Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-02
WHOLE NO. 1o76
To Young Voters.

] Young men of the State of Connect cut, upon you now rests a weighty responsibility Upon you must necessarily fall the burden of
 the canvass of the coming election. is in your interest and that of your children. that
 this war is being urged. Do syou appreciate
 the emergency to it's full extent? Are you doing all in your power to ward off the evils of
 intestine discord which ambitious designing
 demagogues are endeayoring to fonlent These , are the questions winch must come home to { all of us now with peculiar significance.
 This election can be carried by the Union par ty only by the most determined energy and perseverance,. Every effort must be used, and every argument brought forward to inform and convince the doubtful and waveriug as to their true course. See eyary msn og your
 acquaintance and urge npon him the duty ho
 owes to his country now in the time Of its
 trial.
 The platform of the Copperhead Convention
 has disposed of ali side issues, and were there
 any room for doubt, as to the full and explicit
 meaning of that instrument, its interpreters in thclr numerous speeches. have set the question perfectly at rest. for the first of all of them lies ln the statement-iterstea and reiterated- that in case of the election of SeYmpur the
 United States laws are ts be set ut de6ance This is the issue, sqrarely made and upon this
 issue, thus presented the election is to be won or lost.
 Now young men of Connecticut, are YOU
 willing to see the good old Sta.e range herself upon the side of treason? Are you ready to infiict " stab in the back" upon your brothers who have gone forth from ameng you to battle for your rights and libertiesf
 The nomination of Seymour has been hailed with burst of generation by all our forces m tEe field. Men who went out from us strong democrats are the most open in the expres- sion of their indignation. All of your brothers in arms, without regard to party associations, look to you to see that their interests are pro. teeted at home, as they will protect yours in the field. Some support Seymour from spirit of antagonism. They have heard him called traiter, and, from lack of knowledge of his declarations, consider him sort of mar tyr. These men you should see, and show to them his letters, and, by his own pnb77 lshed statements, convince them on which side he is, and whether he deserves these cpl thets with which he has been branded.
 There is another class whosecase requires at- tention-those persons who are not in the hab- it of regularly reading the papers-who from the want Of proper information, may be mis- led by designing demagogues, into voting for the Copperhead candidate These men have been given to understand by the demagogues that if they should elect Seymour, there would be no draft in the State. They should be in- formed, no matter who is Governor, fla draft is ordered. t ,oiU De enforced. But there will prohably,be none in this State,for those States which are short upon the former call, will bs required to make good their quota and by that time the rebellion will be so shortened that the troops we have in the field will easily manage what remains of it. provided the re. bels are not encouraged bySeymour's election. Now, young men, turn out work with will, and do not let it be said in future times that the good old State of Connecticut ranged her. self on the side of treason in this the hour of her greatest tral-N II. Journal and C0wr- far