Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-07
Hunbug.

'With what panoply of death does this Radical programme arm the Southern heart and hand!
 'Resistence to tyrants is obedience to God" IS fiery motto, not engraven alone on Northern rocks and amid mountain fastnesses, but is written on every human heart that is worthy of the first i'm pulse of freedom. This Radical military bM arms erery man in the Republic acith he God-gacen 17g1 to slay their tyrd,ds. !" * If resistance comes it wifi be in such 6 shape that no power can crush it.-A history teaches that the remedy for mill tary despotisrn, is the dagger ofthe dssassia!'- '- Y. H. Register Aarch 2, 1867. ..~..
 The man who penned the above apparent ly deserves hanging-only apparently, how ever. for he is not really the traitor he seems tu be ho is auorely namoag. In the last, Mir. James Brooks announced that if Congress exercised it's constitutional pow CT of impeachment, the Democratic party would begin & second rebellidn. and Mir. w. W. Eaton seemed inclined to eensure the President for not having begun it before.
 Now, all this is simply bogus treason. Let 'this Radical military bill arms every man in the Republic with the God-giyen right to slay their tyrants," and half million Americans will spring to arms, for then every one would recognize the genuine ar ticle. When the Democratic party of Con- necticut assemblies, on the contrary, every one expects just such an exhibition of sham disloyalty party taste demands it. Eaton must talk little treason in his char acteristic, wicked way, or they go home dissatisfied, feeling that the show had been incomplete. Not that they have any stom- ach for real work of that kind-what they want is not Lee and the tragedy, but Eaton and the farce. When the two species meet the genuine asserts its superiority over the spurious treason immediately. The Editor of the New Haven Register met John c. Breckenridge in Canada last summer and there is something really touching in the natural reverence with which the Yankee Copperhead seemed to regard that Prince of traitors, as it appears in every line of the letter from which we have placed an extract at the head of this column. It. is the hom- age the bogus article cannot help paying to the real article.
 The most complete specimens, however, of political humbuggery this country has ever seen are to be found in Democrat ic dealings with the Constitution of the United States: That instrument gives, they at first said, no power to coerce Sovereign States; nor, (after the war began any pow CT to crush treason by military law in States ripe for revolt; nor, any power to fill the army by draft; nor, to free slaves and arm them against their masters. Imme .iately upon the cessation of hostiities, they now maintain, the General Government lost all control of the traitors whose arms it had just wrested from their hands, and who, while yet prisoners of war, had right to establish State governments practically Confederate, to prosecute and expel Union men, to murder negroes by the thousand and reduce them to practical slavery, to or ganize militia under old Confederate lea ders, to procure munitions of war and pre- pare themselves for second rebelion-all without let or hindranoe'' from the Gen. eral Government. Yet having thus inter preted all virtue out of our national Con stitution their reverence for the humbug they have made it. exceeds all bounds. Their veneration for it, in fact. increases in exact proportion with their ingenuity in construing the wisdom of our fathers into foolishness. -,
 Now We are opposed to every species of hnmDugge:y and deception, and we have never approved the course of our Congress sional nominee in amusing himself and the pubic with spurious curiosities, woolly'