Litchfield enquirer., 1861-09-05

:, of their rgoyernment-thOse that love their Coi stftution and are willing to die in it's defens'
 when they are restored to position by conquer ing rebellion. Are you in favor of war NC , bat am in favor of putting down war Dy forc l of arms I am oppo sed to war, ard Tn favor obtaining peace bv putting down the authors c , the war. am in favor of peace, but am , favor of the only course that will insure It. driving out armed rebellion, negotiating wit . loyalty We must fight battles, and bloody bat
 ties We must call vast numbers of men int
 the field We must not go as boys to genera
 training. with ladies, and idlers, and members o
 Congress to see the show. but we must go III ear
 nvst-go prepared for action-to light It as
 battle, and not to fight it as a piay-srel!. W'
 must unite as whole people going shoulder t'
 shoulder. And when we do so we shall con
 quer. And why? We have the gsht, we hav'
 the prestige Of government, have sthe sympath
 of the disinterested world, we have the mora
 and material clements to do it all, and to insure
 victory. Rebellion has not the financial abllit.
 to stand long war, with all their gains iron
 privateering and piracy, and issuing Confederate bonds-made lien upon the property ot tht
 people who were never consulted as to their IS
 sue, and who rcpudiate them-worth as much a;
 June frost, cold wolf track, which no finan
 cier fit to be outside of the lunatic asylum
 would give shilling peck for: They may
 vex, they may harrass, they may destroy, they may commit piracy, but the reckoning IS tc come for all this They will be brought to the judgment of the American people-of theil own people. They will be arragng1, and whc IS there that will be ready to stand up as then defenders ill the name of the Constitution ] know there are some who fear the warlike power of the rebeous states. They had great deal of power for good but they have great deal Il{y i
 for evil We are a good deal slower in waking up, but when walked up we are a good deal more in earnest. The tone of the rebel press is ex ceedingly braggart in regard to its men and it's victorie. It reminds me, when l hear of their selfauded prcwess, Of the snowman who spoke of the great capacity of the animal he was ex- hibiting: 'l.ades and gentleman, said he :: this is the Bengal tiger, measuring fourteen | feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tall, and foulteen more from the tip of his tail back to the tip of his nose making in all twer- { weight feet Now I think their estimates about their forces and capacity are just about as liberal. It will be time enough to struggle over who shall administer the government when We are sure We have one to administer He who is not for it, is against it. I have determined to fight this battle out, but on no political grounds. l stand upon the constitutional ground of my fla thcrs. There 1 will stand and animate my coun- trymen to stand with me, and when once we shall have peace restored-when we shall have put down rebellion. when we shall have enconr- aged fidelity, when peace and prosperity shall again greet us then let us see if any one state is oppressed if any individual is wroneed if any are deprived of their rights--see that equal and exact justice is extended to all
 \ GooD N-oG,D FROM ESGI.ASD.-The following n:raeraii!ls from tle London Star, i. a fair an s,var to t1e, London Taases, As thSS, Register has given it's readcrs she 1'mcs's korsion of
 affairs. will il le kind enough to give that of the Star. wI;cI, is a5 follows:
 "'Ihe rebellion that aims to enlarge and per retuatt slavery is the oniy rebellion to which the Times and it's tributary streanllets ot uni.ngllsh opnon ever waited encouragement. As oft as oppressed people snatched at the sword in the the desperate hope of cutting its way to freedom, they poured deriSion and censlre on the gallant effort. Ii Frcnchmen essaycd to establish a French Goyernment-if Germans passed in a moment of energetic inspiration from dreaming to working--if lEungarians renounced an ale glance that had become a national death-if Poles or Italians wlithcd from prostrate subjec' ton into erect and sublime reslstance--the Times and it's cumulative followers hissed forth their scorn of such romantic courage, their hatred of such rreverent bodness.
 As with the European people, so with the American What pHans to the honor of the Jupiter in the C; pital at Washington should we have heard resounding from the Olympus in BIaclfliars, if the battle of Bull Run had filled Manassas Gap with the corpses of the confede rates. Then would the swelling strain have rolled across the Atlantic in notes outpealng the loudest New Y ork thunder. Then would history and imagination have been stretched for paral- lels to the greatness of the conflict and the glory of the vctors Then would the Confederate cause have been denounced as abhorrent togods and men--treason of the utmost turpitude, re- hellion of parrical wckedness. Then should we have been told that Beauregard had chosen his own ground. the strongest between the Potomac and Richmond had strengthened it with all military strength, concealed within a cincture of wood and hill, ninety thousand men, and been driven from his entrenchments by twenty and thirty thousand undisciplined volun- teers. fired with the ardor of conscious rectitude and made inyincible by the heroism of disin- terested valor.
 .'ihe battle has gone the other way--and behold, the laurels that had been woven for Pre- s5dent Lincoln are proffered to President Davis. Yet. not quite so. We who were in the 'rout, had the momentary candor to admit that it was drawn battle, not q disgraceful retreat. The fugitves may rally The numbers may be bal anced. The event may be reversed. It is not safe to crown Beauregard till Mcclellan has been vanouished. Meanwhile, till tine eagle settles on this banner or on that let us revie the combatants. Let us say the Federal army was a screaming crowd and the Confederates only less frightened than the mob that fled when no man pursued Let us say in the face of palnest facts, that the forces were equal and the encount
 CT an open stand-up fight Let us require of soldiers fresh from the countinghouse and the farm, the steady courage of veterans. Let us suppress all reference to the frequency of panic in battle and make the riffrat' of the regiments represent { the grand army transfer from few lawless ruffians who escaped the Provost Marsh
 al to the entire expedition the shame of burning
 houses on the outward march, and fleeing pale
 faced over the smoking embers. Let us do all
 this with an affectation of surprise and regret
 and then hold off till we see whether the Conte
 derates capture Harpers Ferry.
 elf there were no sin or shame in exaggeratlns
 and ridiculing an event traught with poignan suffering to friendly and consanguneous nation if decency did not restrain us from laughing aloud at the fears of the brave and the errors the great-surely prudence should teach us no to provoke the better resentment ot people 5 eighteen millions by scofing at their n!omentar,, , humiliation. Must we make enemies on bot sides the Atlantic, in both hemispheres of tn . globe and of government? Are we to pfovok ! beyond bearing Imperial France and Republica F America? Ought we not rather to guide ou
 speech by the friendly wisdom that errs, if at al on the side of friendliness? If it were true ths O