Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-28

 terrific of civil wars; then against the arts of executive trsachery; and which now. at the very moment of their Triumphant sue. cess we are cooly asked to abandon! The fundamental Republican principle. ''that all men are born free and equal" and the determination that this principle ahall be everywhere reduced to practice. We cannot afford to sacrifice to mere personal likes and disikes. There are men who cannot un- derstand this; and when we look at their political course during the few momentous years past, we are not surprised. The ed itor of the Sentinel was South in Secession time;" played at soldering little; appear ed at the North as ..literary editor" of the Bridgeport Standard; and now conducts the organ of the Litehfeld County Democracy. To gentlemen of that versatile political genius, the course of such of us as would prefer Mr. P. T. Barnum for our Representative to the best Copperhead that can be selected from the battallions snarshalled against us by Toucey, Eaton, and Gallagher. naturally enough seems inconsistent ,.4., ..s .-. s'
 Nor sside from the principles at issue can we feel indifferent to the men. We present man who steod by the Union in her darkest hour, at the most important election ever held in this State, when Ian early, ousspoken, consistent contemner of the war" received over thirty, eight thou sand Democratic votes fer Governor. The Democracy present man who through cowardice or the nartowest party prejudice betrayed his country then, and yet now dares to ask for Union votes. Gan we hes itate a~ 1N *.' -s ss4Eca3 @,.s 1T Frt
 The true rule of political action is to be found in the old motto, Measures net Men, , In the present case we find no fact which would justify an exception. One such we might make and it would be to vote eve ry time, and. under. all circumstances, against any man who supported Thomas H. Seymour in 1863. :''g,,'f .@'..@ r. ,.. ~ -.'-
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 ~- "The Republican majority in Congress is so overwhelming that one more or less is not of the slightest consequeBce-ao principle is at stake." = Denas Pamphlet. 1.z 9I lLd <5. .;.-.ElTI So pleads the temptera-false in fact, false in principle! An additional Republican vote in Congress may be~of immense con sequence. The Southisl rapidly re-organi- zing under the Reconstruction Bill, and many States will present themselves to Congress for admission when it meets in December. Let us suppose enough come ip to destroy our two-thirds vote in either House-the wheels of Government will then remain blocked till March 4th, 1869. This is no improbable supposition It is a most probable result of Reconstruction. Some States will perhaps hesitate longer than others, but we expect them all in long before this Congress goes out, ana what the politics of their representatives may be, it is altogether impossible to foresee. "
 acant erery true man ,oe can elect, in Congress-. With the false principle we have dealt
 elsewhere. No earnest Union man car
 conscientiously vote for a Copperhead til
 has sRsnalaanssa ssl tRs ths ssr and v gR
 versal Liberty and Equality. Has Wm. Fl
 Barnum done this? ..8 4
 RICH MEN WHO SAY NOTHING. Such are all the important Democratic candidates in the coming election. AA' Martin in the Sd District, if he can be called an import ant candidate, has said something which will be found on our first page If he were not sufficiently ''defunct," before, he is past praying for, now. Richard D. Hub bard in the 1st District has made single speech in which he said, substantially, that during the war, the Union party had been right and the Democratic party wrong. He said, however, that during that time he took no part in politics. How he can just. y such g course we oan- not conce' It was the duty of every American citizen in those ter rible years to take one side or the other. Inaction was half treason. MT Hubbard thinks Congress wrong, now, but he eyi- dently, has no taste for arguing the quss- ton before the people of his District. Eng fish, Hotchkiss, and Wm. HI. Barnum are dumb, both on principle and from necessi- ty. Even Mir. James Gallagher refuses to meet us in his Senatorial District and when that gentleman declines such a chance, we can guess what an amount of pressure must have been brought to bear to keep Copperheadism silent.
 Every one of our important nominees on the other hand, Hawley, Deming, Stark weather, Northrop, and P. T. Barnum, arc canvassing the State most vigorously; de- fining their views ,and telling the people frankly what is to be expected of them if they are elected. ,~c5, -+, +t,.. >,
 These facts are most siouificant They