Litchfield enquirer., 1866-10-04
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The Guilotine.

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 The Guilotine.
 l The trade of an executioner is held in uni ysrsal abhorrsncesa.~!Rhs- -digait5a4of-th tho lew must be vindicated but DO man likes to be the instrument of it's vengeance. Still less hhpnid we suppose any honorable man woald suffer himself to be made the political executioner of old friends for the crime of adhering to a political organization to whose favor he owes everything, of which within six months he counted himsslf la.membert,a K Yet iis not this the exact position now occupied by Senator Dixon ? He 1S owes the high lofies ,hsnevs hi,s holds to thel Republican partJs He and they have differed on certain questions which have arisen since his election, and although he may think himself right, be cannot think be. an any longer represents the views of his constituents. Such 2 position is the most trying one in which we cen conceive that an honorable man nan could find himself; and it is one from which few, if any, have escaped with uutarnished reput& tion.s We might have supposed, there fore, that MT Dixon would have been satisfied with voting during the past session of Congress directly in opposition to the wishes of the apeor pie who elected him, and with publicly, joining the party which has always opposed themand him. But he does not stop hsfe.o President: Johnson s policy calls loudly for victims, and Mir Dixon takes It upon; himself to designate them. 1o'this successor of Roger Sherman is allotted the digni6ed task of taking a few dol lars out of the pockets of any one of his ,eld supporters, holding a :postoface, 4whoi says what everybody thinks of his new friend Mir Johnson. The opportunities for applying this petty mode of torture ate just now peculiarly favorable. Federal appointments are suppos-, ed to be held for at least a four years term i; appointeesn make their business arrangements accordingly; and MT Dixon is therefore enabled to infict an incidental pecaniarg damage upon imPracticable officials beyonhwbat would result from an ordinary change of offices upon the incoming of new admistration t','f 's .. D.''''' But there is another species of sssrvice re- quired of that gentleman,i and such an one as we believe no man who ever before represented Connecticut Tn the U Senate could have been brought to under take Not only does he sus perintend the removals from office of the very men who gave him the power .to, remove any. body not only IS he made the tool of hls old enemies ts injure his old friends in every School Society in the State 1; but to him is given the delicate daily task of offering to of flee holders the option oe giving up their bread or their principles, of endeavoring to purchase with the money taken from the pocket of one old friend the apostasy of another. Whenever he meets with man, he meets with an indignant rebuke !; whenever he iuds something less
 than man, he makes fellow partisan, 'lo.s51
 Since, too,s Senator Dixon, has come to be the recognized chief of ethe department of re- movals and appointments for his State has it not become an instrument of. vengeance as we'll as of corruption While engaged ip their regular business of buying up for President Johnson such official commodity as is pur chasable. have not he and, bis friends been busy in paying off lnnpmerable petty gradges-
 in serving their own selfish ends? There is in fact species of warfare which honorable ad- versaries avoid and which is always entrusted
 to renegades. To them is entrusted the task of enrolling other renegades into regular bands of marauders ot harrying old neighbors and ravaging and pluudering their property and what most disgusts us with the breed is, they seem to enjoy their occnpation..'s s ' 9' ., ' ''