Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-03


 - ''', " THE UNION, IT MUST AND SHALL BE PRE- ! SERVED" 4
 ss The Democracyof Connecticut, and all others who would unite with them in council, are hereby invited to send not less than Ten Delegates from the city of New Haven, at Music Hall, on Tuesday, the 9th day of January, 1867 at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of considering the rev. olutionary acts of the present Radical Congress.
 ss This Convention will also determine upon the propriety of making nominations for State Officers and of recommending to the People of the THIR- TY-S1x STATES the necessity of A NATIONAL. CoN- vENT1oN, to adopt such measures as will thwart the schemes of the traitors who are endeavoring to subvert the Constitution and Government of our Fathers"
 On which the Sentinel cornet-a-piston plays the following brilliant variation:-
 'Let every town select its best and soundest men-men of principle who have stood firm for the Union and the Constitution through the dark days of the Republic; and let us send forth warn ing note which shall find its echo in every State of our Union and arouse the people to a sense of the dangers which already are threatening our hber- ties."
 Was ever the spirit of variation in more admirable keeping with the spirit of the original air? The music is certainly very like the music of the Rev. P. v. Nasby, but we do not imagine the imitation was intentional.
 There is serious difficulty, however, from the fact that upon the extreme vagueness of Gallagher now comes the additional un- certainty of the Sentinel. It will, no doubt, be as easy, as it will be pleasant and prof. table, for the assembled Democracy to "consider" what they are pleased to call {" the revolutionary acts of the present rad ical Congress" Neither will it be difficult for them to nominate State Ticket to be defeated next Spring But wben they un- dertake, to use the peculiar phraseology of the Committee, the task of recommending x the necessity of National Conven- tion ;" what kind of Convention is pro- posed? A Constitutional Convention can only be called on request of the State Le- gislatures; it then proceeds to frame amendments to the Constitution, whereas the Democracy object to any amendments. Neither could the proposed Convention nominate for the Presidency of 1868; that would be ludicrously premature. If it is intended to assemble body of Northern and Southern Democrats, ,as the resident Democratic Committee at Washington have planned, for the purpose of'overawing Con- gress and supporting President Johnson, by threats of revolution, MT. Gallagher has made great mistake-the time for his fa- nous kill lem" policy is long since past.
 But what are we to think of the Senti- nels demand? Not less than ten Demo. crats from each town, men of principle, who have stood by the Union and the Con- stitution through the dark days of the Re- public P With such restriction, how large does it imagine the Convention would be, and who would call it together in the absence of MT. Gallagher? '"
 BIr It is precisely because Professor Agassiz is we'll known to be ''believer in the Bible," because we have seen nothing except some brief newspaper reports set ting forth the Professors views on ethnol- ogy, and because we do not see show the Sentinel's position can be reconciled with Scripture, that we asked our last weeks question. Does not our friend come in contact with an other well known passage of Scripture, in thus concealing the light of science there is in him ?
 sGP We have been surprised, sometimes, at the want of flial respect with which our Winsted of-shoot treats our old Congrega- tional Church, the sanctuary on whose "hard" seats, and in the weekly contem- plation of whose forbidding aspect" he was reared.
 We wonder, also, if the Church's remi- niscences of him are as pleasant as his re- miniscences of the Church?
 He thus discourses of the late decoration of that ediice:-l.
 The Sanctuary has been trimmed with evergreen founces urbeows and festoons for the Installation. AS when lady of blameless life but unfortunately of plain, and almost forbidding aspect, seeks to make amends for her lack of beauty by the ribbons and flowers that bedeck her hat the jewelry that gleams upon her person,-so the good people of the Countyseat hope to turn the eyes of strangers away from the uncomely and repulsive aspect of their house of worship by means of ground pine laurel and hemlock.--And they will probably suc- ceed, for they trim with good deal of taste, down there.- Wiasted Herald.
 D9~ Among other improvements which the New Year promises, we notice the an- noucement of radical change in the course of the Litchfeld Sentinel? A. correspon- dent from West Cornwall has been engag- ed to" look at things from philosophical, moral and religious standpoint His first attempt has failed. s.Pilgrim" is evil dently not at home on that particular stand point. We hope, however, he may not give up in despair, but labor to accustom himself and the Sentinel to their new posi-