Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-16
The Legislature Adjourned.
sssuB Hoe signo vincfmus.

Our worthy assemblage of state wisdom which has for sixty seven days constituted tn Legislature of the state of Connecticut ane whose doings and sayings have been duly chron icled in these columns, adjourned on Saturda.. morning last for good and all and have left tn ahead of navigation" to bask in another tw' years repose. What they have done and wha left undone in their not very brief tenure of oi Zee, the papers of to-day have set forth, an' the future historian, if he takes the troubl to hunt oyer the voluminous records, may de cipher and depict.
 Without any measure of any large impor tance to consummate, the late legislature hav' still had the opportunity of proving to the country and the wo Id at large, that the gallant state of CesxEcrIcUr is still true to her histo. IT and her honor, and will ever be found among the foremost of her sister states in up- holding and defending the general Government spon whose permanence and stability her own stability rests. This opportunity we are glad to know they embraced,-and whatever else may be said of the legislature of 1863, at least thisnuoh vill rebound to its credit and praise that it has been true to the loyal sentiment ot the state, and in this severe and trying crisis in ths history of our Government, has been true to itself and to the country.
 We could have wished, indeed, that the in. famous so-calIed :" vallandigham Resolutions, ' requesting the Governor of the state, in effect to demand of the President the recall of tEe azch-sraitor Vallandigham, had been peremp- torily put down, that the records of the state might not have been disgraced by such speech e as those of the master spirits of the oppo. sition but the debate may have had the good el5eet of showing what, after all, the true sen- timeat of the state is, in the manly and abIe- speeches of Messrs. ADAMS. WRIGHT and oth- ezs, and the ignominious defeat of the resolu- tions at the last gave fitting quietus to fur ther attempts to put the state in false position abroad.
 thas been said that this Legislature has been so guarded in its devotion to the interests ef the Country that it has suffered itself to be lead to an extremity of partizanship, as evin- ced in its refusal to reelect two Judges of the Superior Court whose terms of office expired this year, on the ground that they gave their influence and votes to aid the disloyal candi- date for Governor at the spring election.- While we think, decidedly, that the legisla- ture misjudged in this matter, and that the loss of the services of those able Judges is g loss sothe Bench and the State, We do'not believe that this charge against the Legislature can be vel sustained. Certainly the assumption that the Legislature or the people owed these off ces to these gentlemen is ridiculous. The state osces office to no man. If by their undis- putsd fitness for the offices they held, they had rendered themselves prominent candidates for reelection, and it was universally conceded that their large experience and sound ability eminently qualified them for the offices, ire speetive of their party proclivitives and party feelings. it is to be deeply regretted not so much for their own sakes as for the sake oi the state and the responsibility of the Bench that the representatives of the people could not feel convinced that in their important off, css1 they would hold themselves above their party, and'in unison with the sentiment of the stats, in favor of using all their influence and power of position to sustain the Governmsn in its hour of peril, and rigidly to,enforce it. laxss We ebclieye Messrs Seymour and Wald, would have done this; we have not now, ant never have had, the slightest doubt of thei loyalty; but the Legislature thought different |, and have elected two very worthy Judges both of the opposite school of politics-in thei stead.
 The increase of the Supreme Court by tn transfer of one of the Superior Court Judge to that Bench, has a:partizan appearance whicl ws do not appreciate, however much we re- spect the gentleman who has by this actior been thus transferred, and so secured posi- tiea for new and full judicial term.
 We must regret that the Legislature permit ~<~- -H.~ S~e9AVu " StoSS WAtuout CCuSuu the mostimportant business before it, to pro vide the state with an efficient Military Law asaprotection to ourselves and an aid to tn General Government against the rebellion Very grave doubts may have existed agains the propriety of certain provisions of the bil as drawn up. bnt certainly it were better tha ve should have uniformed militia" wit "target shooting" and all-than that We shoul lave no organized militia at all.
 There were a few minor matters which V regret were suffered to fail; among then the subject of our harbor defences,- though ccmmitsse, consisting of the Governor, Lieu, Governor. Speaker of the House, and Messrs Adams and Bond of the Lower House, yer appointed to urge the matter upon the Gener q Government; and the usual appropriation t the State Agricultural society which is econc piizing. we think, in the wrong direction. But i tho main, ue believe the Legislature acted u to their abilities, and so as to gain the genera spproval of their easy minded constitnencie
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