Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-01
Ealsa Accusation.

The Editors of the Post, Enquirer, and Adoocate will learn that their base and false attacks upon the private character of Mir. Barnum will rebound only to their own dishonor.-FtI,naer.
 Last fall, the Democratic papers of the country were full of assaults on the private character of General Grant. Two years since, the. Democratic press of this State and District teemed with gross charges against the private character of Mir. P. T.
 Rarnuna--rE This ss,rins.- -oartain- -Raa,nhlican papers of this State and District have ven tured to doubt the fitness of Mir. W. H. Barnum to represent us in the present Congress, his usefulness in the past Con- gress. and the propriety of his mode of conducting electionsin the ynorth western towns of this county. His private charac- ter has not, to onr knowledge, been touch. ed upon. Yet the Democratic press, has been moved to use fouler language than we ever recollect to have before heard from that foul source. When we stated the no torious fact that MT. Barnum could not speak for his constituents in the delibera- tive body to which it was proposed to. send him, the Farme,. the Seatiael, and the Reg ister ragged, and protested, and yiliied us.. for making statement whose truth they cannot, after all, deny. When we further stated that Mir. Barnum had grossly neg-1 lected his Congressional duties, they ragged, and protested, and vilified us, again In another place will be found the precise facts which the record discloses, and which fully sustain our assertion.
 We ventured, also, to state that MT. Bar mum was shameless and wholesale cor rupter of voters. Hereupon the Demo- cratic papers fairly blaspheme. They de- nounce the heinvestigation that disclosed MT. Barnum's corruption; they denounce the witnesses that swore to 1t, the papers that reported their testimony, and, above all, those that dared to republish that testimo- ny at this critical juncture., They charged the ENQUIRER, particularly, with wishing to be bought up; thus, in their rage yayow- ing their guilty knowledge of the fact that Mir. Barnum does buy up journals, @.f. ,o'l
 We challenge our opponents to show where any attacks have been made against the private character of MT. Barnlm. If that suffers, it is, only as result from the disgraceful public record which We have esr tablished beyond peradventhre. In short, the Democratic journalist, hereabouts, is behaving, just now. much like rat caught in steel-trap. He gnaws at every thing within reach. He bites the file of the Con- gressional Globe, or the testimony of that true Democrat, fellow-employee, and most unwilling witness, Eli Eusign, just as rab- idly as he used to fasten on the memory of Abraham Lincoln. It is the blind yindic- tiveness of malice that feels it's impo-F tence. a.s1 asFss1s i.ef5 afftos set aa1t99s
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 The 18th AmendmenG and the Chinese The Democracy are grooming over the prospect of Chinese citizenship in the Pa ci6c States. They must be aware. howev- CT, that there is nothing in the proposed 1 Amendment to interfere with any State ex- clusion or restriction of citizens of for | eign birth. Massachusetts passed laws re- quiring two years residence after natu before foreign born citizens could vote. California can. if sI1a chooses