The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-10
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LITCHFIELD, JULY 10, 1893.
JULY FOURTH.

dence arrived III very peaceable carriage-at least heard nothing ofthe usual rattlng of her thunder ing car. On her departure for the west, the people found themselves still attached to the home of Iree- dOm and with hearts better calculated for the exer- else of gratitude for national mercies than they would have been had they drowned their sensibtes in the flowing bowl In many places the day was celebrated in moral, rational and religious manner-in others with loud noises and strong drink. In New-Hayen' appropriate addresses were delivered, and a dinner served at the Tontice, at which, by apreyous vote dent tspi,Sts excluded. This left more ample for the generous flow of those social spytslich honor and adorn humanity. In Hartford, by d great majority of the people, the day honoured by dis play of the Sabbath Schools, and appropriate address ses, thus indicating that the perinanency ot free institutions depends more upon the virtue and inte- gence of the rising generation, than upon the hollow, yet boiserous professions, ofmany of the present day. 1 In some places Colonization Societies held tller an nual meetings and here substantial evidence is given that the people indeed the friends of liberty not inc deed of that selfish kind which can hold brother in bondage, and yet rejoice in its freedom but ofthaa more heavenly klnd which would extend peace and happiness to all men, of whatever color. We
 trust the time is not far distant when the fourth of Ju-
 y will annually be hailed with rapture by millions, not only in own but in other countries, as a day when whole nation shall unite as the heart of one man,
 for the dcvising oflberal thngs-and when the most substantial evidence shall be given that we not only rejoice in the blessings enjoy, but wish to extend them to others.
 Many persons up, and attempt to maintain, dis tinction between moral and political honesty. They profess to be horror struck at any supposed alteration from the former principle, while the moo "all's fair in politics. or 'the end will justify the means," is either quoted or acted upon justify every deviation from the latter. For ourselves we are so purtanic that we believe political lie strong an evidence of rottenness of heart, any other kind of lie; and the man who indulges in them, under the spacious
 plea that ''a is fair in politics. is either morally dis
 honest and hence not be trus sted or he has never had any temptation for an indulgence ;n open iniqu- y placed in his way. We understand ,ie ,lefnition of the word "Lie," to be- "to deceive" ato utter a criminal faIsehood." &c., and we can see no reason why deception practised in relation to our dearest rights as treemen, is not as criminal, and more so than that which relates simply individual or pecuniary interests. All the broad political assertions of the present day cannot be rue for they as con-
 rary, one with the other, light and darkness; and as the presidential election approaches they thicken upon us in most disgusting manner. Falseboods the most bareiaced and unblushing are published and re- published with recklessness which seems to set truth and candor at defiance. And yet the men who
 lend their pens to work such political niquty, pride
 hemseivesi in their prOiessed moral rectitude as tho' no stain ofalsehood could be found upon their char acter' Wedo not pretend that this niquy is excIu- svey confined to either of the political parties in our coun'y-it has arisen nt too high pitch to attacl, exclusively to any set of men and we really meet but fe- strong political articles ct the present dav, from whatever source they may come, that we place confidence ia' Tone quarter of wha, is said aga,nst Mir Adams, NIT. Clay, and Gen. Jackson be really true, instead Of giving them offices of rust they ought to be driven in disgrace from society It ough. so be the frt' act cfevery honest patriot rise n indigna- ton, and wipe of the stain which attaches to Us as n nation for having heretofore placed these men in situ- ations where they could thus disgrace our countrY- This is no high wrought picture. True we may Do a 'green horn in potics,'-not consider that these stories are simply told to create effect now and not to he handed down to posterity; but precious legacy we shall hand down to children, in the moral de- pravy and utter disregard to truth which grows out  of such proceedings, as we'll as in the remembrance
 that their fathers notorious set of liars az ev- CT disgraced humanity. This lying spirit which has gone forth into land, entering into hundreds and
 thousands of our political leaders, do honestly bee
 eve called up from the deep, the first sup
 porters of Andrew Jackson. Lying was not necessa- " in the friends of Mir. Adams. He had long been before the public-ong enjoyed the confidence ofthe peope-and for many years has been held in high es.
 maton by the fathers and rulers of our country and by them placed in high and responsible stations. Not so with his opponent. No one act of his life can be named in proof of his qualifications as statesman.
 And soldier, every of his public acts except the battle ofNew Orleans, has excited in the breast of
 thousands and tens of thousands most intelligent citizens, emotions of dstrust and alarm. He is sup- ported for the presidency simply the ground of his being brave soldier. These things taken in ion with the profane declaration of Mir. Senator Ben- ton, one of his ablest champions and made immedi- ateIy after the election Of Mir. Adams that 'his ad- ministratiou must be pu, down, though bea pure the angels around the throne of God prove ncontes- tbly hat as base measures must always be supported by base means the spirit of opeD reckless lying, or
 ginated, as it has been kept up by, the opposdon.- That anch an infarnai asaer4ion as ahove