Litchfield enquirer., 1869-09-02
9itt5dtlb Gnquirer. Litchfeld, Thursday, Sept. 2, 1868

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 Litchfield, Thursday, Sept. ?, 1S6s
 Good Advice.
 If good advice were not such a chear commodity, we might expect the Democ racy to profit by the no small amount they are just now receiving from men of thei, own selection. In the first place, General Rosecrans, in declining the Democratic nomination as Governor of Ohio, talks SC plainly that even Pendleton ought to un. derstand :--@
 No local declarations inviting popular prejudg ment or any legal questions about the terms o payment of the national bonds should impair the priceless value of the public crtdit, at . time when its an-important to create the speediesl means of ridding the country of those enormous should tend to raise higher and higher the public credit, and to satisfy the people of Europe tha, the Democratic Party is the last Party in the Uni ssa sha tS whine at reu though its present holders should have brought it below its fair value. sg. - , The following, too, is really refreshing, Jefersonian and democratic: What of old gave the Democratic Party in the found faith in the capacity of man for seH gov ernment and progress, under institutions based on the great principles of liberty, fraternity and ing the logic of it's faith into action. < Fossils and faut-fnders do not properly belong to the party, and if found in it ought to go.on the retired list, leaving to it's opponents nonopolies and favoritism, based on class, creed, race, color or national origin. 4ftss '
 With such retired list, who would be left for active service? General Rosecrans is talking radicalism without knowing it. The men who preach and practice pro- gress are no longer to be foand in the ranks of the Democracy"
 The Democrats of Massachusetts have renominated that lively young man and queer Democrat. John Quincy Adams, Jr.. who also volunteers some good advice: mocratic party, if it wishes for permanent useful ness, must mind the advice of Dr. Holmes:
 Yet in opinions
 'll 'Htf Look not always back; --
 The past is nothing,
 Mind tte coming track"
 I think that the defeat we suffered in the elec- ton last Fall substantially eetted thetwo questions of reconstruction, and negro suffrage. Much as we dislike that settlement-and no one dislikes it more thoroughly than do-there is no way short of revolution by which we can avoid it or overturn it; by which we can help accepting it whether we like it or not.
 Very little of the Tammany platform would be left visible to the naked eye if Rosecrans and Adams had their will of it. But Democratic Conventions are not so wise in their generation as Democratic can didates. It is the'latter that get the beat ing. while the"platforms 'havnt the sensi- tiveness of flesh and blood to make their prospect uncomfortable. In fact the true De- rnocratic dodge in these days is to fasten on some pliant republican and V respectable darkey or two, let them make their own platform. the straighter radical, the better, and then swallow the dose without tasting. Such ticket on such platform has in several late instances been elected. It seems tough to Vallandigham and the 'Old Guard" but it is the only chance of success full Democratic progress yet discovered.