Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-11

interest, it is the duty of the United States to insist that if built, and ny Whomsoever. the, same. may beIcommeuced, prosecuted:o Or conis spleted, and whatever the nationality or it's cor porators or the source of their4eapital. the i1- terest of the United States ndtheir right to possess and control the same will be asserted and maintained, whenever in their opinion it
 becomes necessary.
 Pres. Woolsey, on the contrary sees no req son why the United States should be worried about M. Lesseps' project A letter of his in Sundays Tribune closes as follows;
 My point, then. is this: That until the Preach government tries, through the canal, to constrain the people of Colombia in their choice of government, the Monroe doctline has l no applicability in the matter, and should not be referredi to, in connection with it. Whether that is likely to happen l will not
 try to foretell but simply point to the placid
 waters of the Suez canal, dug under the enl- pire. and to the inofensiye character of the present government of France. We have a 1 canal concession by. treaty with Nicaragua.
 The proper way to control all interoceanic canal, in my opinion, is to build it ourselves
 and not any longer to play the dog in the man. ger. ! . E,4a As we generally anticIDated, the house yesterday, after long and able debate, voted
 to concur with the senate in approving the agreemententered into between the cOmmis- sioners for Connecticut and New York with
 reference to the establishment of boundary lines between the two states. Before the line agreed upon can be permanently settled, con- gress must ratity it, following the joint ap proval of the legislatures of New York and Connecticut. The legislature of New York hop fntzE h,,k lxI..x the commissioners acts will be sustained
 One of the features of the house debate yester :: day was an exceedingly interesting speech ny the Hon. Gideon H. Holster of Litchfeld. the well-known lawyer historian Besides the historical familiarity shown in the subject, the speaker made occasionally fine display or
 humor which gave keen edge to his speech and made it one of tbe most popular efforts of the session. .-Hartford Courant.
 If the Republican party desires to elect the next president and we believe it is for the best interests of the>country that it should, a man must be nominated who can and will re- celve the enthusiastic support of the whole party. e
 There is no use disguislng the fact that Gen. Grant cannot do it, and the sooner Cameron Conkling 6 Co.,, are brought to understand that they are not the Republican party or it's custodians, the better it will be for them and the party at large. They may succeed in ruin ing the party but they cannot rule it. While they are seeking for the spells of office that would be sure to fall to them if they succeed in placing their man in the presidential chair, the masses of the party are seeking for can tidate whose elevation to the highest office in the gift of the people will neither involve the sacrifice of principle on their part, nor the es- tablishment of precedent that may be a dan- gerous heritage to leave to coming genera lions. The Republican party can easily nonl- mate such a man if they will If they do not, defeat stares them in the face, and if they do, victory is certain WolcottoilSe Register.