Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-19
POLITICAL.

| AOA11lCAL. | DEMOCRACY DEFINED. Democrat. One Who adheres to Q government by the peo- pie, or favors the extension of the right of suffrage to all classes of men.-Noah Web- ste1''s Dictionary.
 Resolved, That we are opposed to for eng negro suffrage on other States, or to establishing 1t in our own.-Platforn of the Connecticut "Democracy"
 The democrats in the Ohio state Senate have planted themselves squarely against the eight hour system. On a proposition to make eight hours legal days work on the public roads, they voted unanimously against 1t.
 General Cary has been already rewarded for his vote against impeachment, the Pres ident having nominated his brother-in-law for minister for Bolivia.
 Ex-Governor Vance. whom the Domo- crats have nominated for governor of North Carolina delivered himself of the following bit of eloquence, in 1863, when, address sing rebel regiment: :-"Boys, fight till hell freezes over, and then fight on the ice, fight until you fill hell so full of Yankees | that their feet will stick out of the win dows." No wonder honest men want to leave such company as Vance and Henry Clay Dean.
 1 Pity is generally considered feminine attribute, but 1t seems that women con- trives to drop 1t as an inconvenient appen- dage when she enters politics. Thus Mrs. E. c. Stanton observes over her own ini- tlals Tn the current number of The Revolu- tion in regard to impeachment:-
 "We are sorry to see a paying subscriber of The Revolution come to grief, but we will try to make our columns as consoling us possible to him in his retirement. Will Mir. Johnson please inform us, if not to the White House, where we shall direct The Revolution hereafter?"
 Will Mir. Deming vote for a bill of I'm peachment charging Andy Johnson with drunkenness? fnot, let us have 8 man that will, seeing that all parties are agreed upon the propriety of such 0 proceeding. to present articles of impeachment. Will MT. Deming vote to impeach Johnson for drunkenness?-Hv Times, everv dav, for ,oeeh', in Ma,'ch, 1865.
 Will MT Hubbard vote to impeach him now, for the same and for worse offences? |-Hmyord Courant
 General Grant has subscribed $1O,OOO to Methodist church in Washington.
 The Kansas Democrats in the legislature voted in body against enfranchising sey- eral soldiers dismissed from the army on the technical charge of desertion, although they have never failed to vote in favor of enfranchising rebel soldiers.
 William H. Wadsworth, late member of Congress from Kentucky, has announced his intention to act in future with the Re- publican party. He has formerly acted with the Democrats. He is said to be man of much ability.
 The President has pardoned two more criminals-James M. and Horace Gould who were convicted of counterfeiting in northern New York. "A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind"
 John A. Brooks, member of the Ken- lucky Legislature, from Webster county. has resigned. MT. Brooks was elected bv q Democratic majority of between six and seven hundred, and in his letter of resig- nation declared his determination to act henceforth with the Republican party. The Rev. 'Chimpanzee Burr's Democrat. ic paper, the Old Guard, says ''there is no better way of keeping alive love of the principles of the constitution than to cher ish with fondest affection the memory of | those brave and noble men of the South who fell in resisting the negro war upon that constitution" Burr is of the copper. head family that hates the sight of one-legged and one-armed Union soldiers. The Democratic candidate for city attor- l nev of Utica served in the rebel army. His Republican competitor fought with Grant from the Wilderness to Appomatox Court House. The Democrats voted for and elec- ted the representatives of secession . ,.-