Litchfield enquirer., 1867-11-28
Conservative Eloquence.

Of all the numerous specimens of Demo- cratic, spread-eagle oratory that have re- suited from the late election, contribu- tion "to the last Sentinel is decidedly the richest. 70. M. H. "does not acae eloquent, he is under full head of steam from the first as will be see from his opening:- V1cToRY.-The peans of victory are borne to us from every point of the com pass; the tidings of rejoicing are waited to us on every breeze; the inspiriting incense of Democracy is inhaled by every ,chite man this side the gulf, and the star-lit banner, borne aloft by patriot hands through an epoch of eighty years of profound National peace, is floating on freedoms breeze! Miss Columbia sits with graceful complacency upon her National pedestal surrounded by an army of sehite citizens ready to render her homage.
 Democracy is again, sir, in the ascend ent we have long waited with anxious pen to write that sentence, and the glorious time has come when the Democratic hand can guide the willing pen amid the soul stirring chronicles of consecrated truth.
 We knew that treason could not always sit in high places, matching new and devil
 
 thought" of the people would eventually itself, as of old, upon the pedestal of right to be the mistress of our guidance. Could anything be more true, touching, or felicitous than the fore going tribute to the services of the Democracy in bearing aloft the ''star-it banner" during eighty years of profound national peace9 If Miss C. becomes "the National pedes- tal'' so well, why not let her vote?
 The last paragraph seems somewhat mix ed. We understand the traitor in high places to whom c. M H. refers-Andrew Johnson, of course. But by the time the ''sober second thought" has "chased away fanaticism, enttroned itself on another loose pedestal, and become mistress of our guidance, has mt the idea become a little confused?
 M. CHI. then quotes sentence from the N. Y. Times, frightfully fanatical sheet, il seems. and comments as follows:-
 "We say deliberately that no schemes oi reconstruction can succeed at the South with the white-race unanimously opposed to it."
 There you have it, you platter brained Bump disunionists one of your number snuffing defeat in the near future, gives ex. pression to truism, as evident when wars stormy and bristling battallions were first marshalled in battle array, as now, and he who essays to legislate, ignoring the above quoted truth, will himself be ignored here after
 "Platter-brained' we should have imag ined misprint had it appeared in any journal but the Sentinel Perhaps it is a Carlylism.
 Being ''ignored hereafter" is great mit- igation of the usual Conservative sentence on Radicalism. Nothing short of b,imstone usually satisfies them.
 c. M H. takes the following truly con servative, christian view of the capacity O. the negro race:-
 ''The sooty blackamoors, fresh from the rice and cotton fields of the South, where no ray of intellectual light ever penetrated their vacant brains" Sc.
 In his closing paragraph c. M. H. ar ranges the matter of the next Democrati nomination for the presidency, and thu American eagle scars clear out of sight, il the following style:-
 "When the youthful Pendleton is sum moned to Washington to assume the off cial garments of power-its Constitutions prerogatives-the rifted clouds will sool bedispelled. and the glowing sun of Liber ty will once more usher in day of peace with the radiant sons of Democracy up holding the mighty pillars that support the superb temple of American freedom.