Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-07
NEW HAVEN. Julv 4 1924

ene with whom in early life was intimately
 ass2ciated and whose esteem and friendship i
 naa every reason to believe enjoyed down to tae gay of his death, cannot diyest myself ot .nose Kindly feelings towards the ENouIRER
 "nicn entertained during his life, although 1t
 mas passed into the hands of entire strangers: ana therefore, when your paper of the 3otk
 uitimo was handed to me on Saturday last.
 and found myself so conspieuouslv ami ao
 Aatteringly noticed in two articles occnnv;Hc together about column and half Sf vons paper, l felt as If it was perhaps duty 10 'replY.
 The LitchReld case was one which the House could well afford to decide upon its
 merits; first, because the Republican majority
 was already large enough to accomplish all
 practicable or desirable party purposes sec.
 ond, no party can ever afford to do wrong
 or unjust thing <third, Dr. Bostwick was no6
 anxious, if he was even willing to take Mir. Wrights place and fourth, MT. Wright seem. ed to be man of excellent character, good
 abilities, without partizan bigotry. ,.
 ln the early part of the Sessi0h, without
 knowing which side it would favor, I gave an 4 affirmative opinion upoh the question whether
 a memorial to unseat Q member was adversary
 and required to be served on the sitting meni-
 Der twelve days before the commencement of
 the session. had no doubt the spirit of the
 statute is applicable to memorial sent not to
 the General Assembly, but to the House of Representatives, and that sound policy ra,
 quires it should in such cases be followed.
 While it is competent for the Legislature to
 override the statute, it is, in my jndghent,
 unwiss to do so, and preceaents amount to
 little with me, if not founded on sound reason.
 I would not have the Legislature override the
 letter or the spirit of a statute, except in an
 extreme case. It is hardly necessary for me
 to add, that I did not consider the Litch6eld
 case one of this description. Law makers
 should not be law. breakers.
 did not claim that the Legislature had not power to go behind the Board of RsgistrA. : tion, but I maintained that such power
 ought not to be exercised unless some fragrant
 wrong had been committed that had TO.
 gently been counsel in case where it was at.
 tempted to compel by mandamus, a Board
 of Registration to place certain names upon
 the Registry List, which it was claimed they
 had wrongfully left off, and the Superior Court decided that the Legislature had on. trusted this business to the judgment and
 discretion of the Board, and that therefore,
 the Superior Court could not interfere adt
 mitted however, that the Legislature had 2 such power, but that it was inexpedient to sx-
 ercise 1t, except in cases where par.izAn , Boards had intentionally or clearly violated . their oaths that ia every town, at every cleo. tion, cases had arisen and would ariss under the law, in regard to which the judgments of men would differ and each side had and would charge the other with foul play and if tho Legislature entertained and thereby encouraged
 such cases. it would be necessary to hold Sss: n sons continually from year to year that alt ? parties cohld and would work at it, and the I T oS. =. 1sSk (. , thing else that so far as had been able to understand the cases in dispute in Litch6eld l from the claims and statements of the men- l bers, they were cases in which in my iudg- ment, the decision of the Board of Enroll 3 ment ought to be final and conclusive, and
 that for this additional reason, 1 should vote for the sitting member A majority of the . members thought as did, while many, either because their minds were undecided, or be- cause they could not conscientiously vote to
 unseat Mir. Wright, and did nos like to vote
 against the Union contestant, declined to vote
 at all.
 You say that this result has caused |" the deepest modification" 1 am sorry for this,
 but for my part, I hope uiweys whan called upon to vote, to SO vote as to satisfy my ) judgment and conscience. It is evident that you were not only mortified but mad, and as . matter of curiosity, have drawn of list of
 the choice epithets you have seen fit to apply . in your columns to me- How you was abls Co make or collect them all in tue pure atusos. } phere of the secluded village of LitchGeld, on 3 hilltop SO near to heaven, is to me an inex: plicable mystery. have not the privilege Of t knowing you either personally or by reput&. ton, but cannot but think that you are by - this time ashamed of your gross and unprol t voked attacks upon stranger, made delibas - rately in writing, and published in a newspa- 3 per which circulates principally among pso-
 pie to whom am not personally much known,
 but whose interests have, duslng the present Session, endeaVored to subserve.
 , When you undertake to express she sentS ments of my constituents concerning me, have every reason to believe, that you speak : not only without authority, but that you belle . them.
 As you drag into your columns the question D of the State Printing. it is proper to add, that , have endeayorcd to save the State at least o $3,e00 year, which it has of late paid out of Z an empty treasury in time of war; to part'5an1 T presses as a reward for party services, and exceedingly regret that my efforts in this di. 1 recton were not warmly seconded by you and by the entire Union Press of thstState for m
 that case, would be able to refer to the facs D in proof, that amid the prodlgacy of the times. n the newspaper press is not corrupted.
 6 In reference to your claim that :! Doms' :. times act with the Union party, and oftener n do not" and that am pseudo-unionlst, d would only add that the House daily publish, : es printed journal of it's proceedings, and 8 that in it may be found the yeas and nays, E J, taken on probably every strictly party vote. | g will be exceedingly obligsd to you, or any osn' CT man, by reference to the Journal, or m
 any other way to point out single vote GI
 mine, or any resolution, amendment or speech proffered or made by me, which was antago-- nistic to the Union party or its principles. person has private axe to grind, it may sometimes suit his convenience to use the ma chinery of the Union party to help lind II; put he cannot depend on mo to turn the crank; l
 have been, and trust shall be, opposed to the Union party being so prostltuted, ana M
 you or any other person can torture tnis lnso disunionism, you will certainly be very iDg'n' ious. My article is longer than intended to ma.e
 it, but trust you will give it an insertion ai lI your columns. You have no moral UT ss. right to parade my name before your ss ssau snS covered up and befouled with gross aoass: s1S then debar me reply. shal, DO saS,;as. sans 70 leave the matter without iurtner p1o"S."on
 on ro. ,,,rt If this right to be heard in re-,