Litchfield enquirer., 1862-09-25
LErTEls ysoA qrSsRA Husrrn To THE REV l T1Nal AThs New. ' YorkT Trituns bas

LErrEHa fsoA gESsRAL HuErER TO TEE REV SrkFhESlHl TNdI The lew. York Tribune ha, been favored by g friend with copyof Genera Hunters reply to the inquiries of the Presiden of the Ndtional Freedmauss sAssociation -ssron which we make the following extracts. fact .sEs g1s'
 asatisfed ofhaEing attempted in the absepc, or lnsFuctronssto do my duty in. the matter ac cofding 10 the best igbts of my judgement and long gexpenenceseyery assurance of sympath, from men whose characters esteem is ,pratifv ing, and enablesrme toawait with more patience Tor those inevitable days which are. to give g pSASy %si 0n the slavery q question to our govern
 It IS my only fear that the lesson may notrbe undsrsteod and acted upon until read in charac tsrs Of blood at tue freside of every Northern family, TU~attain wisdom we must suffer 7 but that wisdom on the slavery question must final ly be obtained, ismy sustaining faith, yy~rr
 0pr people are mt dull lg.of comprehension in regard to matters in which free play is given to their common sense: When fire is spreading through block of houses they do not hesitate to batter down an intermediate house to save the remainder ofsthe block. When the plague occupies an infected district, the district is quareDtiped and every resource of science and
 
 The sOldiersyf health7are byno means ordered to tomguntguard oyer eachspIitten house and see the vested interests of pestilence are protected Break open doors, ifthey be be not opened" !" is the order on these oecasi6ns.S@, Let in fresh air and sunlight; lat purity replace corruption
 a&ntin presence ofOae great eEil, which has so long brooded oyer our country, the intelli- gence of large portion of our people would seem pafalyzed and helpless Their moral serres lie torpid snder it's, benambing shadow Itsbreath has beea the pssti Hence of the politi- cal atmosphere in which our Statesmen have been nurturei and never, fear, until it's 0bsak isdripping with the best blood of the country, and it's taons tangled in her xitals, will the free the necessity of abatihg the abomination at whatever cost and by whatever agencies.T OH
 This is written, ,uot politically, but according to my profession in military sense. Looking forward, there looms possibility (only tooposs ible1 of peace which shah be nothing but an ar. mlstice with every adyaHtage secured to the re- beliion. Notiing can give us permanent peace but successful prosecution of the war, with every weapen and energy at our 2command. to it's slogicai and legitimate conclusion. [ The fo menting cause of the rebellion must be- abated the axe must be laid to the root of the upas tree which has rained down such bitter fruit upon our country before anything like a permanent peace can be jnstly hoped. s. cz-E
 Already see signs in many influential quar- tsrs heretofore opposed to my views in favor of afming the blacks, ofa change of sentiment Our recent disasters before Richmond have served 10 illuminate many minds. .rr
 To speak of using the negroes merely for throw ing up intrenchmeDts is step in the right d rsction. though far short of what must be the end. It has the advantage, However, of ma king the fnrther and fral steps necessary for men working in face of the enemy must have aips Tiih which to protect themselves if sud denly attacked. = .-r -E
 -r-r-S--r-r D. HUNTER.
 P.S-7 None of the carefully sostered delu sions by which Slavery has sustained itself at the North. is more absurd than the htghe of 'agsnsnl migratious of negroes to the North, as necessary seqaence of emancipation. So far is this froia being the the fact that although 1t is well known that r give passes North to all pegroes asktng them, not tore than dozen have appliesito me for such passes since my ar rival here, their local attachments being appar- autly much stronger than with the wfiite race My experience leads me to believe that the ex- act reverse efsts,e ssceiyed oplnioG on this sub jsct would form the rule, anl that nearly If not quite all the negroes Qf the North would migrate south whenever they sliell be at liberty to do so witEout fear oi ilic auction block
 Sincerely