Litchfield enquirer., 1856-11-27
For Presidenf---1 1860.
JOHN G. FREMONT,
OF CALIFORNIA.

1HC cicCtoH Oiice OSNF, san the lie ldefS OF the
Administration Party. land Kansas will cease to
bleed, Horace Greedy will seek new fields for his IA
natcisn, General Beecer resign his military honors
and the smaller fry, the pugilistc parson and slc
soldiers creep into their holes TO await further orders
from head quarters In the meanti.ne, the country
gus for period of her fighting clergy and infdcl
editors will regain her equilibrium, and assume the
majesty of Democratic government"
Such was the language put forth by the leaders of
party winch canfased every district. and spoke in
every rhool-house in Connecticut How has the
prophecy been fulfilled,
The first result worthy of notice, is the refusal of
the Governor Of Virginia to APPOINT Day of
Thanksgiving for other reason than that it is
Northern institution. His Excellency ignores a
timchonored and holy festival lest the PRAYERS of
the citizens of that State should in their ascent
10 heaven, the track OF the angel bearing the bur
then OF Northern thanksgiving and supplieation-
I" 1t is meet says an organ of the South. that
the miserable SIM tricken polluted, ungodly pop
ulation of the North should pray but no more
irhanksgivings for Virginia." Il. 4
More openly than does this State of Virginia
avow her csrc to reccde from the Union and word
too bitter and malignant cannot be found to embody
the nvectyes she would hurl against the North and
Northern institutions
Next In order comes the united voice of the
Southern Press, urging upon their representatives
the expediency OF a repeal of the laws prohibiting
the slave trle. L,udtory notices of the career of
that illustrious freebooter William Walker, and re-
published documents from his own organ, setting
forth his plans Of operation, in the opening of the
ports of Nicaragua to the importation of negroes
Finally, wall like that which goes up at night from
an ensanguined battlefield, where on every breeze
is borne the cry OF dying men comes the asauzcd cry
Of Kansas
Tho prophets and sons of prophets have foretold
that Kansas would soon cease to bleed, that the
sound of would die out from the land, on the
election of Mr. Buchanan, the wall still arises, and
the prayer of her bitter wrongs still ascends.
Think of it, free Citizens of the North 1! Nine
teen brave, true-heartcd young men, for no other
crime than loving liberty and defending it, condem
ned to five years hard labor in chain-gan with
ball and chain to their legs, going out from the
presence of their Judges, back to their dungeons
shouting on the way Liberty and Fremont 60
ing forth condemned fe!ons, "Me ttions Of Lier-
~, with undaunted courage and unbrokcn spirit to
IN imprisonment, the depth of whose degradation
the most despotc tyrant of Europe would hardly
dare to enforce.
Sisters of New England! whose b,others these
men are-we give you the tribute of our tears
Mothers whose SONS are there enrolled God comfort
ye.
Kccny sensible to the horrots of warfare, the NOR.
alist who has put forth his peace theories, can now
get ready to fight his shuddering terror of blood
can no longer restrain him his desire for right ac
ton cannot be answered by the hope of better times
and if he would assert his constitutional freedom
he must wrcst back, (eten if compelled to violence
that which fraud and robbery have taken from him.
With uplifted hand and hcrrife,l couhtenances
the indirect abettors of these atrocities cry out
against the clergy, who, in common with the friends
of liberty throughout the world, feel themselves
warranted to warn their people against the danger
that MANAGES their hottest institutions urging upon
them to discern the sigs of the times, which SO I'M
pcratively demand from every Christian man, I" the
principle and the earnestncss of service rendered
to God Truth and Freedom" With OVERLOOKING
eyes, they bewail the prostitution Of the Press that
denounces traitors, and calls murder sin grant
ing no quarter to Editors that have the andacty and
the COINCIDENCE to state manflly their views regard
ing great moral right, which is to settle the ques-
ton, whether Freedom Slavery is to be the con-
trolling power of our national life With perfuncd
handkcrchcfs they wipe away tears of sympathy for
the invasion Of private griefs, forgetting those
griefs which, have been made public through atroc-
tics too disgusting and dialolical to recount With
cry of an assailed and terrified household echo along
the streets of New England village, and pass over
an assault upon the rights of property and the
sanctity of private dwelling. which Is the mosc
yricvous an outrage on the public peace, inasmuch
as 1t is boasted over, as an attempt to itimilate
and silence the liberty of the Press
Deeply is the free and Independent spirit of New
England wrung to-day. Though she has pronoul-
ced in words Of thunder her entire disapprohaiion
of the acts of the last four yearsthoueh she dis
claims all cenDsction with the rabble, who will,
Ipikc-stave and cannon SO forth the vanguard of
slavery-thongh her ministers openly ayov their
willingness to enter even upon tl battlefield in de-
fence of the erase. she is powcricss TO act and for
present like tc old puritan sitting in the pillory
must calmly wipe from her brow the rhurne voided
upon her.
In closing this article, quote the language Of
Chief Justice Parker, of New Hampshire, who
gave his support to the Fugitive Slave Law believ
Tag IL 10 be constitutional For earnesness and