Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-11-26

war; The whole christian world cries
out against us. A protestant nation, in
the nineteenth century, carrying the
sword and determination among catho.
lie people! We seem 70 have forgotten
the age in which we live, and to have
fastened TO initiate the nations of antiq-
uity. Greece and Rome oyerrun nations
and then subjugated them. Our. armies
are traversing Mexico under the COM
mand Of .intrlpid ond accomplished gen.
erals, for her subjuga;ion. As conquests
are added TO the United States, the con-
ouered inhabitants are sworn to new al.
linnce,and governors and judges installed
over them TO administer the laws. New
colonies, thousands Of miles from us, are
established at an enormous expense, and
without:even consulting Congress. sa'
In the mean time, our national expen.
ses are accommodating beyond all calcnla.
ton. Our navy and army filling up BY
thousands. The excited inhabitants Of
the ives! and southwest are summoned
to battle fields in distant aud unhealthy
regions; while our resources are dimin.
ishing, and experiment is following ex.
pertinent, until the mildest theorist shall
be satisfied of his folly. What but,ruin
can como of thisl One united effort
must be made by the Wings, and speed.
ly made, or our country is undone. The
Senators and Representatives in Congress
must sound the alarm. They must no
longer be silent, but speak boldly, in tones
of thunder, tina. shall reach the ears of
our rulers. We must all join to swell the
Indignation ofthe entire land, and sweep
this miserable administration from place
and power. Besides, the executive has
made alarming eneroachments upon the
legislative power. On vital subjects,
Congress is little else than an assembly
to register the Presidents commands. ~
He makes war, raises armies, selects Off
GERS and requires the States to commission
them, overIuns foreign territories, establish
es colonies, issues paper money by millions
to meet his necessities; while by his vast
patronage and the iron despotism of his We.
to power, he holds his party al his bidding
and is changing the character of the govern
ment itself. <.
If now we turn from the general govern
meat 10 the government Of this State, we see
nothing more enlightened, or patriotic. The
last legislature dishonored itself by giving
the sanction of the State to the wicked
measures already mentioned; by fostering
a spirit of rapacious war-hy abandoning
a benfcent tarif-by sustaining southern
policy, destructive ofour just and inaliena-
bic rights-by removing essential safeguards
from the Naturalization the mean enactment
of a criminal law to punish men for not EN-.
ployine political opporent-and in word,
for wasting the public money in protract-
ed and unexampled session Of their body.
In view of these things, who is no. ready
and anxious once more to raise the Wing
banner ? once more to overthrow party
carrying the country headlong to ruin !?
We know your spirit and determination.
We know your noble and triumphant labors
on former occasions, and how you have ev-
er rallied at the call Of duty; and we feel
confident, that in a calm survey Of the pres
ent crisis, you will see that call, and that du-
ty, to be more imperative than ever before.
The Committee on Resolutions report
ed the following by their Chairman,
Mr.. Stuart.
!. RESOLVED, That the present alarm
ing posture of public affairs calls for the
patriotic efforts of every citizen TO retrieve
our condition, and that with on exhaust
ed Treasury-a war against American
industry-a war against indispensable
public improvements, and the righteous
claims of our citizens-and worse than
all, war of invasion and conquest, COM
merced by the executive, on d carried on
at an enormous expense Of blood and
treas sure. The present administration
has shown itself powerful! only for evil
and that the time has arrived when the
people must interpose to assert their own
rights, and arrest the progress of mis-
rule.
2. Resolved, That the rights of Amer
lean Labor, though abandoned by the
Administration, are not abandoned Dy
the People, to whom the Tariff OF 1872
was Of peculiar importance, protecting
their industry from foreign competition
,insuring to the laborer employment, and
adequate wages, furnishing to the far
mer home market for his productions,
and diffusing prosperity throug hout eve
~ class of the communicated tn 1.-THE
restoration of the principle of protection,
must rouse the exertionS and enlist all
the energies of the great laboring masses
until American interests shall predomin.
ate in an American Congress. ".aI
s. Resolved, That the Tariff of 1876.
has already cast gloom over our whole
country, AID that when fully In operation
it will palsy the hand Of industry, clog
the wheels of enterprise, depress wages,
derange the currency, and reduce the
value Of every species of property. and
that while it IS thus injurious to our own
people, the benefits which it confers on a
foreign nation render it emphaticaliy
British Tariff. $50 ...''
4. Resolped, That while we are ready
with patriotic devotion TO stand by our
County IN all emergencies and 70 defend
her at every personal sacrifice from en-
emies at home and abroad. we call on
The, Administration to make earnest end
eavors 10 bring TO aspeedy and honora.
BILE termination. the war of Conquest and
Invasion which this Christian country ls
now waging in the heart of a neighborine
Republic. that The further extravagant ex
pekditure Of treasure may be checked,
and that human blood in its prosecution