Litchfield enquirer., 1871-07-06


 R0e We are in receipt of another com. munication from Mir. Penang from which we judge that he has not even yet recover ed his temper since his visit to Litchfield. The readiness with which he accuses us of malicious misrepresentation is unfortunate ly very characteristic of 8 certain kind of Temperance advocate. It is this very un- just, uncharitable, offensive style of treat ing honest and respectable opposition that has gone far to stigmatize all Temperance men as fanatics, and has done moro to in jure the cause than all the opposition of the liquor interest. In regard to the two charges made against us by our intemper- ate friend we would simply state that we had forgotton having made any statement about the accusations brought against the Massachusetts Constabulary, and that we had not seen the announcement of their acquittal from those accusations. Moreover, we consider it of very slight importance as regards the principle involved. No doubt honest officials can be procured in that State if they have not been already. It has always been our belief that State Con- stabulary would not enable us to enforce the law here in Litchfeld county, unless it might be in some brief, spasmodic, ineftec- tual way and what we have observed of the working of the system in Massachusetts does not lead us to think otherwise. As regards the State Temperance Journal ''as 1t was" we based our opinion not on hear say but on actual perusal. That narrow, bitter partizanship which has done so much to injure the Temperance cause especially, infected it's pages, and is not entirely absent, we should judge, from the present State Journal. @' a..
 s.. H a THoMAsToN, July 3d, 1871.
 LrTcHF1E1D ENoURER:-Having publish ed one communication from me I do not suppose you will deign another, and yet. to you confdentiany-if in no other way-I wish to say one word. In your preface to my article you speak of taOo temperance pa- pers already published in Litchfeld. Tn your great generosity you concede too nuch: to class the Sentinel as temperance paper is too rich; to class yourself So is possible and no more Let me tell you something that has escaped your notice. You, with many others commented severe ly upon the corruption of the Massachusetts police force when they were indicted be- fore the Assembly. You have left the im- precision on the minds of your readers that the police force of Massachusetts was 8 complete failure. You have not noticed (as far as have seen) the complete vindica- tion of the system as reported by the com mittee. Every facility was given by the to screen criminals from crim- mating themselves and yet the ordeal was passed safely and emerged unscathed from the fire. Why did you not give the same prominence to the refutation of the charges as you did to the charges themselves? Now it is easy for me to give the reason. You were opposed to the Constabulary law in Connecticut. and anything to hurt it was just lin politics). I send you, so you can. not say you are ignorant, the report of the committee and the speech of the Attorney General. You also speak of the bad rep utation of the Temperance Journal. " You, I presume, take for granted what others say in regard to temperance papers, with out taking the trouble to examine for your self. Will you do so now? I send you specimen copy of the Journal. have un- derstood heretofore that You are temper ance paper; as 8 Republican hope you are. sh5 .i PETER PENANG.
 p@- At the meeting of Superior Court Judges, at Hartford, last week, w. L. Ran som was ,reappointed clerk, and G. M. Woodruff assistant clerk for tL;s county, ov,l kbo foll opk 0f nd