Litchfield enquirer., 1866-03-29

hope this first attempt in our State, Of : mil
 itary hero to obtain 2 position of honor from.
 his ceqntry's enemies. will receive a firm and nnis!Akable rebnke and we have no doubt
 it will.
 Finally, Patriots, rally. Next Monday let Nelson's famous order: be ours: ..This day our country expects that every man will do
 his duty Beindustrious; be vigilant: and .insspite fths frauds and threats of our ene mics we shall. win the day.
 EMb fs 4 2 s < \ ! 4 X .sS V What the President Says. v
 The chief card of the Copperheads in this canvass is the assumption that Mir Johnson ia. vors their ticket To play this they are ex- pending ail ailtheirsingenuity is fabricatiug con yersations and for ging letters which mako the President ten dor SC" them. While so many of these are afoat, it is well for us to make a note of what MT Johnson has said. Our State Central Committee sent two we'll kuown gen tlsmen, to Washington to talk with MT John. son upon the issues of the campaign and they report as follows: & WASHINGTON, March 21, I866
 Our interviews with the President and oth lers are entirely satisfactory. He expresses Q strong desire for the fsuccess of the Union party. and says he stands firmly by it's prin- cfples as declared by the last national conven fion.. ' H says positively that there has been no Interference whatever with the canvass in
 Connecticut by any member of the adminis- 'tration so far as he knows &adf q a7l' (signed) Ell OWEN. s tesg tb4:9 os ta ay 8 3Ilnei5 w. GRIsw woLD." saAt another time, to delegation of Connec- tieut men. he frankly admitted his sensitive ness on the point of having had the Union tri- umph in New Hampshire heralded as g defeat of the Presidential policy. He said he knew differences of opinion existed, and he was willing to tolerate them while earnestly desir ing, the success ofh his own peculiar views,syet he had never had any other thought than to fight out these differences in, the Union party and not out of it, and he had never by, word or deed, knowingly given any one occasion to suppose him in favor of restoration to pow CT of the corrupt and disloyal party which had vilifed an opposed him during all the dark days of the war, He asserted that the effort making in Connecticut to represent the Administration as hostile to the success of the Union -Hawiey ticket and desirous for the tri- umph of English was totally untrue, and the statement that the Federal ofice-holders' iA our state have been in any wise influenced, or directed, adversely to Gen. -Hawley, was equal ;ly false. .v5as4 T se5 :. s@@
 q Gen Hawley, who chanced to be in Washing ton, called upon the President, who assured him that all reports to the effect that he had agreed to support the Democratic candidate for Governor of Connecticut were fslse. He had made and intended to make no such pledges He also said that tho ugh he did not design to interfere with the local elections of any State, yet it would gratify him to see his
 political friends successful Gen Hawley says the interview was entirely satisfactory
 to him.
 .. Secretary " elles says that he heartily de-
 sires the election of Gen Hawley. and that he
 has, every reason to believe that the President
 and all the members of'the cabinet desire the
 same thing.
 Mir Babcock. collector of the port of New Haven. in Q speech in that city last week said :sE 7i 5#
 T went to Washing gton. fellow otIzens, to
 ascertain if the statements which had been
 freely circulated about our state, to the effect
 that the President had demanded all holding
 offices under the government, that they should
 vote for James English, was correct one.
 went there to hand in my resignation as a
 man and an honorable citizen, if this state ment proved true.. had an interview with the President. told him if this rumer were true, must of necessity, resign my position feeling it incompatible with honor to retain it
 under such condition This statement the President assured me was totally false. h. stead of demanding votes for Mir English, he
 was opposed to his election. because he repre- scented the principles of the party which had l opposed the nation in it's struggle for self preservation. The President was exceeding 1 ly cordial and frank and requested a second I interview which was also perfectly satisfac-
 tory"@ .',.1 .'',,s
 accompanied him to Washington, subscribes to Mir Babcock's statement. -
 Again, A c Burr of the Hartford Times and c W Ingersoll of New Haven called upon the
 President last Friday, in the hope of making political capital out of the conversation. We give below true report of part of the ''sat- isfactory interview and the reader can judge for himself hew much real comfort the copperhead visitors received:
 iMr Burr-We sustain your policy unequiv 1 ocally. ea5 Mr IngersolI-Yes, that's the point. g ''e ! 9a1he Prevalent : Perhaps you do; but do you mean to tell me that it is not done, as have already intimated, tor partisan e6sct-to de.
 ceive the people, in order that you may there lbyt obtain power? cannot yet forget the ! record of the Democratic party. It opposed the soar tt placed obstacles in the acay of the goeernment, s0lile zoe were grappling soits the enemies of the Union; it denounced my lamen- l ted predecessor as a usurper, and chased me as dn enemy of ay country because gaue up alg to crush the auicked rebellion and it hardly seems possible to me thateuch party could be- come concerted so suddenly into lovers of the Union, protesting to be it's hest friend 'Mr Bwr-7(aside to IngersolD- What time is ttg Colin
 Mr Ingersoll-H It is time for us to go! < , 1Ae President Hold on, gentlemen don't tin 2 hurry. I wish to have you understand this matter. was speaking about the sud.
 den conversion of the democratic party. I