Litchfield enquirer., 1863-03-19

stitution. This was the most heinous offenc,
 of the famous Hartford Convention. Bu
 here are the Democrats of Connecticut. pol
 itical party. seeking tho control of th. Stat,
 Government, and marking ont their cfoser
 policy, if successful, first, assuming the tune
 tions of the United States Supreme Ceur,
 and pronouncing the unconstitutionality of :
 proposed law, and then, on the basis of an un
 authorized .opinien. counciling that the State
 authorities stsrnly resist it's operation. The old Hartford Convention was nothing but the little cloud no bigger than mans hand. compared with the gathering blacknes that now looms up over us. for these resoiu
 tions propose, in short, to resist the authority I of the United States to1command' the services of.her own citizens in putting down armed re
 b0llion, because, ,forsooth, theirf au,hors sympa thise with the rebels Oh, yc honest Demo crats! who have often tren.bled in your shoes
 as the Hartford Times or the New Haven Register -retailsd in your astuundsd ears the story of tic terrible iniquities of the Hartford Convention Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ys die ;' for To :! behold here cometh the mon- ster. grown passionate with age, and breathing out into your very nostrils the deadiest mias- mas ot TREASON 44sf &a%es&
 The resolutions against the !" Bank bill,' ? now happily passed by both Houses notwith- standing the thunders of our pugRaeious Dt- mocracy, is the complement of the, last one. Having denied the control of the military.pow- CT to tho Government. they now attempt to undermine it's credit aud to embarrass all its fnancial mearsures. Our forefathers, the fra
 m"rs ofths Constitution. even before we were a Consolidated dovernm, l,t nd ,cere ' simple Confederation of States held together by mu
 tual interests alone, dit mot hesitate to usc this perogative of Governments, and the North
 ern States have never been the ones to repu
 diate debts of this nature. Bat !" uncenstitu- tional" is word that slips easily from the lips of thesDemocracy in all that appertains to the actions of Government, while the despo.- ism of Jrff Davis an! his issue of'rsper scrip in direct defiance of the 1Constitdt;on, nre but the eccentric vagarics of -Four Southern breth. ren. Ton which we must look moro in pity thnn in wrath. But is getting to be like the cry of '" Wolf in the fable, apl like fate may ovsrtake its authors at the hands of the people. The l;erpediency of paper is- sue has been doubted by many, but were the Supreme Court to MOTION tn declare it Rnc n sttutional no one would stars with m ,ra pro- found astonishmcnt than the very xu:i ,rs of this resolution. It is base appeal to ;he sel fish mass of the bank interest of the State against the necessities of the (iovrrnment, and is part and paxcel of the whole system of aid and comfort to the rebels embodied in these rsso lutiens. Alter reading them one would easily imagine that our Govcrninent..is a mere theoretical thing, established simply to supply offices to hun. .ry politicians bat possessed of none of the vital powersof Governments, and that strange fanaticisn, possesses all those who imagine that it has the right to do anything save grimly smile at those who arc working it's dissolution. Thus have we seen the dcmoc- racy of Connecticut, first arraying themselves upon the chosen platform of Secession. accusing Administration with an armed collision with the states. for which il is in no wise responsible and then boldly denying it. either the military or the financial powers necessary to cope, with the rebslion.h hoping thus to force it into a com promise with the rebels.and thereby gain their good graces for future party triumphs, Where. :. in is such a position better than treason. save that it sueaks cowarily away from the conss-- quences of the open ctiuie of their boldsr ac- complices? But we have not yet completed our survey of this Augean stalla of Democ- racv, but shall continua it in another article.
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