Litchfield enquirer., 1867-04-18
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a little morose under the unmerciful wal lopings the Democracy received last fall; but we did hope his good luck this spring would at least benefit his temper. That ob- iect may not have been quite worth the sacri- flee of a Governor and three Congressmen, but still it would have been something gain ed.
 The Sentinel of Apr. was a promising number; Its bogus horse race was by no means bad'thing of the kind; although we felt the want of those accurate time ta- bles and quarter seconds which invariably accompany the SentinePs genuine racing reports, and to our uninstructed mind i'm port absolute verity. Then there was some very Gbellous poetry, in the perpetration ofwhich our neighbor seemed to become temporarily cheerful. In his last weeks issue, however, he suffers most disheart- ening relapse; and with sorrow we note that the Democratic victory in Connecticut really enlivens the editor of the Sentinel as little as gin and sugar enlivened Job Trotter; circumstance which the readers of Pickwick will remember caused that young man to be vehemently suspected of MT. Samuel Weller from the first
 Hear him on the Reconstruction act:-
 'The passage of those atrocious laws( (ibels rath- er whereby ten States, in defiance of the organic law of the land, were put under condemnation which made no distinction between the innocent @l1~r a1~ der vassalage that ,nert q achole bars length be- yond tie tsannies of the old co'ld i's aA past ages was another cause"
 Now, there have been ''tyrannies" in the ''past ages' that swept whole nations out of existence. Do Sheridan, Sickles, and Schoield go a ""bar's length" beyond these?
 Against Congress he rages in this polite, Conservative fashion,
 ''The petiness ofCongress in devising aggravated tornents to sting the President to madness was still another cause. Witness the paltry grounds of ofimpeachment alleged against him, euery one of rhtch tue authors kne'r 10 be He. Witness the sgylng co,nmitles and the smelling con,,dties ras ed to waylay him at every step < Witness the scenic t,'icke1y and sdncinonious knauery ban died back from one House to the other in the face of the world, providing for adjournment on such terms that Congress could be got together like hook and ladder company on the ringing of fire be-to stop the devastations of an lncendia- ry President
 The Republican press comes in for ami hilation in the following rhetorical eli max
 ''These ''dogs of war; were not all of them fit for duty. Their native malice was of course una- bated, but alas! their teeth were gone. The en- hra oil of 4la,>o would go off but their eyes were bleared;-s from much crying over their own misfortunes and some from the jaundice of hatred"
 We do not like to criticize masterpiece cautiously; but don't the flesh and blood dogs that can't bite and the metaphorical dogs that can't shoot, get little mixed?
 The closing paragraph we quote entire:-
 ''Now, gentlemen of the ring We are about to perform the last rites over [sicl your naanes. We could Following the line of safe precedents) say to fer to treat you more fairly. We are going to bu- ry you with the honors Make your testaments at once. Give as anything you like (rosemary?) ''for remembrance, your old clothes, your maledic- tlons, your blessings, Gf you have any )-anything
 The gentleman here gets himself into this difficulty: Somebody is either dead or not dead. If not dead, then any form of burial no matter how honorable would be "tyrannical" and unconstitmionM If dead, then the proposed post mortem testament would certainly be invalid and set aside by any Court of Probate. The fact is that no occasion for ''burials" and "testaments" has yet arisen. We are still alive and "live like to be. We can, however, make you of the Democracy gift:-not of our blessing, for you don't deserve it-nor of our maledic- tions, for you have them already-nor of our old clothes, for you would put them on, claim you had always been Union men, and get another election on false pretences; but we will make over to you, in fee sim pie, Messrs. Babcock, Cleveland, Dixon and the rest of ''the gentlemen of the ring and ''may the Lord have have mercy on your souls"