Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-23
THE UNION STATE CONVENTION.

We have rarely seen larger. more intelli- gent or more enthusiastic Convention in the State than that assembled ut New Haven, or. Wednesday of last week. for the purpose of nominating Union Ticket for State officers at the coming election. It's proceedings wert harmonious and dgnified, the nominations wei. mada with spontaneous exclamation. and the names of WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM and ROGER AvERH.E were received with such lousit,s cheer. as showed how entirely their private and off cial lives commended them to the renewed and continued confidence of the Union voters of the State. It is a matter of congratulation to the State. no less than to the distin guishel incumbent of the Executive chair that the State has been permitted SO long to enjoy the services of WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM as her tiovernor and the State will not willingly re- lease him now, us the end of the great struggle draws near. from ths position which lH. has so adorned and d.gnifed, and so admirably filled with honor to himself and benefit to the State, all through the most trying I Ieriod that Con ]. i,ecticut has ever known from the date of it's first charter until now.
 But the portion of the proceedings of the Convention to which we invite our readers particular attention, is the platform of princi ples laid down by it, which every legal voter of the State ought to peruse and ponder. Our opponents-the ramp of the gallant old de- mocracy-the heterogeneous mass of semi-loyal, ssmi-rebel, semi-war and semi-peace people sometimes accuse us of arroga,ing to ourselves and our party all the loyalty. all the Union sentiment and ull the patriotism of the State and Country. We have no other means of meet ng this charge than hy comparing, and pointing to. the oticia' utterances of each party when they come before the people for thei' support. We have no better response nov than to ask candid comparison between the resolutions of the Eaton Col vention we pub lished last week. and the resoluticns Of the Union Convention We publish to day. We re- print the former to put them side by side wni..h she latter. Thus speaks Eaton and the " De mocrscy of Connecticut, in convention assem- bled:"
 Resolusd. That the cornerstone of our liher. ties is to he found In the great principle of State Sovereignty. and therefore we solmeniy re affirm, the resolves of the democracy of this State. enunciated by its several State Conventions held during the present terrible civil war. and hereby assert with renewed fervor our devotion thereto. believing ns we do that the Union con etrueted by our fathers. now menaced ard en dangered by the fell spirit of discord. can never be restored excart by . strict and rigid adherence so the letter and spirit thereof.
 Resolved That the recent 90 called Amend. usent 10 the Constitution of the United States passed by Congress. and submitted fo the leg islatures of the several States is e eorert at. tempt to ouerthrow and destrey the great demo- cratic idea cf State ights. and soas in our iudg- ment, desisned as another step to consolidate PosDsr. and an insupera6le obstacle to any prop esitisns tor peaceful adjustnae It of the dieeul ties nos eristinS between the North and South. and as sn eterndt barrier to the old Union
 Will some of onr Eatonian friends he good enough to inform us where is the patriotism. where the loyalty, where the devotion to tn. Union. where the encouragement to or ap- paase of our brave soldiers. where the recog- n't,on of new and nobler Union and Consti. 'u''on' purified by this fiery contest. whose corner stone and capstone is Liberty for All And yet this is all the . Democracy of Con- necticut" have to show. and on the two narrow and naked blanks of State Rights and Slavery sne democracy swim ont into th. ocean If inf,,. ny and oblivion.
 ' ask cur readers now to turn to the prin.
 eipIes of the Union party. of Connecticut, a.
 declarsd in Convention. and endorsed with the heartiest approval of every man present. and
 ws ars content to leave the moral saaUh, by X. the two c0nventions without comment The resolutions together with a r4part of the pro
 crsdings of the Union conyeatiou will beiouns
 s<--es kst psgs cf this paper.