Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-22
ns% The last number of the Repu5lican Far

side of the regions where Satan reigns, the father of all lies. The following are but few of the choice bits of billingsgate and falsehood with which the sheet is crammed:
 HGovernor Buckingham intends to issue an order for the formation of several new egiments Tor the war, with prospect of having them call ed into service at once. one thing is to issue the call-another to get recruits"
 "A batch of appointments has been made by Lincoln, illustrating the fact that in. the miass of his arduous duties COmmander-ln-Chlei oi the army and navy, he still finds time to W1pe out all party lines by turning out Democrats and putting bitter Abolition Republicans Ill their places." GA gentleman who has lately travelled through tbe upper portion of Fairfield county says that the number of those in favor of peace IS lnereas- inc rapidly. Many who voted for Lincoln openly denounce him and his unconstitutional acts. There is evidently storm gathering which will, when it bursts, make the Abolition fanatics in our midst, and elsewhere, tremble."
 "The New York Independent, edited by Gree ly and Beecher, and others of Abolition views, has been selected by the Administration to pub fish the United States Laws. The more brutal inhuman and blood thirsty a newspaper sheet is nowadays, the more popular it is with the present administration. This single fact shows that Lincoln & Co.'S views are of the worst fla natical disunion order"
 "The expences of the present Abolition civil war has already cost this nation over S200, ,000, GOO. The whole Crimean war cost England scarcely so much. The pampered favorites of | of this corrupt and fanatical administration are making immense fortunes by plunderng the treasury These facts furnish taxpayers with abundant food for reflection. Il is time that they had let their united voices be heard against the wholesale stealing that is now going on through the connivance of Lincoln and his Cab inet"
 "It must be apparent to every observing man that this Abolition war is bringing unbearable distress upon New England the suferings of | the people have commenced, with a prospect of l becoming disastrous honor the part of the North does not require 8 prolongation of the | war the interests of the country demand a sus- | pension of hostilities preparatory to peace which can be consummated as well as honora- ply, and justly this fall, as it can be two years hence. Let every true lover of his country work earnestly to bring about peaceful settlement of our existing dificulties."
 "We are having some fine illustrations now-a- days of the consistency of the great ' no party Abolitionists. In Massachusetts and New York several gentlemen-some of whom rushed to the first call, and others contributed iberally to the | support of he families of the Volunteers-have been turned out of office simply because they are Democrats, and their places given to Aboliionists; class of men who prate much their flag and their country, but whose patriot ism will not allow them to fight in a war which the accursed aggressive principles of their par ty has brought upon the country. The mission of the Republicans seems to be ''stay at home while Democrats are fighting their battles, preach no party, and intrigue to get Democrats remov- ed from ofice.'' To be a consistent Republican I ho cfn hInS The number before us also contains notices of so called "Peace Meetings in Falls Village, New Preston, Ellworth, and Sharon, all evident ly from the same pen and that the false and ma licious one whose tricks we have before exposed
 in this paper. It is needless to tell the citizens of those localities. that every one of these re- ports is a lie-that such meetings never were called by any respectable citizens, but that N. B. Stevens, late of Norfolk, now travelling for the Bridgeport Famer, has assembled in those localities and in others in this County, whence the birthstone of his tracks has not yet left the polluted air, various -blossomed, whiskey- poisoned gatherings, consisting at the utmost, of half dozen of the lowest and vilest of the ig- norant in those towns, in appropriate bar-rooms of the village taverns, and has then and there made piteous appeals to support the vilest news paper in New England, garnished with resolu- tions offered by this same Stevens, which with various hic-cups, were declared unanimously car ried by the besotted halfdozen.
 Every body knows that this is the sum and substance, the head, basis, and foundation of these fragrant lies and libels upon our patriotic citizens in those towns named, and how any pa per can manufacture such unbushing calumnies out of the notorious falsehoods which tt knoms its agent is guilty of, we are almost at loss to conjecture. No other paper but the Bridgeport Farmer could, and yet it iUes, in spite of the warnings it has received from Maine and New Hampshire.
 | The following letter from the President of meeting held in Sharon, sufficiently indicates the truth of all we have stated, and the lies which the Bridgeport villifer is guilty of, in these pre- tended reports of meetings which were never held, and of Union meetings which were: oHARoN, August 14th, 1861.
 
 lished in the Bridgeport Farmer of the 9th inst, signed ' PEAcE," purporting to give an account of meeting held at Cornwall Bridge on the 31st of July last. was the President of the meeting, and do hereby certify that the article alluded | to, is a tissue of falsehoods from the beginning | to the end of it, so far it charges disgraceful conduct on the pat of 'two Litchfeld lawyers, | committed ct said meeting 1 make this state ment the more cheerfully, as great injustice has been done Messrs. Hollistcr and Graves by the publication of said false communication, as these gentlemen were invited by me, and also com mittee of our meeting, to meet the Hon. John Cotton Smith, and have a debate upon the great issue thatis now troubling the country which they proceeded to do in a gentlemanly way, and with out using any personalities, or, so far as could discern, any wish desire to injure the feelings of any one. It is not true that " after the meet ing had been organized, and was discussing the subjects brought before it, an abolition Repub- lican mob assembled and commenced committing unlawful acts, in order to break it up The peace meeting-being composed of peaceably, in clined men-immediately adjourned, preferring to take that course rather than get into dis graceful fight" There is not one word of truth in this statement, but on the contrary, the meet ing was continued in a peaceable and respecta- ble manner till late hour in the night, and the Hon. Mr. Smith, Messrs. Hollister and Graves and myself left the platform together at the ad- journment of the meeting.
 The resolutions said to have been passed at that meeting as published in the Bridgeport farmer, were not so passed while Ipresided over the meeting, but were passed, as l understand, Tn m the absence of myself and Messrs Graves and uollSter, and after had ann ounced the aGjOurn-