Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-18
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 LITCHFlELDs CONN.,
 THURSDAY, JUNE IS. lSe8. The Csvernment and !. The Chi- s9s cnEo Tinnss.n
 We give upon our fourth page, to day, ! sesfhisg article from Stanley Fowlers Chicar 10 Gazzxss. on shs subject of the suppression sad rssssc taiion of the Chicago Times, which lsss us . Iittls into the secret of how 1t was dsas. It seems. after Gen. Burnsidcs order squslching the trsasonabIs concern had been issnsd, two bsuling eopperheads'--as the Gsssi1s tsrns thsn, amid . variety of still nors exprssuss sisles--bastsned to telegraph c ths Ftsnidsnt. urging him for expediency's ssks,- to tss0ks the order, and let the trea- susails. psstilsntial organ of Jef. Davis go en. Add, nys the Gasstts, tlle President of sks Uuitsd States of America, heard the b,sstine of those tsndsr sheep. caught the esussdly infection. became panic struck, and tsssened to undo what had thus >far been 60 siebtsoudly done" And thersupon, the Ga- ssis proceeds to open its vials of wrath and sour out its anathsmss upon the heads of thsss dssotsd sheep. not even sparing the President, iu manner, which. if it dees not bssssy righteous indignation. certainly does sssy sincere.
 We do not quote. approvingly. the manner h which this is all administered, nor the sen- tencss and spsthets which, Pslion-on-O Ossa- like. are piled up higher and higher, until the whole = crowned with . csp-sheaf. upon which . pair of monkeys. representing the aforesaid eitissns, ars griuning and grimacing at a Chi eseo audience. Only natural-born genius. reared among the freedom-losing bills of LitchGsld County, and transplantsd to the bowling wildernssses of the West, could be giftsd with such powers of satire and pasquin- ads Asa model of invsctiye and moral cas- dgstion. it exceeds any thing ps ever saw be- fore in print, and as such, is choice reading. But the spirit and intention of the strietures ws do approve of. cordially. We cannot see. mors than the Gasstts can, why. when our soldisrs are fighting to maintain the integrity of the Union, which alone can preserve to us shs hlsssings of liberty and free institutions, saeh sheets as the Times and its kindred cop. psrhsad cotsmporaries, should be allowed openly and boldly to wage war against us, and in the interest of our declared and deadly enc mics. Nor can we perceive how such pitt < sEs 0Eissso'' zss;a olRcs, 5s permitted t ITO scot-ffes.
 Our readers will not misunderstood us. We 60 in for largest liberty of the Press and ol free speech but liberty of speech is not l. osnos to say all in our power to bring into con- tsmpt and rdiculs the Government under which we live, and through which we possess our liberty; certainly it is not leave, in def- ancs of liberty and law, to aid, abet and strengthen sn open enemy jn rebellion against our own authority. We never read the utter. sncss of such sheets as the Chicago Tsmss, and others which we might name nearer home, without wondering at the forbearancs of Gov srnmeus, or fssrfully doubting its courage, power and psrmansny. That Government mustindesd Dc dsridsd and despised by the banded traitors. separated from it by the wall of aesh and steel they have reared, when they sss 1t has either not the power or force to sup- prsss treason, even where ito authority is ae. knowledged and its people loyal.
 We ars glad to know that this unfortunate act of the Central Government is disapproyed of by the President's own State, and in the very section where the effect Of the order aud its rescinding.is being appreciated. The heart of the loyal masses, West and East. is sound. T'he people are terribly in earnest in this war, perhaps moro 60 at the. West than here at the East, 90 far removed as we are from the strife. It isa question that has been long mooted and fselingly discussed, whether the Government is alive to the sentiment of the people. The people of the West approve of the order of Burnside; the Government revokss it. The people anxiously look for, and hope for, and pray for decisive movements on the part of the Government, which shaIl terminate. if not with one blow, with succession of powerful blows, the exiatsnce of the rebellion and of every rebel who sympathizes with it; the ,iov- ernlaent holds back. The people give their all-means, life, hopes. to sustain the Govern ment, and will not the Governpent sustain it, eeIf7
 Bat Ws have said enough. The Gazette is right We shall never bs able to put an end to thls war;xe shall not Do able to preserve and maintain tho Union; ths Republic must fall, and 0overliment and people with it, unless tho Government shall show itself possessed of . power snd m apthority and courags. which nons ahalI dsrs to despisa, which none shall dsrids sscretIy or openly. ip safsty--before