Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-15

ag Tho Jackson Guards paraded for the first time on Monday night, turning out ninety two men, The Enquirer in it's effort to cast ridicule on the affair, forgets to mention that there were nearly as many soldiers in the ranks as there mel, in the first parade(?) of the s'Children in Bloo Aunt Lucy, Brigadior OHickox, and boys includ- ed-Sentinet.
 "Eto,t to cast ridicule, "-Heavens! we boiled all the fun out of the facts, VIC could. and there was enough left, then, to make our report look like q burlcsque. Why, Monday night the whole village was in a roar of laughter; they got up laughing Tuesday morning; and they have been smil- ing ever since.
 Turning out niaety t,oo menr' "Nearly as many soldiers in the ranks as there were men in the first parade of the Children in Blue! There is no use trying to account for the arlthmotical vagaries of the editor of the Sentinel on the theory of wilful fal- sification; his blunders arc too absurd for that! We think VIC can explain this mistake without any unpleasant differences. Being in the ranks at the time Corporal c. could 'nt compete with MT. Terrel for the first prize and count the procession, too. It occurred to him to examine tue Town books and see how much the first select man had charged to new account, ''Hotel bills, civil authority &c Now niaety t,eo drinks is not aa orercha,yc; and if any one objects to it on the first Monday of Octo- Der, 1869, we shall defend the first select man. The trouble lies in tho fact that the soldiers ''smiled" often! They undoubtedly seemed rather numerous to the grim off cial who now presides over the destinies of our little commonwealth! Hence tho cor porars error.
 In short, we feel it our duty, on behalf of the citizens of Litchfeld, to thank the Jackson Democratlc Association for the most mirth- provoking entertainment of the season. Tho Great European Circus procession was splendid, but there wash anything like the same amount of fun in it. Like Jack Falstaff's performance at Gads- hill, the first parade of the Jackson Guard is "argument for week, laughter for a month, and good jest forever"
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 BA- It is decidedly cool and refreshing to hear Brother D. J. Warner insisting upon bach; bone as element in politics, and to see Brother HickoX de- voting half a column of his valuable paper to the spectacle of man'a ctanginy his l,0luics.-S',s- tined
 Tho Democrat who, liko Donald J. War ner, sustained the war. throughout, who bolted T. H. Seymour in 1863, and who supports Grant and Colfax in 1868, has a right to insist on back k-bone!
 Last week, we referred to Col. Belden s political record. Isn't it little "rough' of the Sentinel to term 1t ''the spectacle of mans changing his politics?' We not only made no such charge, but maintained exactly the contrary. But while wo do not accuse Col. Belden of any change of p,'in- ciple, we can say that his views of nseu have strangely altered. We have not forgotten his address to to the soldiers of the 2d Conn.,, in 1865 He besought them, to vote against copperheads at all times, and to avoid any political connection, whatever, with the very politicians with whom he is now affiliating