Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-23
The con.tisutio..l Amenament.-

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 ] ,nocracy against the C1nstitutiunel Amend. ment abolishipg slavery, iras short-sightsd aud hllacious as it is ignoHlinions and indefensbie. It commits the party fo line of policy which
 is alike obsolete and repugnant to all the in- stincts of humanity, and 1t places it in the con- sdi.ion of ' defender of a moribund institution and, worse even, of defender of the accursed rebellion which sprang from it's root. which has been hartured and kept alive by it's life and is 'apid!y waning and wasting away with it's dy- ing agonies. There is no eecape from. this conclusion. Turn about the "ds,nocratic' platform North, South. East or West. aud this dions resolution remains an exponen, of the party. stench in the nestrils- ofthe communi- ty. No man, however Konored and revered in private life, can stand upon it for moment with any Hopes of securing majority vote of the people, and no man can carry such weigh. of folly and inquity into public office with him.
 The Democracy of other states understand the logic oferents better. They are not bound down by such load as the Democracy of this State carry year after year in the person of the
 plausible Eaton. Occasionally democratic organ is bold enough and iar-sighed enough t. look into the future and see where such doc t"inea are sure to carry the leaders and the party that upholds them. Judging by the ght of the past, one would suppose that it would quire no great courage or foresight to foretell the result of such blind infatuation-to call it by no hursher name. But so thoroughly blind ed are the DemocracNof this State to the true state of things-so entirely are they bound
 VT to Eaton and his ministers of evil so wholly devoted are thar presses to the gloomy and ghastlv ghost of !" Abolition" upon which they ring the charges over ard over in dismal
 mockery of wit and argsmest- that it is ,e.
 freshing to find one out.spoken democratic or. gan that does not hesitate to come out boldly and squzrely for the Constitutional Amend.
 meht and has the courage to show it's party
 managers and followers their truer ana nobler
 standpoint in this matter.
 Therefore We eheerfully commend the follow. ing extracts from an able editorial on .1'he
 Political Future, appearing in the New York
 Leader, the organ of Tammany Ilall last week,
 to the attention of that Democracy of. Connect icut who do not consent that Eaton shall be
 their political murderer:
 "That Slavery has been disturbing ele- ! ment in our government from its inception ; hat it was the pretext for the Rebellion that l it has been practically surrendered by the Re- bellious States and abandoned by the loyal Slaveholding States; that it now presents no vital principle. and that the ultimate perma- mency and prosperity of the Union. when peace is restored, -willibe promoted by it's abrogation we think are truths which cannot be gain said. Its removal from the politics of the ceun- try was blessing 10 the Democratic party es- pe.ially. which has paid the penalties of all it's defeats 10 that issue alone James Guthrie
 and Gov. Bramlette of slavebolling Kentucky l one of the States which will suffer mo. by the amendment-gOod Democratic authorities
 do see and believe in the political emarcipa- | tion it brings. 4
 Nov. then, what is to be the future of the Democratic party? It's latter existence has 1 certainly been precarious and not founded on
 any fixed principles. It has of late years
 been a coalition pariy-a party of expedients. It has embraced ' Peace men" and Mar men" linen who believed that the Southern States had the right to seced<-fhat the Union is dis solve l and the present war for National exis- tence q wicked andsnnholy crusade-and men Iwho believe that ths Union was eternal sna lirrevocahle, that the authority offhe National Government could be econstiiuiionally enforced in every State of tho Union, and who earnest ly and firmly upheld fte emphatic Demo cratic
 doctrine that ''the Union must and shall bs preserved"-of men who devoutly worshipped
 tho Chicago Platform, and of men who did not | believe in q single plank of it This dishonest
 coalition ceuld not. in the nature of thinge
 continue.
 "And now comes this new issue of Slavery.
 It must be remembered that it is no Abolition
 doc rine that is now present ed. The Abolition lsts have been for the overthrow of Slavery without regard to the Constitution. It is no demagogial catchword generality of mischief no .higher-law' treason which presents it.
 self. The Democracy have opposed all these with the Constitution. This new movement
 comes clothed. as it were. in the sacred robes of tho Constitution itself-in reverential re- cognition of it's binding force. and treating with sturdy but dutiful steps the difficult and ! obsructed path of progressive change which
 the Fathers in their wisdom so care ully and
 thoughtfully prepared That the Union men of the land of all parties will ultimately accept this settlement. and that others. chiefly . the
 Peace men," will keep the dead body of Slave " above ground. and maintain Hindoo how ling over the fast-decaying object oftheir idol a,ry, there can be no doubt"
 fT The Sixteenth District Senatorial Con- ventisn is to be held at Woodbury, March 18th. Notice will be found elsewhere.
 The Seventeenth District Convention is to he held at West Cornwall. on Thursday next. Ma,."h 2nd. Tho Hons. George ". Peet. of Wm K Peck of Norfolk aad Mo