Litchfield enquirer., 1863-03-26
sEsssi aud e;uauts News.
LxRCHFrEI.D.

The exciting topic of the week, has. or course, been the political discussions. On Thursday evening last. the Rsv Martyr Bsn.. diet, alluded to in our last, entertained s,.r,. lassemblage of coppsrheads at the Court Hous. with the story of his martyrdom. If the lox. est ssrt of wit, the dirtiest black guardian. ,h. most barsfaced lies constitute arguments fo, the election of Thos. H. Seymour, they u.r. all faithfully presented by this distineui,b.a representative of fcopperhead sentiments. Tn. kevd orator commenced by reading . prs,.p- oed extract from speech orHsnry J. Ray. mond' ofNew York, beginning, "We are .ho,, played out" &o., which Mir. Raymond ha. r.. psatediy and unesuivecally dsn.sa that he sv.r maoe such aspeech, over his own signature. ltwas lie, made out of whole cloth Th. Rev'd orator who repeated it on Ts,-.d.v evening in this town, and on other evenips. through the county. knsw it was a lie when bs uttered it,-but it suited his purpose. Hsnsx. read extracts from the Helper" book. and detailed several meetings and resolutions held and paesed by the ultra-abolitionists in Mas. sachusetts, but he didn't say anything abou. the resolutions passed at the recent Hsr,sord Convention.
 After villifying and black guarding the An. ministration to the extent of his weak ah,,;,~ ne went into long and dolsful description of ms experiences in the hands of the ;r.,,,.s '0''rnmsnt. It seems from his story, tha. he wasn't a"Fort Layfayette mar.yr," af.sr all. bus graduated, with all the honors, from ,h. "old Capitol prison" at Washington. He re- marked that he was preacher of the ro,no, Of psace-not clergyman, as that term ia generally understood at the prssent dav
 olergymen' he aaid. " in these d.v. meant political prophet of Bsal. who b.. transformed his pulpit into political ro,,rum from which to doal out dark dampation to .n who refuse to worship the woolly .headsd D.. on!' An allusion which he made to this n.. per, and the relish with which it was rsosivsd by his appreciatiys audience, was the hiehs., compliment we could wish to have paved us bx '"ch an assemblags. He also alluded twice ,o dov. Buckingham, stating that he had recently joined Free Love Society ia Norwich L. Finally he wound up with . few. lies. ratb., stronger than usual, about the conscr;nt,on draft, Sc and sunk away exhausted into tho arms of our most distinguished democrats"
 hw we could only have Q few more such meetings in our town, aRI attended bv respectable people, we should have few votes to register on election day for tho eoppsrhsad ticket. Surely the " old demo tracy" have 20. to pretty low ebb, if they have to impor. suoa an illitsrate, degraded, broken down party hack, into New England, to snunciats their principles" It has been suggested, play fully, that if we have soriptural authority for believing that Geld tried by fire comes out still pure gold, this martyr being tried by his suferings came out pure copper, or, to be more scientifically exact, pure copper. ass. And 1t might also be sng :estsd, that If this Benedict really is dead, may not ,,his peram- oulating peace apostle be the shade of his an cestor, Benedict Arnold!
 we have no space to day, to speak, as we could wish, of the magnificent oration of Chas, C. "oodmaa, Esq, "ths you ag man eloquent "A delivered to crowded house on Monday af- ternoon. It was oas of tho most pow werful aad eloquent efforts We ever listened to-alter- nately moving the audience to tears and the widest entlu 'iasm. The contrast to the cop perhead martyr of the Thursday before, was toopalpable even to please the few coppsrLeads present, whom Mir. Woolman .quelched early in his speech-We are glad so many of the towns in our county will nave tho opportunty of hearing him. between now and election Wherever he shall speak. he will nerve the hearts of the loyal man tohearty devotion snd support of the Government and the Unioa.
 The Republican Probate Convention, fer this district, which was called to meet yester : day in the Court House, in this village, was adjourned on account of the storm, to meet on Monday next, at 2 o'clock, P. M., at the eface of William L. Ranso m, Esq, .fs.' -Ta-s | BETHLEM.