Litchfield enquirer., 1855-08-30


 slightest degree of justice any want of oE- ficiai integrity or fdelite No degree of merit IS sufficient to protect any man from unjust and craven-hearted accusations--and with such We have nothing to do.
 In case of the young man alluded to, T. did advise him if he deemed the act com plaineG of abusive and was satisfied that the Post Master was the author of that abuse, to lay his grievances before the General Department, and that if the authorities took such view of ithe would be removed, as I did not conceive that there existed legal ev- idence against the Post Master sufficient to give even shadow of decency to judicial investigation And had reason to believe that the young man entertained a similar opinion. as he preferred the same charge against some half dozen other persons with the same degree of consistency, So much for the young man.
 can hardly account for the plain discre- pency which exists between Woodville's Ipse dfrit respecting North and East Kent, l, and the open declarations of the people of these localities. It Is possible that another young man can be found there, or has Wood vile the susceptibility of imitation to such degree as to expand himself to the com pass-bounds and there listen to the wailings of his own envy or revengel
 And again says my soyro,cing comforter. ss Another statement of this unfortunate Esquire Legion is, that Beecher was ap- pointed to the office as Democrat, and that he on all occasions acted with the party" I stated that he had acted with that party in all their regular political operations.-- Perhaps he has not in any instance sneaked from regular caucas of his party with a squad of disappointed dissenters to aid in concocting secret schemes to impair or de- stroy the success of fair and open opera ,ions-and therefore has ao, acted with the party. conclude however, that the writer means the Woodville Democratic party, since he (Beecher) is claimed by the old l line" here- M
 Again the sspoor man" is consoled in his spasmodic agitation by being for the first time informed that Beecher voted to make him Judge of Probate, and also for Whig Representative to the late General Assem- hly. Perhaps if jealous anxiety for my fate or nervous frenzy for the office had 1 acted properly upon me, might by careful I watching aad secret inquiry have ascertain ed at the time by whom was voted for and
 by whom not, but owing to this fault I am
 now first apprixed of the fact if such it be, and whether it is or not is unknown to Woodville, and his assertion is malicious I one-and barred solely on suspicion-like
 that which accuses him of supporting the ] Know Nothing party. And these asser- | tions give key to this contemptible politi-
 cal misdemeanor. Beecher was guillotined
 on suspicion alone; because he was sus- pected of being an American, of favoring American interests and American rights
 because he was suspected of exercising his 1 privileges as freeman according to his own desires; because he was suspected of faiths fully adhering to that oath, upon which the 1 duties of his ertiye franchise were based, I rather than to the incorrigible and rapacious ] requirements of corrupt and intriguing dem- agogues; because he was suspected of not
 being slave to vile and arrogant dictation I was he led to the slaughter, and for offen- ces such as Mesc was he condemned with
 out proof, and slain by political assassins. LEGION.