Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-19
18th District Senatorial Convention.

delegates 1.-two from Morris and one from Colebrook) being absent. On consulta- tion among the delegates it soon became evident that Mr. Andrews of Ltchfeld was the decided preference of a majority, and that :,is nomination would be readily acqniessed in by the remainder Mir. Peck of Winstel was strongly urged by the del- egates from that town. but Litchfield was so clearly entitled to the nomination. that that gentleman received little support out side his own town.
 After the ballot was taken. Mir. Woodford of Winsted moved that Mir. Andrews be nominated by exclamation, and the motion was unanimously adopted. The Conyen- tion then adjourned to an excellent dinner at the American House. neat and we'll managed hotel, kept across the bridge by NIT. A. H. Wells.
 On resembling the resolutions were adopted and the Senatorial Committee ap- pointed
 The glorious news from New Hampshire and favorable reports from all parts of the District put every one in the best possible humor, and gave us reason to expect that the old Fifteenth would add considerable to the large majority she usually gives the Union ticket.
 MT. Calhoun, of the State Committee Central Committee, gave most cheering &C., counts of the prospect elsewhere and sta ted that there could be no question that We could be successful in the State if we would. After Il little informal talk from our present Senator, Mir. Pierpont, and others, the Convention adjourned. For detailed report of tLo composition and pro- ceedings of the Convention we are indebt- ed to the He,vzZd Of last week.
 ''The f3sll District Senatorial Convention met according to adjournment at Wolcott- vile. on the 11th inst, and permanently organized by the appointment of D. N. Golf, Chairman, and T. F. Vaill, Secretary The Committee on Credentials reported the following list of delegates:
 "LIrcHHELD; G. \. Hickox, Daniel T. Wooster, Wm. J. Hall, Henry W. Buel.- NEW HARTFORD; r, ii. Chapin, R. H. Wheeler, Jas. r. Henderson, Franklin Wat son. on.-WINCHEsTER; E. 5. Woodford, R. l.. Beecher, s. B. Horne, W. c. Dennin.- CoLEBRooK; J. W. Bliss, Wm. P. Law renee, Edward Oles, John Spencer--HAR- wINToN; David Birge, Geo. B. Cook, R. D. Ensign, Willis Catlin. n.--BARKHA11sTED; James Pettibone George Kellogg. James Tiffany, Julius c. Pratt, t,-ToRR1NGToN; l.. T. Wooster. D. N. Golf, Alonzo Whiting, Elijah Woodward.
 ''An informal ballot for candidate fo1 Senator resulted as follows: c. B. Andrews IA; Wm. K. Peck, 6; John c. Smith, 3; H. H. Stone, !; whereupon the nomination of CHARLES B. ANDREWS, of Litchfield. was made unanimous by exclamation The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:
 ':Resolcea, That this convention cordially approves of the platform and Stato Ticket presented by our Republican State Con- yention.
 "ResoIpea, That we present with conf dence to the Electors of this District the name of CHARLES B. ANDREWS of Litch field, as our candidate for Senator 1 Dk9~ The Sentinel quotes the following from a letter written by an US. soldier sta. toned in Texas:-
 i ''rhey had an election here which lasted foul days and we were ordered out to take arms ava, from the negros who came to vote: and q giea many of Nte soldiers tOod reC0!cers from Hena dnc l sold them.
 The crooks in a Conservative conscience are very remarkable. In view of the fore going facts, We expected, the Sentinel t< raise its we'll known war-whoop and refel triumphantly to the following section 0 outraged Constitution, "Every citizen ha a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the state"; and we had right also t expect at least one distinct and prolonged yell at the remarkable proceedings in the nature of Confiscation, we have italicised Our friend does nothing of the kind The same ingenuity that discovered "almost" { Democratic victory in the New Hampshir, election, draws the following Conservative conclusion:-
 'Now why were these negroes disarmed b, l U. s. troops? Was it because the blacks were il | danger from the whites, as the Tribune would have it's readers believe? or becanse these st'olin 1 SdrdgeS endangered the peace of the cOmmunit, l by publicly carrying firearms? No sane man vii believe that if black men "shot down at sigh in Texas" that they would be deprived of all meal l of resistance by those who are sent there to pro | tect them and their interests.
 Has our guileless cotemporary never heard of the sending of Gen. Winfield Scot Hancock to the Fifth Military district, no what interests ''he was sent there to pro tect," nor how, in association with Mir Jefferson Davis, he has carried out the pro gramme?
 Think, too, of the peace of a 7eras com. munity being endangered by freedman's "publicly carrying firearms!
 Yet this is Q fair sample of the argument t. with which the editor of the Sentinel stupi fes his own conscience and that of hi Democratic readers, while they support S mode of ofreconstruction which has permit ted hundreds of Union whites and black. to be ''shot down at sight," and has sel dom demanded even the decent form of trial and acquittal of their murderers be fore rebel jury.