Tyler from obscurity into public life, but no
| thanks are due to him therefor. A Wing Congress
passed many wholesome laws, some of which esca-
ped the veto and have blessed the country. An
eminent Whigin the Cabinet, appointed by Cen
Harrison, successful in settling certain difficult
ties with Great Britain, but the aid of Mr. Tyler in
those negotiations we opine very small indeed.
The only matter Of special interest in the pro-
ceedings Of Congress thus far is the action of the
House in relation to certain members of Congress
Cor gentlemen who claim to be members) who
were chosen by general ticket in direct opposition
to constitutional law requiring the States to elect
by single districts. The majority evince no dspo-
sition to regard the constitution and laws which
they are sworn to support. As the party now in
the majority in the House have, in past days, disre-
garded the constitution and laws, is not surpris-
!
ing that they should do so again. The gentlemen
who claim to be members from New Hampshire,
Georgia, Missouri and Mississippi have no more right
to seats in the House, than would individuals cho-
sen by the popular vote of State to seats in the
the Wing members to the attention of cur readers
of all parties This Protest is so true in its state
ments and reasonings that some of the majority,
and particularly the general ticket interlopers I'M
dertook to excludet from the journals of the House,
and will yet probably succeed in getting it expun-
ged. We shall hear more on this subject anon.
The election of Mr.. Jones to the Speakership,
and thus giving him the appointment of the Com
mittee Elections, when his own seat is contest
ed, was in character; but that gentleman seems to
have had sufficient sense of propriety to decline
the appointment of that committee, which service
will be performed by Mr.. Perish Commerce. Boards
ley with as scrupulous regard to the interests of the
party as it could be by the Speaker himself.
DoUBrrNG WHIGs-For two years past, saws
the Philadelphia Forum, it has been almost 1npcs
sible to pursuade large portion of the wings that
the election of Henry Clay to the Presidency, was
among the events that could happen. We have CT
ten had our patience tried by those who replied
with sigh, and lugubrous, responding look, te
whatever we had to say in regard to our future
prospects, that zoe were alwaysso sang,ane-that
they wished they could believe our encouraging &C
counts from various quarters, bat the wings were
always confident of success, though always defeated
8 We would do anything to elect Henry Clay was
their uniform language, 6twe fear we never shall
see him President there isno such good luck in
store for the country Such was the Responding
language held by our disbelieving Wings up to the
time of thereceipt ofthe chez ring news from Ten
nessee. This dispelled some of their fears. Gecr-
gia soon followed in the footsteps of her gallant
predecessor, and they began to rub their eyes, and
Maryland struck their ears, and they looked with
bewildered establishment, as if they doubted their
own senses. Pennsylvania and Ohio came next,
and spoke trumpet -tongued in denuncaton of the
spoilers and in favor of HENRY CLAY and a
PROTECTIVE TARIFF. Baltimore next wheel
ed nobly and proudly into the Wing line, and pro-
claimed her determination to support the men and
the measures which had given prosperity to the
country, and especially to the great and consistent
champion Of those measures Harry of the West :
and once the spoilers became pale and trembled,
did Belshazzar, when he saw the hand writing on
the wall. They read their doom ; and for once
the dsbeleving Wings, unable longer to resist the
conviction, threw their doubts to the Winds
Thank patience we no longer hear them Say we
wish we could elect Mr.. Clay, BUT There
are no butts about it now the thing is admitted,
even by many of our opponents, to be as certain
anything can be which depends on the uncertain
ties of human life.
BEEF AND CHowDER.-A Vermont correspond
ent of the Boston Atlas offers to send the editor
pair of fat Green Mountain oxen that will make
the Bostonims' mouths water, if Vermont does moi
give greater Wing majority than Massachusetts al
the next Presidential election, provided the editor
of the Atlas will send up three tons of prime cod