Litchfield enquirer., 1861-12-05
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on oMnnaay, as for long weeks before, we wait. ed on honday we watched with eager and half gratitied expectation on Tuesday our vision was broken by the black fall of disappointment settling heavily over Us now-we must he !" mn and doing." And doing what? The first and most important thing of all is to brace our minds for the conflict, long, bloody, and disastrous as it may be. say disastrous but I mean only for the passing time, not in the ter imitation. America" as foreigner recently remarked, {" America is cleaning her house." But we must not be checked at the dust we are rais- ing, or appalled, at the AMgean look of the stables rendered 80 vile by the heightened SO. journ of corruption and disguised tyranny. A long pull, strong pull, and pull all together" will in time accomplish the end which we all with 80 much earnestness desire. say aH be- cause the exceptions, however numerous, are teo mean to be regarded, though not, am sorry to say, so powerless that they should be neglected. Indeed that IS the next step to be attended to- We don't want to treat the traitors here as they do the Union men in the South-hang them to the nearest tree-but we must tie their hands. We must prevent their giving "aid and comfort to the enemy" or annoyance to ,..ls must not be allowed to Haunt ,l lo, ensign ill our faces, or utter the 7j .s.imar in our presence. They do this ROW -rarfer knowing that we will not for s own ,Eas
 initiate the atrocities of "our 's. . .s-'.. ren,' but there is another, and 4v of stopping their mouths. Cal !" ISecessionists," but brand ther
 name of Traitor. They deser
 tell you that this is " free Country'l So it is, but the doctrine of French militia Colonel in Missouri is very good one for these days, Everybody may thlnk what he like, talk what he like, and do what he like only- he must think, and talk. and do, no treason"! This is a " free Country" but murder is hanging matter even here; and so is treason, though as South erners have for years allowed the murderer, SO we have too long permitted the traitor, to go unpunished. Point at them with the finger of scorn, but don't, for dignityis sake, d0ntattempt to argue with them! It is all waste labor. The dearest reasoning enlightens their understand Ing no more than the bright rays of Summer Sun illuminate tho eyes of the blind They will tell you in the face of all proof that the Sun is mass of blackness, or, that Slavery is light to the nations." The one being as demonstrable as the other.
 Shutting the mouth of treason is one thing for us to do, and opening our own eyes is anoth- CT, and as necessary. In fact we have all along walked right into pit falls and way traps with our eyes tight shut, indeed many times we have nt got them open in season to find our way out again. To point out the gins into which we AdNO tuIAAUlCu WOulu SCcUl LO U0 III. Dor, for even bird caught in the tolls is nevera such fool as to magazine itself free; but man apparently is. Calling this war for tho sub- version on one side, and support, on the other, ot the National Government, is one of the worst Of tho traps into which we have yet fallen It IS on the contrary wnr on the one side for the unlimited extension of Slavery in all it's horrors; on the other for it's annihilation at whatever cost. That is the plain state of the Case how ever the clerks of the circumlocution office' may word it.
 A beliee that the horrors of slavery" existed only ia the minds of ngger worshippers," and romance writers, is another miserable trap into which nearly the entire Northern States, and portion, also, of the rest of the world, have fal len What these horrors are, we have now an opportunity to discover far the worse than sa- wage astrocties inflicted by the infuriated rebel troops upon the unfortunate prisoners and wound ed are nothing but repetition of what, in mo- ments of exasperation, they have so long prac- ticed upon their helpless slaves. Idon't say that they may not be "knd hearted in the main," and sorry for it afterwards" but that don't help their victims bit, and systg"" "s which such things had the least chanceZi ought to have never been put stop to lo,,e ago. l have never been an abolitionist," but l wish now that I had Not that would have init ated John Brown, Wendell Phillips, or o Gerrit Smith. Heaven forbid. The first would have inaugurated system as cruel, in the oppo- site extreme, as that he sought to abrogate the second, though brilliant orator, is apparently an unprincipled man; the third, though we'll meaning has given evident marks of being fool. No, not an Abolitionist, since they arc considered the representative men of that party, but, if you like it better an Emancip,.gmtio"iss- We must at last come to the point. The cause of all our trouble, which everybody now in their secret hearts acknowledges to he--the irrepres- sible nigger" must be rooted up.
 It is no longer question of" Shall we do h?" but, "How shall we do it?" The Why" is known to us all We shall be totally and ire treveably ruined, nationally and individually, if we submit to be the vessels of "chvalry," and Emancipation is the one strong weapon left in our hands, to use either for offence or defense. We may not be obliged to have recourse to it, but appearances now lean strongly that way Time will show. But let every one in the mean while consider affairs clearly aad conscientious ly, with the eye of Q statesman, and the heart of a patriot, lending no ear to the voice of any mean party leader," but following simply tho dictates of an unimpassioned and unwavering judgment, bracing his mind for "events to come.'
 HILTON SAVER.
 Sharon, C., Nov. goth 1861.
 A VERY LAUGHABLE AFFAIR.-We find in an exchange, the following anecdote, Itaken from a book entitled, " Notes of an Army Surgeon" and said to relate to an occurrence during the seige of Fort Erie, in the war of 1872 :-
 q remember, one day, in making my hospital rounds a patient, just arrived pesentea me an amputated forearm, and in doing so, could scarce ly refrain from q broad laugh the litter was constantly on his face,
 "What is the matter ?--ths does not strike me as subject of laughter"
 "lt is not, doctor; but excuse mo, lost mp arm in so funny way that still laugh when look at it. Our first sergeant wanted shaving, and got me to attend to it, as am corporal, We went together in front of his tent; l had lathered him-took him by the nose, and was just applying the razor, when cannon ball came, and that was the last saw of his he"G and my arm. Excuse me, doctor for laughing so, but 1 never saw such thing before
 EGs- Vanity Fair outstrps all it's cotempoa- ries of the daily press with it's news rom M;' war. It will be recollectsd that when the le" eral troops reached Beaufort, there was but one man in the town, and he-is reported as making the following speech of welcome:
 "Ow'r you, boys? Fine wer'rer !-Hiart seo vou Weelkei t Reaufor !-Gel. Drayton gone. Iyonl1l, stay. Fine wer'rer! Wh-o--o-o-.. rav IwLesh take drink Great applause You Noreners perry good fellars; (cheers) :. GeI Dravtou woudf stahy. Sez l, to him, sez; NGel. Drayton you mustn't (hic) stahy. absholutc. Iy necessary Sez (hic) to me. sez he to me-e.. e-e-e.-sez he to me-e-e-e sez he to me, 'JohH, can't dc it ole fella. NIusht (hic) go. Got bus | ;,ess (hir) enoashment' Gel Drayton's frien