Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-23
THE SHAME OF THE COUNTRY.

D Tue fearful sin and shame of the country, which has increased every day in civil and military life, among all classes and conditions, has nov, let us, hope, eliminated. A drunk. ard is installed Vice-President of the United States, and in the presence of the august Sen
 ais, the justioes,ofs the Supreme Court, the representatives of foreign nations, and dense crowd of almost panic-stricken observers, took the solemn oath of office when he was toe drunk to comprehend its meaning or to repeat it correctly. - The whole nation, in. its, own eyes and in, the eyes of half the world, is -hu- initiated in the person of its secend represen- tatiyss The national sin is lifted sohigh that
 The Senate, the House, owe it to the country to impeaeh the Vice President for conduct which disgraces the nation, His habits may have been known to the politicians who nom mated him--though we know they were not to very many of the, delegates to- the Balti- more convention, but he never could have been elected if the people had known them. And it is due to the people that the; ;disgrrce should now be removed in the only manner possible, by deposing the Wce-President from his posi- ton. The benefit of such 9 step would be in calcniable in the moral education of the na- |tion.s It would set it's seal of condemnation on the crime ofdrnnkenness, and forever pro- tect us from the repetition of such a disgrace. And further, it would relieve us from Q danger which we dare not contemplate. Only one life stands between this drunken man and the of. flee of President of the United States
 \ And his Impeachment might begin reform
 which must come, or the country will be fu- ined Washington is Q great dram shop Men have been drunk in the Senate chamber and made speeches before to-day in that State, and thas5too since thesdaysIof Wigfall Some of the, prominent senators would be called drunkards in private life. if the habitual use Eof whiskey and it's excessive occasional use makessa man adrunkardi 9a U Untilthis late ex. hibition, the Senate. in Its own, end of the Capitol has had its private drinking hole called The Hole in the Wall, and with an sen slrancep with . placard sovers the door 9m Fol Senators exclusiyely.n
 Tho House of Representatives was no bet
 ter. It had it's bar below where whisky flow. d as steadily as Buncombes did above. 2 The members sf .tte House Nefe scarcely more free from the habit of drinking, g,intoxic icating liquors than the average visitors in that city: Time andtagain members of the House were seen publicly drunk in Washing, on. F }, would De an edifying spectacle. and profitable to all
 concernsd 10 haze the House bring to trial be
 fore the Senate the 6 Vice Presidsns for his late dish0ner Of the sfation. wsE 70 EsEsaiFtl 11sAnd lthat jsonly theEbegining of the good ii would de. sPerspns familiar with Washington hotels need not De told bow common drupken
 Ensssiss both amilitasy and civil drunkenness.- .- It has increased with thes war. .Ners does the country need to be told how many defeats the armies have suffered through the drunkenness of Of6ces, how many battles' have been 1os'' @ ! and placer aenomini6usiy asaersndeGeds Che yalueef tbS Potomac army isy to-day Tedotpeso l one half by the drunkenness of it's oiflceIs . cashfered fur it. but the.generais are not, And ldnnkine Ebes dh i1sll scircleEd sdI ~Esg l., Ner, ,is the army much worse than the coun- ltry It large, only that intoxication of cur oth- I6sfs ls attended with as much spublie disaster as the inebriety of . locemetise1 engineer is.-- We have no disposition to croak about thii matter Yet ws ask our readers to look ut th, narnbsr of public men who habitnaliy iinl islntoxicatingsliquo the numbsrJ of rsapedta-
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