Pllblisheai Every tvedncstlzty Morning,
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NUMBER‘ 367-—.\lEW’ SERIES. ' '
s:...s...s-.;...
L
s Store!
AT GEE STAFEB OI?’
i§BfL§.CKitiAi*l do BETTE, stats Si". tiflkkilalk,
Contains a good assortment of Goods recently purchased, and Cheap.
TH l". subscril er would call the attention of [)1Il'CllttSel‘S to the pleasing 'z'ar2'ral_// of his stock, and
uhhouglj hp would not so far impo_-;e, upon the good sense of this coinmuuity, as to boast ofits
being the ",Lu'r_«_,r(-.s-I and 1i"ic.’ic.vt, the B¢_3.s't. and C’/zcuj)r:.s‘(,” to be found in this extensive and en
l'ct'l)l‘lSlllg world, yet. he does believe, that in every point of merit, it will bear it favorable coin-
parisoii with his i;cighbors.
fire invited to an exainiiiation ofliis DRESS GOODS; plain aiul twilled GINGH.-\ DIS; Mus-
lin, l.{c.p’d, and flashnicre ,D’L.-\il"i\Vl£S ; plaid, plain, and fig’d, cotton and silk warp ALPAC-AS;
BO=.\Il’».\7.l.\'l!‘.S ; Frent:li and Crerinau 3Il£'l{l NOES; plaid (;'[oa1.*iri}_r.s': ,I’r'1'n/s to suit all fan
{tics ; Brocha, Printed Casliinei'o, heavy Diiinusk, and common winter Sl'IA\VLS; I:f()sier_1/;
iin extensive assortint-nt Kiri Gloves; cotton, silk and mcriiio do; fine Swiss, Book, .l:ickoiict.,
and check _7l[/is-lin..»‘; l3‘riuges, Giinps and Buttons liil'].)I'L'.'>‘.s' Tr}/iiniin__q'.9 ; beautiful Table Spreads;
Table Linens; superior llat Velvets, Satius, Silks, and “11’£I;/iu/iris,” Flannels, bleached and
POETRY-
POLITICAL PORTRAITS.
From [he Vic'.7csbuI'g f‘V/iig-
CLAY.
He speaks !-—and viewlcss chains
_Upon a Senate rest!
He ceases ?———look upon the names
That gem a nation's breast.
“'1-)BS'1'l'Zl't.
The calm, iinsounded deep
Is enibloiii of his mind;
But roused, its heavy billows sweep,
In grandeur unconfin‘d.
CAI.HOUi\'.
A loom of curious make
May weave a web of thought,
And he who reads the sliining warp,
May in the woof be caught.
J. Q. ADAMS.
Sttitesmu ii an i poet too I--
Pliilosoplicr in turn ;
Link with the past !---a nation soon
Shall sorrow o’er his urn.
cr.i'r'ri~:.\'i)i-:.\'.
Now with a giant's niight
.ture on hand and at the prices formerly charg-
brown Miisliiis, t\'.c. &c. &c.
C§=3=7;33‘ 33‘ tr? 73.9 .____.i‘- 3“ RE I533
IVILL oblige by .aking a look at his Collars, l
Bosonis, Stocks, Cravats, Scarf".-', Silk and Cain-
hric H':Dl{’FS:, Gloves, Socks, Jeans, Twecds, Satcl:i_m-.t.s, (;'assiiii:.~.res, Beaver, Pilot, and
BR(')A,D CLUTHS; Traveliiig Bags, lfiiilirellas and CAPS.
All the abovt--. (}}ooils and many more, will be sold at the lowest inarket. prices for Cu.»-/1, or
.5710/'1‘. credit to prompt custonic-.i's.
, Fwqtleiit additions of fashionable Goods are niade to the above Stock.
For sale cheap, handsome OI l.iCLOTllS, CA.l’i1’E'l‘S, and .RU(.'rS.
\V:u:tcd Iiiimctlizltely.
5,000 prs wool socks and stockings.
--x
Mammoth Sign VVA R D ’ S _
‘ Norwalk, Nov. ‘20, 1846.
10,000 lbs. white and inix’d Yarn, at the
E“
:g‘{.’
ioB’”PRiNTiNeT”
OF ALL KINDS
I-‘.xec.'.-Itetl at the Gazette Oflit-t-..
