Litchfield enquirer., 1866-10-04
Spirit of the Conservative Press.

The Following extract from the New York World shows what position Johnson Republicans are allowed to take in the con servative army. They can vote the Democrat. ic ticket, denounce the "traitors in power" for the war measures they found it necessary to adopt, and march under the "old banners" !" pass the "old watchwords' and come in for share of the spoils of that "victory" which the patriotic course of the Democratic party dur ing the war. will probably earn it
 "Dsmocratsl 1 You have long and manfully sontended with these enemies of their country. You have upheld it's political unity; you have repelIed their assaults upon the civil liberties of the people, and maintained freedom of speech, of the press, and of the ballot, at the price often of lawless arrest, Imprisonment, mobbings, and the penalties of veritab,e trea- son; you have resisted, too. the plundering of the people which these traitors in power have practiced by protective Legislation, by corrupt and extravagant expenditures. by iniquitous with the storms of such battles as these Your invincible spirits have risen from every defeat to contend again with renewed and desperate ardor. for the priceless possessions of a free people.
 'Once more to the charge and now to vic tory Unlocked for allies ht,oe joined our ranks 1Hey are soslcoms as # they had borne the Asat and burden of the long scea,y day. But upon you, the veserans of he scar. comrades from he beginning, hangs the issue of the ,1yla iaa .e4 aa 41p .s a
 "Democratsl Let no man falter now. Fill up the ranks, shoulder to shoulder. Captains of ffties and of tens! Count your men no strsgglers Veteransl Look not to your allies. but to yoasselves. Up sciM the old banners ;; pass Me old soatchwords one more grand as- sault along the whole line and this time vic tory" L''t'EF ,'' "5'
 The Bridgeport Farmer, after making copi- ous citations from the census reports goes on with his old defense of slavery as if nothing had happened. as follows: ;a- ...,.5. s
 "From these facts it appears that in Massa- chusetts. who boasts of her superior education, advancement and civilization, one person in every twenty-three of her population was re- turned ss . paurer. In Virginia, on the other hand, only one in every two hundred and sixty. four of her population was pauper. Again in the moral State of Massachusetts one in every ninety-seven of her population was convicted criminal, while in Virginia only one h two thousand six hundred and twenty two of her population was convicted of crime The7e facts ought to arouse the public mind to an investigation of the causes which lead to such great differences. It may well be doubt cd with such record looking us Tn the face, whether Massachusetts has made that prog rsss in civilization that she boasts so much about. If her advancement produces the as tonishing results exhibited by these figures, then it may be pertinent to inquire wherein her progress has been productive of good."5sl
 We might add that under their patriarchal system many of the Southern States had not found 1t necessary to establish penetentiaries 1; and that in the city of New Orleans there were probably fewer convictions for murder proportionably than in New York. Have there, therefore, been DO felons ia the South? no fifty murders, day, in New Osleans2 iI2
 Of the proposed amendments to which we all agree, the Hartford Times speak as follows :
 A frsgmentary Congress proposes an amend. ment to the Constitution-or rather four amendments in one-a monstrosity in itself This quadruple amendment strikes at thef foun. dation ofihe egovernment--the basis of repre- entations,sIn this republic the principle is that Gu free persons shall be represented, while only ono in about five is flowed to vote, The tho mopstsous ameDdment proposes to rip ur the principle of representation upon which oul gorsfnnsnt was founded. esss ssISs at s,
 It is now conceded that A. Us Naint ehance has been lost.