Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-30
A Comedy of Errors.


 The editorial triumvirste at New Haven usually sweetly harmonious, are just now b, the ears about the recent action of their tow on Draft and Exemption. It seems that previ ous to the town meeting there was some kin, of heterogeneous bsggls of Selectmen, worth, Citizens, legal Gounseh and editorial Poten- tatdss- in which everybody got universally mixed up as to ideas ; the result of whieE wal that resolutions were framed and unanimously phssed, which nobody was able at the time to uhdssstasSy and therefore nobody dared op- pose. Since the meeting it has been discov- eted that the vote was little worse than that passed by the virtuous City of New York The latter tried to exempt aU her citizens, but New Haven pays to stay at home only those willing to declare themselves paupers
 Having made this discovery, tke Courier be- comes virtuously indignant, the Palladium is profoundly disgusted, and the Register. having outgeneraled the other two by trick worthy of Fernandy himself. makes an effort to be iubi- iant and happy. But alas for human calcula- tionsl The capitalists who hold the $2OO, 900 necessary to carry out this pet little plan for keeping at home 50 many "Dimmicratic voters" decline to fork it over to carry out such an ille- gal and preposterous scheme when the chances of seeing N again are so slender. The money can't be raised, the ten days grace are nearly up, everybody is disappointed and disgusted, and nobody knows what to do
 We confess to very little sympathy with either of the parties in the squabble While we expect nothing else of the Registe,. but op- position to the Government in all it's measures. we never would have believed that the Cour;ey and Palladium would lend their countenance to any plan whose effect must be to embarrass and cripple the Government at this critical emergency.
 The draft was made to raise naen,not money Fifty thousand men now are worth two hun dred thousand six months hence. Will moaey reinforce Meade? Will money take Charles toRr or keepopen Rosecrans Communications or strengthen Banks and Grant? It is an in. suit to the cause to offer money at this time.- It is as if, while g regiment in the battle s front were crying for cartridges. the supply of fcer should say, T will keep my cartridges, but here is the moay they are worth at Govern ment prices"
 Alta tame Ike this, when three hundred | thousand more men can finish the war before winter, it is shame to pay arg man to stay at home, be he poor or rich. Ours is emphatical- ly the poor nan's country, the poor anaa,s gov ernment, the poor laboring nsan's war, and our Conscrption Act shows more favor to the poor | nsan'than' any before made in any age or na- tion. It is pre-eminently the duty of the poos nsGsv to'rallF to.therescue of the nation, for if it falls lie must suffer most. Meanwhile, let the rich men, who cannot themselves go, share | his burdens libsrally, offering generous boun- ties, and promising support to the families of those who fall. Contrast the action of our own town, as giv- | en in another column, with the spirit of the Now Haven meeting, and see how loyalty and generous public spirit is the path of wisdom and economy as well as Of honor.
 In'conclusion; we would say to the capital ists who have refused to loan money on such votes as those of New Haven and Hartford, that they have acted wisely. The last Legis- lative decisively refused to grant to towns the right to vote away the peoples money for any such purpose, and we greatly mistake Con necticat if she ever lends her State sanction te illgl asA anjast taxation, whose object is to bolster nras expiring faction, and whose effect must be- to cripple the Government in its efforts against adangerous and wicked re- < bellion.
 10- A large number of the < elected" in tue recent drait. from. this town are manifestly exempt, and . new draft will undoubtedly be ordered at the expiratiS 6bout tensdays or ao.. 4o afill the franks presume the