Litchfield enquirer., 1866-08-30
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D6E This weeks issue has been unavoida ply delayed by the breaking of our press.
The Coalition

bly, delayed by the breaking of our press.
 -8 The Coalition.
 The new party which has been formed at Philadelphia, nominaiiy consists of the South, and of an insignificant fraction the of Union party at the North. fTf .
 It will, probably, in doubtful northern dis tricts, nominate the men who are to be elect ed, if at all, by Democratic votes; it will go through the decent forms of political existence for an election or two, and then merge into the Democratic name. The Conservative Union- ists. proper, are men who like Gen. Dix, have never been able to discover, or who, like Sec Seward, have forgotten. that our war was brought on by DO mere conflict of parties, but by the disturbing element in our society of a system foreign and hostile to freq institutions, unfit to bear contact with them, and fighting ferociously to escape. -t# ..-
 Our real opponent however, still continues to be the old Democratic party. Whatever of patriotism that party can. show, was at the I Convention, and we are far from denying fair share of that virtue to any part of the Ameri- can people. where freedom of speech and ac- 1 ton have been allowed. We are now and ev. CT ready to admit that the support given by the more patriotic portion of the Democratic party to the administration, from the com mencement of the war up to the issuing of the l emancipation proclamation, saved the nation l During that period, nearly million of men 4 voluntarily entered our armies, and the right wing of the Union forces began it's victorious march to the Gulf Every American must be justly proud of such a proof that whoever strikes at onr national existence must fight the whole American people. ,s'..' r'a-, .'-- 4, For this display of patriotism the Democrats 6 were, rev arded by the American people. and in the fall of 1862 they carried the elections over I large portion of the country. a, .
 | But at tbis juncture the real character of the ruling element of that party began to dis
 close itself Patriotic democrats were every where overslaughed many joined us more, unfortunately, yielded to the dictation of such men as Valandigham, Voorhies and Eaton
 allowed their influenced to be. turned against
 their country, and showed weakness of reso. Hutton, and preference of party to principle (which we doubt whether the country will eye, forgive. a:s'era ,d'eyF From the end of 1862 till the end F of the war there was sno5 time when the success of the Democratic party would not 4 have been, as events have since shown, almost certain ruin to the country. During that l time we had the remarkable spectacle of a par :, ty floating about with no principles, with noth ing but name and an organization In this State we saw them one year supporting man like Gov. T. H. Seymour, who reioiced al every Union defeat, on a peace platform the next year man like Judge Seymour, whc rejoiced at every Union victory, on platform comparatively unobjectionable while, to crown all at the Presidential election they united on the same ticket two men of equally irreconci- able principles. So completely had this party lost the confidence of the people at tine close of the war, that it could no longer maintain it. self even in it's last Northern stronghold- New Jersey. 1
 I Now, can any reasonable person suppose that the late coalition has sensibly changed the composition of the party opposing us? Can any one believe that Messrs. Babcock and Dixon will have greater influence for good, in that party, than the old line war Democrats who have proved so signally powerless on all important occasions? .... .......- 1 It is we'll that gentlemen who join this coali- tion should understand, that, whoever may be put forward ostensibly, the natural, trusted and inevitable leaders of their organization will eventually be the Burrs, Eatons and Val andighams who have always been the back bone ol the Democratic party. They will further be called on to serve in a crusade against New England and progress; to undo the work, and forget the lessons. of the war and above all to fight by the side of traitors against their old comrades of the grandest and most successful political organization this country has ever l seen. ,,....',. s.,-is s,.......>. ..,.-. 1@ We do not propose replying to such personalities as appeared in the editorial col, umns of the Sentinel, last week. Wanting truth to g've them force, they are only dis. \ agreeable as an exhibition of the malice of the l writer, who would do well to remember how ex- ceedingly disreputable and cowardly the of