Litchfield enquirer., 1861-01-10

nA. Mir. Tom Clarke of the Winsted Herald
 we arc sorry to say, is blackguard. It will not
 be news to any who know him, or have ever
 heard of him, in any relations as man, an edi
 tor or citizen. But it will give him an oppor
 tunity of seeing himself as others see him, il
 before we take 6 final leave of him, and forever
 debar our columns from an illusion to his con-
 tsmptible body or soul, we give him the benefit
 of our calm, unimrassioned, unpredjadiced
 opinion.
 From his boyhood, we arc informed by one
 who knows him we'll ia Winstcd, he has always
 been considered most insignificant miserable fellow. 1n his juvenile history occurs the fact that on more than one occasion, when unable to givc vent to his malice and illtemper in more man. ly and human method, he has deliberately and dirtily spit in his opponents face. From this dirty beginning his whole character has develop ed itself from boyhood up. He is the same ma lignant, malicious, cowardly, low-lived nimcry of a man, that he was the caracature of boy Unfit for any occupation at home, he WAS early sent away and without education, without re- fnenent, without the manners of gentleman even, he endeavored to earn ptifuf living in a newspaper office in Bridgeport-wh was star ted by joint stock kconcern-called The Lead CT" and died ignominiously under the leadership of Clarke.
 Returning to Winsted--after a disgraceful failure in the law-he started with the funds of his father, the Mountain County Herald" This he finally made to succeed, by employing the same means which has given success to tho Her. aids satanic namesake in New York. By black guardism and bullying, people were induced to read what they have always acknowledged was low, filthy, miserable sheet-while few taken with the 6ppant paragraphs, concerning men and women in their neighborhoods, and enjoying an obscene joke 0, dirty inusndo as the height of humor, have still contributed to support the dis graceful concern from year to year.
 Attacking in it's columns friends as we'll as foes, denying the privilege of his paper for reply, or even for refutation of falseheod, to all-abu- sive of his town, and of all who do not revolve in the circle of which he is the light and expres- sion disgrace to his highly respectable con- nections, and a load to his party, to which he has done more injury than the united local poll ticians or democratic newspapers in the State who always quote Clarke, when they desire to impugn the Republican party--we are not sur prised to learn that his paper is already on its last legs, and has run down to so low all cub, that the project seriously considered of estab- fishing another press in Winsted, which shall truly and respectfully represent the Republicans of Winsted, will be the easiest job in the State.
 In appearance bulldog, and at heart puppy ignorant, obstinate, insufferable and offensive to . degree-such is M. Ihomas If. Clarke, the editor and proprietor of the Winsted Herald- and as such we leave him, after this cheerful re- view of his history, his attainmcnts and his character, not again to pollute our pen or our columns with an allusion to his low personalities and his meaner person.