The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-02

have been given, thousands will be snbslitu-
ted in their, place, and not be impoverished
by the gifts. Let every inhabitant of the
county give at the rate of so cts. apiece, and
81 900 instead of $4,000 will be the amount
raised-let them again give at the rate of 3
cts. apiece, and the sum raised will be about
| the same as that of last year.
We have received from the Rev. E. Corne-
Illus, Secretary of the American Education
Society, recent publication entitled, Brief
View of the American Education Society,
with an appeal to the Christian public" We
shall hereafter make extracts from this pamph-
let, which we doubt not will be interesting to
our readers. This Society has been in opera
ton about II years, and the sum of good it
has accomplished during that period cannot
be calculated but by a view of the spiritual
wants of our own country, and of the world
1t has afforded assistance to about 500 young
men in the various stages of study preparato-
ry to entering the ministry, and many oftheir
benefciarjes are now faithfully laboring in
different parts of the Lords vineyard. No
Christian at all acquainted with the moral
condition of the world, or even of our own
country, can for moment doubt the utility
of such a society, or that it is an institution
which has imperious claims upon the church.
Indeed the church have adopted it, and by
their prayers and offerings have consecrated it
to the service of the Lord and he has evil
IDENTIFY owned and blessed the undertaking.
Efforts are now making, and with good sue
cess, to place the society upon more per-
manent pecuniary foundation, by the estab-
lishment of scholarships, of $1,000 each, the
interest only of which is to be applied to the
support of the beneficiary. Fifty have al
ready been founded, six of which were given
in Hartford, and six in New-Haven. Under
the immediate superintendent of Mr.. Cor
nelius, the society cannot but revive and -four
ish.
The County Court, for Litchfeld County,
at their last session in this town, with lauda-
bic and liberal spirit altered and enlarged the
limits Of the Jail yard in this place, 50 as to
embrace the whole village. Unfortunate debt
ors now brought here for confinement, can
with the Liberties Of the yard" set employ
ment as gardeners, woodcutters, iourney,nan
mechanicks, or live genteelly in "their own
hired house" if they have where withal to
support such a stile. 1t is true such a proyis-
ION affords poor encouragement to imprison a
debtor; but its principles are vastly more in
accordance with the spirit of the age, than
was the old regulation. which contracted the
yard to few rods of public highway only.
100000 have been appropriated by Con-
gross to the relief of the unfortunate sufferers
by the late fire in Alexandria. This was no.
BILE deed; and although but one of our State
delegation in the House, Mr. Ingersol, & Mr..
Edwards only in the Senate voted in favor of
the bill, still we shall not be backward in APP
proving Of the principle which caused the in
PRODUCTION and passage of the bill. To sup
pose go,ernment,rich in resources, and pos
scssing an overlooking treasury, has no right
to bestow pittance upon suffering commu-
nity-upon citizens only six miles from the
doors of the capital, who have been by an aw-
| full visitation of Providence burnt out of house
and home, is to suppose that our constitution
is very defective in its provisions, or else that
| its trainers were ignorant of those principles
which ennoble government, and render it a
praise in the earth. Every administration,
since the Federal constitution was adopted,
have pursued exactly such course as the
above mentioned, and the propriety of the
course has never been questioned by candid
men those who have raised cry against
such proceedings were men who were contin-
ualy labouring to weaken the hands of the
administration, and injure it with the people.
The hill for the relief Of the Alexandrian suf-
ferers was introduced into the House by Mr..
Minor of Pennsylvania, at moment when
the flames of their devoted city was at their
highest rage, and were visible to every men,
Der Of the House the bill did honour to his