Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-02

destroy the s0ho'e value of any property and, at the same time, con.pensate it's owners fer this very property. Verify, Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,". it would puzzle even the remarkable logieians of this new Hartford Convention to reconcile, the irreconcilable contradiction involved in these two accusations and the people of the State, who are to be judges in the case will assuredly grant them a nolle prosequi" to their suit But not only do they contradict each other but they are trumped up charges of the weak est kind. Any one has but to read the Proc lamation of Emancipation to gee that slave property" is left wholly untouched by it. in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and parts of Louisiana and Virginia even, and 50. a double denial of the accusation and is stamped upon the chargs, at once, by the common sense of every voter in the State. And now for the other accusation. Money has time and time again been raised, by indirect taxation. ts change the existing status of Ind ian tribes incur midst, and wherein does the object differ when changing the status of the slave, save that, in the one case, money was appropriated to aid the forcihle disruption of the Indians from his native rights, and in the latter, it is given to restore tho negro to rights of which he has been unjustly deprived. No one ever heard this brazen charge of unconsti- nationality trumped up against such appropria- tions, for they removed free men from the soil and made room for slaves. So much for two items in this precious bill of indictment.
 The political wisdom of the next is refresh- ing intensely 50. Complaint is made because it is proposed to purchase the freedom of the slave and put his labor in competition with that of the white man. Pray, is not his labor already in competition with that of the white laborer, and is it not the competition of labor, that costs nothing, against labor, that must be paid for, in which the advantage is all against the white laborer? Destroy this very monopIy of labor in favor of the owner of unpaid labor, and the superior intelligence of the white labor CT has access to competition in channels that are now absolutely closed against it and his chances for amolument are wonderfully in creased. And yet, we are told by these sapisnt resolution mongers that it is unconstitutional to destroy this monopoly and secure to intelli. gent labor it's certain reward To what sub lima heights of folly has partizan madness ear- ried its simple vic.,s,s.
 We are now prepared to put a proper cstim ate upon the opinions of these profound Con. stitu'unal lawyers. when they approach such queGtiQHs & the suspension of tile 6 habcas corpus' and the erection ol ? loyal State from the asiecta membrs'' of a disloya State. on both of which questions it is eaough to say, that so long as any doubt exists upon them, in the best minds i'll the country, it is true policy to give the constituted authorities the benefit of the doubt in graphing with rebellion that threatens, unless put down, to sweep away all constitutional guarantiss,-the "habeas COZ pus" and everything else. We do not take this ground because we doubt the constitution ality Of the acts of the Administration in either case. In suspendiRg ths |" hubeas corpus" it has acted upon prscedents furnished, in one case. at least, by the very men who helped to frame the Constitution, and in erecting the State of West Virginia, it but fulfilled tue law principle, laid down early in this article, that when Stats denies the authority of the Con- s,ituion it cannot be allowed to enjoy any constitutional protection or immunity, and that other paramount obligation of every govern n,ent. to protect its loyal c;,iz.ns in the dis charge of their customary dutles. Thus then. do we see how the malignity of the men mak- ing these accssat;4ns of usurpation" has led them into the most palpab!e contradictions and most radical absurdities, iu their very bill of specifications, and has thereby helped to pile high upon them the infamy of attempting,
 in ,h. name of constitutional liberty, to sap the foundations of that government which is the best representative of the principles of constitutional liberty. Men of Connecticut,
 let not men thus blinded by their own crimes
 lead you lest both fall into deeper depths of in-
 fanny, than have yet opened for any who has
 borne the proud name of an American citizen.
 The Dem Ocratic Platform No. To THE EDITOR or TIE ENQUIRER :-
 Our last article upon this subject embraced
 the resolutions relating to the Emancipation
 Proclamation and various other prominent acts 1 of the Administration intended to aid in put
 ting down the rebellion, and we showed, we
 think, the absurdity of their accusations and
 the disastrous tendencies of their teachings
 But the crowning wicksdness of these resolu-