Litchfield enquirer., 1857-04-23
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tassnd,,d, csnn., Thursday April g. 1857


 taissAd,'d Conn, Thursday April g. 1857. During the last six months. the Enquirer has siv on an Sceasiohal extract from the trifes of the Hartford Times-specinens of slang, which Tor ma lightly of import and baseness of uterance, would shame the Father of Iniquity himself As Macau- ley says of Burriers 'as he ceases to write triflcs, he begins to write lies; and such lies v
 Regarding our comments upon the mcndacity ot it's articles the Times has maintained most over towering silence If we had not been aware of the amount of labor exacted from its corps of Editors to carry on its war of extermnation against the old courant, we might have felt slightly the awful crit ieism of its majestic silence. It seems, however, there was no occasion of ally nervousness on our part-and tlIat the Times, instead of looking upon us as entirely unworthy of it's lofty consideration viewed at the other extreme and has been husband. ing its ammunition for general sorte-the result of which should be our utter extermnation from off the face of the earth
 On Friday last, it came-a regular broadsde-onc mortal column in length. Heasehs What a smell of birthstone We might have suffered frosh this regular raixan discharge, if the Times had only been little more judicious in the selection of its wadling. But to cram its old blundcrbuss with the stale jokes of Miller, dipped in weak solution 'f the Register, desperate mistake. The result is, we still survive if the most comfortable health, Hot having sustained the slightest possible injury. A close examination of this illumination from Hartford, results in our entire incomprchen.ibity & to its meaping-except that the Editor conceivcs that our brains are not deep Mir. Bishop $ purse. The Times need not have troubled itsc]f to make this idea known. We never entertained any such fancy. Mir Bishops purse, We have louht. ie sufficiently deep to buy twice the amount of blaii cur farthest flight of vanity ever concefxfd us to pcssess-and should not wonder if it could stir the depths even of the brains of the Times itself
 This matter of brain, however, ws should prefer to leave to the decision of Fowler & Wells. It, however, the comparative value of the article is to h. come a by an estimate of the amot,.t possessed by the Editor of the Hartford Times, we shall re- esive the decision under protest.
 Now there in this State bevy of political journals (annong which the Times stands foremost j Whose arguments those of the common scold and whose only wit small personal attacks If a
  our most pure and learned urists, rcpublishes the Constitution the Declaration of Independence it is at once sttnckcd by the smallest kind of rib aadry, it's writing styled "grotesqe enough in their positions and deductions to compare fvorably with one of Strong's Comic Almanacs, and it Editor pro- nounccd brainless fool. AS specimen, VIC give sn extract from the overwhelming column devoted to us;
 "As Seorge Washington Ftost Mcllen said of the Pig.pcns and hen-coop tt the Connecticut State Fair, There those hid under these things, who only wait for the opportunity to throw off their dis guiss, rush forth. and destry liberties Mir. Ferry, the shfieker par erccsncc, of all tle freedom shriekcfy in Connecticut, to bc besrt and attacked by Governors and exGovernors in disguise" &.
 Unint sntionally we seem to have knocked down the grand hornets nest, wherein lodged the etire shamooratic ability of the shamocratic Press of this State Even that unclean specinlen of modern bird with elongated neck, and preposterously niscalculated legs, that struts about New Haven with steel gafs, and brass collar on, marked U s. G., swells up his neck feathers for the fray Forget ful that short time since, he consigned to rest aimg with John fcesrs and the army of martyrs, and conceded to us the ability of porcupine quills, hs now has found new place for us, and conceives we belong to the same species as itself.
 GcntlefnNn, hereafter, pray you be silent There will be no feeling of regret on our part, de- pend upon it. In fact, VIC have something better to do than lose ourscf in the mire looking after your antecedents.