Litchfield enquirer., 1846-12-31
The Presidents Cry of 's Treason.''

The Presidents Cry of /" Treason."
 The recent Message of the President oi
 the United States contains perhaps more
 of the genuine spirit of demagogism than
 was ever before concentrated within the
 limits ofa similar document. As if con-
 scieus that he had unnecessarily plunged
 the country into an unjust and infamous
 war, he devotes at lenst three fourths of
 hrs annual message in vain endeavor
 to justify himself and his followers in the
 course which they have taken in this mat
 ter. All this is certainly natural enough,
 and therefore not SO much to be wonder
 ed at. Desperate cases require despcr-
 ate remedies" But when, forgetting the
 dignified station which he occupies before the world, he stoops to ostigmatize as trai- tors'' those who have dared to call in qucs- ton the purity of his patriotism and the righteousness of his official acts, is it no' :ime for the press and the people to speak out in language which he cannot mis- interpret 1.-the public acts which our President perpetrates in the name of the
 Government, are no longer open 10 the in-
 spec,ion and comment of his constituents,
 nay, more, if the disapproval or con
 demnation of such acts is to subject any
 or all of us to the charge of treason. how
 much better off are we in reality than we
 should be if James X. Polk had already
 been officially pronounced Supreme Die
 tator of the Realm !! Liberty and Re. the populace with, They possess form and vitality they are the representa- tives of life, energy, and progress. And if we tamely submit 10 a more than king ly dictation, are we no, as people gull ty4of hypocricy and fraud in assuming to ourselves the name of treemen!
 Since the President has forced this sub ject thus summacily before the people, it be- comes legitimate and natural inquiry Who has afforded " aid and comfort" to the Aye, who was it that held treason able intercourse with the most subtle and able of all the Mexican chiefs--one who was, during the Annexation campaign, de nounced by the Government organ as Ga daring and treaeherous tyrant"3 'Riche lieu,' in his Tribune correspondence, thus pointedly answers this question
 "The very day that Congress voted ten millions of money and fifty thousand men to fight against our Mexican enemy. that day JAMES K. POLK issued an order for the pass ot daring and eacherous tyrant, to lend our enemy against us, 10 sduander those ten millions and to butch CT those fifty thousand volunteers, to ere ate a want for other thousands of men and other millions of money, and who now swears before Heaven and in the tuce of Chris,cndom, that while an American soldier remains on Mexican soil, more millions shall be squandered and more thousands shall bleed and die.
 Now appeal to intelligent men of all parties. Will you forget party and m swer Il plain question? Had JAMES K POLK taken his whole Cabinet and placed himself with them at the head of our nnemy'S army, could he have rendered hem so much "aid and conto't!" Was he treason Lt BENEDICT ARNOLD half so fatal in its consequences as this act of JAMES K. POLK must and will prove (and has Proved) 10 be, call it by what namo you will? Ifyou say il was done without criminal intent I ronIv in the lnDVunye Df sagacious diptoma,ist. It was worse lhan crime, it was a blunder" Whether through design or ignorance. it was worse than BENEDICT ARNuLp's treason.
 And who have been foremost in their ef 1 forts to rescue the country from the conse, quences ol the wickedaess and the blunders of the Administration The same writer says--
 Sung to desperation by he ridicule with which this sleek mouse oi cowardice crawled from the mountain of hombast, on Oregon, Loco -FmoiSm, with {. hai,ed breath, "sku' 'ked ingloriously from the en. I;ounier with foe worthy of brave mans steel, aRd lcaped, still more ing loriousIy upon poor crippled Mrxico. Had Mr. Polk known that Mexico was so valian, Ji fight, he would hrve seen her Fas,afF.
 lkr, nt the devil. before he would have consented to provoke quarrel with her, But thank providence we had Wings in he field, and WhIgS throughout the coun IIy, ready to join them. That gallant whig Taylor, that other gallant whig