Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-16
G9e &itt56elo Gnqarst,
rAtehseld, Conn, Thursday April 1e. 1887

In thesS t1e Iate Election, the Adminis tiation pretend to find great cause for 'sjaicinga WS them willingly, all the satis- fiction they can derive truly they need it. with the voice of New Hampshire and Rhode Island shouting in theii ears The esound of their rejoicing may cheer some feeble member of their party far away in Florida or Oregon but nearer than these, it will fall cold and unsatisfitd hearts If with the elements in their tavor and all the scattered rel les of Filmoresm enlisted in their ranks, and drilled to the nod and order of their leaders, they have been able alone to carry the two districts what they expect when the people shall at length be reused to action by vivid perception of the cert in tcnden- cies of our Government toward despotism slave holding despotism which now controls tie Executive, and possesses itself of all the offices Mo- this Election has little comfort in it., as those of the other States. It hardly pays for the money spent, to say nothing of the falsehoods and mean practises, which in re-acting process, will weigh like lead upon their minds
 Except that it was brought about by the machi- nations of a few designing and dissatisfied poli- clans in New Haven, we know nothing of the cause of MT. WooDRuFr's defeat but of the machinery which revoivcd to the overthrow by miserable vote, of Mr. FERRY. we are we'll acquainted Never was man more beset by advcrsaries than this gen tleman It seemed as if all the malignity of Fair field County had resolved itself into one massc,na- hating from which rose up the man Bishop, armed with parse-the bottom of which could not be found
 MT. FERRY has been defeated by most unfair and unprinciplcd trickery. Private vindictivencss has usurped the principle of justice, of honor ef cccr,- cy. He has been attacked by Governors and ex. Governors, by State and United States Senators ly Representatives and Representatives and by all that personal hatred and disappoin nent in not be- ing able to control him beyond the dictates cf lis own belief, could muster into its r.nks.
 Not satisfied with the ordinary warfare waged in such campaign, Bishop and his crew have forgotten that they we're even born of woman and belicy- ing themselves the offspring of ogre halpy have violated even tho common respect due to the do- nestic hearth. With viainous hands they have laid hold the sacredness Of private rsations an ruthessly paaded before the world, em5cliished with the exasgeration of develish ma1isnants, the story of an early career which though wild and it. regular differed not iota from that of half the brilliant young men in the country
 We have been told that Mr FERRY was drunk en, unprincipled brawler-and pamphlets from the press of the Administration papers of this State, have flooded our County, filled with the most base and scandalous lies. Mr. FERRY is one of the ,nost brilliant men of this district As forensic speaksr he has no peer ia the Statc-and for clear. plain sagacity. such as is demanded for member of Con- gress he has few equals. Once in Washington, he would command a respect fron all which Connect icut would be proud to acknowledge ge-spcaking for this portion of the state, with voice to which we have long been strangers.
 Whatever may have been the opinion of society regarding MT. Bishop, previous to this election shc has but one view now-and that is, that he is not possessed of the dignity of gentleman-and there fore, is not fit for the position to which he elected A man lost to all ideas of domestic privaces, and willing to ride into office upon the tide of a base and calumnatory islander, is totally unworthy of the confidence of his constituents.
 Ono thing, however, Litchtield County must re- member-and never again permit Fairfield County to gain nomination. So many politicians has she within her limits-so many political adhes--t is impossible for us to find one man among her citi- Eens, against whom will not be raised an army of defamcrs, who, forgetul of all principle, make sol fshness their rallyng crytrampling under foot all party lines, and all promises of good faith. Better by far, had we taken some honorable and upright man from among us whose service to the State is well known to both Counties-whose honesty is un impeachable-and trust to the pnre-minded and Un- ion-loving of old Fairfield to support him, though there may be in the field another candidate We have had enough of the political knavery of Stam- ford and Bridgeport.