Litchfield Enquirer

Admission.—We find (says the Boston Messenger) the following remarks in a speech on matters and things in general, delivered in the House of Representatives by Mr. Plummer of Mississippi, a Jackson man. One of them contains a tender compliment to the virtue of his political associates, and the other indicates, that the continued existence of abuses is a subject of too little importance to attract his attention.

The present administration was placed in power for the avowed purpose of reforming the abuses and retrenching the expenditures of the Government. The same abuses are said to exist, and even to a greater extent than before, and the same charges are now, in turn, preferred against the present administration. Into the truth of these charges, I am not now disposed to inquire. Those who have a fair prospect of inheriting the popularity of the present Executive, sustain his course, not, because he advocates the true interests of the major class, but because he opposes a licensed monopoly prejudicial to them, but because it will increase, in their opinion, their chances of office.