Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-23
The Dern< <seacy of Connecticut.

The Democracy 6f Connecticut ia smitten with terrible stupor. 1'wo years ago it met at Hartford wrote its last platform of princi- pies. full of treason to the nation and breathing the spirit of suicide, and them took tremen. dous dose of laudnu am. Once or twice since it has reused itself from lethargy sufficiently to point with its long emaciated finger back 10 that final platform and excam. <" By th,s sign, we still die" Nothing has had power to rouse it further. Even all the galvanic batteries of a Presidential Election could produce only con vnlsivs shmfler throughout it's torpid body Two years have passed, crowded full of great and stirring events-great struggles. great sac rices for national life and for liberty the death of many mighty prejudees. the birth and growth of many new and grand ideas. great physical victories over our enemies and great moral victories among ourselves-and still the Democracy of Connecticut sleeps stupidIy on. or rouses itself. only to turn like a dog to it's own vomit' again. One thing only prorokes anything more than it's usual retrospective ref erpnce to it's dea,h-song.
 "Ingratitude is 2 monster
 To be strangled in the birth; not to be
 cherished" ....
 and to perform this righteous duty only, has the Democracy added one resolution more to it's platform. For four years has it managed to keep one representative in Congress; in has concentrated all its life in this index finger, vitaliz ng it with it's own life blood, and now. terrible to relate this one finger points in the wrong direction. Nothing can be alive and not point toward progress; but the Democracy is dead or stupefi'd. and can only poin, hack ward. Thus it's live representative misrppre> sents it, and it snars out it's usual paint of un- constitutionali,y against his action and rplapsrs again into it's Rip Van Wrinkle slumber. The resolution thunders against the Constitutional Amendment. recently passed by Congress but is intended to read Mir. English out of the par ty, because he has given signs of life and of keeping up with the spirit of the age. This is rahk treason to the party in this State ;-its only pride and boast is to remain stationary in the midst of progress, to remain in darkness in the midst of effnlgent light, and to hug the los.thsomc dead bodies of vanished prejndices. when everyone else is grasping the new and nobler life of the grand ideas that are arising ont of the midst of our great suffering and struggles.
 Aud who have they chosen to uphold the Democratic standard. standing upon their plat e.,, of fossiIlzed ideas and dead prrjutilces Whose a,.''y will it become, as Great Mogul of IL. ,mr,v to thunder it's anathema's agaiDs, h .,r,,, ,n..,h.r who has dared to be man among men? Answer: The very man, who ten years Since did the self-sa>'' 'n'"e III sot' ing against the Nebraska Bill. whles' 'eA'"''eo the then dormant fires, that are now blas.'"g 5" fiercely against the national edi6ce and but little while since threatened to destroy it We'll have they chosen. By accepting their no nj nation last spring. he turned back upon his own path almost decade and resolutely shut his  eyes to all the teachings of that period. He has progressed backwards" far enough |" make him even leader among those whose steps are all turned in that direction.
 All hail! to the captain and the crew who have cast anchor in the very current of the great stream of progress, and lie all still and s,agnant. while other craft are spreading their .iis and making all headway with the stream.
 They have unfurled their Bag and invite r~- craits to fight against the inevitable laws that govern mankind and the world. Wili they get any? ***
 A VALEsTISr.Gen. Sherman presented the President with Savaanah as | Christmas gift. hssends, him Charleston as . Valentine,