Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-15

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 New.J Jersey, redeemed last year, gives us a majority this fa 50 that the North is a unit against the Democratic party ,,.. 9.3 tt.a, < :. There only remain to be considered Ma rsland and Delaware, ;. Southern t Ter States, wherein, as we Adught to expect the De
 nocraey, have made great gains. Returned Confederates, whose elastic consciences seem to make light of test oaths, the Fede- ral influence thrown now iin the wrong di- rection, the resuscitation of pro-slavery in fuence by Mi. Johnson, all pointed to such a result The change has not been as great as in Kentucky, but the democratic major ities are very heavy. ',3 3 ',i' ,, f aa 's @ ''' l
 The cities of New York and Brooklyn are not, politically speaking, American towns; although the great bulk of the prop erty in them is owned by American citizens, the majority of population foreign and the foreigners of these cities having, for the most part, recently emigrated, have had little intercourse with any but their own people. and have not yet, in any specialize gree, become Americanized, ,. 3. 3,,:5.,.Ia5 ...
 The election. of Benjamin F. Butler td Congress, and of two negroes to the, Legis- laturet in Massachusetts, by the Union par ty, and of John Morlissey land Fernando Wood by the Democracy of New York City, has occasioned much comment. We do moi ourselves like Ben Butler, and we see he ran much behind his ticket He is certain. ly no worse than when he was for so many years, the standing nominee and the great exemp1ar of Massachusetts democracy l; but although this may be complete answer to Democratic objection, it is not an answer which satisfies us. Our standard ia we claim, much higher than theirs;the charges of official tyranny against Butler, we indi. vidually believe to be we'll founded and although his private character is not infa- nous like that of Wood and Morrissey, we consider him decidedly theimost objection able man returned by our side to Congress.
 As regards the negroes, they are, we learn, men of unexceptionable private char acter, one soldier, the other a lawyer, and if an important portionaof the Democratic party in New York City is allowed to have its adequate representative in the person of that notorious criminal, and gambler by profession, John Morrissey,, we see no req son why the industrious and, reputable black men of Massachusetts should not have tleirirep represent tatiixes in its legislature. Mosrissey' private character, is, no worse than that of Fernando Wood, but the cleo tion of theformer is 3 more open. outrage of all decency> than that of the iatter Wood is simply a. scoundrel, Morissey is a brutal scoundreli E; sass.5E ''.! Y .-., .'.
 so On the whole, the result of. the. Noyem- ber. elections is even more decisive than we had expected. We already have .127 Mem. bers of the XLth congerresss to 37 D Democrats The Democratic party is losing all it's hold on the West, sand gains. nothing in the East it's course during the war ruined i. !. Till that fact is recognized, it will, no doubt serve to keep. the Union party in power by keeping up ashow of opposition, ,', is ~ sssalz ..L--l. .. ,.,.;l-..- -- -'t
 R4r Our neighbor of the 4Ssaainet collects the names of wagon load'' of War Dem ocrats, who, he says have coalesced with his part. The following is an extract from a letter written by Gen, Custer to Col 4. T. NeReynolds of ! Grand Rapids, dated Fort Riley, Oct 22;,;ffrpoDm p; from which we see that he slips in that instance, as hedoes, we have no doubt, in; many others. s.!t
 AsUnder no circlnsst would vote for man mics of his government and rejoiced at every de feat which yon and I and othAr loyal soldiers suf
 cred, while every victory we won was source of at so a 'ional smendmen as being g palpable and fragrant violatioH of the Constii and whose adoption would De conadsred fatal ,to the existsnce of the rplete and undeniable right to name the terms upon which Peace stiall be established and the Union i0IsT believer every man who engas- sd 1 s ss sts 5sssse 4 s ss a the constitttfSn, forfeited every right held under ihe goyefnn,ent including the tight te live, to held eaS only sympathise with the men m who. when we were weakened by the losses of battle and dis ease, voted us men and money to fill our depleted columns, and whose gmpst thies were in. .nnison war" BEssesf srs ti - =. ssss = ss,. ,; Had this gallant officer beenaa resident and presentin our 15th Senatorial District last Spring, our friend must certainly have lost his vote sss5 :,ss, ss5's, 'ss, .s . A