Litchfield enquirer., 1879-06-19
An Old Subject Revived.

has certain general interest. On the purel, personal question our sympathies are witt Hill. Mir. Blaine's last weeks remarks seen rather intended to nag his opponent into som foolish outburst of temper, than to offe any weighty proof of misconduct against him The truth seems to be that Mir. Hill was no an extremist before or during the war. HI labored against immediate secession in order t. leave room for accommodation. In the Con federate Senate, he opposed the retaliator. measures pressed by the extremists, and ever went so far as to maintain that citizen of , Southern state had right to side with tn, Union against the Confectionery, holding tha in such case his position was that of an enemy and not of a traitor. The charge of his having been forward in offering inhuman proposition of retaliation, pressed by MT. Blaine in tho House in '76, he has exclusively disproyed by reference to the full record of proceedings ir the Confederate Senate not then at his com mand.
 But, however readily we may concede Mr. Hills candor, the consistency of his acts witt his own idea of political duty, and his free dom from any stain of personal inhumanity we cannot but believe that, with Alexander H. Stevens and other sincere lovers of the old Union, he sinned most grievously against it. Though disavowing any adherence to the Secession theory, they allow themselves to be coerced into the practice of Secession. Though nd Woh of the Constitution, Mir. Hill acted upon the Calhoun theory, without seeming in the least conscious of any inconsistency in so acting. Now man who breaches loyalty, but prac- tices treason, makes great mistake, as it seems to us, in claiming any positive merit for his preaching. All that Mir. Hill can claim is the purely negative merit of not having planned or urged on the crime to which he finally became party.
 Let us bring this matter directly to the test by supposing the election. of Republican President in '8O and that Georgia should at- tempt another secession in '81. Would Mir. Hill again consider it has duty to Ego cut with hls State" as he had done twenty years be- fore? We see nothing to indicate that he has changed the view of duty which led him into treason on the former occasion He might no doubt consider the opportunity even less favorable than than before, but should the loyalty of Senator of the United States be a mere question of expediency?
 The chief vice of the Calhoun doctrine lies in it's making the allegiance of the citizen to the State supreme; his allegiance to the na- tion, bordinate-defeasible by the action of any State convention renouncing that allegi- ance. MT. Hill has said nothing in all of his many and long personal explanations which would lead us to believe that he now considers his allegiance to the nation of so high nature that mass meeting of Georgian secessionists could not absolve him from it, and turn him over from loyalty to treason by the mere passage of preamble and resolutions. Little as we fear any immediate disloyal action on the part of the South can the North be expected to be satisfied without some frank Southern disa- vowal of this their old heresy?
 
 metropolis is the murder of Mrs. Jane De Forest Hull, wife of New York doctor, on Tuesday night. Early Wednesday morning she was found dead in her bed. She was bound hand and foot, her feet being tied sepa- rately with strong strips of sheetlng one to each side of the bed Her hands were tied tightly at the wrists and crossed tightly over her breast. There was a piece of sheeting over her mouth fastened at the back of her head. and she was blindfolded. A trunk be- side the bed was open and had been rif1ed of the most valuable of it's contents, while the many little things in it of no value to any one The woman had apparently died by suffoca- tion after the diamond and emerald rings which she wore had been forcibly removed from her fingers. The deceased was person of good family, member of Sorosis, and Spiritual ist. She had recently lost a good deal of money in speculations. Some suspicion has fallen upon her husband, but there is no evi- dence against him, and he affirms that he and his wife have always lived happily together. There is, as yet, no sort of clue to the mystery, the detectives discovering nething-as usual
 The Pennsylvania House of Representatives, after an intellectual attempt to expel the mem. bers proved to have been bribed to vote for the State assumption of the Pittsburg riot claims, has finally raised committee which is in- structed to press the prosecution of Kemble, and the agents of his corruption, before the courts. It is believed that these men can be convicted, as besides the proof of actual bribery dozen or more members will testify to cor rupt proposals frem the railroad lobby. Cor ruptisn in Pennsylvania is usually found wear ing the Republican uniform, as, in New York it has usually appeared in Democratic guise We hope it will be exposed and punished ir this case as thoroughly as it has been in New York
 Louisiana breeds very peculiar type of witness. Here has the Spofford- Kellogg case been trying before the Senate elections com. mittee for many days, and each day has its new surprise. All the witnesses have lied, first on one side and then on the other Spofford who has introduced them, has made very queer showing. Many of his witnesses hay. deceived him up to the last moment, and ther sworn for Kellogg Others have slumpee under cross-examination, and others stil have been antagonized by former aff1davits ir direct opposition to their late testimony. w havn't particle of doubt that Kellogg bought his way in, but there IS no reliable proof O that fact before the committee yet
 The Hartford Times prefers Ewing, tn, Ohio Infationist, to Foster, the Ohio hard money candidate. Is that what we are to ex pect of paper hitherto loyal to sound curren cy, if there IS Democrat of the Ewing ol Carey stripe nomineted for the Presidency il 1880? "our party, may it be right but oul party, right or wrong!" seems to be the motto Of every Democrrtic paper in this state, and O