Litchfield enquirer., 1863-11-12
Tfle Moral Of the Iase Elections.

country, ID regard 10 Inc sWarss ana as p0 Ine best means of preserring, and transmitting to posteri.y unimpaired, the glorious inheritance of liberty yhfch was received from noble an- cestv; and which, proud and arrogant oligar- Lay have endeayored to awrest from us. These doubts and yascillations arose from tEe fact that we iwerenot wariike people that We were eininentIy disposed to cultivate the, a arts t of f peace, under which the shsle nation had at- tained to such an unusual degree of prosperity. We were more unwilling to postpone these arts and all their genial activities for the pur- pose of engaging in ,oars We doubted whsth- erany portion of our fellow citiscns. who had lptospered also, under the same benign govsrn- nent, would persist in their efforts to oyer throw it. Hence the variety of opiDions that prevailed even amoug the genuine lovers ofthe Union-the supporters of the National admin istration. One year ago many of the people had become weary ofths war, and feenng soms- what indifferent towards the Administration, ,, were willing it should be. rsbdksd by temper sry defeats, especially, as it's opponents bad ,farnished 90 much In. the way of aiding in . vigorous prosecution of the war and of crush l ing ont the rebellion. The people have seen all those promises falsifed. When the profess ed democracy had carried the great States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, &c.,, they were so elated with their unexpected suc- cess, thatthey felt themselves secure in the fuller development of their real and baser pur- pose of exalting party above country. This became SO apparent in their resistance of the draft-thei efforts to communicate with, and 1 to supply the rebels--lheir devotion to the traitor Vallandigham < Co.,, that the people l became alarmed Now behold them. ere'y- ,ohere throughout the free States, coming forth in the majesty ofscepscicus power, to sweep away the refuge of lies which the .Vallandig- hams, Woods, Seymours and their associates have piled up against the National life, and the national administration, in subserviency to tho enemies of human freedom. Behold them assuming their sovereignty and asserting Meir right to determine the great question of Pence or War: War till peace is obtained on terms compatible. with national dignity and future immunity from rebellion terms that shall leave us in possession of cur riyhtful inherit ance, and, that shah insure the same obedience to constituted authority at the South as at the North.
 Tho government cannot De Q respecter of sections, and we of the North must maintain it's existence or it will be overtlrown. There is no alternative. The rebels have uniformly declased their intention not to associate with us in national affairs upon any terms. They have compelled us to expend blood and treas. ure, and sacrifice domestic comfort and Nation al piaca npnn the alLer nf their unhallowed ambition. The three hundred and fifty thou sand shareholders determined to overthrow the government tbat would not allow them to die tate the terms upon which it might live. or this detern,ination the people have never be- came fully aware, and after the vasci'lations of more than two years, are becoming consolida- ted into one great sovereignty, for one great purpose, and that is, the perpetuation of the Union, a:d the preservation of their liberties abd Tor tho bsaa6t, of this and coming genera tions. The farmers and mecha,ics--the mer- chants and manufacturers-the artizan and gen,leman-ihe incumbents of the Bench--the Bar--and the Pulpit, have spoken out in thun- der tones in the late elections, that the admin istraton on the one hand, and the copperheads on the other, neither wiN nor can msundcr- stand. The meaning of their verdict is, prose. cute the scar-prsserye our ibsrtics-c ompel obedience to tue government from all sections alike. This verdict cannot be misunderstood. Before this fixed and final purpose of the peo- ple-before this rolling tide of public senti. u.ent wkich is to sweep away all the sophistry of tdesisning demagogues, the puny efforts of Horatio Seymour and his friends"-of Thom- as H. aad his Etonian sateltes--of Fernando, Wood and the muddy Brooks will stand only , as the chaff before the wind. It is not ouss. ton of personal attachment to Abra',n Lincoln or to any other individual in the nation, but it is because Mir, Lincoln and his advisers are the constituted authorities through which the people mnstaet. that induces them to sustain the administration. They do it to. prot ct their own interests, and henceforth there will be no more vascillation with the people.
 Alexander II. Stephens declared, before he joined the rebellion. that the same states had no cause of complaint against the North. Knowing that is was originally tho sentiment of majority of the Southern people, we Of the North did not believe they would sacrifice Meir country, in this unrishteous crusade aoains.
 ours. But they have declared they will have
 no peace with us except upon their own terms.
 As they do not proffer even these, we have no
 alternative but to accept the issues of the war.
 Henceforth let those who would degrade free. l men before an arrogan. oiigarchy beware of an
 aroused and outraged people. .. Y NIsErEENrH REalxkNr.--we were lead ;n,o terror by our state cotemporaries last week. in | lannotncinr the promotion of Cant Th.. o.,