Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-21
Poland, Ireland and the South

President Johnson and the Democracy take great pleasure, just now, in compar- ing Poland and Ireland to the South. All are grooming alike under a military despotism, they tell us. A hasty examina- tioa will disclose how little ground there is for the comparison.
 Poland and the Polish race, after occu- pying for centuries most important posi- tlon in Europe, have been conquered and parcelled out among nations of foreign race and tongue. This catastrophe was occa- stoned by system of aristocracy similar to that which the Democratic party would allow to be perpetuated at the South with out word of objection. The re-union of this people and territory into single inde- pendent nation, is what all true Poles de- sire-what Russia, Austria, and Prussia will not permit. Suppose these powers were to publicly announce that whenever the Poles should form government guar to every man in Poland equal civ il and political rights, every foreign sol dier should be withdrawn! Would there be any further claim of tyranny?
 The case of Ireland is, if possible, still less like that of the South. If England would withdraw her armies, and grant Irish men all they ask, on the sole condition that the whole people were allowed equal rights, and an equal voice in the government could Fenians, even, demand more liberal terms?
 The single hardship of which the South our demand, that, within her territory, tyranny shall forever cease; and we are dealing with a queer "demoo- racy" whid styles this demand oppressire!
 @~ We are glad to learn that Hon. Charles Adams has been renominated in this Probats District. His great experience in the position and his general popularity have always'gained him many votes beyond his party ticket. If any Democrat would like the reputation of always falling be- hind his ticke., he can easily get it by run ming often for Judge of Probate against Charles Adams.
 p@~ Among other reports the Democra- cy are circulating to injure our Congress ional Candidate, they have been claiming lately that he will not receive the vote and support of our late Representative. Hon. J. H. Hubbard We fare authorized to state that this is m absolute falsehood. Imme- diately on the nomination of Mr. F. T. Mr. Hubbard wrote him a letter him of his hearty support. AL though personal, he is not political friend of W. H. Barnum
 aT''The laws of Draco were written in blood, and yet they were wise and judicious laws, and Athens was governed by them for hundreds of years. The laws of Revolutionary France wero written in 8 sill yer fuid-nearly colorless at first but which grad deepened into darker dye-and yet they were so unwise and injudicous that they conyulsed not on- ly France, but all Europe, into wild spasmodic throe for blood. The Radicals have written their laws not in the Draconian fluid, but in the spirit that would provoke It.
 Such is the beginning of Conservative vail set up on the passage of the Recon struction bill by the New Haven Register. We have not often met 8 more precious specimen of Democratic historical itera- ture. It is doubtful whether single one of the many statements in the above para graph is true.
 The laws attributed to Draco were neith- CT wise nor judicious but on the contrary have become proverb for their folly. harshness, and injustice. Imposing the pen alty of death on all offences small or great, they were said to have been writ ten in blood-fguratively, not literally as the Register absurdly supposes. Moreover, SO far from Athens having been governed by them hundreds of years" they were not to have continued in force 8 sin gle century. Whether the laws of Revolu- tionary France were written in some vil- famous radical mixture, like unto Arnold's writing fluid. we do not pretend to know neither, we venture to say, does the New Haven Register. Exactly what is meant by "a wild spasmodic throe for blood" is un- certain something dreadful undoubtedly. the legislation of Revolutionary France Thomas Jefferson spoke very differ ently from this Democrat of 1867 Even that embodiment of English Conservatism, the Saturday Rerie'O, recently states the case as follows: "Many persons of .tolera- ble intelligence still look upon the French Revolution as an outbreak of diabolical They fail to recognize the immense benefits which, in the opinion of all enlightened men have been its net re- suit" Nobody would place the Register in the latter class. Could it enter under the head of ''tolerable intelligence"
 D9- We are in receipt of numbers of the Savannah Ranuh1ican sent as we suppose,