Litchfield enquirer., 1862-10-30
THURSDAY. OCT. 30, 1862.
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THURSDAY. OCT. 30, 1862.
 TION.
 We do not believe that we are either com plaining or fault t-fndirg Neither are we given to looking upon tho dark side either of public or private affairs. We are, or wish to be, hope ful, confident and trustful of those who gre in authority above us, and in whom We have every confidence at least of upright and honest in stentions. And in this we are not different from thousands of loyal hearts to-day, who look up ward longingly to those who have our country's affairs in charge in these days of it's e1tremest peril and who are eagerly watching, but as eften disappointed, for some indication that the peril with which wa arc surrounded is to be averted or overcome.
 And yet it is plain to perceive, and it is idle to conceal, what great and constantly increasing dissatisfaction exists among the loyal masses at the North with the conduct of the Adminis- traitor in carrying on the present war to crush rebellion. After months almost two years of ereparatisn, we are but just ready to start: and only the Administration and Our Generals know when that start is to commence. With millions of treasure poured out lavlshly by the North to sustain the Union, with thousands of lives lost in intellectual battles, or aDasted beneath the baleful policy of delay, we are really no nearer accomplishing the grand end of the war, unless it is on the principal that we can hold out the longest in this terrible strife of expenditure of means and lives, than we were eighteen months ago.
 In no other way, after all explanations are made, than of this growing dissatisfaction and Encouragement can we read aright the lesson of the defeat of the Administration in the Co., tober elections. We believe, indeed, that had the loyal forces, in those States which have been carried by the opposition, been allowed to vote as they were in Iowa, that we should have succeeded in carrying the States of Pennsylva. mia, Ohio and Indiana, and very many of the Congressional Districts in them which we havs now lost, though by greatly decreased majorities from the vote of year ago. Nor have we any the less abhorrence either for those thny war nished. and sometimes openly.avowed, secession afforded by the defection or Encouragement of the loyal voters to swell the maiorities of the sham-democratc submissionist's ticket And wsknow, furthermore, that it isn't because their vote has increased in the States wc have men, toned, that they have obtained a quasivictory over the Administration, but that it is because the loyal vote has largely and almost universally decreased We saw this in our own town cleo tions in this State month ago. We saw the terrible apathy that seemed to pervade all the thoroughly loyal masses everywhere, and We know the too powerful a reason why it should be SO. And so we believe it will result in our Spring elections, if the same cause exists.
 That reason which we cannot slur oversinco it Is too palpable to be hidden, as We have said. lies in the profound disappointment the great masses feel in the conduct of the war, and the slight encouragement they can feel that any, thing moro or better is to be hoped for in the future. The great State of New York holds its State and Congressional elections on next Tuesday, and, we have every reason to fear, though we hope almost agaiust hope. that we shall lose largely also in that State, if we do not lose it to the enemy entirely. Another week of such inaetion as the last month on the Potomac and elsewhere, will as surely lose the Admins tration many of it's supporters in the next Con- gress and secure the triumph of such vagabonds and opeply-avowed rebels as Fernando and Ben Wood, to disgrace the Hall of Representatives es glorious victory will secure the services of men pledged to support ths Administration in an earnest and vigorous prosecution of the war. Only the other day the President was truthfuly told by prominent New Yorker, and ardent supporter of ,he Administration, that if his democratic Generals wouldn't fight, he should know the reason why, and he told him it was solely to influence the New York elections -
 We do not here presume to attempt to fix the blame for this utter Respondent feeling of the loyal North upon one man or many. We do not care to ask whether it is the President who is negligent il his duty to God and his country, or his Cabinet. or his Generals, in theirs. History and posterity will know and fix the terrible stigma arieht; it is enough for us to contemplate and realize the direful realities which this great Crime of the Present s fast bringing upon us. The President is but the creature of the people THEY demand ACTION from him. The Cabi- net and the Generals in the field are the crea- tures of the President ,HE must demand A CTION from them.
 Twenty millions of people against eight Life, money, comfort, e'ss, happiness, all poured forth as profusely as the waters over the rocks of Niagara, to preserve, protect and defend the Union. Armies, such as the world never saw before, and will never see again.though it should endure thousand years. fronting the skulkinr myrmidous of rebellion. A country hitherto united by the strongest ties of interest consan gunuity, and historic past, trembling now in the balance between perpetuitv and destruction. And must all now be lost must the grand DOW CT we possess to preserve, protect and defend be all wasted and thrown away. because those in whnse hands the power has been intrusted fail to use itf Must the country ard this Gov srnmeBt go down, a miserable blotch and failure in history, because having the moment in hand when we might have been saved, it lost it?- Mnst tho fruit and reward of All these hraye