Litchfield enquirer., 1863-08-13
The Art of Lying.
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 But of all the lies that ever acere penned, tlie greatest, most unblushing, most preposter- ous, point the sentences of the recent Appeal Of the arch rebeb Jeff. Davis, to his scattered and demoralized forces at the South.
 It seems that, having reached the utmost depths of despondency, Jefferson D. is com pelled to issue a heaft.wrung appeal to the sol diers of the Confederacy, who are scattering like rats from the sinking ship of state, to re- turn to their ranks, and make another despe- rate effort to retrieve the falling fortunes of the Confectionery. To augment this appeal, he uses every effort of fattery and cajole to lure them back to his power, promising an amnesty for all previous peccadilloes, even offering free pardon for their former -desertion. But as if even this were not enough, and as if con scious that he has yet to attain depth of ly. ing worthy only of his great prototype. the Arch-Fiend of the regions Internal, he pro. ccsds to urge them back by recourse to la bored, crafty, diabolical mis-statement of the purposes of their enemy" in prosecuting the var for the Union, hoping thereby to {. fire the Southern heart" into still greater enmi- ty towards the Unionists. and nerve their arms to'a still greater desperation.
 These are his words:-
 "Y You know too well, my countrymen, what they mean by success. Their malignant rage aims at nothing less than the extermination of yourselves, your wives and children. They seek to destroy what they cannot plunder They propose as the spells of victory that your homes shall be partitioned among the wretches whose atrocous crueltcs have stamp ed infamy on their government. They design to excite seryile insurrection and light the fires Of incendiarism wherever they can reach your homes; and they debaueh the inferior race, hitherto docile and contented, by promising indulgence of the vilest passions as the price Of treachery. Conscious of their inability to prevail by legitimate warfare, not daring to make peace lest they should be hurled from their seats of power the men who now rule in Washington, refuse even to confer on the sub ject of putting an end to outrages which dis grace our age, or to listen to suggestions for conducting the war according to the usages of civilization"
 That it was necessary to resort to these mon strous falsehoods to prop up the cause which yef sees well nigh hopeless, and to sustain for c little longer the base fabric of dream in which the South has been involved, we can well believe; but that any man, pretending to Christianity, should so unbushipgly, initiate the devi; in lie, and series ofllies, such as rmind us or those the grsat Master of lies himself made use of to retard for while the collapse of his own great rebellion, seems al. most beyond belief till We have read the fulmi nation which the signature of Jeff Davis stamps as undeniably his own.
 But that it will aid his falling fortunes. or that of his wretched followers, we cannot and do not believe. The confession of such weak ness at the outset, which needs such mops:rous hes to bolster it up. shows upon it's face the -imminent peril' in which the "Confederacy'' isplaeed and will serve.if nothing else could t0Narn off the soldiery from the rotten hulk of which the great liar ia.st,n the captain and pilot Everybody knows-even the most isno- nnt of his dupes-that this war is, not for the exssFm'nation of the Southern people, but sim py to restore them their rights which have been wrested from them by the wretched usurner and his crew. The experience of the armies of the South has taught them, that while our soldisrs light valiantly, and to win, they have no personal malignity against the South, nor a ossirs for the extermination, or even subiuga- ston of their people. It is necessary to use every means which God and Nature has placed in oar power, compatible ,ciM Christian ,oa,. Amc, to exserminate rebellion, and restore law and order. Further than this the Union ar- mics have never gone, and wherever they have gained decisive victories this has been the re- suit. as every instance shows.
 Such wretehed lying will not then save the great rebel from his impending doom. Already De sees the handwriting upon the wall. It Reeds no inserpnter-. vscKspunG PoRr HuD- .rox and GETTYSBURG are easily read. Iu vain he calls to his own. for his own heed him not. and Davis may well be preparing for hasty abdication and exit from this scene of his earthly labors, and 10 spend the remainder o his wretched life awaiting his translation to the place prepared for the wicked of his grade,