Litchfield enquirer., 1868-06-11
MY CREED AFFIRMATIVELY AND
 NEGATIVELY.

l To tue Enquirer:-
 The reading of papers filled with stupid stuff about Radicals and Radicaism-I see no other here-induces me to send you my
 belief about the matter in part.
 To begin, then,I unhesitatingly own my self Radical, not indeed of the Wendell Philips or Woman Rights sort, exactly, or of any extreme sort certainly not that of the LaCrosse paper which is circulating by thousands among the Democracy of Connecticut, and which openly and untir- lngly advocates Repudiation, and conse- quently the unsettling of the currency, ,and tho destruction of the business of the coun- try. But still am 8 Radical, aiming at freedom, justice, right, and progress, with in Constitutional and lawful limits.
 believe, with the Bible, that God made all nations and people of one blood, and that he sent his son into the world to give salvation to all, if they will receive it.
 believe, with the Declaration of Inde- pendence, that all men have equal natural and alienable rights, as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
 l do not believe in withholding from men any political or religious right or priv llege merely on account of race or color. 1 do not believe in denying to one man, a native of the soil, and an orderly and in telligent inhabitant, voice in the election of his rules, just because his skin is black or shady, or because he enjoys two rows of ivory which God has given him, and not the dentist, and bestowing the right upon another man, who comes to our shores from foreign government with all his ig- norance, prejudices, bigotry, lawless hab- its, clanishness, and who after ten years or longer residence knows and cares nothing about the constitution or institutions of the country.
 Ihaye no regard for that conserouticisa or other isna which iustifes the system of hu- man slavery, or sympathises with rebel lion against just and paternal govern ment to extend and render it moro odious and revolting, or which would throw in | to the hands of the rebels the power to legislate for prescribed classes and re-en- act against the blacks their former. abhor- red laws.
 | I have no sympathy with those politi- clans and editors who are continually ut l 4o,: 4l~o -l~ . ernment." There might be some sense in speaking of Q good mans government, ol an Intelligent mans government, or hu- mane and just government, but to talk of Q aohite government is the merest non- sense. Do the white people of Connecti- cut fear that tho few colored residents of tho State will usurp it's government, or that their nostrils will be offended by con- tact at the polls.
 If Connecticut, at the adoption of the Federal Constitution, had, like the south ern states, disregarded the general under standing and impression that all the states should take the earliest opportunity to OK tinguish slavery within their limits, and had invited or allowed slaves to come into the states i'll such numbers as to make a majority of the population, and these slaves were now free, I would say, let there be no distinction between them and any other class as to political rights. If you impose restrictions on the black man, impose the same en the white man; if you throw open the ballot to one, do so to the other; and let the whites take their chance-andif if you choose so to call it, their punishment So also in the late slave states, where ev- cry power was executed and every effort made to increase the manacled class of the population as we'll as to multiply their manacles, now that they are free, give them equal rights with the 'spale faces" and if the whites deem this punishment, which I do not admit. let them bear it for their former wrong doing.
 believe the defeat at the next election of the Union Republican and Radicals, who sent to represent them thirds, both of the last and present Congress, and who have for three or more years been vir- ulently denounced as traitors by an accident President and medley of opposition par ties. would be the sorest calamity that could befan the country.
 Whatever may be thought of those few Republicans, who, contrary to previous ex- pectation, gave their voices for the acquit- tai of the President, such vote relates to that subject alone, and not to other meas ures of the party, and therefore should have no damaging influence with the peo- pie at the fall elections. Let them then, as they used to say many years ago in the 'Bay State." ''Give the long pull, the strong pull, and the pull altogether" for General Grant, and Congressional repre- sentation to support him.
 The authoress of 8 novel, '.Hood and Glove" published in England, says that, 'All day long Claude paces backward and fnruar 1ikn a1, opnrcnnr 0n a lulSSUCRNSettS