Litchfield enquirer., 1868-04-02
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We know they are relying for their sue cess upon the seventy electoral votes of th' l South, and they know that it is alone by the negro votes that they can accomplish this object. But in this they are counting without their host. The moral sense o the whole country would be so outraged by their scandalous conduct that, if they had i the forms of the Constitution in their ia vor, they would never be permitted to in augurate their puppet as President of the U. $. Their present effort to destroy our Federal and State governments and to sub stltute in their place Military Dictator ship, with the destruction of the Judicial | and Executive departments of the Federal government is their last death struggle. i You may expect that ere long Thad. Ste- vens and his sco-conspirators will have been indicted for perjury. Frenzied with their late successes, they take an oath as mem. bers of Congress to support the Constitu. tion of the United States, and yet the said Stevens, in vaunting private communica tion is boosting that in regard to the infa nous reconstruction schemes, he and his conspirators are acting ''outside of the con stitntion. Was ever such impudence ex hibited in official station since the days ol Rot cspierre?-Whilst we know that the Radicals utterly disregard the Federal con. stitution, is not this admission of the old sinner Thad. ample proof of his guilt of perjury? And think you the patient and long suffering people, after this proof of his guilt will refrain from bringing him to condign punishment.
 ''Let the negroes, the impudent emi- grant intruders and the white-livored south ern born revel in their fancied triumph The federal bayonet cannot sustain tltem much longer. When it is withdrawn, in n'nety days they will be swept from the records of the country Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad New CT was this maxim more appropriately ap- piled than to the Radical leaders. Sus- tained and urged on by the bopdholders, and by the managers of the huge web of National Banks, who are extorting their millious out of the masses, and Jay Cooke & Co.,, and other swelled head leaders of the Federal Treasury, the Radicals console themselves ill the belief that they can re- tain their present ascendency. And yet they can but know that these vampires upon the body polite constitute a very small minority of the voting population of the country. In the selection of Gen. Grant for their standard bearer by the Radicals, they have been actuated ,by the conviction that the mass of mankind are incapable of discrimination. and hence of self government. Salmon P. Chase is their first choice, because he is their representa- tive man-a bitter enemy of State Rights, and of our Federative Government, and a jealous friend of consolidation of all civil, military and religious liberties in one mammoth government; besides, he has brains.
 Two years ago they had killed and bur. jed all the Democrats of this country-a few Copperhdads only remaining. Now, these hated enemies having risen from their graves a terrible howl is raised throughout the land by the bond-holder, lestltheir enormous profit, may be wrested from them, and by the advocates of the protective policy lest their iniquitous exac. tions may cease to surcharge their gorged coffers. And we'll may they dread these consequences, for the Democracy is alive, again, and is in solid earnest when it:makes it's efforts to extinguish these unjust and atrocious principles and designs of the now ruling dynasty.
 Very truly, your friend,
 THOS. HARVEY.