Litchfield enquirer., 1868-11-12
The Democratic Press on the Elections.
 THE N. Y. WORLD. The World considers the reconstruction question finally settled:-

The Presidential election has decided that gov ernments of the new pattern will be set in opera them shall hereafter change their constitutions or establish new rules of suffrage, the Democratic party will make strenuous resistance to attempts by Congress to restrain or impede them in the ex- ercise of that right. What has been done in the South can become valid by the acceptance of the Southern people, but in no other way. It is prob able that they will accept the new governments, and watch for opportunities to amend them.
 Of the Greenback issue it says:-
 Having been decided against us in the late elec- tion, it should be regarded as dead issue. The Democracy will surely do nothing so preposserous pone specie payment another four years, for the sake of keeping the greenback issue alive for an- other Presidential election.
 Poor Blair gets final kick
 Gen. Blar's nomination was great surprise to us as to the convention itself and the party His Brodhead letter flew directly in the face of all that the World had been advocating in the month of June. The needless defeats in October con- frmed us in the opinion that the World had then advised the party wisely, and that General Blair's influence was disastrous. We promptly determin- ed, as the last hope of saving any thing in the Northern States, to make wide separation in the public mind between the views and policy of Gov Seymour and his misplaced associate on the tick ct. The attempt was successful We have there by saved New York, which the Republicans conf dentiy expected to carry after the October elec- tions
 THE HARTFORD TIMES
 In the presidential contest the Democracy went to the polls beaten party. KnO,rinq Mat Nsu bad been defedtel in GdUGnce, of course hundreds of thousands of their voters were desponding and many did not even take the trouble to cast bal lot.
 It would perhaps be unkind to compare what this paper stated regarding the pros poets of its party just before the election. To say the least wide difference of opin- ion is manifest.
 The chief feature of the last Weekly Times, however, is superabundance of 'What Next?"
 But Grant is chosen. What nert?
 At the end of this fiscal year the deficiency and the increase of the public debt will amount to Oe hundred dnd t!tty millions 0f dollars.
 From this remarkable What Next premise are derived no less than six direful What Next conclusions, each little more dread ful than the one preceding.
 The proportion of "what nexts' to the square inch diminishes somewhat in sue. ceding editorials, but it is evident that,
 'Thc public Democratic ?l mind is unsettled and somewhat bewildered The widest revolll- tionary measures will be demanded by the Radi- cais which would sweep away alike, conventional forms and usages, and the Constitutional itself, and tend directly towards anarchy, &c., &c.
 That the Democratic mind should be un- settled and somewhat bewildered by the developments of last week, especially in Connecticut. Is so very natural that we are not in the least surprised. The Jeremi- ads of the Times are always enjoyable, but particularly so when they come right from the heart as they now do.