Litchfield enquirer., 1844-08-29


 papers in this vicinity laboring hard to predu- dice the numerous operatives in my employ against me and the Protective policy. These papers rep- resent the manufacturers of this town as masters, who oppress their workmen to the condition of RISSion Serfs. They also represent our manufac- turers as inimcal to the Farming interest in this neighborhood. As you are member of the Demo- cratic party, and native and resident of this town engaged in agricultural pursuits and we'll acquain- ted with the owners and operatives of these estab- lishments take the liberty of asking you to give me your opinion as to the truth of the above char ges. Yours truly,
 JOSEPH MARSHALL. STOCKPORT, Aug. 10, 1S44. l MR. JOSEPH MARsHALL.-Sw: Your note of the Sth inst. Is received As to your first inquiry, I can safely say, as far as my observation extends, there has always been friendly understanding be- tween the employers and employed in the manufac- l turing establishments of this town. 1 have never seen petty tyranny exhibited on one side nor sla- l wish submission on the other The operatives are generally well paid, believe, and are at liberty to 1 purchase their goods and provisions where 1t is most agreeable to them and consider their mor- al, social and intellectual condition good compar- ed with other classes of our industrious citizens - and have never known any one dischaged from any of these establishments account of his pro- fessing different political opinions voting in op- l position to his employers.
 So far from thinking the manufactories inimical to the farming interest here, have always consid- cred then, the main of agricultural prosper 1 ty in this town. Since the establishment of man. uactories here, the price of land has materially ad vanced farms that were hardly worth the expense l of cultivation are now among the most productive 1 in the country and consider the immediate loca- ton of the factories in our midst special advan- tage, nasnnch as it furnishes ready market for our vegetables, fruit, and other products, which would afford less profit ftransported greater distance. 1 Tk G. ! prosperous condition, that money is more plenty among the people in Stockport than in any other town in the county; and this is easily understood when it is known that over s125,ooo year is paid out by the factories for wages great deal of which is expended in the town in addition to which, large sums are paid by them to the farmers for wood lumber, wool, Sc.
 You allude to my political associations. I have always been member of the Democratic party; but there is great difference between Mir. Van Buren and opposition to the Annexation of Texas and MT. Polk, the two-third rule, protection and the im- mediate Annexation of Texas, which will tend at future day towards the .dismemberment of the Union. A rnfusal to support Mir. Polk consider no abandonment of principle, because his nomna- ton was secured by his adherence to question ne- yer before recognized by the party, and the appli- cation of rule, which, If carried out, would give the fe,c the power over the mdny, principle not to be found in Jeferson's creed of Democracy.
 consider the alternative we now have is, to vote for Polk, Free Trade and Annexation: or, for MT. Clay, a Protective Tariff, Equal Rights, and Con- stitutional Liberty; and whatever our party lines hitherto have been, this is now the distinction;- and SHALL NOT HESITATE IN MY CHOICE. E. BUTLER. 0c5Mr. Butler is cousin of the Hon. Benjamin F. Butler, and for many years has been one of the leaders of the Van Buren party in this County | Ed Col. Repalb. 1 Prince1y Li6erality At meeting of the Pub l lie School Society of Boston, on Wednesday, after awarding the medals to the members of the differ ent classes entertainment was given to the boys and girls by the City Authoritesn old Faneul Hall. Addresses were made to the children by the Mayor, Messrs. Hubbard, Park, and the Rev. MT. Kirk | Mir, Hubbard, in the course of his remarks, sta- ted that the Committee who managed the English | High School, had been endeavoring to raise per. manent fund, the interest of which could be appli- ed to giving prizes during the year-such as books medals, &c., to the pupils who should prove them- selves deserving of them. Fifteen hundred dollars was the sum the Committee thought would be re- quired, and accordingly letters written to sev- gentlemen, and from two of them they received 1 $1O0 each.
 That very morning, however, he had received a note from ABBOTT LAWRENCE placing taco tho4- sand dollars at the disposal of the Committee for the purpose of carrying out eectualy the plan pro- posed by the Committee. This annunciaton of the liberal donation, and the donors name, were received with hearty and long continued applause.
 I Domestic .Manufdct,wes.-The extent of our 1 domestic manufactures hardly be conceived by those not conversant with our commercial transac- lions, and the operations of trade in those great marts ofbusness, which concentrate the great arte- res of our country. Connecticut has been made the sport of all the civilized globe, the land of wooden clocks, wooden nutmegs, &c.,, till she has
 lived down all the burlesque and the islanders of her revilers, and still she is going in the course of improvement, and astonishing not only our own country, but the world at large, with the effects of her genius, and the success of her enterprise. In addition to the wooden clocks, wooden spoons, wooden nutmegs, &c., we are now manufacturing acooden con,bs,- this is no new thing either, but we mention it to relate the fact that manu- | facturer of this article, informed us a few days since, that his business was not only prosperous, but that he had orders on hand for one hundred thousond gTOce-(no mistake, 100000 groce)- these combs, of various descriptions, and was re- ceivng additional orders every day. He is in ia. vor of the Tariff and Henry Clay, though he said the Englishmen could not beat him at fair play any how, unless he learnt them the trade.-.N. H. He,- ald
 Tariff .4necdote.-A Locofoco Farmer came 10 Wheeling market not long ago with cheese to sell. He made bargain with shoemaker and took shoes gan to grumbe about protective Tariff. Said he, Now. with your rascally Whig protection, you l have pocketed just the amount of the protection and take 1t from me without even an equivalent.'- ! The shoemaker replied that he thought he was | mistaken. No, said the farmer, there Is no mis-