, 1863-06-20
4 GOVERNMENT OF FORCE,

a AGOVERNmENTO OF FORCE.
From the heart of old Litch6cld county,
Conn.,, in the land Of steady habits, comes
s rumor with the flavor Of war and gun
powder in it stragglers from the army,
and stragglers from loyalty, in numbers
1anta1izingly set down as carious!y gieea
from IS to 1,000" have banded together to
resist the law, have actually fortified
Goshen mountasn, raised the banner Of re-
bellion, and Of course invited a rush Of
Copperheads from all throughout Connec-
1icut, to their mountain den, while confu~
sion and excitement ruus through Litch-
tle1d county, and everything is being put
on a war footing in small way.
First, let us say that we believe the scare
is fragment thrown off from the recently
exploded rebel meteor that burst over
PENNSYLVANIA. 1t is doubtless greatly ex-
aggcrated. Litchfcld County, with live
rebellion IN it. would be an anomaly.
Barnum would have the whole thing On
exhibition in coop, at his Museum
in ten dnys' time, along with the
s'What is it." and Commodore
Mutt. But then, we must not
sneer too broadly at Connecticut as a man.
zlfacturing State, She is used to excel,
whether the required product in time past
was small metal wares for the Southern
market, or brasgy politicians Of the same
lrand, and expressly for the Southern trade.
a genuine Connecticut doughface was not
10 be surpassed in thorough meanness By
any ever introduced into the meanest Of
ill uses, trucking to the Slave Power.
When mandatory suddenly stops
operations, there is sure to be variety Of
finished and unfinished products and raw
material lying about, and when the Slave
Drivers set up in rebellion for themselves,
zhe Connecticut product Of Copperheads,
Doughfaccs, &c, &c, shading down to the
men that could not endure the sight of
free negro, on account Of his smell, were
all left on the hands of the loyal cournuni-
lies Of the State, as prime tory material, for
instance Just the article to turn Goshen
mountain into small fortress against the
Government For have not tory organs
kept belching out treason, and tory orators
pronounced again and again their undying
hatred Of the Government, and have not
people been urged again and again to stand
Up against arbitrary arrests, and for State
rights, and the inaienable guarantees Of
The Constitution, which, by the liberal con
struction given it, seems to have secured
for the Government itself nothing but the
right to die whenever armed treason
should will it.
Whether the Litchtield county scare
means anything or not, it is one Of brood
If sensations We are to expect, and not al
together discovered from serious results.
We are Just now proving before the world
the power Of this Government, and
whether our government Of law is not also
q government Of force. Older nations
have sncered at cur prosperity and bid us
wait our hour Of trial to test the rope Of
sand that, they arowcd, bound Us They
confessed, what they could not in the face
Of facts deny, that our system WIS admira-
lie in time Of peace, when all the General
Government had to do was to dispense
blessings. But let pickering and dissen-
sion come, let the hour Of trial that has
:-l1akcn down old dynasties befal us, and
j: was ayerred Of us that history would
nib her pen to record the failure Of the last
experiment Of government by the people.
1t is the hour Of trial For two years it
3:us been in process Of proving in the re-
bcllious States, Us it will be shortly tested
in tie loyal States, whether Government
by the people has right and the power
10 command and enforce obedience in
the people; whether it has the same Quick
and summary manner Of reaching and
Furnishing its enemies, Of suppressinc
Treason, Of striking awe into the heart Of
<isloyalty, that other forms Of Government
possess. In this war for our national cx-
1stcncc, wc shall not succeed until We re.
cognizc the war as cristng in all parts q
the country, and until it has become as dan
ferous to oppose the cause Of the Union, in
Connecticut as in Alabama, in Illinois as
Lie heart Of Nlsslsslpp1.
Nine months ago Presidential Procla-
nation made al1 those "guiity Of any dis
loyal practice" in the United States, dur
ngthe existing insu1rection, the subjects
ii martial law" That Proclamation is
Still IN force, and the disturbances in North
ern States, abetted by the enemies of the
Union, will shortly give it vitality,
and render it terror 10 cyil docrs.
This is the lesson taught by
this r1umor from Connecticut, and the teen,-
ing dispatches regarding violent resistance
10 the draft and to the arrest Of deserters
in other States. Are not these the lcgi;-
1uatc result Of Copperhead teachings. Ii
not tl1is the working Of the Copperhead
virus. There is way to reach and cut of
the evil at its root, and few startling
proofs Of the danger we are nursing, will
not only bring the application Of the re