The Litchfield County post., 1827-09-13

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of the 18th inst. Morgan was released under
pretence of friendship, it being aledged that
the debt was discharged he was then siezed
| by two persons, gagged or otherwise prevent
ed from giving the alarm, and forcibly put in
to into a chaise, which carried him to Han
fOrd's Landing, about three miles below ROch-
ester, where he was transferred to another
carriage, and conveyed thence upon the ridge
road to Lewiston. Here he was transferred
to a third carriage, and carried down to Fort
! Niagara, and confined in the pOwder-hOuse.
| Ccrydon Fox, the driver of the carriage from
| Lewiston. states that this was on the evening
Of the 14th Sent; that he drove To Colrnel
Kings at Youngstown, and thence down near
the hurying ground, about half mile from
Fort Niagara, where he left Morgan, and the
persons by whom he had been taken, and re-
turned. The last witness states also that the
only persons whom he knew in the carriage
with Morgan at that time, were Colonel King
and Mr.. Bruce, the Sheriff of Niagara.
| The fate of Morgan is still wrapped in mys-
| terry but these are farther disclosures than
the public have previously had; and it may
! be reasonably believed that all the facts Of
this outrage will be finally brought to light.
Albany Argus.
LETTERS TO THE STUDENTS OF GLAs-
Cow,
BYT. CAMPBELL.
Letter IL address you, dear students, both
from wish to keep myself in your friendly
I recollection, and from zeal, (if my power
should be ever SO slight to contribute towards
your interest in literary subjects. There are
many among you who will one day be able
to sift these pages with knowledge and sa-
gacity more than sufficient to discover num-
Der of imperfections; but even then, trust,
your maturest judgments will recognise in
what l write, an effort at least of well meant
industry.
The object Of my communications will be
to give you summary view OF the chief G.
pochs of literature, and of the causes assigna
BILE for these, among the nations whose men
tai culture has principally Influenced the civil
IizatiOn of the world.
Of this wide subject, it is obvious that such
sketch as Ipropose to take can only afford
you very general conception, and one that
am free to own will be Improbable, unless
it furnish you with hints for your own future
industry. An intimate acquaintance with the
history Of literature can only be the result of
long reading and that acquaintance you must
necessarily acquire for yourselves. Ill am
asked, what is the use Of offering a brief and
cursory outline of study requiring SO much
subsequent investigation? have to answer,
that it seems to me calculated TO promote the
minds interest in the various parts Of the sub
ject, by impressing their sequency and con.
nexion upon the memory and Judgment, and
by giving prospect to the imagination of its
most attractive points. cannot agreeswith
those who object to epitomise views Of know
ledge, on the score Of their too easily satisfy
ing the curiosity ON the contrary,I am con-
vinced that they excite it. No man was ever
deferred from studying the special statistics
of a Kingdom, by having previously glanced
over the general character of its provinces
nor will any mind be diverted from deeper
researches into the epochs efliterary history,
by viewing their succession in oneconspectus
The fact is perfectly the reverse; and nothing
is so apt to create distaste for all iltera-
ture whatsoever, as confused conception of
its periods.
The Greeks were the greatest teachers OF
art and science that the world ever possessed.
They methodized and improved on all the
scattered hints Of elementary knowledge
which they received from abroad. They
gave science popular cultivation and de-
terminate shape, which alone madeat an in
herltance capable Of being augmented and i'm
proved by posterity. They were the fathers
Of taste they refined humanity, and touched
it with new sense of the lOveable and har-
monious. Yet still it is worth recollecting,
that there were places in the ancient world
where science was cultivated long before 1t
reached the Greeks. and that proofs OF a civil
lization, to which they were not unindebted,
appear on the remote horizon Of history: II
is confessed that the Greeks appropriated tor
eign ideas, however nobly they may have I'M
proved them. Plato was not the only sage
who collected knowledge in Egypt, and he
attributed the Introduction Of all Greek I'M
provement to foreigners-an expression when
must have some weight, though it should also
be kept in mind, that what he calls improve
ment was but its rudest elements. AstiOno-
my was much older in Asia than in Greece
Even in the Odyssey there are some ie"
traits of Orientalism, that might lead Us 70
suspect the breath of Fancy, as well as the
| light of Science, to have travelled westward
from the regions of the Morn.
According to all that is known OF the hu-
man species, Asia was theirprimtive aoode'
Its fertile soil was the nursery that gave them
food, and its brilliant climate was the earnest
school that developed nature to their knowi-
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