WIIE subscriber has made ari'ai'igeinciit's to
keep a good assortment of \V.-\'l‘Cl.ll£S,
Jl£\VELl’».Y, SlL Vli R SPUO.\'S and all
the various artzicles in the line of Fancy Goods,
and the strictest attention will he paid to the
repairing of \\"atclies, Clocks and every Vui'icty
of jobbing.
The following is but a small saiiiple of the
articles. now on liaiid——addit'zoiis will be made
W eek l y .
lV<tl.c/Ic.s'.—~\Ve have but a small assortincut
of them at. prc.-‘cut but shall receive. during the
week a complete stock ()f.\t.!\’t.‘.l'_\' variety 6; price.
lVatc-It IQ-_2,I.v am! C!/I.t£7'.Il.$'.-—\VU have a fair
lot of Keys of tlifferciit. patterns, such as Fol).
Guard, (Ye. Also, Silk, Steel, Silver and Rib-
bon Ch:1ins——Gold Chains during the week.
1"£/igcr Iii/2,g‘.s—.-Xiid here we think we can
suit the most: difficult‘, as we have Jet, Paste,
Ruby, Emerald, Ainythist, Topaz. Scale and
plain Rings. Also the (a'~alL'um'c Ifing for the
cure of all diseases.
Breast I’ius———Fi'oin -lets. to $5 rf almo.-r.
E.O§'E‘ 1
N the New Canaan Road between the four
Corners and the village of New Caiiiitiii,
on the Ifilll ult. '?ti _Dollars in bank bills of the
following descriptioiis; out-. 5:3 on the Bridgeport;
Bank; one -73:} on l~‘airfieltl County Bank; two
:52, banks not i't.-ii'ieiiibci'ed. and the residue
supposed to have been mostly ones, and on the
liridgcpurt and other Coiinecticut Banks. \\'licn
dropped the bills were folded together, and if
found may have been eitlier in that situation or
st-paratc. A reasonable l'('\\'tt1‘tl will be paid for
a returii of the money or for any portion tlicrc.ol'.
.lt)_'\'.-\'1‘ll.\.\' iDA.\'.
North Stamford, Nov. (5. 1840'. 46
#3.‘ . .. ' ' “ ' .. _ .-
I-9?“-L‘n,=, 7.» . :3 -. —
=““""" " ~
- - -z=—-~
sarznmns, iii.-uaaiinssns, are.
every kind, some very liandsoinc iniitatiuu gold,
very cheap.
I '1'/I/'zn.blcs.——Sili'ci', Gorinan Silvcr,St:ccl,Pla-
ted, Brass, &c.
Bru.;h.co'.—Clotli, Hair, Pectli, Shaving, Nail,
(Sic. (Ye.
Pc/i-‘.—-Gold Pens. J. P. Snow’s find point
Diauizifid Pen, Stcnograpliic,Boston l\Iercan-
tile, i\Va.rren’s, Crillott’s, \Vindal’s, Perry’s, Ball
&- \Valkcr’s patent; Flixou Pcn——this Pen is
superior to any in use for easy and expcditioiis
writing, being shaped in such a way that the
point. cannot. catch the paper, and also never fails
to make a marl;——tlie poorest pcninaii can write
with it, and many who have tried them are as-
tonished at the ease and facility with which they
caii put; their thoughts on paper, Brass and
Composition Pens.
Ladies and Gentleineirs Dressing C:ises——
some very li-.iiidsomc and convenient. '\\'e
have also a beautiful article conta iuing P erfuniery
for :1 Ladie’s Toilet. All kinds of Soaps, Co-
ogne, Poinadc, Rose \Vatei', Otto of Rose,
Musk, also the Dr3pilal0r]/ Pozcilcr, for those
who are afi'lictc:l with superfluous hair.
' FE/ic Cutler:/.——\Ve have Ro::lgcr’s lClliot.’s,
‘KVadc <!\'. Butclier’s fine Razors, Pen and Jack
'I\'nives. Scissors and Shears. - Pomeroy’s,
.Chapman’s, lIilliuau’s and Eincrson’s Razor
Strops and Paste. Shaving Boxes, some very
fine with looking glasses in lid. Pocket Books
and Purses.
1"¢zac_I/ /1rt£clcs.———.lvoi'y Vlfhistles; \Vax
Beads; Toy \Vat.ches; Snuff and Tobacco
Boxes——soine with spring, a new article ; Steel
'J.‘weezers; Tooth Picks; Percussion Caps;
Hooks 6.: Eyes; Needles, Pins, Victoria Dia-
per Pins ; Hair Pins, some ornamented; Pock-
et Ink Stands; Tliermometsers; Silver, Steel
and GiltBeads; Court Plaister; Indelililc Ink ;
«Silk and Bead \Vrist.let.s; German Silver and;
Ivory Tooth Picks; Linnen Collars; Segar
Cases; Steel Dress Buttons; Jet Buttons ;,
‘Steel Clasps for Bags; Tooth Powder;
and Metal lolet: Rings; Kalidcscopes, &c.
