Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-22
Ritebfel6 Gnaulttt.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1861.
The Death Struggle.

The Death Struggle.
 Another of Connecticut's sons has gone, m the full flush of manood, at the threshold of career of usefulness, and in'the hour Of victory. A nation mourns his loss. Connecticut adds the name of LYON to the scroll of her immortals; first, WINTHROP in the buoyant years of youth, then WARD, crowning life spent in his coun- trys service, with the rich offering of his blood j; FIREMAN, upon whose shoulders fell the mantle of Ellsworth; and lastly, the hero whose body sleeps now beyond the mighty flow of the father of waters. Thus richly has Connecticut contrib uted to the opening scenes in the drama of the second American Revolution. The honey moon of war is passed, and the future is dark whit trials that will test our manhood, and show whether we are fit to be free people or not whether the industrious, laboring men of this continent arc brave enough to control it. Our destiny is in our own hands; we can make or mar it forever. The pen of the recording anger is even now marking the scroll of history in characters blazing with light, that will gleam through all coming time as the beacon for man. kind, either as the proud monument of liberty saved. or the fearful evidences of our degene rscy.
 We shall never accomplish this great work by carefully scanning census returns, and compla- gently computing our numerical superiority It is fine figure of rhetoric to talk of twenty mill ions against eight millions but the fact is, that what we want is that there shall be man for man on the lines of the Potomac and Mississippi. There is fearful responsibility on us as people, for the noble blood spilled in the unequal con tests that have thus far marked this war. It isn't the time to wrangle as to what the Admin. istration might have done, but what we will do The War Department calls for men, by twos tens, companies or regiments, red tape is swept away, our treasury is full by the patriot offering of capital at the hands of the capitalists of the country. Shall Mcclellan, like our lamented Lyon, Iead q forlorn hope, contending agains odds of four or five to one? We hope that VIC havo seen the last of this immolation, and that when we next hear of battle, instead of being Thermopyle, it will be Solferino.
 In modern warfare, the victory is even more to the largest battalions, than in times past. Indi- vidual prowess, selfsacrifcing devotion, now yield to the longest range and best directed fire of artillery-to the best appointed commissariat and most thorough transport equipage.
 The enormous extent of territory and sparse ness of population in the Southern States, will as the war progresses, make it even more imper ativc that the army of occupation should be. .enor mous. In almost all European wars, decisive combat or two, or single campaign determines the fate of the belligerent. It. is difficult for u Co realize the difference of density in population Solferino and Magenta drove Austria out O Lombardy and eventually emancipated twenty millions of Italians, from a despotisnl, less gall ing indeed, than tho military one that to-day sways our rebellious territory, yet Italy is but little larger than Virginia. The first Napoleon's Russian campaign is the only European move meut that opportunities toward the extent of the ono we are undertaking, and are we not, in seek. ing Richmond, committing the same error he die in going to Moscow? Neither are the most vulnerable points of the enemy.
 The place to strike most effectually,n our case, is manifestly, where the negro population is densest. In view of this fact it seems almost as though tho Administration didn't yet realize that War is for the purpose ofhmsing somebody. No such false philanthropy stays the hand o the Rebels. Stern, relentless, implacable, they march on to the accomplishment of their wicked design, crushing all in the way, as the wheels of Juggernaut crush their Hindoo victims. Reat that last cruel edict of banishment to all loya men. Forty days are given for these poor un fortunates to complete their hegra. Driven without crime,-unless it be a crime to love their country's flag, as their fathers did, to rev erencc and obey their countrys laws,-away from the soil where they were born and reared Old and young, strong and weak, women and children, one indiscriminate deputation, stripped ofthsir property, to commence anew the strup. gle of life among strangers, and under colder. less genial sky and climate. Civilization has no precedent for such an edict. Humanity shud- dered at the slave trade, when Africans were torn from their homes, or later, when we remoy cd the Indian beyond the Mississippi Our hearts have bled at the sad story of that famine that drove quarter of the people of Ireland from their homes. England sent Napoleon to St. Helena, one poor frail man, and the heart of civilization condemned the act as cruel and bar. berous. Another generation saw his remains brought back to the bank of the Seine and laid among the people he loved.
 This sdict, if enforced, will drive not less than million men, women and children from their homes. It is the last straw that breaks the Cancels back, and it may be that this last drop m the cup IS necessary to open our eyes to the 9esperate character of the war we rhave on our nanas, to make us realize that it is a oioantic deofa struggle for the control of the continent anu no. mere politicians game of bluff hopes .e S1ton some new guarantee to the institution
 A NOVEL WEDDrSc.-we believe the follow. 'ng incident, occurring the trip of the 4tb Re- g'ment from Hartford to Jersey City, has never appeared in print. It will do for m u;,ou, 7, After the "City of Hartford' had re,.hos ., Sound, woman not very young or remarl.h,e Ie handsome, was discovered on board. who w.~.as to follow the Regiment as nurse, and insisted uS