Litchfield enquirer., 1864-10-06

{; that disgusting abortion which he found at the
 gates of Hell. Why. gentlemen, war may be
 commenced in hot passion, in the heat of blood
 without justifable motive or premeditation
 but war cannot be long continued in an in
 telligent and civilized community, unless the people are convinced that the war is morally and politically right. Right conclusions from the understanding and right convictions from the heart are as essential to the earnest, tri- umphant prosecution of long war, as Sharp's rifles, or Parrott guns. and Grants and Sher mans. Loud cheers. The flashing telegram which proclaims that Sheriden has conquered Early in two pitched battles. and is now chas. ing the scampering graY-backs up the Valley of the Shenandoah tremendous cheers, no more strengthens and stiffens the whole Union line from City Point to Brashear City, than the flashing news from Maine and Vermont igreat applause, which proclaims that the moral and political convictions of the people are not to be beguiled by Vallandigham's nom- inee. whether he swallow, or spit upon Val. landig gham's platform loud cheers. said at the outset that we did not recognize this monster; we did not even know it's name i; some said it was no monster at all it's name was Secession child of the Constitution, and we could only pursue it by proclamations, that is to say. fire crackers and somersauts as the Chinese attacked the British 74s. Some called it treason. and said we could only pur- sue it by Marshal and posse comitatus If We happened to catch traitor we could not hang him until we had convicted him by two witnesses and jury. How long would it take us to hang Jeff with these restrictions, if Ulysses should bag him tomorrow? Laugh ter. Some called it an insurrection and said we might march against insurgents iD arms. but we must first get an invitation from the Governor of the State where the insurgents were. How long would we have to wait for such an invitation from the Governor of South Carolina? Laughter and cheers. Some called it Rebellion, but said as it was Rebel lion authorized by the States,i must be allowed to run and be glorifed, for there was no power to coerce a sovereign State. Applause. We are no longer confounded by these various de scriptions; we have at all events learned the name of the monster. We have not learned it from Abraham Lincoln, God bless him great applause and cheers,l rot from Charles Sum- ner or Thaddeus Stevens-not from any one of call d-d Abolitionists, laughter but from questionable Supreme Coult of the United
 
 christening, they all agreed in the baptism, and they Say that on the 18th of July, 1861, there existed between the United States and the Confederate States civil and territorial aea,', the name of the monster is War, and that spells war What does that mean ? Not in babbling in Congress, thank God cheers, not Il parleying and conventionizihg. but in fighting your enemy, not with gloved hands. but with gauntleted hands, [applausel, no, with compromising and truclng, but with trerchant blades and the blade to the hit l. that is war! Loud applause.l There was another idea at the outset which We have at leug,h defined and systematized, and in spite of sophistriss. we cllmbed up to the bold truth that we could constitutionally shoot public GU my with arms in his hands assalling the na tion's lite, and we climbed to the still bolder truth that We might seize the property of the public enemy. Some said we might take his arms and munitions of war, his horse, his OK and his ass, but when We came to his nigger, by whom he works and fights, why, then. hands otf-we must not touch kim. Daughter and cheers.) There was time when this ques- tion of Slavery might have been settled 50 as to entranchise the slave, and the basis of such settlement was to leave the territories to them selves; but that was defeated by that conspir acy which butchersd Stephen A. Douglas ai Charleston. That's so.) Conservative men were placed in the situation of defending a system they hated but when these slave masters took their internal system from under the Constitution, It relieved me and every oth- CT Democrat from defending the internal sys- tem. We said to those scoundrels then that We would give them all the protection the Constitution granted. We say now they shall have such protection as the wolf gives to the lamb, and only such territory as they can de- fend by their sword, and no more. Applause Has nothing been done? Is it nothing to dis enthral the whole Northern mind and bring them to the side of Freedom? (Applause.) Let me inquire in the second place if nothing has been done in breaking up the resources of the rebellion. We have conquered and to- cay hold moro territory than Alexander the Great overran in twelve years. At the outset of the task of crushing the Rebellion, where was Missouri Torn, tortured and dismem- bered by hand-to hand strife between citizen and citizen, her fields red with the blood of her sons by day, her skies lurd with the con fagration of her dwellings by night. The great protecting arm of the Government in- terfered between warning brethren, the great eagle of the Republic swept down upon the fratricidal strife. and although constrained for a season to use the weapons which he carried in ore talon. he soon waived over the departed belligerents the olive branch which he carries in the other. (Applause.} Maryland. the fairest of the Southern sisterhood while the family was one-where was she ! Hesitating land she that hestates is lost) almost dropping into the arms of the greedy adulterer, who had already hailed her as My Maryland' (Applause l. now she is torn from his grasp and sits robed in white. an henored member of our family board. (Applause.) And the Ad- ministration did more for Maryland than if they had conquered hemisphere, for they have not only preserved her unspotted. but they have made her free. (Applause.) Moth. ing been done Why, in three years and halt we have done more than Julius Cesar with his ten years in Gaui-more than Hannl bal with his l7 years in Italy-more than the conquer of British India with his Is years in that country. challenge you to find in all history single martial enterprise more con- spicuous for the obstacles to be overcome. more numerous with examples of endurance and he- roism, more magnificent in it's results, and more fatal to the enemy, than that of opening the Mississippi. lApplause.) Was nothing done at Sevastopol Then nothing was done at Vicksburg. Was nothing done at Ant werp? Then nothing was done at Port Hud- son. We have won more substantial triumphs at the expense of fewer comparative reverses, than in the memorable seven years which filled the world with the fame of Frederick the