Litchfield enquirer., 1868-10-08


 as perfectly Iegitinefo method by which q minority of our States can bring |. major ,ty to their own terhs He laments most innocently that tho fight of secession had not been admitted by the North. Then, ho opines, the alatteas would have soon re- pented of their folly. propitiated the South by executing the fugitive Slave law. !Sc, and we should have the following glorious results :-
 There would have boon no war; no blouilshed, no sacking of towns and cities, no desoIation, no billions oftreasu:e expended, on either side, and million of lives sacrificed in the unuatilral and fratricidal strife there would have been mono Oi the present troubles about restoration or recon struction; but instead of shese lamentable scenes new spectacle Of wonder fswolidar would have boel presented for the guide ESec] and Instruction oi tho astonisned natives of the earth, greater than that exhibited after the. Iullilication pac.fcatoT of the matchless workings of our American Insti tutions ofself government by tho people!
 A glorious consummation, indeed, for Slavery; but what would have been the po- sition of the North and of the Union!
 All that MT. Stephens work proves, is, that the South can see that they have been beaten, but cannot sec that they have been wrong. The wisest of Southern Demo crats ''has forgotten nothi ng; has learned notbing." He recognizes no violation of tho constitution, except on the pa Tt of the North. His ideas regarding Slave ry are tho ideas of South Carolina in 1860. His notions of ''free Democratic ideas" ,tre the notions of the Sheriff of Mitchell county. Georgia, sijlusSrated short Lime since at Camilla. MT. Stephens says:-
 There was no such thing as Slavery in tho full and proper senso of that word. No DeOpie eoer Liced more deUoted to principles of Hbery, secured by free denocrd tc sttsut.aes, Htcsa Ce people ottle SOnth * * What was called SlaTe1y amongst us, was but legal subortination of the Aflcau to the Caucasian raco. This relation regu!a- ted Ly law as to plomote according to the interest and design of tho system, the best interests of both races, the Black wolf as tho White, the h. seror well as the Superior. Bott hGd 'jg:ts se- cureH end boM hdd du;jes imposed. z eo0s syS- lcna Of rec ocal seIoice aud neua0l tOndS. < # It was elected: upon no such idea as that nlity1 barely, 5ives right, but it organized and de*endod upon tLo ineneutaote principles of justice to dt, which is the foundation of all good goyelr- ments.
 How happens it that NIT. Stephens who in 1866 accepted the issues of Ethe war; and was willing to abide by the decision of the sword, "devotes in ,186S over 600 pages, half his proposed work, to proving tLe right of Secession and an aouncing his undy- ing faith in the Calhoun theory of State Sovereignty? The answer is plain: hhe ot- ht~0ie oad temporary successes ofM Me No7th- e,m Democracy haoe aroused new Somhern hopes of tue Lost Cuase. Certainly no filter high priest of the resurrccted creed could be found than Mr. Stephens; and no filter close could have been chosen for the pres ent volume than the Labored lecture VIC find at tho end of it's appendix, delivered in 1866 by the Hon. RoBEer ToMBs, in de- fense of the system of Human Slavery, then e:;sting at the Southl