Litchfield enquirer., 1856-10-09
Letter from Stockholm Sweden---The
 Presidential Election.
nrs of the Indepenlent.

To the EdlfpFs ot the Independent.
 Science and Freedom go hand in hand in the old world, as we'll as in the new. l met lately gentieman one of the most eminent in nat ural science iu Northern Europe-Proiessor Rezias of Stockholm. He asked about Amer ica, and without waiting for reply, he said with great warmth Sir, kae HiumM cf Ere mom sa this election of yours, wM be the tri- amph of cipsiisatson. We know him well here i; . great man, a great man, Sir true friend of freedom, rational freedom" He then turn ed to friend and explained that he was tho same who had received the medal of the Geo. graphcal Society, aud had made those discov- cries in California. He saved California from from slavery also, hcar."
 We never watched an election as VIC do this" he added. Ut seems a crisis in your history, aud it will crush the hopes of the lib- eral party here to sec. your Free Party defeat- els '' 1 do not say Dsmoeratac party he said. turning to ffiend-" Strange! Demo- crat means Aristocrat iu America--upholder ot slavery! Yes, you have the same strng-5 gles there, under other names, that We do here. Bat the foreigners, how are they going P
 told him. feared very many would go against Freedom.
 Several present expressed great regret, and said " You cannot reckon on the Gernaus acting well in mass. They never act nobly in great bodies !'
 Everywhere among tho upper classes Of these countries this election is So regarded l know repeated instances. It is so often not- ecd also with commendation, that Fremont is sa-amf not politician,
 Now, it is just such Q grand popular swell of feeling towards right and justice as this in .-L wss~kk L. fore the world, and what is far better, set he. nearer right In our own consciences. Europe watches you- now in this grand struggle Something of that magnificent chorus of vol ccs. which with you Is chaunting with the en thusiasn, that only great cause can draw firth. the words Fremont and Freedom ]" is nulsatiur even here. National philosophers Iote with sufprise that nation Is arising for a rraud popular increment, when no question of imteresf. or wealth or home comforts are imme- diatcly involved. In itself, it Is one of the best ordinations of our jobbing and money -lov- be in tho opinion of Europe, mighty moral sentence uttered by the American people on the miserable dishonesty of fillibusterism and the isarfal wrong Of Slavery.
 Those here who kase begun to despair of us. wm tnke ueaft o8AWs Auo SVueSsnps Wuicu has been arising towards American pretences of liberty, will change to something of the old admiration. We shall have, what is only next b good conscience, the respect of the world.
 IL seems hardly worth while before your trc- inendoas interests, to write of petty European affairs. Evea Italian revolutions are nothing besides this immense struggle of principles on American soi. When the hAttle has been fousht. and the heroic leader of tho new De- Inocs1cy is placed in the more than royal sat, and new era begins for freedom, then your readers may like to hear the modern improve menfs. and the quaint old life hero in Non.iland. Much that is useful and pleasant can be gatl- red here. c.Ls.