Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-14
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.~- le. Allsfe4alp.; za.:s: i-t:t--~l; -:.-E s>ir ri--:a-;~,- II .a --. THE ISSUES .AT STAKE. ...-' IT. ADDRESS OF THE. REPUBLICAN UNION STATE
 COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE.
 Felt0ao eatize7lS of Lonnectici.t-se. ... L.
 ri The day again rapidly approaches when you will be called, under our ancient free mans oath, to give your vote touching matters that concern this State and the United States, ''as you. shall judge will conduce to tie best good of the same, with out respect of persons or favor of any man. 3 And 1t again becomes our duty to earnest ly and seriously commend to you the can- didates, and principles of the Union Re publican party.
 If you sometimes grow weary of these re- iterated appeals, reflect that the time will never come in a republican government when you may honorably suffer an election to pass without studying the pending is- sue and casting your vote with intelligence and integrity. Reflect that, tedious as the long contest may at times appear, 1t can never seem so tedious as 1t did to your cit izen soldiers the exhausting seiges and marches through which they maintained an unfaltering faith in God and Liberty. Re. fleet that all our sacrifices now are but tri- hes or pleasures compared with the ago. nies of the battle field, and the slow tor lures of the prison pen. Hold fast to the great work till all be settled upon the foun- dations of Justice, Liberty and Equal Rights. No other settlement will give you rest. Diminished questions have no pity for the repose of mankind" ..I >c~-~ l.~ -
 . Posterity will never cease to look upon this generation with contempt, if we laziiy lose i'll peace what we SO gloriously won in WAT, and tho results of the magnificent struggle are ln great measure yet in doubt It Is not yet certain that treason is to be deemed Q disgraceful crime, nor that defea. ted but unrepentant traitors may not be- come dictators of the terms of peace and
 the chief architects, under their own plans,
 in rebuilding the Union they had so nearly
 destroyed. ----'- -.i- ,'-,s4S--.-.,- ---.- . When the armies of the rebellion surren.
 dered, treason was apparently shattered
 and crushed beyond recovery. We do not
 stop here to ask by whose fault it comes
 but to-day the spirit of rebellion as stub
 bornly refuses submission to the national will as when 1t fired upon Sumter and 1 save small and honorable minority, the | mass of prominent traitors have resumed 1 their reign of terror in theirseveral States l crushing down the oppressed, long. suffer ing people CT misleadlr g the ignorant, ane l they arrogant1y denounce all further terms l or coAditlons of restoration. But the oth
 CT day, the democracy. of Kentucky, hailed
 as brethren by the democracy of Connecti
 cut, nominated rebels for office, vehement l ly cheered the arch traitor Breckenridge
 and tumuituously shouted their profane defiance of the Congress of tue United States. It IS the unanimous official testi
 mony of the leading otficersof the scatter
 ed over the rebellious region,-and the,
 are non-partizan by habit and duty-tha l in the greater portion of the South: thu lives and property of loyal men are in cou stant danger: In ten States the trial of { | white man for the Inuruero of a-eolored loy al man would be a farce, and white Union
 ists fare but little better. Loyal men il the rebel States are daily driven from theil
 h ,mes; the honorable uniform of the arm,
 is insulted; the flag Is insulted; and the | northern man who would leave. the mai1 lines of travel must hold his peace or ayov l his sympathy with treason: ln the oficiia
 language of Major General Thomas With too many people of the South, tho late civil war is called g. revolution, rebel.
 are called confederates, loyalists to the I whole country are called damned Yankees l and straitors,' and oyer the whole grea, crime, with its accursed record of slangh tered heroes, patriots murdered because o 1 their true-hearted love of country, widow ed wives and-orphaned children, and pris oners of war slam amid such horrors as ] find no parallel in the history of the world 1 they are trying to throw the gloss of res probability, and thrasting with contume15 l and derislon from their society, the men and women who would not join hands witt l them in the work of ruining their country EvERYwEERE NiTHE STATES LATELY IN RE
 BELLIoN, TREASON IS RESPECTABLE AND LoY sALTY oDIoUs. This, the people of the Uni ted States who ended the rebellion fane saved the country, will not permit, and al lattempts-to maintain this unnatural order 1 of things will be met with decided disap provaI" e,.,F~t,-Tz.. :... -.,...-,.t E. ..,sa | Cannon and drums may be silent, yet the struggle is not over while these things t'are true. Yhe dead wiil have died in vain 1 if they be suffered to. remain true. La The
 dead will have died ln vain if they be, snf;
 fered to remain true Yet we have in Con: inectinnt a party thatby its presses, orators
 and conventions.d denonnced eoercion, de
 clared secession an accomplished fact, dis
 couraged the enlistment of every soldier,
 denounced success siyely, every measure oi
 the war, never reioiced over . Union Ncto- l ry, never thanked the living soldiers, o1 mourned over the 'snoble army of martyrs" " Eandnever in. its official luttenan ces express led desire for the, triumph of, the, Union armies or used the words treason, ssreb- elr and sstraitor, and uniformly dsnied Mt bauetto our soldiers in tie 5fstd;za party that, in is two conventions just held, has by resolution declared the rebellions States to have been the moment m'n,ed a.ssistaa,a,c3l Z ced;stt as Ssnstatea and syscyeas to aoz th :, r.glas aaa p,ygileqes, I s.entitled torepreaen