Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1850-11-14

in excellent condition. The Stations are IN.
der the direction OF accommodating agents,
while the Conductors and Engineers are faith
full and capable men. Much praise ia justly
awarded to the energy and perseverance Of
Mr. Hurd, the Superintendent Of the Read, to
whose skIful management the Corporation is
indebted for much of its prosperity.
On the 2sIh of October, the timetable on
this Road was altered, but we have not Ie-
ceived the Company's new advertisement yet.
The morning passenger train from Bridgeport
TO Winsed passes the Litchfield Station at IL
o'clock and IS minutes m. The freight train
for Winsled passes our Station at o'clock 81
minutes m. The down freight train passes
The Litchfeld Station at o'clock 81 minutes
a. m.--thc passenger train, at 2 o'clock aim.
EET The Hartford Free Soil Republic
can takes exception to the article which
we published two weeks since, showing
that the Northern Democracy were, and
the Northern Wings acre not, response
BILE for the passage of the Fugitive Slave
Bill. We sustained our position by show
ing that every Northern Wing Senator
and every Northern Wing Representa-
tive except three, voted against the Bill,
while several democratic Senators and
27 democratic Representatives from the
North, voted for it; and that without
the aforesaid n northern votes IT COULD
NOT HAVE BECOME A LAW. All this is
UNcoNrRAD1cTED by the Republican, aod
vet it undertakes to show that the wing
party of the North Is responsible for its
passage! And how does it prove its
position ? Why, first, by saying that
emo man in the country did SO much to
pass the fugitive slave bill, as Daniel
Webster" If this were true, what would
it prove? Daniel Webster is not the
"whig party" and indeed his course on
the slavery question has not in all res
poets been approved by the wing party
at the North. But we deny the state>
ment Of the Republican, and all the in
ferences that it draws from it. Mr..
Webster had left the Senate long before
the bill as it passed was before that body.
. In his late letter to the New York Com
mittec, abiding to this bill. he says, ut is
NOT such measure as had prepared
5 before l left the Senate, and which. OF
course I should have supported had |
remained in the Senate"
Does the Hartford editor really believe
that Mr.. Webster, had lie been in the
Senate, would have voted against every
other northern wing member on that
question? Has he any reason for so be
liev,ng? If Mr.. W. HAD voted for the
law, would the "whig party" have there
by been rendered responsible for its pas
sage?
But the editor continues" Willard
Fillmore, your northern Wing President,
APPROVED the Infamous bill, and made it
law, by signing it."! That, Mr.. Baldwin
evidently regards as clincher and he
has accordingly ornamented 1t with CAP
1rALs! Has he yet to learn the differ
ence between putting ones official sigma
ture to bill which has already PASSED,
and that approval which leads HIM to
advocate and vote for it Had Mr.. Fill
more been in Congress, we have not
doubt but he would have voted with ev-
cry other wing from his State, against
the bill. But the wings have for years
contended against the exercise of the We
to power. except in cases Of manifest vio>
lation of the Constitution. The law in
question was not regarded by the Presi-
dent. (nor 10 it by the people of the
north generality as uncoustitution and
hence it was not proper case for the
use of the Veto.
These are the only arguments" adj
duced by the Republican in support of
its bold contradiction Of our statement.
We think it unnecessary to pursue the
subject farther.
THE TAX LAW.-The new tax law
is silently but effectively doing its work
among the mass of practical and hard
working farmers of Connecticut. The
} professions Of the party which claims TO-
be the special friend of the laboring class.
es, are beginning to be looked upon in
their true light. The law reduces the
burden Of taxation on the capitalists mo-
ney at interest, (Which is usually doubly