Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-12-26

neriod of nearly 40 years, have enshFined him IN
:he hearts of his countrymen
Resolued, That we pledge ourselves anew 10 the
cause of American Industry. 1t IS enlphaucaLy
the cause of the Constitution and of the People
The regulation of their commerce, foreIgn and do.
nestle, was one of the great objects contemplated
in the Union. 1t is written in the bond, and shall
receive from practical and salutary interpre-
tation. Our independence is yet but partially
achieved unless it be extended from political TO
commercial emancipation from all foreign States
The Tariff of 1912 /" is right and working good"
So says Henry Clay So say we.
Resolved, That in measures for distributing the
proceeds of the public lands to the States for pro-
yiding a sound currency and imposing due re-
stralnts on Executive authority, we see opPortunl-
tv for constitutional and highly sautary exercise
of the Federal power. We should be false to the
true interest of country, if we did not take eV-
cry proper occasion to repeat, as we do now' our
opinion that sound Wing legislation upon the sub
Iiect is required at the hands of the general go
vernment.
Resolced, That the last dispatches of the Amer
lean Secretary of State to Mexico, and to our MIN
lister at the Court of France, on the subject OF
Texas, are discreditable to American diplomacy
and dangerous to the peace OF the country we
see in them only fresh cause for remaining hxed
and resoute in our opposition to the scheme OF
Annexation.
Resolved, That as our best security against re-
petition of the abuses of the elective franchise,We
such law in every State would have secured the
election of the late Wing candidates for the Presl-
deney and Vice Presidency.
Resolped, That we have confidence in the tall
ents integrity, and unwavering Wing principles
of ROGER s. BALDWIN, and in presenting him
again, as the Wing candidate for the office of
Governor, we feel assured that we shall meet the
expectations of the entire Wing party.
Resolved, That in the candidates for other State
officers wepresent to the people true and approved
public servants who have already received, and still
deserve the enthusiastic support OF the party whose
principles they represent.
Resolued, That we recommend the continuance
of the existing Clay Clubs in this State, under the
name of Wing Clubs, and that such associations
hold meetings as often as convenient for a discus
sion of Wing principles, and for any other busi-
ness which shall not conflict with the regular
town. county and State organization of the Wing
party.
Res 1ped, That the failure of the Wings to &C
complsh all their objects in the late contest Is not
defeat that should dspirit the party, or dis
charge any of its members from their duty as pa
triotic men-that we regard fred determination
to cote OH all occasions as legitimate trait in the
character Of every true Wing, and we call upon
our Wing friends throughout the State never to
absent themselves from the polls, encouraged by
the we'll settled maxim that I" a full vote is
Whigvictory." aa
Mr. Stuart, of Hartford, chairman of the above
resolution, and went into very eloquent discus
sion Of them, in speech of about half an hour
length. In the course of his remarks he enjoned
upon the Wings to secure the triumph of their
ticket in the spring contest, as matter OF cheer
full, though stern duty.
Mr.. Perkins, of Ltchfeld, was next called up,
, and made some very sensible and torcible remarks
, His delineation of the true spirit and genius oil
: American liberty, as understood and advocated by
the Wings, in contradistinction OF the Jacobir
views held by modern locofocolsm, was graphic
, patriotic and eloquent. It was time, he said, thai
: we should look back once more to the price of ou1
liberties. To look upon the blood and treasure BY
, which they were purchased to us by our forefath
> ers--not that mock liberty which consists il
eft I'll hRn ared and Jealous,
against all forms of restraint-which opposes eve
ry thing. and proposes nothing. But that benign
intelligent. and sacred principle of liberty, which
we are taught in the school houses, and in the
churches OF New England-A liberty, which ha.
wing made the law, is willing to be restrained by
the law. All history stands open to us, like a
church yard, and upon the monument of each Re-
public, the warning inscription is chiseled for
eternity, 8" not your form of government, but your
passions and your vices forbade you to be free"-
|, Let us heed this warning in time. and when the
Spring again opens upon the world. let us, Wings
OF Connecticut, check within borders, this
spirit of INSTRUMENTATION, and put down once more
those who would efface the ancient land marks of
law ana ofGer.
The Journal gives fuller report Of Mr.: p.'s
remarks, as follows:
Mr.. Perkins, of Ltchield, being next calledup-
on, remarked, that he came not to the Convention
for the purpose of being heard. He came there
from strong sense of duty-to lend his aid in the
primary movements of the great Conservative
| Wing party of Connecticut. 1t was his solemn
| conviction, that upon the existence of the Wing
party, depended the existence OF national liberty
upon its success and triumph, the success and tr-
umph Of true repubEcansm, as opposed to radical
ism and lawless jacobinism. 1t was true, that in
the late contest the Wing party had fallen short of
the goal which they had sought to attain. Their
defeat was accomplished by means, to which it
was not his purpose to advert. But their cause
was unchanged. 1t was still the cause of freedom
and of religion still as dear to every true
Wing heart; still the hope and trust Of the intel-
gence and worth Of the country. And, he must be
! permitted to say, that he looked to New England
as the anchorage ground of that great Conservative
Wing party. To her. the Union looked with con-
fdcnce. for firm and decided adherence to heran-
cient faith. and he believed that confidence would
not be misplaced
| 1t was here that American Freedom and Const-
tutional Liberty had its birth. It had been cher
ished, and is now cherished and will continue to
be cherished, in her intelligent social life, among
her family circles, in her school houses and her
churches. Knowing all this, it could easily be
understood, ,Dhy the friends Of good government,
and of the purity of our institutions, reposed so
firm faith in New England. And it beloved us
to cherish still those feelings and sentiments which
had rendered our rough mountain landso respected.
1t was ON duty, owed alike to ourselves, and the
glorious Wing army throughoutth the Union; ay more,
to the Union 'tseG, to spare no exertions TO pre-
serve CONNECTICUT, for the future true and