Litchfield enquirer., 1869-04-22
4at5delo Gnquirer. Litchield, Ct. Thursday, Apr. 22 ,'69
The Alabama Question

Litchfeld. Ct. Thursday, Apr. r.22, 2, ,'69.
 The Alabama Question.
 The speech of Senator Sumner delivered in nthe Senate on the Alabama question, has been published. The rule of secrecy regarding discussions in Executive Session was suspended by vote, and the single speech made was published, in order to let the people of America and Great Britain iudga.faizly @of the motives that induced the Senate to reject the work of Messrs. Seward and Johnson.o We are no great ad- raiferso Senator Summers style of oratory. The speech before us, however, is most splendid and most satisfactory piece of work tis decidedly the best MT. Sum- lisro ever delivered He treats his great subject grayely, worthily, without any un- due exhibition of iH-temper, yet setting forth the great cause of anger we have against ther government of Great Britain, and thef enornity of the injury we have suffereds with terrible power. He never oyerloads his matter with those flowers of Reclamation with which the great Massa- cl1usetts Senator is apt to annoy his hear a-svfE aat l4EH Ea@z2LG 5aGe sf} f5s
 Is Contrasting the ,inexplicable haste with with which Great Britain conceded bellig- erent rights to the embryo Confederacy, with the equally inexplicable tardiness that marked her measures for stopping the pi- ratical dcruisers her subjects were busy fit- ting out against American commerce; con trasting, also, the loud English Anti Slave rysprofessions with her Pro.Slavery prac- tice, dMF. Snmiier draws the unavoidable conclusion that they were the result of uu- friendly feeling towards us. He then points .outthe tremendous damage that resulted directly and indirectly from this unfriend- linass- Years of life were addad to the
 Rebellion by the miscalled proclamation oi
 Neutrality. Our mercantile navy was near
 ly swept from the ocean by vessels built
 armed and manned by Englishmen. The
 moderate demands for reparation made du- ring the war, wore contemptuously reject
 ed.a Finally. after years of waiting and 'heart-burning, treaty is presented which, without syllable of acknow ledgement on the part of Great Britain, proposes to set atle4all outstanding claims by allowing ar- biters, chosen by lot, to award, if they see fit 2 few hundred thousand dollars to indi- 1vidual owners of whale ships. Mr. Sum- Ener does not descend to the bad details of this bad treaty. He proposes to have an honest confession of the wrong done, and adequate compensation therefor, or noth- ing. That this is the determination of Americans of all parties, the unanimous vote of the Senate, and the general appro- val of the Press, sufficiently indicate.
 4. A. HUABUG. Tine Bridgeport i&andard deserves credit for attacking the 'spresenta tion',evil Every year our fable and ac-
 comphshed" Lieutenant Governor, and ou, equally unparalleled Speaker of the House ,aof Representatives, have to be given silver pitchers or gold watches or something of
 the sort, in consideration of the 'impar-
 tial" and altogether wonderful way in which
 they have discharged the 'sarduous duties'' , of their respective offices. For fourteen years, precisely, we have had an uninter. 7 tapted line of these pitcher-deserving pro.
 digies, till we are inclined to howl with ' Macbeth. .,, .@s4<
 What. will the line stretch out to the crack of doom And yet the next appears, who bears glass; la, .
 5 m Which shows me many more; and some see
 unss sSwo-iod 6aus and treble scepters carry;
 j1g- The practice has long since ceased to i'm [ ply acompliment. Q It only remains bur. fden'on the people. We say Con the peo
 pie adyisedly, for the member who has to subscribe immediately votes himself an ex. stra mileage, and pockets the difference. It . is z small grievance; nevertheless, the nui- < sance is unquestionable. Let it be abat- ned,v1DzuI gfsys e4 b4a. s~naess e.s
 ssnBG The Methodist Conference which
 met at Middletown, lately, adopted strong
 Temperance resolutions They propose to preach upon that subject at least once every year. They doubt the expediency of using intoxicating wines for Sacramental pur- poses. They discountenance the use of tobacco. They favor prohibitory laws. They disapprove of the use of cider and ' Homemade if ne wines. They consider it the duty of the church Tot to patronize such physicians as prescribe the use of alcoholic mixtures freely. In conclusion, they call on the people to bring the might. est energies of the Press to bear in favor of aalt the Temperance cause, through the Nation.
 a temperance Publishing House. s ~q ATotal Abstinence is right, then it is right that every Christian church should be a Total Abstinance Society. We think very little of the religion which breaches merely, ,sand leads to nothing. The Meth. odist clergy are as earnest and as self-sac- srifcing christians as can be found among
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