Litchfield enquirer., 1863-03-12

riotism. mingled with Bloody threats against those who are willing to make sacrifices for their country aud deteFminedto pnt down treason We blush te thiuk tbat Connecticut evergavc bir,sso such meni Was t not enough that a.se Bepsdict Arnold shouN stalp her fair esc,lscheon?
 Having thus declared themselves opposed io thc war in any way or shape, tkcir execra- tion Of those particular war-neasur:s which promise to be most efficient Is to be expected and of course amounts to very little. No doubt grave mistakes have been made by those who conduct tho suppression of tlie Rebellion, but docs it therefore follow that the Rebellion should not be suppressedf Shall we let the Union perish, and 50 bite off our own noses in orslerto punish Liucolns
 It tarpears then that the Gupparheaa swould plunge conneeticst ipta civil war. not to sup port tle Consultation, for by their acts they contemn and defy tho Constitution; aot to de. fond Liberty, for the greatest danger to Liber ty md to the institutions which guarantee and cnibody it, is from themselves; a.ot because particular war measures are objectionable, for they are opposeI to all var measures. The ostensible motives Of the leading Copperheads in the Hartford Convention and elsewhere are
 mere preterts cpncealins rather than expressing thcir trpe designs.
 What then is their ycal motive for dragging this State into rebellion? Take for iRsta,,ce the man who boasts that he ..carries the De- mocrasy of Connecticut in bis coat-tail pock ct. Having passed many years of his life at the South he has m eathss,astic admiration for their social organization aud so,a strong contempt for ours. He loves Slavery, loves Slave holders, would be glad to own slaves. " He thanked God that the time had come when it was no longer necessary for tue party to profess dislike to Slacery" Sentiments nearly as explicit one can hear almost any lea ding Copperhead express by sounding him on the subject, In New York men of . like stamp are petitioning the Legislature to res tore Slavery in that State. It is understood to be one of the leading objects of the !" Knights of the Golden Circle" now in active sympathy and league with Northern peace-men," te introduce Slavery into all they can of the Northern States, and then by resolution unite these with the C,nfederacy j" leaving the rest out in the cold. Any one who has carefully watched the course of Copperhead journals for the last twelve months must have seen that this is the goal of their policy. Their denuneiations of Abolitionists, (meaning all who do not wish. ..Slavcrysextended,) thsir..ma. lignity toward the poor Blacks.-haye all been artfully designed to prepare public sentiment to submit to the extension of Slavery over the whole copntry. This is to be the peace eferiag of the North to Jeff. Davis for the crime of electing Lincoln President, and to qualify Ns for admission to the Confederacy under the Montgomery Constitution Here then is the real purpose for which the Copper head chiefs are striving to bring this State into collision with the National Government, TIE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY INTO CosSEcr1curl
 Honest working man! You who have been told that the Republicans were trying to bring "piggers' into competition with white labor, how do you like the looks of the Copperhead programme? Are you willing to work, or to have your children vork,by the side of SLAVES I And to. have the price of. your labor brought down tosa starri.y point by their competition
 Hard pressed taxpayer! Are you willing to have all the moneyi and securities in your hands uttersy lMinea by the insane crime of And to have taxes quad,upled by a destructive and fruitless conflict with the National Government?
 Heavily burdened property holderi Are you willing to have the prosperity of Connec- ticut and the value of real estate brought down to the level of the Slave Sta!es2
 Yet to accomplish these purposes, ruinous to all classes of men alike, the desperate- Cop perhsads have long plotted and intrigued, and are now willing to givo up the Union, ever turn the Constitution. betray their country, and bring about bloody civil war, whose end should be the erection of feudal or military despotisml
 We. ask no one to take these facts on our authority. Let any man who is not helplessly enslaved by party names and shibboleth, read, r .'Ts7r4 4F \ fl examine, and reflect for himself. And f hedoes not conclude there are now in this St: ts raj. tors more pestilent, inexcusable, and damna-
 le,.han ever before cufsed any age or country,
 then let him worship Bsnedict Arnold az .
 patriot, and Judas Issariot as here.
 All. HAn. NEw HAaPsIIRR !-Returns from
 the old Granite State exhibit the election on
 Tuesday last, of an out-and-out Union Re
 publican Legislature, three Republican Mem
 bers ot Congress. and Republican Council.
 There were three candidates for Governor in E