Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-02
Tae Eye of tle Contest.

ty to work while the day lasts.
 l Ne need not hesitate to say that the skies are bright, that our hopes are sansuine. oul l confidence unsllaken. that the Right must and ,cM prevail and triumph. We believe that We I shall carry the ticket headed by Governor BUCKINGHAM, in this State, representing the l Government and the Union, overthe combined forces of the disunion, peace-at-any price and rebel sympathIzing ticket, which insults every right minded, loyal man into whose hands that ticket is placcd.-We believe that we shall elect Member of Congress in this district, whose whole heart and soul is for tPe Union and the Country, and whose every vote will be given to prosecute this war till the accursed rebellion is crushed from the face of the nation. We believe that we shall elect Sheriff in this County, who represents the principles of all loyal men, who has given his services and i'm perilled his lifs in defence of his country, and who has filled the office of Sheriff hitherto, with uuimpeachabls satisfaction. We believe that we shall elect all three Senators. and a large majority of our town representatives in this County, who will uphold the honor of our gallant little State in the halls of legislation, and who will never finch and never falter in their devotion to their Government and it's laws
 And the cause of our confidence is, that the people of this county realize tho issue that is directly made batwecn loyalty and disleyalty i; that one of these tickets, presented for their suarages, represents the government, and one the traitors in rebellion against it ; that one ls in sympathy with our soldiers in the ii Id, thelr interests, their hopes and their desil ss and the other with the army which to day stands opPos- ed to them in all the panoply of horrid war ; that by the election of the one, our State will maintain it's honor and integrity among her loyal sisters, and by the choice Of the ether' will earn the merited applause of every state in rebellion.
 We cannot be mistaken; the issue is top plainly before the people the record is who'll Iy made up on both sides, and now waits only the approval or disapproval of the people at the polls. live would strengthen and uphold the government, if we would rebuke treason, if we would sustain our noble army, if we would do justice 10 ourselves and to all posterl- ty, we shall roll up such majority for the can didates representing the Union, the Govern ment and the true interests of the State, as never was known before and who can doubt, but that this ,oM be done, next Monday, ia CONNECTICUT
 But we would appeal, for this last time, to our friends and the friends of the Union, to WORK, WORK, WORK, to render this hope cs'- tn;ntu. It is no time to stop now. Faith is noth- ;np without wo,k! We must not rely so much upon what ought to be, ,or should be,as upon what shaN lbe. We must remember, in order to secure the triumph of the right, every man must exercise his sacred privilege and duly of depositing his ballot for the right. We must remember that many, very many who would vote with us and for their country, were they here, are now fighting for their country, away from us. We must remember what Meir appeal is to us, and see that none of us fail to come up to the polls to assure them that their appeal has not been in vain.
 We shall not again speak of the imp ortance of this election. As we have said, we believe that the voters of this county and this State its importance and are all alive to it's duties, and that in this consists our hop, and confidence for the triumph of our cause. But three more working days remain before we shall learn the result from the ballot-box. Let not single vote be lost, and next Monday night we shall have the proud consciousness of knowing, that Connecticut once more, in trumpet tones, has declared for BUCKINGHAM and the UNION