Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-16
THE COPPERHEAD CONVENTION.

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 THE coPPERHEAD CONVENTION.
 We confess our surprise that the 'democrat- ic" party of Connecticut arc willing to be lead year after year by Mir. w. W. Eaton. Power is good deal dearer to that party than priuci pie and yet the party appear to have de'ib". rntely thrown oway every chance they have had of the coveted loaves and fishes, for the rrivi- lege of following the motions and grinnne at the erimaces of their idol and aposte-glorious "Bill Eaton" A man of small calihre. of mar row ideas. of deep seated prejudice ,ofobstinate will. of ce,tain cunning adroitness in man aging caucusses and conventions. he has man. aged to commit the party he leads. year liter year (with the notable exception of '6l, when even the democratic party rose superior to his machiEations). to principles which every loyal man scouts at and aLhors. and has retailed to their willing ears such stuff as only disciple of Calhoun or Jeff. Davis could listen to with out disgust and deri>ion.
 At the Convention held at Middietown last week. Eaton was again. as afnretime. the rrin- cipal actor and motive power. It is true that it was but email convention. and therefore. perhaps, more easily manipulated than larger and stfonger one, but Eaton was in his element, and was tdcile princeps ef the concern. He was president of tEe convention chairman Of the committee on resolutions. which he un- T. ..,1. .-.oi, and v;1al u;th ho poforIouc and infamous c. Chauncey Burr, of New Jer- sey, the honors of principal sreecl.maker. The proceedings of the convention will be found very fully reported on the first page of this pa. per, and we beg to call our readers attention carefully thereto-both to the platfolm adopted and the speeches delivered.
 The resolutions are few and brief but they are as brimfnl of heresy and villiany as Satan is full of sin. They endorse all the emanatlons of their putative father and Of Connpeticut de- mocracY. that have heretofore received the d. rect and distinct 'isapproval of the people of the State and Nation.--among these that the administration, instead of prosecuting the war for the national life. is merely in armed colli- sisicn'' with the people of the several Southern States that it is "monstrous fallacy" to sup pose that the Union can be restored by the armed hand that cessation of hostities' is urgently demanded by the people north and s0uth; that the liberties of the people are heirg ruined. and the sovereignty Of the States de. stroyed by "a consolidated military despotsm;'' and that the war for the Union is" pestient abolition crusade" against the rights and fiber ties of our dear southern hrehren.
 Tae resolutions also reatfirm Eaton s favorite dngma that tfie sovereignty of the States means State sovereignty. and that without State sove- , re'gnty there' ran be no sovereignty of States They call again for an immediate armistice., that shall enable the South to take breathino spell, send commi s'oners once more to te,l 1T, shey will lake nothing short of unconditional surrender" at our hands. and reeupera,, f,o,, the telling blows which CRANE and surRy., and THOMAS and TERRY are eycn now infictno upon them, and fast bringing them to tbe;r so per senses And. lastly. they declare against the proposed cons itatioral amendment oho,;sh. ine slavery. as knocking ont the last prop upon which thlshendish war was inauonrsted and The surest guaranty of permanent peace in oil the future of our Republic, when the ;oso,ont rebellion shall have been finally and completely pat down.
 Ihe speeches -at this.convantion were if n,s- siole. even more infamo;'s and scandalous ,ho i, the resolutions. It was Burr, indeed.-6t,ino "ame Tor such man l--who gave fu)lest nv. "ess'on to the meaning of the platform, and uec"red that the democracy of Connections ~e'e eVeR |" advance of the democracy of New 'FtSeyf out it was Eaton--,be great high nres, s"a apostle of'that dea,ocracy-who cried ont
 "'to' to all that Burr had soid and ,h., went to the lower depths of which on,. ,... capable. and which is the recognized dic,nm ~, \ connecticut democracy. We do not o,ro ,o a'o'e rom these speeches: i, is bad euoncb ,o reproduce them in their proper pluce in in. ,oe ~ poft of the conventions doings. Our r.,a.., may find the droppiags of these oracuar mon,hs there. ard there only. It is impossible to read them without shudder and a contempt, such as that with which the fabled gods are said f, look down upon the evil deeds of men.
 We are not surprised. We gay, nj the doinrs of this convention. Our surprise is that bod, Of nsa pretending to an organization and c
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