Litchfield enquirer., 1870-08-18
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Litchfield, Thursday, Aug. 1s.1s7O
The Address.

gressional Committee, to be found on Sui first page, is an excellent document of its kind. Calm, careful, and correct in state ment, it commands confidence from the complete absence of that virulent parti sanship which disfgures most campaign papers.
 The address refers with a just pride te the history of the Republican party which 1t divides into four eras: the period of its struggle for power; the civil war; recon struction; and the thorough collection oi revenue, and the great reduction of expen- allure and of taxation, of our present ad. ministration. The grand issues of Free Soil of the perpetuity of the Union, and of Univeral Male Suffrage have been decided one after another, ,and the decisions have been made irreversible by constitutional g. amendments. Throughout the whole mo- mentous fifteen years of the existence of Repablicanism, its policy has been oppos- cd by the Democratic party. Before the war, during the war, since the war. that organization has mischievously opposed reforms now conceded by candid men to have been unavoidable. Such an unvarying career of error is unparalleled. Nothing. in fact, has preserved that party but the great influx of foreign emigrants, whose ignorance of our politics has thrown them in bulk into an organization with Radi- cal name, but with Conservative princi- ples. How entirely this is the case, will be seen by glance at the composition of parties in Connecticut. In 1860, the Re- publicans were successful after an extraor- dinarily sharp contest, by majority of 500; in 1870, they were beaten by less than thousand. During that ten years, our naturalized vote cannot have increased less than 10000, at least 5000 of which is cast for the Democratic party. Against such odds, the Republican party has only maintained itself in Connecticut by being plainly right in principle and in practice, while its opponents were as plain ly wrong. fl..
 With such record, now matter of his. tory, the Republican party has manifest right to the continued control of affairs urn less its present administration and policy are as plainly wrong as it's past administra- tion and policy have been plainly right. On this vital point the committee refer with con. Adaonn %o &hn ~oc,,l&r of &ba f3rck xzao~ of Grants presidency. The figures tell the whole story. There has been an increase in revenue of about $3s, 1000. 900 and de- crease in expenditures of $29, 1000, ,OOO-a net gain of sirty-seven millions of dollars. This is a sufficient proof of the honesty and economy of Republican administration. The present Republican Congress has re- lieved the enormous burden on production resulting from Democratic rebellion, by reducing taxation more than $75, ,00O, 900. It has also provided for the funding of our debt at lower rate of interest.
 With such proof of the honesty and econ- omy of the party in power, there can be little fear of its supersedure by an organi- zation which started rebellion and suggest cd repudiation. Nevertheless, there is reason to fear temporary loss in the com ing campaign. We do not imagine that the next Congress can by any possibility be Democratic, but we do expect large increase of the Democratic delegation, fall ing, however. much short of majority, The causes of this change are obvious. In 1868 the frightful blunders of the Democ. racy gave us every Northern State except Oregon they only held New York and New Jersey by fraud). Now that Reconstruc- ton is out of the way and the Blair ineu- bus off Democratic shoulders, there is cer. tainty of their making some gains. In the amendments of the Tariff. also, the ultra protectionists have prevented any adequate reduction of those extravagant prices which war taxes enable many of our manufactur- CTS to secure. From this latter cause we expect considerable Democratic gains in the West. Our chief sourse of danger, however, is at the South. Many of the Republican State administrations, headed by carpet-baggers and elected by negroes, have proved extravagant and corrupt to an extent only paralleled in Democratic New York. This style of proceeding has just re- ceived sharp rebuke in North Carolina. probably not the only Southern state where like sin will meet with like punishment. On the other hand the adoption of the Eff. teenth Amendment gives us some Con gressmen in the Border States.
 We shall be agreeably disappointed if the elections of 1870 are not of reactiona- " tendency. Everything indicates such a result ; and temporary check, prelimina. " to the next grand move on the enemy's works in 1872, will probably do us at least as much good as it will the Democracy.
 Admiral Farragut.
 At noon on Sunday, our great Admira breathed his last at Portsmouth. A trut sailor, of the dashing, Nelson type-aplain,