Cl0clcs.——\Ve think we can suit; all, b_oth in
quality any price, as we have them from 7-3cts.
to
Looking Glasses, Crockery and Glass “fare.
\Ve have a small assortment which will be sold
at cost: or loss, to close the trade. Silver‘
Spoons, Sugar Tongs, Butter Knives, &c. \Ve
.int:end keeping silver work of our own manufac-
ed. (No advance on account of the Tariff.)
(}erman Silver plated Spoons. ‘()0p,,,,,. pm-
-ted, ll5.)>l'élt3;tll1I‘:tll{fl1.]_Z:l’)(l Iron Spoons. Sugar Tongs
ant u. or i'es. -
Silver and Plated Coffin Plates always ready
at a few minutes warning, and the cngi'av'ing is
wairanted to cause no shame to the friends of
the deceased.
Clocks and Wiitclies repaired t1I1(.l]\V’tll‘I‘tl!lfe(I.
\Villiain A. Cla.rk’s Matches by tiie gross or
dozen. American \Vax Tapers, a new article
of Mat.ches—- f/Vill burn some minutes. Per-
fumed Diamond Fusees for lighting cigars.——
Every Smoker should carry a box.
, B/.I.t£ons.—Brocade, Silk, Lasting, Horn, Jet,
Sporting. Gilt, Steel, Agate, Pearl, Paper, Tin,
W000. Plated, Bone, Ivory and all kinds of
.-buttons by the gross or retail.
LEVI CLARK.
East: side the Bridge adjoining the Dry Goods
‘St:ore’of' C. C. Betts, Norwalk. ’
—— . ~
, ICAVATS, Searfs and Suspenders, just
: received ti very handsome lot. ‘ - . '
‘ A .M. Wiixr:ni1tN'.
_ h i for sale by
P UBL [C _-.\ttc.ntion is invited to the large and
clegaiit:assortuicnt of Harnesses, Saddles,
Bridles, \\'l1ips. '.l‘ruiiks, &’c. to be found at. the
cstzililisliiiit-iit of the subscriber, embracing, as it
does every variety ofarticlc and style of nianii-
factiiic. Among the lot are scvcral sets of
double llarnc.sses, which-are worthy the atten-
tion of those lititng out pleasure equipages.——
There are also several very light and airy single
ha rncsscs, designed for neatiiess but inanut'actiir-
Ctl oftlie best matierials, and embracing the double
merit. of sccurity and tristcfiiliicss. Every article
needed in the. line, may be found here, of the
best quality, and on very moderate terins. Re-
pairing as usual. \V_\I. B. Sw.-ix.
Norwalk, July 2.‘), 18-lf‘. 18
NE W’ YORK INSUIRANCECO.
C:u)i'it.:il $300,000.
GEORGE ..'T. JOHN, AGENT.
. ‘I-IE public are hereby informed that the
Agent: still continues to insure policies and
effect insurances upon buildings variously loca-
ted and occupied; and upon \Varc.s and Mer-
chandize, family stores, (kc. coiitaincd in thcm. ,
Persons wishing insurance, will please call upon,
the Agent at his residence.
Delay not doing till to—inorrow, what should
be done to day. If property is worth owning
and keeping. is it not worth insuring?
Norwalk, January 1846. '
Protection lnsurtuaee Co.
HARTFORD, Ct.—\VM. J. STREET, Agent.
l!‘FF.RS to Insure Houses, Stores, Mills,
l.*‘act:ories, and the contents of each, to-
gether with every similar species of property,
./7g-aiiist Loss or Damage by Fire.
The rates of premium ofl'ered are as low as
those of any other similar institution, and every
man has now an opportunity, for a trifling sum,
to protect hll1'1S0lf against this destructive ele-
Bonc ; ment, which often in a single hoursweeps away.
the earnings of many years.
Norwalk, January 1846.
New Steel Goods.
g") AG Clasps, Purse clasps, Bends, Tassels,
3 Purse Rings, Slides for Ribbons, Buckles
~ for waists, a new article, Pens Twce:.'e1's, Thim-
New. hice, and cheap all.
