Litchfield enquirer., 1866-03-29

which met in this city three Wes4s ago and
 nominated James E English for Governors
 sResolued, That the act of accession was in it inception. null and roid that the Etates 5, endaavofing to secede .scere asper out e1r th Union, but were then, as they now are, mem
 bers thereof
 If you sdmirs consistency, you will csrtainlj tall in love with something different from Con.
 necticut Copperheadism. Though this direci backing down from secession, an accomplish ed fact to States never out of the Union is
 turning coat pretty rapidly. and exhibits mos,
 extraordinary powers of polisicalSjagglesy, ys it deas not have that unblushing stftontsry.--
 that galvanized cheek so to speak which th,
 leaders have put on in an another direction
 Imagine, if yon please, a man who has stabbed
 his mother with the intention ftaking her life
 who upon her surviving. says, Mother, you and I were always good friends, used that
 knife for your good-you believe me, don't youf Isuppose no law could force her to be. lieve him, and should therefore be willing to trust to her common sense for correct reply The stabbing party in Connecticut seek now to urge tbe support of soldiers in behalf of themselves and candidate and Tam willing to leave to the common sense of these armed bands of despotism and cohorts of Lincoln, : the settlement of the question. If soldier shall go to the polls and vote for James E English, the representative of sympathizers with treason, against Gen. Joe Hawley, who has backed up the principles of his party and the justice of it's cause in the field, my only anx ety will be to refer to the muster rolls of the regiment to which be belonged, and dnd out when he deserted. As there is some doubt about the ability of 8 camel to go through the eye of needle, so I think there is as much doubt about the Democratic managers getting a single true soldier to walk into their parlor.
 The deception intended in the concealments of their latform is to be carried out in their plan of conducting, the campaign. In order to give their professions color of consist ency, they will select an entirely different class of stump speakers from those who have hereto. fore been employed to convince the people that the war was a failure. Burr, the vilest as- sassin that the government has had North of treasou's hot bed, who has ministered to the wants of the party on several occasions when their faith grew weak after Union victories in the field, during the past five years. will not be iavited to repeat his visit this spring. John B Harrington, whose words I have quoted above. will not be wanted again. Padlocks even, will be put upon the mouths of some of the leading home talkers-Mr- Eaton and oth- CTS, whose diatribes against the Union are written down in the blackest letters-to deceive. and defraud the people if possible Men who have never been in the State before. and who will come well drilled, with many feas in their ears, have been engaged, and by the middle of this month we shall have the new gospel of Comprehension, discarding old and ugly forms presented in sugar coated doses. in the hope that it will be palatable. But the people know that the operation of an arsenical pill, taken in honey. is as destructive as if swallowed in gall