Litchfield enquirer., 1863-02-19
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 4 meet;ns of . sympathizers' vas held at ] the Gsiy Hall last evening. for the lominaiion of Delegates to the several shamocrutic con ysutious. M
 After the nominations had been made and accepted by the mesliug. A. k. Burr with drawing ffuF the position of delegate 10 the congressional convention, and his place hay ing been supplied by F. 5. Brown) Ihomas H Seymour was loudly called for, and ascended the platform. lIa said that those before him hnd;not come together to do homags to .pow- era or .principalities,n that the people had been lsarning this year past to stand up for freedom sgainat I tbe powers that be" : A year ago." hs said, :" free speech Yas denied as, bat now, thank God. we can say what we pIsass regarding our rulers at Washington" lie thea went over the stale old ground, tray ersed by % mlany before him, to thu effect that after the secessjol 0t the Southern States they nikht hass been brought back by proper con. esssions. 4 nstional convention, the with holdiag Of supplies from Fort Sumter, the Crittenden compromise, any Of these he claim cd might have recalled the erring states who he'd leA us, even afier the act of accession.
 The government, he snid, gave solemn pledge not to re enforce Fort Sumter. A lit us sAising there, 2 little longer delay in send ing ships into the harbor of Charleston, might have put of the war. But the government had the temerity to send down vessels with supplies and reenforcemenis Unto one of its own harboEsl, and the result was that our ships were fired into. Hence this fearful and bloody war. It might have been averted, the government might have made concessions to the rebels. but 1t did not.
 As to the invasion of our liberties. in the matter of the seizure of telegraphic despatch 6 and the imprisonment of citizens he would gay little {; he should have occasion to speak on thoss points more fully at some future time ]; he thanked God. from present appearances, the late outrageous arrest in Philadelphia would probably bs the last one of its kind that would be undertaken in the United States The people were rising in their majesty. and would rsbuke the tyranny that oversbadowed them.
 He spoke of Mr. Wilson's militia bill, and said that the people would rise mp against so fragrant . violation of their rights, sough he sossrymenf sfOoi 6sfore them. backed Ly q milg. iaR bay0nets. Then of the taxes: of these he complained, as being hid upon people to carry on V er in which they had no part or interest," The upriRht and generous southern erns had come north among us, be said, and married our daushters, taking them south to dwell our young men had gone south mar ried sosthsrn daughters, and remained there, 10 that, today million souls in the south had parents and grandparents here at the north. It did net occur to the speaker here that these ingrates wers the worse traitors from the fact sf their affinity of bloody It vas against this blood of brothers that the adninisisatioa vas fighting. but he believed ue should see. ere long, suspension of hos aliiies. He did net expect to see an imnscdiatc reconstruction of Me Union. but hoped it night sometime be brought abaut by the aid sf shs democratic party. Of the emancipa tion proclamation he had lite to say that has not b .en said by men of his own antinorthern pro-rebelliOn tendency. He abused it, of course, as unconstitutional. Indeed, he said that all the acts of the administration. from sne time that an attempt was made to relieve kort Sumter, showed the President false to Ais oath 10 maintain ard defend the collsiitu uon of the United States. He said that it tn. fsssas ssa RSlisisal ia, sssyaslaliaas q ,As ner. the people was about to assert itsef against d h0rrid tyranny. "If not at the ballot box, (those were his vords,) then some other uay.'
 In conclusion he said that he should support she party that vas opposed to the udlninislra ton, to his best ability
 He was followed by Mr. W w. Eaton, who more eautious :n some things, was still Yer, bod in speaking whatever reasonable mat el ocesrred 10 him as proper and safe for the oc sasion. He, too, thanked God that men coulc noT ssy what they pleasssl without fear o tr1abls hy 'orders from headquarters.' He enlarged greatly upon the taxes; ke spoke mildly of our eoutbern brethren he rebuked the attempt to put down the rebellion by force Eef anna. As b the stamp duties, he announ ed x;ah glec that yesterday it had been deci ded in New York that Congress had no righl so compel the afixing of | stamp upon writs hs trpsted that soon there would be no duty o the kind oA any thing. Of the President. smancipatioa proclamation, he said that it re sembled the British offer of reward to tn, Indiana sor scalps in our own war of the Revo nlasioa. fIsdesa, both speakers rather favered ths flea that the rebels were injured patriot. EEhting agsinst most cruel and wicked gov srnmesitl Asto Mir. Wilson's militia bill. he Said t b-oke down all the old doctrine of stat, rights and gave to the President powers right fally belonging to the governors of the seyer. szatez- We wonder if the speaker remen bers3 bow very recently he and his friend. condemned aad decried most fcrcely peace fnl meeting of New England governors, wht assembled to take measures for the comfort o tke troops from their several states, and wh. were declared. by the same men who ruled n last nights meeting. to be encroachiny upo, the rixh . snd dignitiee of the President and enbines ky taking the course they didi) T. is snllitn bill, with all other war measures of tn. government, he hoped to sec ia,l, through the eFr1s of the democratic party. He should support for governor some man, he could moi sssaF rho. 70 hs vas the best man who sComlq sepPose tsfss ufnostt tkis inferaal abolition out rew fspar.
 xTk6 nominatien of delegates to the several eonsensioas vas asade by committees instead ol tF the neeting. After their reading Mir. Burr roc t1 u1ke some remaaks when an Irishma, maHk(kef ast of the hall also got up to speak
 Jon si: down r. said kIr. Burr, ;: Put him oski- cried oshef meinben of the meeting, and ths nan wss turred dSnn into his seat. Mr, .3sr Hen siihdrw his name as a delegate
 hs tkseafsned irrppsion f-the popular feeling sEninsf the elc<et nominaise1s was thus eif .ssssally srm6sd est and order, reigned ir
 The sollauing were the nominations to the Sszss conscnsiSa :--william w. Eaton, Alon = " BiEss. Olissr D. Seymour, Charles F