Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-12
WING & sHUMWAY ProprietoIs. Litohdeld. Conn, Thursday, oct. 12, 1865
Democratic Gymnastics.

When the Democratic party faces about, abandons all it's old mud forts and quaker guns and starts out on a new line we must look for some fine attempts at strategy. Before they murdered air. lincoln, they exhausted the vo- cabulary of 'vituperation and epithet against him. They opposed every ore of his wise and patriotic measures, they strained every nerve to defeat his eelection,' they prophesied the speedy failure of his best laid plans, they even threatened to impeach and disgrace him He was murdered an d public grief and indignation swept over the whole country The Democratic
 party was terrified at the depth and extent of the public wrath that followed the horrible crime. They knew that the blood of our Chief
 Magistrate was upon their hands, and they trembled lest just retribution mig ht aovertake them. To escape this, they put on the garb of sorrow, and, with sacrilegious tread followed in the procession ofmourners. Their hypocfitical grief was unbounded' The man whom they had st:gmatized, week before, ass an ape sea tyrant' and a. clown,' became, silf their memo. ry so kind,'' so wise and liberal in his policy They mourned, too, as those without hope :for 1 his successor, our present worthy President. was, as they informed us, 7 traitor to their party a drunken huffoon' and born tyrsns. They endorsed MT. Lincoln, after they had murdered him, to try to cover their crime, they are now fawning around Mr. J Johnson to try to cover their-nakedness. .,5 o.s sess s8 baL
 What harmony there is between President Johnson's policy and the spirit and principles of the Democracy, no one but a most intelli- gint' conservative can see. The democrats
 have always contendea that the rebeIlous states by their secession. severed their connection
 with the Union; Mr. Johnson founds his re- construction policy on the fact that this con. even the leaders of the rebellion shall retain
 the right of franchise, and shall receive immu- nity from all punishment he takes every op. portuuity to remind them that their southern bretheren are criminals in the eyes of the law, and that they can only be saved from punish ment by mercy. They say that Representa- lives from the southern states shall be admitted to Congress; he refuses to join hands with them, but refers them to Congress for a decis- ion. They howl against negro suffrage in the southern states he has repeatedly declared
 himself in favor of it, but refuses to interfere in the natter as he has no right to. & They cry angrily against the suspension of the Habecs Corpus; he quietly suspends it whenever he thinks justice demands it. They go into ago. nies oyer military tribunals he organizes new commissions almost every week. In fact, with all their flank movemeats,i he strikes them square in the face at every turn. .a5F1il
 It must be great comfort to the Democracy to endorse Mir. Johnson with their lips while in their hearts they are damning him every day and the President will probably. survive it, for their curses are too common and their approval to bare faced to iniure him. .-g IF