Litchfield enquirer., 1866-08-09
The New Haven Convention.

lne DemocratG itOn ana the COnServat1vo lamb met at New Haven last week and lay down together; the lamb, as usual, inside the lion. Gen. Pratt not the meekest of mutton, by sud den bolt barely escaped being bolted. The rest were absorbed quietly except perhaps MT. Sedgwi of Cornwall. who died game insist ing to the last on his resolutions and on con- pairing President Johnson to Quintus Cartias instead Of Leonidas. This was very natural in g gentleman who had just been swallowed up himself. and besides we don't wonder that MT Johnson reminded him of the old Roman who rode headlong into gulf and was never heard of afterwards. All reports agree that the Democrats looked as solemn as they could, and the Union men as solemn as they undoubtedly felt, and that the whole affair was conducted decorously. In selecting delegates, the most was made of their material, but we confess that when Mir Peet and MT Barnum walk arm in. arm into the Convention from this County it will look little like the Millennium.
 In thus merging the Johnson faction into the Democratic party Mir. Dixon of course has done the only thing there was left for hlm to do, and as he now controls every Federal appoint ment in the State We are not surprised that he has a few followers. Nor do we wonder that now and then an honest Union man has been misled It would be melancholy indeed if the President has lost the confidence of the every one of the forty thousand Union electors who supported him a year since. That his friends are 80 few. and even those for the most part interested, we thank the gentlemen who called this Convention for proving. .. | et'.'
 Sentinel Correspondence from Wlnsted We congratulate the Sentinel on their new correspondent from Winsted. His style needs olarifcation but some of his ideas are re- markedly good He says that the Democracy labored under great disadvantages during the war. These arose by natural course ef se- quencs; and only by inaugurating suitable measures to correct their influence can we ex- | empt ourselves from many of the aspersions which are heaped upon us.'' One class of Democrats he says ''because the party was at enmity to innovation permitted itself to be betray ed into an enmit to even the first and dearest principles of the Democracy This we admit. Others held ''that small incon- sistency upon our part might be deemed a much more hostile precedent that very fla grant outrage upon the part of the South which diselaimed all allegiance to the Consti- tution." Meaning we suppose that some of his party were so eagerly looking for the mote in the eye of Abraham Lincoln that they could not see the beam in the eye ofJefferson Davis True again. Others, found themselv es in an equivocal position best described in his own words:
 '"Those who demurred to the policy of the administration have been stigmatized as Dis unionists" and their reticence (arising from principle) justified the assertion that the par ty endorsed secession in the minds of those who accepted as conclusive the dict um of oth CTS whose object was to deceive, or whose prejudices inclined them to believe without 1 investigation"
 Finally the gentleman arrives at the wise conclusion that Eaton and Co., need conver sion, the rest, reformation and the Democrat ic party, some principle to stand on, before they are likely to succeed.
 We lament that his views could not appear in a more intelligible form, and without wish ing to interfere with any domestic arrange ments of the Sentinel venture to suggest that the simple process which clears up coffee might perhaps clear up the ideas of their Win sted correspondent.