Litchfield enquirer., 1869-01-28
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 seyes if the late elections may be taken as an ex-
 pression of their opinions repudate the idea of republican form of government; and probably tho
 is the euideat fdiiure of constitutional 90ueranen s Me United States. The Spanards Very naturally look upon the acts of Congress outside of the Con- sttuti0n, and the rapid strides to contraIization ! which have been taken in our government during the past three years, satisfactory esidence that the people, though generally educated, will part with their liberties without much effort to retain them.-Ha,Jo'd Times
 Is not this most remarkable spectacle,
 -an American journal playing into the l hands of European despots, and undert.s
 king to confess judgment against republi-. canism? Just at this time, too, after re-
 publicanism, having been put on it's trial,
 and the severest trial auy form of govern-
 ment ever endured, has gone through it
 triumphantly! Can the pettiest malice of the pettiest partisanship go much beyond this? The Times has, indeed, just as much right to b9 Jacobite as to be Jacob
 in, but is it honest when it writes itself,
 s'Democratic" Is it safe to entrust '.De- mocracy" of the kind avowed above with the administration of the republican, gov ernment of the United States, or of Cou- uecticut? sfte
 "The Spaniarls," says the 1Inses, S very
 naturally look upon the acts of Congress outside the Constitution" Gc. We are to suppose, then. that foreigners read our Consultation and Statutes at Large. World in hand, horror struck ut the iniqnities that most powerful of political microscopes discloses. and entering into all the littleness- es of Democratic craftsmanship Such is not the case. So far is Europe from consider ing the American government failure. that we find its complete anl wonderful success acknowledged in all quarters Oar example has not only confssscily caused the reform in the British parliament, but it has weakened despotism and strength ened democracy throughout the whole Con
 tiuept Even the Spanish monarchists
 who lead the revolution aud control the Provisional Government acknowledge a preference for a republic on general prin 1. ciples-they only propose limited monarchy in Spain as stepping stone to eventual republicanism. .. e..,l
 The declaration by the National Demo cratic Convention of 1864, that '.the war was failure" has not been considered a
 very happy hit. It was not quite so brazen a falsehood, however, as that which asserts t'the evideat failure of constitutional gov ernment in the United States. 3 II BsA- Apropos of church sociables we clip } the following from the last Danbury Times. When the eLady Gay Spanker sort of a 5 girl'' figure es at tho Congregational Socia.
 ble. the descendants of the Puritana may
 we'll claim to be making progress: a tl;s ,, CHURCH SocrAB1Es The sociable of the
 First Church, which took place at the house
 of D. P. Nichols, Esq, on Tuesday eve | ming, was one of the pleasantest assembla- ges of the season. A charade (Matrimony) was the piece de resistance of the evening, in which Mrs. Wildman, as the fond nam ma with daughters to marry, displayed te
 the best advantage the peculiarities of that Il not uncommon female Miss Starr, per feet Lady Gay Spanker sort of a girl, whose
 heart futtered at the very idea of becoming : the Countess de Vaurien" but whose
 schemes of grandeur were interrupted in 1 mid-process by the discovery that her pup , py of Count was only barber, received : many compliments for her rendering oi ] the character. Miss Nichols, us her mod t est sister, who was enioined by her ambi tious mother to try the wiles of simplicity on the pseudo Count, but who all the time - t,, 1oxy .x,sn xn s man even after his last stamp had been
 waited away on the breezes of law court,
 was we'll up in her part, and contributed , generously to the enjoyment of her guests. t Miss St. John as the ladies' maid and pat
 ron of the cheap novelists, and Mr. Fred
 Jackson as the rolicking Irish boy in love
 with the ladies' maid, were the geniuses of | cachination. MT. Ives appeared us the un f successful suitor in the law business, but a
 highly successful suitor in the love busi-
 ness. MT. Dibble was tho transitory Frenchman. Music was agreeably inter.
 spersed between the scenes and followed the charade. The solo ''Sicily, by Miss Bennett was encored; also the choruses '.The Bird Carol" and "On the Mountain 3 High, by Misses Crosby and Bennett and , Messrs. Frary, Jackson and Pond. Im-
 promptu choruses, saBango was his name, '
 a legend of some unfortunate mice. and the merriest chit-chat followed, until ten 7 o'clock, when the company departed in
 compliance with the assembly rules. The B next entertainment will be at the residence :, of Miss Knight, on Tuesday evening. Jan. i 26th. sas ..sna, Hook I 4
 The sociable of the. St. James Church : was held at the Turner House on Thursday
 evening last. A very pleasant. company
 fitted to and fro beneath the brilliant
 chandeliers, and whirled mildly in the ma
 zes. So pleasantly passed the hours that
 it was past eleven before the party thought f of adiourning. They will assemble this
 Thursday evening in the parlors of the
 Wooster House. +.,sa..7 <.,fI s-.-sg., I G@- We clip from the Berkshire Courie, T the following particulars regarding the Q death of the lato Charles Hunt of Canaan ."Charles Hunt, Esq, formerly president
 of the Housatonic railroad, died in Falls
 Village, on Friday. very suddenly. In | company with another gentleman he went ,f out to look at some wood, and while talk s ing, he suddenly fell backwards, dead He