At C. E. Disbrows,
bles, Hair-pins &c.
Sept '28
Pluiinbe N:Il’II-I Dagucrritui Gal’I'y,
AND
PHOTOG.RAPl'IERS’ FURNISHING
DEPOT S ;
\VARDED the Gold and Silver Medals,
Four First Premiums, and Two Highest
Honors, at the National. the Massnchutctts, the,
New York, and the Pennsylvania Exliibit.iona-
respectively, for the most. splendid Colored Dd.
guerreotypes, and best apparatus ever exhibited,
Portraits taken in exquisite style, without re-
gard to weatlier, I -
Instruction given in the art.
A large assorment of Apparatus and Stock al-
ways on hand, at the lowest cash prices.
New York, 251 Broadway; Philadelphia, 136
Chestnut St. ; Boston, 75 Court, and 58 Hanover
Sts.; Baltimore, 205 Baltimore St.; Washington,
Pennsylvania Avenue ; Petersburg, V 31., Me-
chnuics’ Hall; Cincinnati, Fourth and Walnut,
and 176 Main St. ; Saratoga Springs, Broadway;
Paris, 127 Vieille Rue du Temple; Liverpool,
32 Church St. ‘ 1y27.
EPPEIR sauce.-—.x ' splendid article
J. A. WEED.
He heaves the p0l)(.l'l't)tlS thought-
N ow pours the storm of eloquence
\Vith scatliiiigs fraught !
Biziinii-ziv.
\Vitli temper calm and mild,
And words of softcn’d tone,
Ile overturns his neiglibor’s cause,
And justifies his own.
COR“'lN.
The polisli’d shaft of wit
ls (p.iiveriiig in the light;
’Tis sped! upon its shining track,
And havock inurks his flight.
.1. M. CI..\Y'1‘().\'.
The liglitning’s glare may turn
The needle from the pole;
\Vlio ever saw HIM swerve,
Ur bow to low control.
BENTON.
Judgeincnt and met coiiibiii’d
A mine ofknowlcdge vast;
A walking book-case—on its shelves
The archives of the past.
CASS.
\Vith neat and rounded phrase
llc tricks the sliapelcss thought ;
Like hope ofpower, it charms to-day,
To-iiiorrow it is :\'ouGii'r.
ALi.i«:.\'.
1 e gods! defend my cars!
liass-drums around inc l'l)l‘Ol]]_'!
Tlirourvli cm )i\' "‘ll!Cl‘l0\‘ leii l ' ll
. b I .__ hr i . pal)! 10
The notes of "Chinese Gong!”
".sir-i>Ii;ii«:ci-1 or HON. 1. w. STUART,
Before the late “’hig Convention.
It is a year, Mr..President, and the Wlhigs
of Connecticut, again assembled in con-
vention, have begun another campaign.-
lt has been to us, this last, a year of polit-
ical sorr0\v. Our State and Union have
been in the hands of our fees, guided"by
those whose policy bitter experience teach-
es ruost anxiously to drcud and guard
a ainst. Andiieversurelysincetliefound-
ation of our government have we had
more cause than now, to summon all our
energies to the task of restoring to the
high places of state and federal power, men
sound in the Whig faith. For the great
industrial interests of our country have
been stabbed. Our old and tried system
,‘of revenue has been thrust aside for one
'novel and utterly speculative. The high
gpolicy of protection, which has been in-
iwrought with our legislation and interwo-
,ven vitally with our existence from the day
:our first National Congress held its session,
has been cooly and systcinatically unpro-
_tected. The Hard Money King has been
again set up to assail confidence b-.~.-tween
man and man, and play the despot.
The national government is already again
‘sunk in debt, and sunk me again in credit
Executive power has made fresh advances.
Vetoes have abounded. National justice
thas been ignobly denied. Proscription
,ibas been rife. The national wheel of In-
ternal Improvement has been broken and
‘stopped. Government.as ifinstinct almost
with the spirit of vandalism, is still covet-
ous of territory. The red foot of war is
upon our borders. All that was foretold
jof imbecility and injury to result from
the election of Mr. Polk has resulted, or
is now resulting, and a whole nation is in
mourning for the folly and wickedness of
its rulers.
