Litchfield enquirer., 1858-03-18

Strong resumed, 1T arraign no man for his course on that question: I said it was bad policy. We have been defeated every time since then. Here we are, and the gentleman from New Haven says he is standing on prin- ciple. What principle is there at the bottom oi the Lecompton constitution If any, is it popular sovereignty ? believe it is Q sacindlc and am outrage Another row.) have the record here before me, and what is the yer dict Ten thousand majority against Le- compton Are you for popular sovereignty Then pass my resolutions, and we shall remain united. The gentleman boasts that he stands for popular sovereignty. That is in the Teso- lution but he asks me go farther and en- dorse Lecompton.
 condemn the policy in Congress of Toomhs and Stephens, two old whigs not yet dry b'- hind the ears, who are leading the party and are trying to read out the lifelong Democrats.
 Internal row. Shall they do it-these men, as bitter disorganizers and disunionists as there are in this country Good demo elats are to be prescribed and kicked out because they dis agree with Toombs and Stephens 1 ask i'll Gods name, Mir Ingersoll, what principle gov erns them but a desire for the extension of slav- cry? Is there no other principle in the party. If so, read me out. ..-r~
 l am nobody's man." but stand on the great principle of popular sovereignty. When the gentleman says that we must swallow the Leeompton Constitution, how is it--what does it mean l have talked against black repub- licanlsm as much as any body, but l talked popular sovereignty. How is it that one after another the Governors sent out to Kansas all prove untrue to the cause of the South Walker and Stanton, southern democrats and slaye-hodcrs, are turned out, prescribed
 Great hullabaloo. don't mean to be hiss ed down here. want liberty of speech, and I WILL NOT BE put down. My only love is fer the Democratic party. I was taught to love 1t ill childhood and have voted with it these nine years that have been a voter, but when you come to talk Lecompton, and make it test, l loa the, ahhor and despise it, and will not submit. Uproar.
 The committees resolutions were submitted last night to the delegates from Holland and Fairfield Counties and approved. [" Fairfield County never saw ther."] l was in the room with twenty Fairfield men who heard them. |" Never presented there."1 say what I know and appeal to Messrs. Pomeroy of the Farmer, Hoyt and Taylor, for it's entire trutI Ia Half Of us had left.'1 Turning to the man Strong said, never saw your face before, and Rnever wish to again. Mir. Taylor, good dem- opcrat, subscribed to them, and thought them good enough for him. -
 Dr. Woodward is very democratic, little more democratic than the rest of us, but he shan't DO cribe tests for me and read ne out of the party. It is wrong to make them. The party has been weeded out enough already but if such tests are to be continued, it will be thinner still Pass Lecompton resolutions, and you will be defeated by ten thousand majority, and God grant that my prediction may prove true.
 Why don't: you, Dr. Woodward, express your opinion on flibastering, and make the Presidents policy in that matter party test ? It is simply because they don't go with the President in that.
 Applause, cheers, and hisscs Mr. Strong had fought through without fiinchiDg, and vim dcatcd his claims to free speech. It was very nobly done. He asked no f,rvors and granted none to the crowd of office holders and party runners who crowded the hall, evidently bent on crushing all opposition in genuine Tammany 2 Hall style. '@