Litchfield enquirer., 1867-01-17

Q. A. ATKINS,
 Dated January 2, 1867.
 The Presidents Connecticut Friends.
 Six months ago, the supporters of Mir. Johnson met at New Haven-a mixture of ofice-holders, ofice-seekers and Democrats Conservatives they delighted to call them selves, and such, most of them, especially those holding office, were. Last week, Mr. Johnson's supporters met again. Not a prominent oficeholder, republican, or even moderate Democrat appears among them Bigoted, state-rights, pro-slavery Democra- cy had every thing it's own way. AS we have often remarked before, the men who invariably vote the Democratic ticket in this State, are divided into two factions, and the first look at the proceedings of a Democratic Convention will determine which of these factions is in the ascenden- cy. One, minority we fear, opposed the rebellion and supported the government during the first eighteen months of the war. The other strove to convert the De- mocratic party into Peace party as early as the summer of 1861, and succeeded in 1863. Prominent among the former are James E. English, Origen s. Seymour, Loren P. Waldo, Alvan P. Hyde, James c. Loomis the chief of the latter are W. W. Eaton, A. B. Burr, T. H. Seymour, W. D. Bishop, James Gallagher. The Eaton wing has entire control of the Democratic State journals, and has always, when desi- rous of so doing, controlled the action of the party. The exultant allusion to the Democratic platform of 1863, the presence of T. H. Seymour, Toucey and Brooks, the absence of English and the moderates, would have fixed the character of the as- sembly, had not word been said.
 On the same day that the Messrs. Burr, Eaton, and Seymour were rallying to the rescue of President Johnson in Connecti- cut, and proposing to call national con- vention to his assistance, it so happened that Messrs. Vallandigham, Olds, &c., were holding convention for similar purpose in Ohio; while the rebel Democracy of Kentucky, the men who shouted for Lee and Johnston, and hissed Grant and Sher- man, during the last political campaign, join in the demand for such ga athering.
 If his late consuming rage against loyal individuals has not entirely burnt out the loyalty there was once in Andrew Johnson, he has, heretofore, suffered no such bitter humiliation as this. Men with whom he refused to associate last August, now as- semble and call him their own. Whose fault it is that he has fallen so low that he has earned the curses heaped on him by Republican and Democratic conservatives, IS question of no practical importance. He maintains that the Democratic party has ruined him the Democratic party maintains that he has ruined them it is enough for us that the thing was accom- plished. Even the Presidents office-hold- CTS have too much self-respect to be seen in the company he now keeps.
 What most surprises us is the sublime impotence of the T. H. Seymour and Val landigham type of Democracy. The Pres- ident's Philadelphia Convention refused them admittance, professedly, because they were disloyal really, because they were odious. Their friendship, repudiated as it was, made the success of the Presidents party an impossibility. In fact. the one great political power this set of politicians has ever manifested, has been that of bring ing swift and sure political destruction up- on whatever or whoever they have SUD- ported. We'll meaning Democrats of mod crate views have been politically ruined, perhaps forever, by fellowship with them. Union men of unimpeachable record have seen their regulations blasted by connec- tion they have most clamorously disowned Yet these men set their old political ma- chinery in motion as confidently as if there had been no secession, no war, to show it's real character to the people.
 We hope that the desired Convention will be called. The sight of national as- sembly of such well-known countenances as were seen at New Haven, will probably tend indirectly to render treason less odi- ous; and, if the remains of Isaac Toucey will bear another resurrection and little longer transportation, we hope they may be taken to the rendezvous at New York, to show the people of the United States what kind of opposition Congress is meet ing at the North.
 Ag A large, double-sheet, religious jour nal, entitled seThe Church Union," has been started in Brooklyn N. Y. Quoting the saying of Bishop McIlvaine; "Where- ever the Lord has true believer, there have I brother;" it advocates an union of all Protestant denominations and in it's first number it publishes two articles by Baptists; two from Bishops in the Protest ant Episcopal Church, and articles by Pres