Litchfield enquirer., 1872-03-28

ana with tn1S now gone, where dOe6 our ! safety lie? Only few years since q, fine steamer on Long Island Sound was drift sd by storm upon Fishers Island" af- ter its officers and almost all its psssen- gers had been lost The first officer had before declared, If this vessel only car ; ned sheet anchor, We could an be saved To-day great corporations and railroad monopolies are fostered, while al- most the entire weight of taxation is i'm posed upon lands and buildings To my own mind we should heed the instructions of Washington against overgFown militia " powers on the one hand, and those o1 Jackson against the exercise of unwar- ranted powers by great corporations on the other hand. They are parasites that fasten on the body poitie, penetrate the heart, and take away it's life blood, as eer- tainly as hanging moss overspreading a liv- ing tree in the course O: time deprives if of natural life.
 For democratic treasurer of Connecti cut to be taken out from a corporation hot-bed and be recommended for such reason by democratic papers, is inconsist- ent, and those who sustain him have not the cloaks of Jackson Democrats on them. I have always espoused the cause of dem ocratic men, not of democratic ''possums. ' With these views denounce the unftness of this creature of corporations for the office of Trearurer of the State of Con- necticut. A. T. Stewart, the great i'm porter. was not more justly debarred on that account from being Secretary of the U. 8. Treasury. So far have these cun- ming arts been practieed by corporation agents that an honest man in the exercise of his free suffrage is led to prefer the square opponent of his views to the party men whose views, relations, and feelings his conscience tells him are base and mer- cenary. This claim rests on solid found ation, though to many, at first thought, it may appear visionary. Suffrage with only slight restrictions is now extended to nearly all classes of persons in the United States. Hence capital in the hands of base and mercenary parties will tend to buy in such as look only to some immediate profit; measure men ofconscience should repudiate.
 If property owners under extended suf- frage become less than a moiety of all the voting population, which they are liable to be, their rights are then nuder control oi an irresponsible majority.
 The writer holds on to what is good in the old democratic faith, and gives his suffrage to sustain democratic principles, as farmer when autumn comes, gathers in fruit from his trees, retaining that which is sound, and will stand the test of winter, and rejecting the rest On the same principle, he will strive to seek tha. which is pure, from among all things, as person would prefer water from a pure fountain to that taken from a muddy brook. It is worthy record of one's name to have been freeman of Connec. ticut. To bear the taint of & political slave, or vassal in the State, is to become barren of any blood like Paul's when he declared 'I am man, which am citizen of no mean city" The sons of Oonnecti- cut have proved among the foremost to point the cannon and bayonet at the hearts of their country's enemies. This was proved in the late rebellion, where a chief son of 8 nsighboring State, under it's protecting @gis, faltered before the strong defences of Wilmington, and was super ceded by a son of Connecticut
 We are citizens of State, in propor- tion to its population, the first in the Union, in wealth, in civilization, in Chris tianity and liberal principles. It is well to look at the future, that we do nothing that shall tend to bring upon us correc- tion, for State, or national misdoing. h. stead of sleeping over our trusts we need to be watchful citizens. Then let us not allow the treasury of Connecticut to be- come one of the many irons in the great corporation fire. ....- ....
 If an excuse is asked for the motives in sending this manuscript to the press, it is, ':Next to salvation, the public welfare, my highest aim p MoRDEoA.