Litchfield enquirer., 1863-02-05
WHOLE NO. 1908

tioh to put in another which should administer
 the government ihofc efficiently, there vsula
 be some show of reason, but when the ain is
 not 50 much even to defeat the present party in power, as to aid the rebellion, sympathy
 with rebels caa go no farther, except in active service in the rebel cause. feiE7 l read with the deepest interest tks sccoaps
 of meeting held in Litchfeld, some monihs
 since. for the encouragement of the voluntssrs.
 1 remember how they were cheersd by tks
 stirring addresses of the speakers, and how my
 own heart exnlted in sympathy wish thsss
 brave and patriotic men who considered 10
 price, not even their own blood, too precious
 to pds for the support of the Government q
 Their fathers, and who went forth willingly to
 he contest, sustaiped by the conviction that
 they carried with them the sympathiss and
 prayers of their fellow citizens, but antici.
 pate different meeting when tiisss regiments
 shall return from the wal id,ieu. I trust. wi,h
 the fruits of victory, but yet. psrhsps, is the inscrutable providence orGod to have labarsd in vain, ahd speiit their strength for aousht. their ranks thinned hy one and another battle field, when these war,worn soldiers shall say to their neighbors the prowess of the enemy could not accomplish what the miStckss in the conduct of the war could never have brought to pass. your votes secursd, for thsy were counted by the eiisniy as sympathy with their cause, and by that sympathy their hearts were cheered md their arms nerved to strike their blows Heavier and faster and longer. is persist in continuous war until, what with an enemy befure us with hostile weapons in thelf hands, and an enemy behind us having in their hands hostile votes, we yielded the unsqusl contest and having done all that our country could demand of us, we sadly and slowly rs. tired from the fefd But the dead whom Ws have left behind us. the dead strSck down by an enemy encouraged by your sympathy and sustained by your votes, their blood we reqdirs at your hands.' What answer cai, bs made ia such a case do not know, for if our informant speaks the truth, Thomas H. Seymour. "a sympathizer with u eason, is to be the cham. pion and file leader of those movements agaiuss the country, and with him, as the persoui6ca- tion and embodiment of the opposition. evsry vote which elects him to office. will be Goadtsd as an endorsement of treason and febellion.
 But there is another aspect of the cass which demands our attention. The au,oerats of England count not less surely on Demo- cratic victories at the North than they ds on Confederate success at the South, as pre-. saging aud certifying the ruin of the Re. public. They class the s two together ss equally damaging to the cause of her isssi. tutions. If any thing. they consider the for. mer more fatal for while ah united North, they say. with the extent of its resources, must in time worry out the strength of the South, yet with the North divided, the Gov. ernmsnt sooner or later must yield the point at issts acknowledge the right of accession. and in so doing, sign the declaration of iss own ruin so will be removed from the world the only rival to the commercial supremacy of Great Britain. How our British cousins gloat over the prospect. How they rub tkek hands with glee at the rcverses of the Gov srnment How they hail the successes sf the Democratic party as evidence of gfow. ing sentiment at the North opposed to the war, and in favor of granting the dsmands of the South How from the 6rst they have insisted upon permanent division. beeadse ths only possible result desired by them, fot ih it they see the power of q hated rival, divi. ded and broken, thj entering wedge wRitk shall shatter Our once glorious Union to dts! cordant and warning fragments Here is the secret of England's sympathy with secession. (no longer secret now, by the way, their orators have spoken out in meetingy the hsps that the power and example of the great Re public would by it bs undermined and destroy: cd What strange Coalition have xe hersi British Aristocrac,. Northern Democracy, and Southern Seoessionism Jeff. Davis, the PCT sonifcation of Secessionism sitting in the. centre, and as sympathizcrs. Ford Palmersicg on one side, and Thomas II. Seymour on .hs other! And that's the position in which some would place the Demoratic party at the pres ent time. Where is tho tradi'onary hatred of British influence belonging 10 Demosrasys In past times, to be a Democrat, and to hate England, w.re almost synonyIhous terms. Bis now, stronger sympathy with rebellion svef comes hereditary ansipaihies, snd political Herods aud Pilates combine win Jatas.liks traitors to betray and destroy the worlds hope for poll ical freedom. repeat again ihy hope that our St. Louis correspondent has been snis- informed, that there is no party in Cohheeii. cut strong enough to elect one to tile highest office of the State " who is chased as . synpa- thizer with treason;' but if so, let it be fairly understood, that in such q victory. the fruits vii. snuro, first to the Davis rebellion, in she election of synsPathizer with that cause. Sccondly-In the humiliation of the c vera. ment before armed and wicked rebellion. Third. ly-In the exultation of Byitish Aristoc.ey.