Litchfield enquirer., 1844-02-29

 and when such gatherings of the people were. wit messed, there could no longer be any doubt about the tendency of the popular sentiment. He spoke of the pleasant occurrence by which he was inter- rupted in the remarks he was submitting to the Convention this afternoon. The intertude, for presenting the Prize Banner to the Wings of the town of BristOl,-and regarded the spirit with which that ceremony was performed and witness ed by the audience, as prelndeof the finalatrumph in Connecticut. The town of Avon had been one of the forty three competitors for the Banner,-a town which had sent to the Convention all its Whig voters but two. At the election, he felt as- sured she would bring every one of them to the polls. . ...--.. l.. :,ss..., . -..,..... . .. ..s
 He then resumed the remarks he was making in the afternoon, in relation to the political affairs of the countryside Currency, upon which great so licitude is felt throughout the nation,Of the ne- cessity of some institution which shall equalize and regulate it,-especially in the event of war with any foreign nation,-which necessity he il- lustrated by reference to the fact that during the three years war which commenced in 1872. For ty Millions of Dollars were lost to the nation from the absence of sound national currency, and made other forcible illustrations. The currency is the life blood of the nations prosperity, and govern ment owes it to every citizen, toprovide sound circulating medium,-a measure Tn which the whole nation, the East and West equally inter- ested. In the discussion which grew out of MT. Tyler's Exchequer, he had found that Kentucky a. lone paid tax of half million of dollars in conse- quence of difference in the rate of exchange Other States suffer equally under these ruinous rates and he called upon Connecticut to clasp the hands which Kentucky extends to her in mutual pledge to protect our common interests.
 The old currency, which was broken down by our opponents, was equally distant from the two extremes, the Sub Treasury on the one hand, and the State Banks on the other. It is for the resto- ration of sound and uniform currency, that the Wings are to rally. They lost the benefit of the victory of le4O by the treachery of MT. Tyler, and the old issues again presented for our action
 He spoke of the unanimity with which the pub- lie hope and affection uniting upon MT. Clay, and the consequent certainty that he will be the nominee of fthe Baltimore eConvention,-upon which he passed into a most graphic and eloquent eulogi um of the gallant magnificent services by which he has enshrned himself in the hearts of his coun trymen. The people have known him intimately for thirty years, and they ready to defend him from the calumny with which his private and pulp lie character has been attacked. In 1799, then a wandering stranger in the wilds of his adopted State, but % years of age his voice was heard con- tending for the great principles of civil liberty, and opposing some of the principles which had been engrafted in the Kentucky Constitution of 1792- In the disputes with the mother country, he stood up for the maintenance of American freedom. In 1916, when Protection was first presented to the consideration of the U s. Senate, he was its most bold, fearless and able champion. When the South American Republics were struggling for place a. mong the free nations of the earth, his heart was with them in its fullest sympathies, and his voice welcomed them to the fraternity of free men and free nations. And when Greece--Greece, the home of lost gods, and godlike men-was raising her aspirations to be restored to a position from which she had fallen. and signing to be free, the same statesman whose heart has always swelled with sympathy for the universal spread of human
 liberty reached forth hand to grasp in the bond of | hot Aicfo hCSp noffh fhof
 In 1892, when South Carolina raised the angry threat of Notification, the wisdom of this states man devised plan by which the danger was pass ed. and the aorrors of the revolution and anarchy averted. The historian may enquire, who is Hem ry Clay ?-but from finding him wandering or phan boy, he will trace him through successive steps, in the Legislature, and in Congress, firmly established in the affections of his countrymen, with his impress enstamped upon the great meas- ures of American policy. He has never faltered in his attachment to the welfare of the whole country, and by his energy and cloquence, has strongly influenced the character of American in- stitutons. Have not fair proportion of those vices resulted in the welfare of Connecticut? And does he not deserve reward from the grateful country! (Thundering responses-YEsD After as- surfing the Convention that the Tariff will not be repealed, he closed by some stirring and eloquent exhortations to duty-a speech of surpassing pow CT, of which we cannot have given an adequate idea. The Convention gave him twelve enthusi- astc cheers and vote of thanks for the eloquence and ability with which he had addressed thems
 .Mr. BroOks, of the New York Express, was call led up amid cheers for the Empire State. He said he came here only to see and hear and spread the cheering account of this tremendous gathering before the citizens of New York. He did not come to speak, but he would deeply and heartily gratulate the citizens of Connecticut the glor- ous prospects before them-on the cordial pledging of heart and hand which we had here witnessed be- tween old Kentucky and old Connecticut He re- joced to see such evidence that the coming defeat of New York's greGt Tep'~liGted" was doomed to be still more overwhelming than the last. New York repudiated him herself in the last election, and was now as likely as ever to repudiate him again. He had no mantle of a prophet upon his shoulders, and it required no ken of prophecy to see, that our prospects were now even brighter than in 1Sl0: and he was now quite sure that the freemen of this noble republic were not about to take the cast off bantling of New York, and make him god of their own. ""'4V A.' "
 He alluded to the discordant materials composing the Loco Foco party. There was Johnson, with his curious flag and red vest and there was John Tyler, the first of all presidents who had been fo,- ced to Keep alocf from aN parties-a commander of regiment having not solitary soldier in it, And Buchanan, with his flag of tariff, against the principles of his own party. John C.. Calhoun, the nulliier, with his flag of free trade and des- truction to all tariffs: and lastly, the Knderhook gentleman, whose flag was blank, or eUeyy thing, just as you choose. sss's-f ,ti r2 .r .' ..e. f71
 He said we had been reproached by the exceed ingy modest and innocent loco ocos for eating and drinking and singing and dancing-and we were told these were drunken revelries and demoralzed the country but he would ask how it were possible to express our joy in more harmless and rational manner. We could not feel sad and sorrowful and ranA nfinl iko Txnyn lrlad hard Ma