Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-07
WHOLE NO. 1862.


 stroyed the confidence of the nation in inc Su, Preme Court. The infamy of the Iecompton oill and the boundless corruption which was ev. cry where revealing itself had destrovad tba confidence of the nation in the executive al. ministration. The Republican party had, from the beginning. been mobbed and shot and strap. gled out of the Southern States. The game fate must be got ready for the Union portion of the Democratic party. The great political con ventions, to make nominations for the Presi. dency, were coming on. That of the Democrat. ic party was to be held in Charleston, the very hotbed of treason. The leaders of disunion contrived to be appointed delegates to it. They demanded the adoption of principles which no northern Democrat could sanction without be- trayng his constituency, defing his own coa. science. and dishonoring himself. As was ex. pected and desired, the convention was broken into fragments. The Democrats who stood by the Union were driven to nominate candidate from the northern section of the Republic, while the disunionists formed themselves into 6 compact party prepared to sweep the South. ern States. Then followed political canvass such as the country had never before witnessed. The action of the dsunionists in the conven- ton had insured the success of the Republican party. They had now four months before them, in which, under the pretence of opposing that
 
 to the pitch of treason and dismemberment of the Union No man in all the South, with hero and there an exception along the northern bor, ders, could open his lips in explanation of Re- publican principles. No man could defend them there without the certainty of violent death. The disunionists thus had the field to themselves so far as the accomplishment of their immedi. ate purposes was concerned. The whole South was inundated with one foul, rseking delage of falsehood., The objects, the principles, the very persons of Republicans were libelled day by day, for four long months Men who had sat in Con gross with the Republican candidate for Vice President as fellow-Democrats, and who there fore knew the falsity of what they said, inhamed by the worst passions of the Southern mob by the assertion that Mir. Hamlin was Q mulatto. " The poison of asps was under their hps their t:ngues would set on fire the course of nature, and were themselves set on fire of he'll" The loyal men of the South who perceived the ten- dency of events stood aghast at what was oc. curing around them. They could not deny these aspersions without being denounced as the apologists of abolition. The ignorant populace wondered, believed, were infamed, and thus made fit for the designs of the conspirators. The cleo ton took place, and resulted as every body knew it must do. Forthwith " the revolution was precpitated." While the minds of men were thus heated by passion engendered by misrep- resentation, the issue was forced upon them in the seeding States, with no time allowed for reflection, and with an indecent haste that de- monstrates both the insincerrty and the incapa- city of the managers
 What, now are the objects of those who have led this movement to it's present condition? answer: in part, the complete overthrow Of deui' ocratic institutions, and the establishment of an aristocratic, or even monarchical gevernment.- The disciples of the Calhoun school have learned to dstrust the people, to hate universal suffrage, and to believe in aristecraey. Among the lead CTS of disunion may be found the victims of dis. appointed ambition, who, in the reconstruction of society, seek opportunities of personal ad- vancement; the bold and reckless, who look for ward to scenes of adventure the broken in for tune, who see the avenues to wealth opening to them wild theorists, who fancy that their schemes will be realized; and martial spirits, who long for conquest and military glory. Be- hind all these stands the mob, just beginning to be conscious of it's strength, and ready for any desperate enterprise. Loyal citizens are silenced by fear. Men of property either join the ranks of the insurgents, ill hope of saving something from the wreck, or stand despairngly aloof, hope less of the future. Let but the ties which bind the States to the Federal Government be bro- ken and the leaders of the rebellion see glitter ing before them the prizes of a slaveholding srn- pire, which, grasping Cuba with one hand, and Mexico with the other shall distribute titles, fame and fortune, to the foremost in the strife.
 Such, in my opinion, is the real origin of the present revolt, and such are the motives which inspire it's leaders. do not say that all who are participating in the rebellion share these feel ings. Thousands of honest men have been de- ceved by the promoters of revolution, and verify think they are striking for endangered rights. And what is the result to which all this tendse The first thing which it proposes to accomplish is the dismemberment Of the Republic and this it claims the right to do, without the consent of the Federal Government or of the loyal States, but as an exercise of the plain constitutional powers of the disloyal States. The advocates of this dogma would hide the guilt of rebellion, and the blood and tears of revolution, under the soft spoken phraseology of secession. They have dug the rotting bones of nullification out of it's dishonored grave, and clothing them with the mask and robes of false legality, have en- deavored to conceal from the world the grinnng skeleton within. shall not spend time in exposing the impasture. The Government Of the United States is delusiOn, the Unlon Q sham, and the constitution lie, if secession he true. I can add nothing to the reasoning which has already been brought to bear uponlt 1t. Dah' iel Webster smote it with his Thor's hammer Q since and 10 man of this generation can add to the weight of that blow.
 What results may be expected after the dis. memberment of the Republic? The southern empire will seek to coalesce, and may for time succeed: but it will find in the ambition of rival chiefs in the conflict of rival interests, aud in the pernicous example of successful rebellion, sources of discord more serious than ever Ere- vailed in the old Union. Without diversity of industry, and with labor enslaved, aristocracy will continue to expand until the necessity of lrmies fer defense. armies for attempted conquest md forces to watch the first symptoms of insur- ection, will superinduce military desnptism,- The expansion, now so much sought for, will not ,e obtained Neither the Powers of the old world nor of the new will permit Mexico or Gu "a to pass into the hands of the empire of the South. The slave trade will be re-opened, at irst clandestinely, at last openly. Taxation will all with crushing weight upon the property in- erests. Thousands will fly from country given ,ver to destruction, to regions where liberty ana ocial order will still prevsil. The preponder- lnee of the black over the white race will begin md will increase with fearful rapidlty. ! close nv eyes in herror and look no further, Tor the ar horizon is growing lgrid with the tres of St, Domingo.
 Meanwhile the United States of America re. mains among the foremost Of the nations of the .arth. Still belting the continent with it's vast lomain. possessed of an industry the most di ,srsified of that of any people, retaining sgri- uitural commercial manufacturing, and mining interests unsurpassed anywhere in extent and in anacity of development, bound together with ron bonds by the great highway of nations