Do I exaggerate, Mr. Prcsident! Let
\l\/\
?measures to American capital and labor,
‘the big sorrows that now darken over the
[business heart of the counti'y—let these,
yes, and the blood which strcained at Palo
l/llto and Resaca dc la Palma, and Monte-
'rey for “pcaccful" Annexation, and ' the
WALK GAZE TT E.
by JAMES REE-‘J. at _Two Dollats Per Annnm in ‘Advance. Office on the Dock, ‘\Vcst Slide ofitlle Bridge.
TVOL-U
there a man here in Connecticut, acquain-
ted at all with the history of his State, who -
knows the past struggles of its indus ryl
with Oppressive power, and the iinznensc
"sacrifices it has made of blood and treas-
ure to secure the title to i s own labor,
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NORVVALK, CT. VVEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER. 25, 18-16.
ME 29-Nnim-anti 4'7.-
. .. ...-..._... . __. .... _ . . ...- ....._ ___..__._..__._'u__- ,
and woolen, cotton and linen goods,‘foi'V
our hats, boots, shoes and,cabifiet,fuy..-
niturc, for our glass, paper, cutlery. and
tools, for all the staple articles of siibsi§-
ience. for the vital means of self.dcfencc,
n'e/2e/zc.’cIzt on a foreigii nation, and made so '
proclamations of rt-publit-an rnpat-iiy made, who .\vill hesitate a mi merit to unite with 3 by the legislature of our own land, through
from the liovcla‘ 0f S‘”"‘‘ F9. and on the l as in cletermined opposition to this ruinous-,an act which, “not contraveuiizg the laws
Californian shore of the Pacific, and thro’
the deserts of Taniulipas and Cliilxuahua,
answer if the picture 1 have drawn of our
national degradation ‘is not true!
\Vlmt now is our interest, Mr. President,
gupon this occasion, in this view of our na-
tional affairsl We are a convention of
, Wliigs, rr-presenting the Whigs of the
State of Connecticut, assembled in their
behalf to speak in the nomination of State
officers their scntimcnts in rctzard to the
l . . *'
public policy of the country, both feds-ral
and state. As at State, be it rcmciitbercd,
we have solemnly and everlastingly coin-
mitted to a national federal legislature all
the great ohjcets involved in the common
defence and general welfare of the country,
and of ourselves as a part of this country.
With the regulation of our foreign inter-
course, with our security from foreign
danger, with out protection froui the an-
tagonist commercial policy of foreign na-
tions, we have now in our state legislation
nothing to do. Tlicse are all in the hands
of Congress. It is the national flag that
floats for our defence alongiour own ex-
our continent, and over the bosom of the
broad Mcdilerraiieuii, and above the heav-
ings of the Pacific, the Atlantic and the
Indian seas, wherever our ships, freighted
with the products of industry, go upon the
mighty deep. ft is the voice of Congress
that constitutioiially proclaims all appcal
to arms. It is the voice of a federal Pres-
ident and Senate which can alone withdraw
them, where the God of battlcs does not
first decide them. ft is the voice of Con-
gress which proclaims the laws of corn-
inercial intercourse with our sister states,
as well as with foreign nations, and which
alone has power over the general harmony
of our Union. There it stands, the great
National Council, more glorious, wlu n leg-
islating wisely, than any ever dreamed of
by the Greek, Ri.man, Hollander or Briton
when they panted for the forms of a com-
monivealili——chargcd with the war, the
peace, the commerce, the industry, the
whole prosperity of this whole country-—
bound to look to the interests of all its
ptirts——bound to provide markets both at
home and abroad for tlfe products,‘ among
the rest, of our looms, our wotksliops, our
forms and holding us, the reople of Con
uecticiit, as a part of the Uiiiou, as a part
of the world, and as subsisting for all pur-
poses of increase in wealth and population
on comnierciul intercourse, holding its in
a position of exclusive and vital depend-
ence.
Hence the intense anxiety the coiintry
tlirougli, in the views of our fezleral gov-
ernment! Hence the universal hope and
prayer that it should be guided wisely,
honorably, beneficially ! __ Hence our own
ardent desire as ivliigs that it should be
guided by whig priuciplcs—and to this
end I ask, what so important tliat each
State should adhere firmly to the whig pol-
icy, and should make its o\vn triumphant
declaration of such adherance whenever
the election of members of Congress and
of its own State officers furnishes the op-
portunity! lt is in this way that the elec-
tiou for which this meeting to day is a
preparation, proves its own importance.
