Litchfield enquirer., 1862-03-20
Hartford CorrespeIzdence.


 will likewise astonish the Couttnt, that if l sec the points in the game right, will prove extreme ly formidable, and that is Hon. John Woodrutao New Haven: beg you to understand am Ta looker-on in Vienna" and try to give you the benefit of what falls in my way. Woodruff is strong with the masses, and has one quality that almost surely marks the successful politician, and that what is called taking care of his friends. Approximately successful for young man, he has never forgotten the friends of his humber estate, and no one cancharge him with forgetting Ito answer letters in unwillingness to try to aid his constituents! Many a poor widow knows how faithfully he hunts up pension claims, and the humblest visitor to Washington received at his hands the same courteous attention that the mil lonaire did. Itwould be folly to attempt to castthe horoscope of the next legislature, bat my impress sion is that it will contain a larger number of really able men than usual. There IS a feeling over the state that mere partizan considerations, should be overlooked in an exigency like the pre- sent, and the best men sent to the legislature Questions of more than ordinary moment will come before that body for consideration, and it is to be hoped that the deliberations will bs charac- terized with wisdom. 1 l l notice with psin disposition to ridicule the military appointments of Gov. Buckingham in some of the papers. 6 Flaw round the mud pud- dle;' is good joke, and suppose nobody be- lieves it to be true. There is no disguising the fact that considerable disa!fecon is felt over the State at these military appointments, some of it just, but it seems to me that it would be fairer to hold the Governors advisers to Meir full respon- sibility and not shower all the complaints on the Governors head. Where the Governor knew the men, as in the appointments from Norwich, and they are goodly number, he has shown judg- ment. But away from homo the Governor had few opportunities of knowing them; he had never been in public life before, and his acquaintance was extremely limited. Among those thrown round him officially, the only ones that have sur vived the sweeping and rapid changes of his off 1 cial family are his private secretary and the ad jutant general; like Martin Van Buren to Jack ! Downing, vide the Press, they have managed to have their bread fall butter side up by butteri l it on both sides. Their influence with the Gov ernor has been potential in fact, here, it has been notorious, that the same class of men the Govern or would have sought in Norwich asever had his ear. The first named gentleman is cousin of H .4 ..Q that we owe Col D.'s repentance from the disloy. al position he occupied last spring. .-.... .a l Iu any event l protest against scolding about tho appointments now; the war looks as though it would be over before Conn. got her quota in the field, and tine fortunate men who have worn 1 shoulder straps, will come home. Those who have won honorable distinction will be held in grateful remembrance; those who, like RUSSELL, expired in the moment of victory, will be enrolled on the scroll of our martyr dead and an inteli- gent and discerning constituency will hold to a strict responsibility, those who arc to blame fir the condition of the llth which compelled Gen eral Burnside to leave them at Hatteras.
 1 Your ainiablc County cotcnlporary thinks our people have got a flea in their pants, and pro- tests in behalf of the modest folks of the Nau gatuck Valley, against our pulling him of. From present appearances, there is little chance l will not be shocked, and we only wish he wouldn' t call things but such vulgar names. had hoped never again to seriously allude to the Post Office imbroglio, but like thunderbolt in clear sky, nou comes q long, la5ored ce- fence ofMe Hartford Times, signed M. Blair, ?. M Genp." This strange production shows one thing conclusively, (f nothing more,) that 1 is, that the Palladium and Times were deeper in the confidence of the olgarchy than the Cour- ank -~+
 But the following extract will show the char acter of this singular contribution to the litera- ture of the Spring campaign:'f.
 " For since the rebellion broke out, there has 1 been no division of sentiment between old par | ties on the question of maintaining the Union and the Hartford Times, and leaders of the De- mocratic organization generally, sustain the ad- ministraton us untalteringly i'll it's determination
 
 publican organization 5s.t sis..5. ...... .. l Do the men of Litch6eld County believe this ? In this part of the State, we pronounce it abso- lutely and unequivocally false. The men who got up peace-meetiugs in Bloomfield and Morris, sustain the administration as untateringly as the leaders of the Republicans organization Good God has 1t come to this, that the thousands of loyal Democrats who loved their country better than their party, with all its sustaining historic associations, are now to be sandered and vilifed thus by a Cabinet Minister? !? It was fitting that it should come from the same man, whose scur- rilous assault on the President and the Secreta ry of the Treasury, in a letter to General Ere mont, have made his name stench in the nos trils of honest men, and whose removal from the Cabinet is daily looked for by all the true friends of the administration. 7o3 *@ i The President has shown what he thinks of 1 the base calumnies this man heaped on Fremont by assigning Gen. Fremont an important com. mand, and there is scarcely doubt but that in short time the country will be electrified, as it was by the removal of Cameron. This is a pain l ful subject to write about, but whatever of hu- initiation there is yet in store for us, the loyal Union men here will emulate the crew of the Cumberland, and fight till the food sweeps the decks. Yours,