Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-27
From the Portland Transcript, SECESSION IN HORNBY, ME-LETTER
 FROM HAITIAN SPIKE.

HoRNBY, May 25, Of the Suvrinty one.
 We've had good deal of trouble in organi zing aour army on account of no one bein will lin to sarve lower than a corporeal. Conse quence is, we've got more officers than we know what to do with an only three privits-one oi which is under guard for whstlng Yankee doc. dle, another has seeded an sot up on hs own account
 l Tother poor cuss heFin to stand the hull brunt, is fast bein drilled to death All the of. ficers has lick at him. They rout him aout at 5 in the mornin and trot him raoqnd till pitch dark. Latterly he's got so waound up, his wife says he might just as well not go to bed at all having become regler somnambOllic, an trains all night aout on the cold floor with nothin on but his-that is, meantersay-or rayther she meantersay-or perhaps both of us meantersay without his uniform on.
 Originally it was fixed that aour forces should be deivided into three grand corpses. One des- tined to take Augusta another to okypy Port land an tother to harrass Saccarrappy, but owin to aour trouble with Virginia, and the great skersity of priv;ts, the arrangement was gin up and consolidated into the grand army army of okkerpation. What we'er going to okypy ain t sartin-moast probably this ere moonispolity onless we're driven aout, in which case, okipa- ton Will be more or less permiskous.
 In fact we come pretty near clearin aout few nights ago. Some incendiary undermined Ma Jor General Libbys thunderin gret wood pile over by the meetinus. Thar were moron 50 cords into it and the crash was awful. We all thought we was shelletl! The falax, however, turned aout promply and got better than two mds away from taown afoar they faound what it was. Gener Libby rode arter them told e,n what it was, and they needn't be scart.
 50 arter sendin q advance picket rear guard to reconiter, they marched back again to the pump where the gineral publicly thanked them for their prompt action. It is looked upon as gret marcy that the general thought to ride ar ter 'em-ef he hadn't there's no teln where aour army would hey bin naow, as when he come up with em they was practisin the Zoo arve trot toward kanerdy.
 Wot we moast fear is blockade though Peltah Peaslee, who once thought of studying law, but gin up on account of bein cross eyed, says he's looked all through the "Taown Office,' ,'' likewise Chitty on Bils,' and don't find that the State has any right to do it.
 -four lutters of mark has bin unfortinit so fur. Tim kyer an Pete Libby are the only two who hey bin commissioned. Tim was cotched in a over to Tettervie, where he went arter repri- sals'-as lie says-thoush I've no doubt he was arter the hins. He was licked half cut of his skin, on parole. Pete captured hoss somers over Bethel way, an the wretched half starved nercynarys of Gov. Washhum hev sot aside the haybeus korpus act, b Il of human rights an hu man indewrance, an rut him ill Paris jail But let the oppressors tremble. llornby will avenee the indisnity offered to her gallant sons. Good Heavens! what are we coming to when rErn with letturs of mark in their pockets are shut up n jas or caught in traps like woodchucks!
 What ,p the hirelins of Washburn mean !? All we ask is-jis let Us alone-;re aour rights to be tuk away Oil account of a few hosses and hens and sich like-more or less? Do they think to conjugate US? Could they see the spir- it that runs ,hrough-bls and rampage, the peo- pie of this suvrinity, they would know that sich people can never be conjugated. Could they hear the Lunkum speeches of aour patriots. and the boastn of aour invincible warriors, Wash bum and his blcod-thirsty mernaidons would see that-thoueh-- Worlds may rack,
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