The liberty bell and workingmen's advocate., 1867-03-07
The Issues at Stake.
ADDRESS OF THE REPUBLICAN, UNION STATE
 COMMITTEE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE
,sllo,o- Citizens Of Connecticut :.

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 The day again rapidly approaches when you will be called, under our ancient freemans gath. to give your vote touching matters that peA.rern this State and the United States, :" as E9u shall judge will conduce to the best good of the same, without respect of persons or favor of any man." And it again becomes our duty to earnestly and seriously to com mend to you the candidates and principles of the Union Republican party.
 If you sometimes grow weary of these reit- erated appeals, reflect that the time will never come in a republican government when you may honorably suffer an election to pass with out studying the pending issues and casting your vote with intelligence and integrity. Reflect that, tedious as the long contest may at times appear, it can never seem so tedious as did to your citizen soldiers the exhausting sieges and marches through which they main tained an unfaltering faith in God and Liber- ty. Reflect that all our sacrifices now are but trifies or pleasures compared with the agonies of the battle field, and the slow tortures of the prison pen. Hold fast to the great work till all be settled upon the foundations of Justice, ment will give you rest. " Unfinished ques- tions have no pity for the repose of man kind"
 Posterity will never cease to look upon this generation with contempt, if we lazily lose in peace what we so gloriously won in war, and
 
 a great measure yet in doubt. It is not yet certain that treason is to be deemed a disgrace full crime, nor that defeated but unrepentant traitors may not become dictators of the terms of peace and the chief architects, under their own plans, in rebuilding the Union they had so nearly destroyed. .
 When the armies of the rebellion surrend- cred, 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 stubbornly re- fuses submission to the national will when 1t fired upon Sumter, and, save a small and honorable minority, the mass of prominent traitors have resumed their reign of terror in their several States, crushing down the op- pressed, long-suffering people, or misleading the ignorant, and they arrogantly denounce all further terms or conditions of restoration. But the other day, the Democracy of Ken lucky, hailed as brethren by the democracy of Connecticut, nominated rebels for office, vehemently cheered the arch traitor Brecken- ridge, and tumultuousy sla Suited their profane defiance of the Congress of the United States. It is the unanimous official testimony of the leading officers of the army acattered over rebellions region,-and they are non-partizan by habit and duty-that in the greater DOT tion of the South, the lives and property of loyal men are in constant danger. In ten States the trial of white man for the mur- der of a COlored loyal man would be a farce, and white Unionists fare but little better. Loyal men in the rebel States are daily driven from their homes the honorable uniform of the army is insulted; the flag is insulted and the northern man who would leave the main lines of travel must hold his peace or avow his sympathy with treason. In the official language of Major General Thomas: "With too many people of the South, the late civil is called revolution rebels are called confederates,' loyalists to the whole country, are called damned Yankees and traitors, and over the whole great crime, with it's ac- cursed record of slaughtered heroes, patriots murdered because of their true hearted love of country, widowed wives and orphan child ren, and prisoners of war slain amid such hor- TOTS find no parallel in. the history of the world, they are trying to throw the gloss of responsibility, and thrusting with continually women who would not join hands with them in the work of running their country. EVERY WHERE IN THE STATES LATELY IN REBEL LION TREASON IS RESPECTABLE AND LOYAL Ty oDroUs. This, tho people of tho United States who ended the rebellion and saved the maintain this unnatural order of things will be met with decided disapproval.
 Cannon and drums may be silent, yet the struggle is not over while these things are true. The dead will have died in vain if they Ae suffered to remain true. Yet we have in Opnecticut party that by its presses, ora & tG4 and conventions denounced coercion, de
 clsAd secession an accomplished fact, dis