Litchfield enquirer., 1860-02-16
The Crisis.

The Crisis.
 lis the prevailing idea among large and re- spectable class of people, if it is not the outspo- ken word, that our country and our, institutions of freedom and liberty are just now passing through crisis which has never before been equalled in it's significance or importance since the time the government was founded, and the federal constitution submitted to the various sove- reign states for ratification. We do not mean a crisis of affairs, such as the loud mouthed disun ionists in Congress assembled, or those nearer home, are predicting with such lachrymose or brazen assurance-the immediate dissolution and dismemberment of the confederacy- none but the veriest dolts are deceived or frightened by such threats, made to subserve present party aims and future party triumphs-but, we mean, the crisis which all impartial, sober-minded men may fear and do fear, that these various parts so delicately adjusted and harmohizod in the whole. may become obnoxious to one another, may bear at least . lukewarm affinity to each other, and in the end, whether sooner or later, endanger the prosperity of the whole, and tend toward Q final, though gradual, disruption, disintegration; and disunion of these confederated states a.r
 Those same ranting mouthings of delegates from one part of our Union may perhaps, with due al- lowance, be taken as an indication of a grow. ing dissatisfaction and disaAcction of party at the South toward the North. It is hard perhaps for Item to feel the power, the government, the rewards, slipping out from their hands, into the control of the majority: but tho fact is better discernible in the indications we every day hear, of the disafection of the South toward the North, expressed in various ways,-in the suppression of free speech, almost of free thought, upon the sub- ject of northern institutions and the prevailing sentiment here, and in the outrages flor we can call them by no milder name,) which every day are inflicted npnn roneenhle. inoiTcnsive men and women, who are guilty of only this one crime, a love or longing of our institutions and our free dom discernible finally, in the thousand and one threats we hear, of what the Soadl will do in case . President is elected in legal way, by majority of the votes of legal citizens in all which we find, tendency toward final, fierce civil dissension, unless this tendency is speedily checked. , ;5H s,td s.1ta Gsa 2R
 It is consoling fact certainly, that when ever political crisis does occur now--such as an election of a Republican speaker-this party quickly quiets down, as undoubtedly they would or will do,-in the event of the election of . Republican president,---but lack of.sympa- thy or worse feeling still, may remain and gene rate. esltt! sif ,e5ys ,af5''r'' "
 Only last week, Q representative of vir- ginia in the House at Washington, attempted to infict a personal assault upon brother repre- sentative from the North, for sarcasm uttered in the 1all of Representatives. 1twas the same pitiful wretch, to be sure, who acted as con- panion puppy to the infamous Brooks in his br,,- tal assault upon Sumner but such assaults are meant, it is thought, to show an indignant state of feeling, and hostility from southern toward . northern representative, and through him to the whole North. A distinguished editor of . New York paper lately remarked at Union meeting in Albany" The Union is already dis solved, in sentiment and sympathy; the bounda- ry lines indeed remain on the map, but there is no anion between the partsl' Is this true 1? lf so. how much to be hoped the success of that party which shall act with frmness tempered with kindness, with moderation, with sympathy with power; under the leadership or Presidency of one. who, while representing the great moral sentiment of this land, shall not be weak, or vac- cilating, or given to trucking to Southern mas tess. like the melanss ply spectacle that now fills the highest ofice-but who shall proclaim and enforce peace and quietnde in all sections, who shall calm the angry waves of sectional discord. and who, when the sounds of Disunionisn, reach his ear shall be strong enough, and firm enough, and great.enough to put the cries and the criers beneath his feet with Proclamasion of the "Old Hickory" stamp, or with an emphatic and unmistakabIs By the Eternal rs---such as his
 Many such men we could name among tn, Republican lsaders. Can one such be found ii the co called Democratic partys faa 7
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