Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1844-04-04
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The following extract from speech of Mr..
Choate on the Oregon question, is one of rare
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The Senate had been told by the Senator from
Pennsylvania that the minds Of the great mass Of
the American people were prevailed by deep
grounded sentiment of Interchangeable enmity to
Great Britain. The Senator told US, in fact, that
our veins were all filled with ill-blood-with i'll
blood towards England, by the memory Of Der ma
ny wrongs. Mr. C. thanked the Senator from
Virginia. (Mr. RIvEs,) and the Senator from Ken
lucky, (Mr. CRITTENDEN,) for having set mark
upon that sentence in the speech Of the honorable
and if he knew these were to be his last words, he
would use them to unite his reprobation with theirs
of such a sentiment. ~
Being by Gods mercy one of the people of A
merica himself-having been born and bred, not
in one of our cities, but in the country, where all
were said to be imbned with this implacable, un-
mitgable hatred to England-he felt himself struck
at, wounded, by being Involved in the accusation
of laboring under sentiment so gloomy and so bar
barions towards any one Of all the nations of the
earth. So deeply had it impressed his mind that
he had heen hardly able to think Of any thing else
since he heard, with establishment, such sentence
drop from the lips of an honorable Senator on this
floor. He would not hear an enemy Of the coun-
try say this. s- ..-,,
But let us distinguish. That intense feeling of
nationality--that strong, impulsve, inbred sense
of independent national existence-that conviction
that we have transcendent destiny to fulfil, and
know how to fulfil it--that we have career of
glory to rum and know hn,r tn it. fill ...e h-
xcu nIgn on the glittering memorials Of
this world th~! consciousness that we are encom.
passed by noble group Of Surrounding nations,
witnessing our race of honor, and whom we mean
to distance in that course the existence Of this
mong our people, its pervading presence through
out the whole national mind, he did not deny, but
admitted and approved M f.. ,.." ''''.' ~
Some might ridicule the sentiment, but he be-
lieved, with Edmund Burke, that the possession of
grand and noble and swelling sentiments in peo-
PIE was what wise man would not despise. But
to say that the prominent sentiment among our
people-thc sentiment predominant over all others
was sentiment of unmixed implacabfe hatred to
any one nation, and not to the rest, he must deny
and vehemently controvert. He denied it. and
protested against it he now heard it here advan-
ced for the first time -.st,. "a H. s....s., f.--t
He would remind gentlemen round him of the
immortal words of Washington, that the nation
which INDUCED habitual fondness or habitual
aversion to another nation was in some degree a
slave already. He would have Americans all free.
He said NO, NO, thousand times NO, to any such
sentiment. Let the highland clansman feel it who
was half blinded with peat smoke, and who cher
ished deadly feud as he cherished his own life;
let the indian boast of it, and hand it down to his
children by he knew not what emblems OF alliga-
! tors, and catanounts, and clubs, and tomahawks,
smeared with the warm blood and brains OF his
victims; let Poland, cloven down by oppression,
with the grinding heel of tyranny on her forehead,
deliver it as pledge and memorial to her wander
ing exiles, let the poor dispersed family of Israel
hug it to their bosom they feel the contempt Of a
hostile world; but should this American people,
young as yet and inheriting from Gods hand land
teeming with every boom and bounty Of his muni-
ticence, destined to career bright, resstless. and
| benefcent as the course of the heavenly spheres
should America in the dew and freshness of her ma
tional being. glorious and happy now, and certain
Of being far more glorious and more happy in ages
| to come, should she corfode her young heart and
poison its life streams by noring over the stamp
act, and the tea tax, and the firing of the Leopard
into the Chesapeake! God forbid! He thought
we had settled all that For what else was it that
so much precious patriot blood had beeu split at
Lundy's Lane, at Bridgewater, and Plattsburg, on
the deck Of the Constitution and the Java and on
all the other spots hallowed by the record Of our
fame but to settle all these matters of complaint
And after we had settled them, and done it boldly
and bravely, should return sulky from the very
| field of honor! "'. ID
Sentiment and Fact The American Flag
The only thing American that will bear stripes"-
miss Wicklife's Toast. % f5~.sf ..r ,.E1a'E
"Total number Of slaves in the United States,
two millions four hundred and eighty-seyen thou
sand two hundred and thirteen" census of lS4O.
| MAY the noble sentiment be one day borne out
| by the glorious fact. New York American. =
FIR - b., q .-.. "a rs ~
Oo-Sow your asparagus beds with salt, broadcast.
one to three pounds to the square yard This is
known 10 be an admirable manure for it, and it Is
said to make it tenderer and greatly to improve It's
favor. The editor Of the American Agriculturist
saws that he never met with asparagus in the Ohio
valley a tender and delicious as that grown the
sea shore or well MANFRED with salt. He says our
asparagus though large is generally tough and bit
ter One reason for this doubtless is our bad habit
of cutting it a. soon it peeps through the surface
Of the earth II ought not to be cut uatl il rises
to the height Of three inches, and assumes green.
| ish color. Il is then tenderer and sweeter.-LOu
Jour. g.! "a ...s ~ s.. ~ sr..s5.s
Horace H. son of VIM. H. Booth, Of Su.field, CT
about two years old, was suffocated 23d ult., by
bean getting lodged in his wind-pipe All attempts
to FelieVe the little sufferer proved unavailing.
It is said that one firm in Cincinnati have already
sent to New Orleans, this season, forty-fve hun
dred barrels ofegga 1aAl1l4- ta.stsa 4