It is an election that is going to decide
whether Connecticut by chance, by acci-
dent, only alienaied for a year in her State
council, from her sister whig States, still
adheres to the decisions she made year
before last, and the year before that, and
on through many past years of triuiupliant
whig rule-whether she is still sensitive
to her own most vital interests, and still
desires upon them wholesome legislation
by our National Congress. It is going to
decide whether she believes that executive
power should be restrained, the despotic
veto should be sliorn of its facility for mis-
chief, and a sound currency be provided,
and good faith be maintained, and the pub-
lic land be not withdrawn from the states,
and territorial aggression be checked, and
the wild notes and fiery mass of war, give
.way to peace. And it is going to decide
tended coast, around the soutliern half of.
;that British Free Trade Bill, passed nnderganotber point,already eloquently discussed
',the joint nursing of Englis,h‘L0rds and aiby gentlemen who have preceded me,
“petty Congress” of Anie’ri'cnn custom one before whose importance almost every
house officers, answer! Let the Sub-lother sinks away, so closely is this linked
Treasury Act, and those Treasury Notes in with the first wants and impulses of our
and War Warrants and Due Bills which are nature——| me’unItbe point of protection to
even now hawked about the streets of St.,'our industry.’ ‘ I '_
Louis and New Orleans and on the banks! By the wantonness of the last Congress
of the Rio Graude degraded by a discount,‘ this great policy has been overthrown.
answer!
ring but eight months of the present year exposedto almost overpowering competi-
of not lessthan fifty-one millionsofdollars, tionfrom abroad, almost bestridden by the
answer! Let the American Treasuy, but regcommercial collossus of Great Britain,
cently a rejected suppliant for reliefamongfand demanding absolutely, as we hope for
the bulls and bears of Wall street, and in civilization and progress, the development
its discredit, it. is said, starting the capital-,of our resources and industry, though to
ists of Europe again to hug their money'us the system be vital as air—tliough it
bags and recoil at the bare suggestion of has been. purchased with the priceless
loans to American Repudiators, answer !,blood of our ancestors on many a ‘dark
Let the Veto of the River and Harbor Bill, revolutionary battle ground—though it has
and the five hundied millions of lake and" been sanctioned and urged by all the illus-
river commerce left thereby unprotected, trious statesman -of our‘ past history-—
answer! Let the Veto of the French S;o- though it breathes in almost" every line
liaiion Bill, and the thousand suffering cit- and clause of our, national Constitution-
izens whose claims of-sacred obligation, though it fills page after page of noble
have been by this act most wicked-lzy sac- record in our national statute books-_—yet
rificed, answer ! Let the perversions and it has been stamped by the present Admin-
abuses of the Constitution of our land by istration as false.
those who sustained these destructive and cloned. ,
tyrannous measures of the last Congi'e_ss— Shall this be, Mr. Pi'e_sid_e_n.t,~ I_ind 00‘
.~.
Let a national expenditure do-,'l‘hou-gh to us, a new people as we are,_
it is vilified and aban
let the‘ alarm and lossresultiiig from these» move ‘our_,i'n'd'ignation,-on: resistance’! "ls,
ipolicy of the present Administraiion’!—-
.'l'wo hundred and eleven years have rolled
~'over our existence, since \\'iuilirop and!
ll-lolmcs and Hayiics and Huolier planted!
ltlie first ivliftc scttlcmcnts on the banl-s of
lthe noble river u-hich has given a name to!
‘our State. One hundred and forty one ofi
these years, let it be remembered by c.'ci‘y;
citizen of Connr_>t:ticut—one hundred and
forty one of these years have been passed
in it state of ('.t:fllfll€'l‘Clfll \-nzsalage to the‘
mother country —whcn we were perinit’!ccli.
to practice hardly a single inaiiiifacturing
art-—when the sole exports we were allow-
ed to make from the State weze a little
of grain and hemp and flax, a little of to-
bacco, perry, tar mid cider, a few deal
boards and pipe staves, a li-.ilc live stocl ,
and a little else of meie raw, uuwrouglit
materials. Let it be remembered that
Biitish law then absolutely forbade our in-
dustry to be tliversified——iliat to ship or
ever. lade for transportation hence to any
place whatever, wool or yarn, huts or felts,
or woolen manufactures of any kind, uas
a [enal offence—tl:iit not even a hat
could be made by a col0ni.~t hereto shield
his head from the summc-r’s heat or \\ in-
trc’s cold, save after a tedious mid expen-
sive apprenticeship of seven years-—tliat a '
forfeit of five hundred pounds visited the
luclt less owner who dared to erect a rolling ,
or slitting mill for iron, or a plating forge
to work iiiili a tilt hammer, or any furnace
for making steel, and that the man, farmer
or otlicr-.vise, who ventured to cut down
any pine tree, in the wild unappropriated
forests around him, of the growth of 24-
inclies in diameter, without the Quecn’s
license first obtained, l.ad one linndred
pounds taken from his pocket by the tyr-
anniziug Parliament of England. lict
these and similar statutes passed to op-
press Connecticut and 'Amei'icaii industry
let the intrusive and persccniing supervis-
ion Lept to enforce them, tlirougli a conn-
cil of trade created in England for the
purpose, and through siipendiary Edmundi
Raudolphs there, and through harrassiug
search warrants li.-re, enforced in domicil-
iary visits, by a set of Briti h Custom"
House liarpics, let these things, and the
resulting privaiions of our ancestors, their
clothing but of flux save perhaps their one
suit of wool for Sunday, their meagre‘.
