Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-21

courts or South Carolina, the right to lmprIsOl Northern freemen, he was unceremonousi,
 driven from the city of Charleston by an inluri
 ated mob. And when on the floor of the Sen
 ate the Hon. Charles Sumner was stricker
 down by the blows of cowardly assassin, tkt
 ac: was applauded by the ''cNvalry,' and per
 sons of both sexes and all ages Hed with eacl
 other in doing honor to the coward!y and mur
 derous deed. And not content with this
 southern statesmen have labored in season ano
 out of season, to nstill into the minds of thei
 constituents the political heresy of disanion and to nculcate the monsrous doctrine of the divine origin of the institution of Americar slavery, and that republican institutions of ne cessity had their basis thereon.
 It is said that General Jackson, upon hi! death bed, told his physcan- l 'Posterity will condemn me more because was persuaded not to try and hang John c Calhoun as traitor, than for any other act O. my life
 1 Disunion and Southern Confe,leracy were ! the darling ideas of Mr. Calhoun. He con tended that slavery was a divine institution and $ blessing" and he forced this idea as the fuicrum upon which, like Archimedes, he would move the world. into all the pits. religious conventions, political assemblies legislative halls, and finally into the decisions of their courts. He demanded it should be recognized and regarded hy Congress, tie President and the Supreme Cosrt.
 When men of the North began to show op position to these GemanCs t!icn treason aud d:s:nion took new life, and in the language of Mr. Clay, which have quoted, limitations 0! the spilling of bIoo1," were freely thrown out i by representatives of the South. As far hacl, SI0 Nr If in ! bama, wrote.--
 Fire the Southern heart. instruct the Sont: ern mind, give courage to each other, and at the proper moment, by one organized. concert ed action, we can precipitate the Cotton States into rcvolution.
 It was done. The "proper moment" arriy- ed. Mr. Curry of Alabama, a member ot i Congress at that time, with the cath warm up on his lips to support and defend the Consti tutien and Government, said However 1istasteful it may be to my friend from New Hampshire, Mr Clark however mach it may revolt the public sentiment or conscience of this country 1 ain n ashamed or afraid publicly to avow that the election Of William II. Seward, CT Salmon p. Chase or any other such representative if he Republican party ovght to be resisted to tl.e disruption ol every tie hat binds the contntieracy .o5et!ler Mr. kett. of Soath Carolina, who w@s l;.tely killed in on9 ui ,h. battles baf,re RicI!noi!J saii il! 1856:
 : :etl yoH nov, tia. t, :: ,r,.ara nlen v.. III: S"h"'i' ta lis ,tFr4mou,%) election. is q i ir2Stoc and coward.
 :@r Floyd, of Virginia. who WAS ar!c.war,,. n.;;e.v Secretai: o. Tnf hy ire.i.enl DuchalE;n fl;'y ea.orsei this l.i.s.Et,e. Preston ;. Brooks. another representative. lro.! ; ,nt; Carolina, who you wi! remember ;ts ;'ri"g ie gentleman w,.o wt:ytaid ansE tgal .'lr. Sumner, sail ii Fremont b. elected President O. tha tTn ite'i states, a'n for the people in tncr lnaie ' rslng above the law aaG leaders, takin. tb, roeeF into their own haads going Ev Concert ! aud laying the strong arsl ni Son;hora freen!cn up9E the ifeaSary and arctliegrs If it.e ,v- ernment.
 In letter written by Judge Daily, of Fen nessea he says:
 During the presidential contest, Governor Wise had addressed letters 10 all the Souther,, Governors, and the one to the Governor ol Florida Las been shown him. in which Govern or Wise said he had an army in readiness to prevent Fremont from taking his Seat if elected and asking the co operation of those to whom he wrote.
 1t appears from the speeches and letters of those from whom have quoted, that it was not the design ot the South merely to secede, but rather to ''rise above the law,' break up the government by preventing the President, in case Mir. Fremont should be elected. from talk ing his seat, and also to seize upon the Treas ury and archives of the Government" 1 trust f tb,l l,tt H. ho o1, <,f the right of secession.
 called northern mechanics the mud stills of society," said |:
 When Fremont is elected we must rely upon what we have. good State government. Every Governor of the South should cali the Legislature of his State together, and have measures of tie South decided upon. If they aid not and submit to the degredation, they would deserve the fate of slaves. should ad- wise my Legislature to go at the tap of a drum :. Mir. Butler evidently expected war. He had no idea that the North would quietly submit to the destruction ofthe government without any effort to says 1t.
 To show the responsibility ofthe Democrat ic party for the war 1 will cite paragraph iioiii e Sohlcuciatc t;pcI puDliSiIHu III Ath- bama, which says :: No one can be deceived as to what are the objects of the Charleston Convention. Listen to what their men say:- want the Cotton States precipitated into a revolution. ". l. Ia7scey. If had the power 1 would dissolve this Government in two minutes. .'-J- T. Morgan Let us break up this rotten, stinking and oppressive Government -Geo'ye Gayle. Resistance resistance to death against the Government is what We want now. '-Dauid 1 Hubbard.
 The Charleston Mercury the recognized or gan of the South Carolina Democracy, said
 Upon the policy of dissolying the Union
 of separating from her northern enemies, and establishing a southern confcderacy, parties presses, politicians. and people are unit
 There is not single public nun in her limits
 not one of her present Representatives. CT Sen
 aters in Congress echo IS mol pledged to tAe lips
 in taror of d,sunion.'
 1 The Washington correspondent of the \, O. Delta, in 1856, wrote as follows:
 1t is already arranged, in the event of Ere
 mont's election, or d failure to elect by the
 people, to cxil the Legislatures of Virginia
 South Carolina and Geo gia, to concert meas
 ures to withdraw from the Union before Ere
 mont can get possession of the Army and
 Navy and purse strings of the Government
 Governor Wise is already actively at work ir