Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-08


 wards, despotism Such a policy wo"ia have been not generosity but stupenooos folly Yet such is the policy President Johnson proposes to pursue towards the South.
 When an evil system, like slavery, falls, it pulls down many innocent and many re- ally noble men to ruin with it. Their mis- cry is painful to behold, but it is sacrifice which society requires. We find no more melancholy page in history than that which records the subsequent life of that same Stuart Prince the gradual deterioration of the handsome chiyalrous young hero of 1745, till he sank into his unhonored grave, forty years later drivelling, drunken brute the unfaithful husband of an unfaithful wife, Most pitiable of all was his unsha- ken confidence to the last, that the justice of his claim would finally be recognized, and that his little hoard of guineas, stored away for the purpose, would finally be need ed for the expedition which should place him in possession of his kingdom. Was it ungenerous of England not to receive her hereditary sovereign :?
 Louis XVIII of France tried MT. John sons policy in 1915. He sent Ney against Napoleon on his return from Elba, the Marshall promising to bring back his old master in 8 cage to Paris. Nobody doubts that the promise was made in good faith, but the current of French opinion setting towards its old channel, proved too strong to be resisted, and Ney was himself carried away into treason and met traitors death. Yet his memory is always held in respect, and his execution condemned, because he acted as any one but Bourbon would have expected him to act. Our belief has always been that while our treatment of individual insurgents should be liberal, our treatment of the system which caused the rebellion, could not be too severe. The trial of Jefferson Davis for treason would, it seems to us, be great mistake Exiled, he would be forgotten :; executed, he would be held in everlasting remembrance. We have great respect for his abilities, and for the military genius and personal character of Robert B. Lee. We would not wish such men punished, because their treason was the crime of the evil sys- tenn under which they were trained, not any individual wickedness of their own. But under MT. Johnson's policy, such distin- glished disloyalty entities men to the high est offices in the state. Great services ren- dered the Confederacy are now a necessary qualification for office under the Union throughout the South All we ask is, not that treason shall be punished, but that it shall not be promoted. Is that ungenerous The real rebel was the Southern Aristoc- racy. Its punishment has lain in its deci- nation, it's impoverishment, it's defeat It | fought its way neither out of the control of the government, as it intended, nor into its control, as it's friends now claim ; but it has lost tremendous power which the Ameri- can people are too prudent ever to restore.
 
 strengthen it, but equal and exact justice would ruin it. The latter is the policy we advocate, and it cannot be justly called an ungenerous one. F. The Baltimore Police.
 The squabble for control of the Baltimore Police has finally resulted in the discomf- ture of Governor Swan and the triumph of the old Commissioners.
 The game commenced by the Governor s citing the Commissioners before him to an- swer charges of misconduct at the late mu- nicipal election. His real object was to re- move them on some pretext, allow all the disfranchised secessionists to vote, and carry the city and state by heavy majorities, at Tuesdays election. The Commissioners at first refused to submit to trial, but finally,
 mainly to gain time we presume, entered an appearance and proceeded to hearing On Thursday last the Governor rendered the expected decision removing them from office and forthwith appointing new Com missioners. These were preparing to use force to oust the old Commissioners, when they were arrested and committed to prison on bench warrant of Judge Bond of the Criminal Court, on charge of melting ri- ot. On Sunday, their friends procured a writ of habeas corpus, for their release, but inasmuch as the officer holding them in cus- tody is allowed three days to make his re- turn, the trial of their case cannot be reached till to-day In the meantime the old Commissioners held power on Tuesday, which was the real point in issue. Large seizures of arms were made on Monday, which the secessionists were designing to use in the expected contest. Gov. Swan tried to induce President Johnson to inter- fere, but as it appears, unsuccessfully.
 BP We find the Sentinel claiming that the War Democracy and the Peace Democ- racy have now coalesced. Such is not the fact. Few of the former follow the bad example of President John- son and Gen. Dix most of us prefer to | on with Grant. Sheridan, Burnside. Spraeue.