lionsehold instruments and supplies, their
rude spinning wheels and dye tubs, their
rag carpets, their rugged beadsteads and
oakenicliests, and rough joint stools, and
high backed chairs, let all these things, the
offspring of dependence on that same
British policy which is now again re insta-
ted in our land, he remeinbered and
anxiously pondered by every citizen of
Connecticut in the approaching election.
it is no fancy, Mr. President, which
sees in the measures of the last. Congress,
should they be carried out, the reintroduc-
tion into Connecticut, as well as into our
sister States, of this old and fatal experi-
ence which preceded our revolutionary
era. There, on the records of Congress,
backed by all the imported fallacies offree
trade—thcre stands the “Bil to reduce
imposts and for other purposes" of 184-6-
wilh the objects unblushingly avowed of
substituting millions of foreign products
for those of our own loomsand workshops,
and for this purpose lowering the duties
on articles made abroad, and increasing
the cost on similar articles made at home!
'.lt is sure now as arithmetic, and it has
been demonstrated over and over again, 1
istop not now to repeat the proof, that :1
jipolicy like this, with the far superior
_‘cheapness of capital and labor abroad. and
fthe s»ill more divided and perfected than
‘with us, must ruin our own iiianufacturing
‘and mechanical interests, and with these
ienfeeble too our agricultural. And when
!this is done, pray how will our situation
idiffer essentially from that in which we
:stood prior to our Revolution’! England
‘will have again monopoiized the sup-
ply of the few manufactuerd products we-
_shall be able in our poverty to buy—willl
icontrol our prices, and exhaust us of the,
precious metals, and disorganize our cur--
rcncyrand reduce to a third or a fourth of
their value our houses and lands, which_
are already bound and mortgaged to her,
capitalists for not less than ten millions
'of do||a;-5 ;mniiall_\', dividends and interest.s_
‘on American indebtedness. England will
again have crushed in our midst. the arts.
%VVe shall hardly make then perhaps even,
lthe hobnail or razor which British Lords'
lnear a century ago mena.cingly.forbade us!
to make. Our labor will again become,
uudiversified and tributary. Employment;
will fail, or if it exists at all, like listless
Canada, and wi'etchc'l lreland, and barren,
Spain, and exhausted Italy, and indigent‘
spirited Poland and southern Russia, we
shall be made a mere agricultural people
--a mere grain and cotton growing nation,
and our free laboring men and Women: Pf?‘
duced down to _tlie degredatipn of thle toll-
: ' ' C -u -
mg masses of EIJI'0Pe» W!!! _ ‘'‘””e‘' “e 1"‘
overishing crops” at which they _m3.V
P . 3'
toil “with the tears of wretched Victims
I , , . -
to American injustice and American op-
ression. - , _
p ‘Is not this in effect, Mr. P_resid_ent to be
recolonizcd’! What, I ask, in this condi-
tion, what will then avail our nominal
claim of self control’! For our lV|"OIl,.l’N3,lYlPA
and salt, for our blai'zkets,v flanaelf_s,:—bedd_ing, L
w-%
a
of the realm of England,” obeys the chief
mandate of the‘ old colonial chartersewith
our own industry, l say, thus dead orne'arly
so, and moral and iritellectual culture bv
consequences without support——drunit and
reeling with the poison of free trade, pray
what then will signify the stately phrases I
of our inimorta!Declaration of 76? Noth-
ing, nothing whatever.‘
Mr. President. I never can think of oui'
own policy of Pl'0l’.i‘(:ll0n, so countervailing"
as it is to all these enslaving designs upon
our trade and industry of our haughty ri-
va’l across the sea, so closely in one way
or another affecting as it does every ten-
tion of life, so wise, so noble, so bcnificent,
so absolutely luxuriant of blessings to our
land, but that it -fills m_e with emotions of '
pride and wonder, and when I see it as
now, by the wretclied acts of the present
Administration, assailed and overthrown,
I feel pained and indi'gn‘ant. Connecticut
is again to speak upon it. Can it be that
she will have but one voice’! It is, it is
t! e policy which to her citizens, which to
u's':'rl'l'gi'i"es bread and shelter, and puts
spirits into our licarts, and gold into our
purses, and spreads for us a family board,
and nurses for us the sweet affections of
domestic life. and which unites our labor
and capital in the bond of lasting love and!
