Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-08
Hartford correspondence.


 from the field of correspondence, but l cannoi rsifain from acknowledging the compliment Mai. Osborne pays these letters in astributing them to the editor of the Ress. Regarding Mr. Warner as the most accomplished political writer on the onion side in the state, can only say that it is the misfortune of your readers that he was no, really your correspondent At the same time have never been able to see what the personality of the writer has to do with the merits of such letters. If there has been aught in them worthy of comment, they were fairly open to discussion, without involving the question of authorship at all Neither can see the necessity ofattsmPtin9 to mis- repfessnt them.upon the part of the Hartford or gan of Senator Dixon, that journal has in the most s'sbnoxious" manner alleged that they have abused Senator Dixon, have disclaimsd the in tention and denied the fact. This journal still refusss me the paltry need of fair play, srudiously ignores this and refuses to either retract its uncalled for islander or publish the paragraphs wherein the abuse occurs. It may be that there IS no redress from the tyranny of this selfconstituted censor, who pronounces ''obnoxious'' paragraph asserting simply the general idea that the present exigency in nation- al affairs requires at our hands the selection of our ablest statesman for the Senatorship. Sea ator Dixon may well cry save me from such friends, for the conclusion il irresistible that if that paragraph is obnoxious to the Coasrant 1t is l simply because its editor does not bslieve MT. Dixon to be our ablest statesman.) To its thou sands of readers the Courant densuncss me as | abusing Senator Dixon. What reputationis safe l In any community when such unbridled license 1 on the part of the press exists unrebuked. The l virtues of three generations ot Puritans are em- { balmed around the past of the Courant and the mighty roots of century of existence interlace the slate and give strength and power to its de- clining years. Like the last of line of Kings l is vainly waving the scepter, that oncs symbol ized wisdom and virtue, and now only betokens corruption and decay, wondering why the people do not fall down and obey. Like Stuarts and Bourbons it neither learns wisdom from sxpe- rence or adversity and like these its certain end is selfdestruction, it may be slow but it s never theless sure. should be sorry to hold Senator Dixon responsible for the mad course his sup. perters are taking in the canvass. From the lan- guage these slave drivers use, one would suppose l there was some prescriptive right to the success sion vesting in fee simple in a Senator, regard 1 less of qualifications, record or the views of 6 constituency. It may be that the Legislature will hold that it is Obnoxious" and "abusive" to dis cuss the question; that, as you phrase it Eff the 1 friends of the Senator succeed in securing the caucus (what caucus) by the second week of l the session the wires having been managed very adroitly' they will achieve his reelection beyond preadyenture." It may be that members of the Legislature have so far forgotten the oath | they took when they became electors that votes l for Senator are to be obtained in exchange for votes for Speaker. Bur I DO NOT BELIEVE IT. 1 believe that the members of the Legislature will feel deeply the responsibility devolved upon them in the lection of Senator, in the hour of peril and that they will feel as believe Senator Diron does Ainsself, that at this time of all others, the Senatorship should neither be sought or declined by any man. The State, aye, the Nation have fearful stake upon the wisdom of the Senate for the next six years, questions are pending that will dwarf those felicitousy settled by our fa- thers when they made the Constitution, upon their wise solution depends the future of an hun dred million yet to people this continent
 l believe that ample time will be taken for the full and fair discussion of the fitness of candidates, not claims, FOR No MAN HAS CLAIMS TO THE SEN AroRsHIP and that the man believed to be best fitted for the responsibilities of the hour will be selected Neither do l believe that because Senator Dixon has forfeited the confidence of the community in which he lives by his refusal to re- spect their wishes in matter they deemed vital 10 the cause of loyalty, so that in the judgment of the more jealous he could not to day address the Union men of Hartford that he should there fore be afraid in the matter of the canvass of his fitness for the Senate. Because he might have erred in such matter and yet be best fitted to represent the State. Nor would urge against him, his neighbors do, the fact that he refused to take his family to Washington at the opening tne J l. ,. | ihe city safe, there were only twoAhundred fifty thousand of the flower of the American army there then, to be sure in old Roman times it was treason to despair of the Republic, but they were heathen. And yet there are thousands here who hold both these things to be disqualification For my own part will only discuss the question in the more comprehensive way. Hartford isn't the State and the Senator to be elected is to repre- sent the State, meyer heard that 1t was urged against Senator Foster that he had no friends in l Norwich and yet from the language of the Bull letin I should think if he had any they were of 1 the tame sort. No, as l comprehend the duty of the patriot to-day, and now. it is simply to use his influence to have the best man sent to the Senate. care not say whether he is from one section or another of the State, whether he be of Republican or Democratic antecedsnts.
 If there is man, who stands out head and
 
 of irreproachable integrity, of pndinching cour- age, and life long experience in public matters, ! shat is the man that ought to eceivs the sui frages of legislators.
 Talk of party claims, of wire-pulling, of log rolling, in 'sueh a hour as this, when the fate of | the Nation hangs on the tiny war-ships in Hamp- | ton Roads, and the issue of the mighty battle impending on the hills of Northern Mississippi do not fear failure, but would that we should l deserve success. To say that defeat or reverse is impossible, is blind fatuity-in every battle one must fail. Do we realize the fact that these are historic times-that the acts of to-day are to be the evidence upon which the verdict as to the effect of freedom upon 8 people is to be made 1 up, would we furnish to the effete aristocraey l across the water another argument against the wisdom of peoples choosing their own ru- lers? s....s
 Or, to come nearer home-How would it read. 1 if vixen the Revolutionary Army confronted Burgoyne at Saratoga, and the issue of the Rev 1 olution, as far as the, New England States were concerned, at least dung on the result, the Con- 1 tinental Congress had been basely engaged in wire-pulfing and log,rolling, to reward the party claims of the Hon. --- -, and the lobby ] wand had hustled with office holders fierce to make their calling and election sure? Thank God, the historian. has made no such record of the earlier days of the. Republic. --. 9onrs,i ,,'..I MORRIS.
 ALL the additional intelligence we have in reference 10 the capture of New Orleans, is re- ceived from the rebels, by way of Fortress Mon roe From indications which have been per.