The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-05
COUNTY POST.
LITCHFIELD, SEPTEMBER 5, I8Qs,

The Superior Court closed its Summer
Term for Litchfield County. on the 9Oth ult
after sitting Of 10 days-Judge Daggett, on
the Bench. There were no criminal causes
before the court, and consequently Newgate
receives no addition to its number from our
county the'present season. This speaks well
for the virtue and good order of the citizens
of Litchfeld County. Several important civ
il cases were tried, but none sufficiently inter
esting to excite any unusual attention among
| our citizens.-We would here add a passing
tribute to the profound legal knowledge, and
superior dignity of the learned Judge, but his
character is SO well known to the citizens of
| Connecticut, and his abilities SO generally ac-
knowledged by those who know how to ap-
preciato worth, that our feeble testimony in
appreciation of his appointment to the inn
portant station he SO well fills, would have
but little weight with those who better know
him as man, and admire him as a lawyer
and statesman.
Colonization Society.-We invite the partc-
ular attention of our readers to the letter on our
last page, from distinguished gentleman of
Virginia, addressed to Mr. Gurlcy, the agent
of the Am. Col. Soc. while 10 New York, la
bouring to advance the interests ofthe socie-
ty. Mr. Fitzhugh has been senator of va.
and is an extensive slave holder. The object
of his letter appears to be to answer objections
which are SO often raised against the labours
OF the society, and also to prove the propriety
and cOnstitutionality of our government ma
king the subject of African emancipation a
national concern. The sentiments of the let
ter are in exact accordance with what has Of
ten been advanced, both from the pulpit and
the press, and with what, for che honor Of A
mericans, we wish were the feelings of every
heart that beats high with the love Of liberty.
But unhappily such is not the fact; and there
are not found wanting even in New-England,
gentlemen of intelligence and professed phi
lanthropy, who are willing, and apparently
anxious, to paralize the efforts of the Coloni-
cation sosiety, by their incessant objections
to all that has been, or promises to be done
for the relief of the slaye-holding states, and
the meloration Of the condition of the Africans
in our land. The strange Inconsistency Of
such conduct can be accounted for in no 9TH
err way, than that mankind are ever ready to
oppose, in its infancy, every object which
Heaven in mercy designs to bless for, their
good. Much more glaring is the incOnsis-
tency of certain respectable editors who are
ever anxious to show their zeal for liberty,
by the most severe attacks upon the laws
relative to slavery which the southern states
are under the most imperative necessity Of
enacting, not only for their own safety but
for the real benefit Of the slaves land when
called upon to lend their columns to aid a
society established by southern philanthro-
pists for the express purpose Of devising means
to free themselves from the intolerable load
which their forefathers entailed upon them,
these champions Of freedom, if they do not
openly ridichle the object, are quick to show
their superior penetration, by labouring to
prove that nothing has been, or can be eff
fected by the society.
We feel with others Of our fellow citizens
not only of the North but also of the South,
that slavery is an evil fast hecoming too in
tolerable to be bourn; and we hail with de-
light and will second with our whole soul,
every measure which wisdom and expert
ence. shall devise to free our country from
this-evil. We will not oppose our short
sighted experience, to any efforts, however
comparatively small, which may be made
by our southern brethren to remove that
dark cloud of calamity which has so long
and SO sullenly hung over their prospects.
Every effort which is made, and every meas
ure which is devised by those immediately
interested in slavery, to remove the curse
from them, should be heartily supported by
their fellow citizens Of the North; and not
only 50, but the purses of the rich and the
.'mites" y. Of the poor should be cheerfully
consecratcd to help on the glorious work Of
benevolence. We might show some vain
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