profit. Forty eight millions of dollars is
the annual result of our protectcd industry!
Connecticut will, for one I believe, glori.
onsly defend the system which ‘thus
defends her!
“Din you su'pp'o'se there is any doubt
about my baggzige going to Canaan 1” in-
quired an old lady of the famous wag -R,
while he was “‘s"’eci'ng some friend ofl"”at
the Albany de ot a few days since. “My
dear wom:_.in,” answered ,R. soberly, “IE
will depend entirely on the-moral instruc-
tion it has received. Was it brought up‘
orthodox 1” “No,” answered the uncom-
prehcnding woman “it was brought upon
a hand cart.” “Doubtful case madam,-—
very.-”
ADDRESS
Reported at the late‘ \Vhig Convention.-
To the Ivliiigs of Connect.icIiil.'
The Convention present to you, a tickct
for State officers, at‘ the head of which
stands the name of one of our most excl!-
cnt and distinguished citizens. Vile are
confident of your approval and of our coni-
plcte and tiiu_rnpliant success.
Wfi'i'gs‘ of Connecticut! the approaching
election is one of unusual importance.——-
Join your fellow wliigs through those‘
States, in rescuing the country from folly
and misrule.
every patriot to action! not to war for
conquest, or glory, or sl very; but for dc
liverance, for the security of freemen and
the labor of freemen.
Not a few of those who aided to elevate
this administration are sensible of their
error, and are abandoning it with disgust.
They see the deception practised upon
their unsuspecti'i‘.g’ confidence, and behold
the tyranny of executive usurpation.
The administration, careless of the iii-
terests of their own country prefer the in-
terests of another; and when they can do
no more by legislative enactments, they
sumon us to arms to overr-un and plunder
a neighboring,republic. Too wise to ask
counsel, too theoretical to’ regard experi-
ence, they seem deafto the entreatics of
th it coui.tr_vm_en. They use the power
entrusted with them, to undermine our
institutions, depress labdr, and to foster a
spirit of war. They are extending. the
area_ of slavery, and enlarging the limits
ofitlie Union, until by its vastness, its va-
rious and conflicting interests, and its dis-
similar 8; unenlightened population,it will,
ere long, be dismembered or lose its re‘-
publican form. Indeed we know not what
or w/zere our country is. i It may, next
year, embrace all of North America, and
ere long, all of South America and Cuba.
What are the limits’! And after what fit.-3'
been done, what may we not expect if the
South demanded it’! We here solemnly
declare to you, fellow citizens, that the
country is grea/ly enclangered, and the co-
herence of the Constitution andUnion es.
sentiallyiinparred. lf our army, flushed
with victory, does -not return to sustain
some ambitious cliieftain in schemes of
personal aggrandizement, it will not be
because of any safeguards left in tbe.Coii-
sitution. ' '
Hitherto the whigs have had‘ only to
forewarn, for by the eloquence andcfforts
of their leading men in Congress, they
have saved the country from radicalmen
and radical measures. This they would
still have done, had it not been for the
annexation of Texas. Butalas! the, evii
day has come, and the‘ policy, so much
dreaded, and so often ‘prevented, is, for a
time, fixed upon us. . 3., ’
Behold the sub-treasury, dug out of the
ruins ofia fallen administration! Its chief’
object is to destroy State Banks and expel
their money from circulation; to introduce
a federal currency, which would end ‘"1
depreciated governmeflt p_flP<‘1'. 01‘! V35‘
gave,-"men; bank; while its actual effects
will be to distract business,-bankrupt mer-
chants, and'- bury its advocatesybeneath
their folly-., rfiudical "democrats insist that
all.‘ paper? money in the State-s~ is:un'coiisti-
That. country summotfs
Norwalk Chronicler