Litchfield enquirer., 1862-06-26
WHAT THE WAR HAS DONE FOR US.

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 In the Providence of God it has been arrasg. ed that not even so tremendous an evil as war is aR ,unmitigated bad, to those who wage it for tjust cause. And thus while the nation is filled with mourning. and the cries of widows and or phans go up to Heaven against the wicked men who have forced this calamity upon us, as peo. ple we have gained in many respects by the paia 2 oPhysically, ,.oar young men will return from march and the battlefield form grand eynna- sium, in which, for the year past, half million, the fower of our youth. have been traiped e strength. endurance, patience, obedience aid system. Men who could not march five miles . day without suffering, last June, are now cans ble Of twenty-five or thirty miles in dny, 6pt have daylight enough left at the end to G<i|f hAd win such battle as that of Lees mills, acos Elizabeth City. To sleep under tents. of pr haps as often with only . blanket and the sky to cover them; to live meagerly, to rise csfly face the cannon of the enemy in silenc& ek4 f. do all this willingly and without utr1ar of discontenE these afo expsfiences th4 <otI Is- suits of which will not be confined to iAt {1c|+ ands who have gone forth to battle 3hcf ri|I descend to their posterity, will be spres1 41<(s1 through the land, and give new tene 461 11N habits to the American people.
 :, Nor is it our soldiers solene Mho h4<t lt+l1l lessons of wholesome selfdeninl in tti1 ><o<1n of war; All have been asked 10 give pp sens- what; and the examples of self-sacriA&e tt1 .9- ,votion to great and holy cause, whic4 tl'< H1s has witnessed, i, not in men alone, but jo TcN&u and children, in poor and rich alike VII! no. t1 Y nndaar that cause t5 us all fofetet, but 4| benefit all who have given Of their best tc hold Liberty and Union When we gee Hc1I sending gladly their sons and hrshands to z i. battle deld only asking that they aha| a like brave men when we ses other H0inen dainty pets of the Fifth Avenue, cof1irE and gladly to wait updh the fpoor r411G1et lows who come back to us, the sad fsllcs 4I t11 battle, and turning their unused hands to fkofe verest toll for the sake of their country deIe1d. CTS when, though we know the nallon ialaIL of tears and mourning and suffering thore @ DO murmur heard in any corner sturdy aro mag k4 proud of this constancy with which q great, ifee people apply themselves to the preservation of liberty and law-surely we may think well Of lib- erty, which has given to eighteen millions Will, patience, endurance, intelligence, thus to do and to suffer for freedoms sake.
 Companionship in suffering and danger hasfor
 
 standing of the word comrade, which means 80 much in France and Germany When the gal lant Vermonters waded back across Warwick Creek under, fire, to pick up and carry away on their shoulders their wounded comradesl when we hear of captain dashing into the face of charging line, to rescue a wounded private; when the surgeons at Bull Run and Bsls Bluff, remained by their wounded in the mist of the fire, and did not leave their men, thotgh threat ened with death or dismal captivity, we know that here was felt the full sense of this word comrade. sss s,a, tI 5syaay . 9ii
 Nor is it a small matter that in enc sshcrg year we have lived down all the calumnies which the enemies of liberty, in Europe and in tho South, ,heaped upon us asa free people. Who Noes not recollect the evil prognostications ef Hose birds of i'll omen who rejoiced beforehand ae what they loudly hoped was the final down falhpf liberty On this continent? So confident werethese prophets that the world was halE convinced by them that liberty was folly nn3 Tree government . fatal blunder Freemsn wouif not naaks soldiers, 1t was said they would nct obey they had no patience. But these saant freemen lay for many weary months idlein camp
 drilledevery day, going through the most taste.
 less drhgery, without a word of complaint.- Again, American freemen might fght-but they
 would mt work. But Halleck's army dug in its advance Nn Corinth not less than seven intrench-
 ed campsA each stronger than that of Beaure- gard andthe works about Washington and be-
 fore Yorktown show what the strong arms and willing heafs of free men can do.7 Mudsills will not fight, saN the southern aristocrats but at
 Mill Spring, at Roanoke, at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pot Royal, Newberne, Williamsburg, New Madrid, Island Ten, Memphis, New Orr leans, Hanover Court House. Fair Oaks, and in dozens of minof engagements, these same aris- tocrats have shown their heels to the mudsills. But the mobl NHow many successive weeks did the London Tines promise it's readers that mob would rise iA New York But it has
 been demonstrated Aere that among really free
 people there is no mob. Again, how often waa it asserted that our finances would break down But our stocks are above par and the governe ment gets all the money and all the men it has need of. .a --' ~-s.
 What this war has dene for us is te psoxe to- the world that we, the freemen of America, do possess all the qualities needed to mako free gov srnment successful -constancy of purpose, vene-
 ration for law and order, devotion to. the con,-
 mon veal, all those qualities which make mas tion strong and great. But it has proved more than this-that it is liberty which breeds these qualities 1; that under government of the peo. pie the people ore most patriotic; and that nq-
 ton trained in freedom can overcome dilicnl-
 ties which would inevitably have destroyed any other government but ours.-N r. Post