Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-21

eue id" iG "ouau Ut noHSeuSlcdl to Calk or ap plying coercion otherwise than to the peopl, themselves. It appears, then, that there i among Democrats broad difference of opiniot upon this subject. We hear one member O the party contend that the war is all wrong while another condemns the administration fc! not prosecuting the war with more energy No wonder that the unsopbisticated members of the party are often times at loss to decide whether the war is right or wrong. They find themselves in much the same position the Irishman did who, not knowing the gender c his sisters child, said he did not know whethe, he was uncle or aunt.
 The gentleman, in support of the doctrine ol secession. has quoted from Andrew Jackson l will quote from the same authority. May 1885, writing to a friend private letter. Gen eral Jackson says:
 I have had laborious task here, but nulli 6cation is dead; and it's actors and courtiers will he ren, embered by the people to be exc crated for their wicked designs to sever and destroy the only good government on the globe, and that prosperity and happiness We enjoy over every other portion of the world. Ha- mans gallows ought to be the fate of all such ambitious men, who would involve their coun- try in civil war and all the evils in its train tHat tuty felSu Eiue OH it's WHITE winds and direct the storm. The free people of these United States have spoken, and con signed these wicked demagogues to tEeir pro- per doom. Take care of your nuliifers you have them among you: let them meet with the indignant frowns of every man who loves his country
 do not read it all but in conclusion he says: mark his prophetic words:
 The tariff was the only pretext, and dis union and a Southern Conf.deracy the real object. The next pretext viii be tn, negro or slavery question:
 This was written more than thirty years since, aa'l shows conclusively. in my opinion, that General Jackson looked upon secession. or nullification as it was called, as pernlcious doctrine, and those engaged in it were. as he says, worthy only of "Haman:s gaows.''
 The gentleman has also evoked the name of Henry Clay in support of his theory. will read from speech delivered by Mr Clay in the Senate Chamber. August lst, 1850:
 II any one State, or any portion of the pec- pie Of any State, choose to place themselves in array against the government of the Union, 1 am for ascertaining whether We have d Govern mens or not-practicable, efficient, capable of maintaining its authority and upholding the the powers and interests which belong to & government. No, sir, am 1 to be alarmed or dissuaded from such Course by intimaioas of the spiling of blood. If blood is to he split. by whose fault is it to be split? Upon t!,.. aGt'i e~;.;~' ->~intan. it vii! ba ti.e fault of thoSe Who chose to :also t:,c-alaliItf1 ,,f .tia union and en'leayor to prostrate the Goyorn- ment And, sir when that IS tien-. % lon. a5 It plcases God to give me yoica to express S,rn at, ,I,. I as 1t may be by age. that voice and that arm will be on the side of my country for the sup port of the general authority and for he main tcnance of tie Powers of the Uniun.'
 l shosld be glad to quote from other auth critics had them here, and Was it deemed u matter of sufficient importance. As this Is a question upon which the gentleman $ own par " IS divided, 1 will leave the further consider aton of 1t for the august d.!belation of the next National Democratic Convention.
 The second proposition. which in effect charges the responsibility of the war entirely upon the North depends, to considerable eX- tent upon the truth or falsty of the first. Ii 1t Is conceded that the doctrine of secession has no claims under the Constitution then the right of revolution alone remains with the South. Revolution against tyrannical oppres- sion has always had the sympathy of. our peo- pie. But has there been any such oppression or real cause of grievance, of which the people of the slave States complain? ? It is said that men of the North have spoken harshly against the peculiar institutions of the South that slavery has been called ''leasue with death and convenant with he'll" But, I ask, are these geod reasons for rebellion against the government. Wilberforce fought the institu- tion of slavery until he saw it abolished in the British Empire. We resorted to the same means which have been used for the accom- plishnient of a like object here. It may truly be said that the people of the Northern States are unanimously opposed to the institution of slavery, and have long desired te see it erad cated from the land. And, it cannot be denied that in Some instances men have spoken in temperately upon the subject. But see noth ing which has been done cause for destroying the government. In the language of -Alexan- der H. Stephens, (now Vice President of the rebel States) spoken in the Convention that took Georgia out of the Union, in Jonuary, 1861, I ask,
 What right has the North assailed? What interest of the South has been invaded? What justice has been denied? And what claim founded in justice and right has been with held? Can either of you to-day nanas one governmental act ot acrong, deliberately and pus.posely done by tue goce,'nn,ent at Washing- tcn ct ,chich tue South has c riQ1t to complain l challenge the ans,cer. 1t is tke best and tireest gouernment,-tte most lenient in its measures, aud the "sost inspiring in its principles to ele- rate the race ot men, that Me SUI ecer shone upon.'
 What stronger language could be used in vindication of the people who have long abhor. red the institution of slavery, and longed to see the day when it might be plotted from the nation?
 Mr. J. fferson, on the 39th and 10th pages of his notes on Virginia. says:
 'There must doubtless be an unhappy inAu. ence on the manners of our people produced by the existence of slavery among us. The whole commerce between master and slave is perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions-the most unreniitting despotsm on the one part and degrading submission on the other. Our children see this and learn to i'm itate it.
 Here, sir, in my opinion, is the beginning O. all our trouble and the real cause of this rebel lion. That spirit of despotsm which the chil dren of the South have learned to initiate ha; remained with them through life. They hay, looked upon themselves as born to command
 and this feeling has been shown in all thei
 walks in life.
 Whenever we have contended for our right under the Constitution IF in obedienca to m