Litchfield enquirer., 1880-09-02

! the crosses, the crowns the anchors. all by
themselves; grief-a sort g of ready-made
second hand grief-by the CARLOAD, bought
and paid for, and turned over to the driver
sorrow oy the hundred weight, and hauled by
a hired man " - ~ - = 8 81 EI97 -
! Politics are very quiet yet while There
nave been ratification meetings of the two par
/ Ties speeches by local celebrities, &C. but no
warmth and no activity. They are waiting
for cooler weather. .Venturing to ask poit
ical question of a prominent citizen, he replied,
Il know nothing, think nothing, care nothing,
about politics. He is an elderly man. In
terest In politics never dies out in Southern
| man at any age; our Legislatures often con-
| tain men of 70, and sometimes of 80 wears.
But what does D--.thlnk ?" | asked the
gentleman just alluded to- ''Oh. he thinks
| and feels pretty much as / do."I; D. is a
| much younger man, who at one time repre-
sented his State and had brilliant political
| prospects. la a"i'&s.sis 75'. 81. e.-''
! There it is, twas my inward and perhaps
unjust comment, f'these people have grown
| rich, and all they care about is the protection
| OF their property. That the safety of that
| property rests upon what we in the South call
| great constitutional principles NAV be very
| true, but if true, it does not seem to concern
the opulent men of this section. And as for
parties"-this was an inference of mine, and
not only an inference-''the time has passed
| when they supposed that virtue, honor, homes
| ty, or the safety of the country depended upon
either party. Under both parties, in war as
we'll as in peace, the country has gone for
ward. What matters it to them whether A or
b succeeds in the next struggle? Individually
they are safe in any event."",~@.f ....''-
| Now, all this, as l have just said, may be,
and probably is, unjust, but it came into my
head, and is not an unnatural inference from
what the gentleman himself so frankly stated.
VI the great factories of East Bridgeport
Wheeler & Wilson's, Howe's, the metal cart
| ridge factory and others, OF the beautiful SOL
diers' monument in the park, the handsome
residences which Barnum, the Snowman. has
built for himself and his children near the
park, OF the elms and naples that mpart such
q charm to the streets on which the private
residences are situated, it is not my purpose to
speak. | am come to tell more particularly
about the people,, not about the business or
the scenery, although the latter is so peculiar
ly lovely that it is impossible to pass it by un-
noticed. Already 1foresee that will have to
resist the temptation to dwell on the land and
water scapes which everywhere win and de-
tain the eye. Nor can 1 do more than allude
to The Farmer, a stanch Hancock paper, and
,Che Standard, the organ of the republicans.
The 'true inwardness" of the people is what
am after, and am going into the rural dis
tricts to find it. 80 T.. ..- a..
ACTING on advice received in Bridgeport
the Sun correspondent went up the Housaton-
ic valley to Cornwall from which place he
wrote four letters, of which we have received
but two. We have written tn the Sun office
for the missing numbers and hope soon to
present them complete to our readers.-ED.
Enc '-i |'..1''i '-'' D
~. s.7 LlToHFIELD, CONN, AUG. 10, 1880.
am dumb. HIRE have been in Yankee
land for fortnight, not looking for but fully
expecting to see something or hear somebody
'to get mad at" but have neither seen nor
heard anything of the kind. Nobody has in
suited me, made mouths at me, or 50 much as
pried into my business. Truth to tell, there is
less curiosity in these villagers than among
our own; the bump of inquisitlveness on the
Yankee head seems to have caved H. They
are accustomed to strangers, | suspect. ANY.
how, they are natural and human -beingy (i1
you Will allow tne term) to the point almost
of mOnotonOusness. But am dumb on anoth
er account, as you shall presently learn. b.
On the way hther occurred the first Yam
kee trick that have yet Witnessed A lively
gentleman on the stage, who kept up a con-
tinued talk and scufhe with the driver, was
selzed with desire Ter apples. and when we
halted, at a small farm house, inquired of the
owner, an old and evidently poor man, if he
had any. Yes" said the man, who had
business with the driver Ego round to the
north side of the house and you will find the
tree Soon the lively man reappeared with
heaping hatful of very fine ones
GLOW much for these!''
'Wal, l don't exactly know as | could"-
Before the slow-talking farmer could COM
plete his sentence the stranger broke out,
"On, thank you, thank you ; you are extreme
Kind, and we shall enjoy them exceeding
ly.' '
AS we ratified off, he handed the apples
around and laughed heartily at what he him.
self termed his Yankee trick" a mild one,
it must be owned. In Cornwall was told
'apples are free in this country; :" that is, one
Is allowed to enter an orchard and pluck them
without asking special premission. Yet in
many perhaps most parts of the South the be.
lief Is that Yankees are so saving and stingy
that they charge for everything, even for a
glass OF cold water.
AT the crossroads and in the hamlets
through which we passed there were large
hand-blls calling upon the Hancock and Eng
lish electors to assemble at the town hall in
Litchfield on the 2lst Of this month, the first
sign of political activity that has come under
my eyes. In this place, only thirty-two miles
from Hartford, where the Republican conven.
ton two days ago nominated Bigelow, there
is IN the hotel porch the Office, the dining
room, no political talk worth mention. Not
q single discussion has occurred within my.
hearing, and whatever may be the, state OF
feeling a month or six weeks hence is is
abundantly evident that so far th ere is not
much heart for the fight on either SIDE The
only person with whom have talked with
freedom man OF the people, Democrat,
who opened the subject himself, declared with
confidence that Hancock would be elected
with or without the vote of Virginia. He
based his opinion upon private information
that had come to him iu direct way about
the feeling of the Republicans in "York
State In quite small place no less than
twenty Republicans had announced their pur-
pose to vote for Hancock, and so it was over
all New York. As to the Democratic success
In Connecticut he had no doubt. whatever
On the other hand, Republican of wider
views and better means of Information said
this: "'.Little-as you OF the South may think
it, there was in 1874, and in less degree in
1876. strong reaction in your favor among
the better class of Republicans and founded,
too, upon genuine sympathy for you in conse
quence of the wrongs practiced upon you by
the carpet baggers. With what seemed to
me genuine feeling he characterized those
"iouSS dS iulcTudl ouI auueu ''OlnCe 1910
there has been, to a degree which perhaps you
by no means suspect, revival of 'stalwart-
ISM and this is founded On the fact that while
there is no longer any reason to sympathize
with people who have their local govern
ments in their own hands, there is reason to
believe that power is maintained as against
the negro aud the white Republicans by the
strong arm. Or, what amounts to the same
thing, the unrestrained manipulation of the
ballot box, Look at Alabama You will
find before November that the party (which 4
represents the intellect, the wealth and char
acter Of the North does not intend tamely to
submit to complete loss of national CONTROL
Hancock is not going to walk over the track
there will be ne child's play, promise you"
He spoke with animation, but in good temper
My duty lying in the direction of social rather
than Of nolitical Efo I auo Tia Ill.,. k.---L-.