The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1828-10-09

from Booto lcQo The ceremonies IN the house (be-
sides tie address,l were prayer hy the Rev. NJ.
Pierce, several pieces Of excellent musick under he
direction OF T. j. Camp, Esq, aud closed with prsyrf
by the Rev. Mr.. W.bsms. After the exercises al
the meeting house, several hundred Of the spectators
retired 20 the public house Of Capt. WIN. &. Aberne
Thy, where an excellent rural repasi was prOVlded,and
he table pentitully furnished in the richest prOiu-
sion; and at the table, the Farmer, Mechanic, Mer
chant Physician, Lawyer, and Divine, ali united al
common board enjoy the festivities Of the day,
which, las observed by the Rev. dvine) evidently
tended TO feelings Of devotion. The whole exercises
conducted with that strict decOrum which s so
much the characteristic Of our virtHous leomanry.
AN OBSERVER.
We ought to have noticed in last, the Regimen
tai Review which took place in this village the 25th
ult although it is general maxim with that if the
militia will let US alone we will let the militia alone.
We certainly have very exalted idea of the import
ance and efficiency ofour present militia system; but
SO long as the system persisted D that the
10th Regiment Conn. Militia will always be favored
with good officers as it now has,-that when the
troops belonging thereto obliged to muster for
gmenal review, they will always appear as orderly
they did on the 25th that the weather will be ia
vorable for the service, (batng one shower which
fortunately came during the act of firing feu de
JOYCE and more especially that the Genius of Temper
ance will continue to preside all the regular
ercises the late occasion To the honor of the
Colonel it should be known that ardent spirits were
not dealt part Of the rations of the day-noth-
ing stronger than good new cider allowed for the
field use of any of the men under his command. We
| would not intimate, however. that no spirits were
drank that day by any Of the multitude present To
be sure various jugs of blue RUM were emptied on
the common-not by soldiers truly but by independent
citizens collected around aspedlar's stand or a tempo
rary rum board. Some few we saw,-not many
who gave strong indications of drowsness and treu-
bling in the joints; but these had all disappeared be-
fore the last rays light had quilted the western ho
rzon, and nothing but the recollection Of what had
been during the day was left to the dweIlers in our
quiet village. The soldier and the citizen had peace
ably retired-both gratl6ed, but neither benefited by
the services of the day; and the next day the morals
of the people, as we'll their knowledge Of regular
field service. might have been quoted in state quo.
MIR. J.H.Handy, lateTreasurer, nowSecretary ofthe
Second Presbyterian Church in Washington city,
publishes a statement in the National Integencer,
from which it appears that since $780, President Ad
ans, who is of the Trustees, has paid for pew.
rent given, or loaned to said church, an aggregate Of
$l8O6. This is the church over which the Rev. Lu
Their Halsey, late of Princeton NJ. has recently been
settled; church far removed from the whitening
influence of Unitarianism as was that which st. Pau
established at Corinth. The general impression has
been, especially in this vicinity, that Mr.. Adams
Unitarian we have eurself been Of this opinion -
! but we know not from what authority this idea has
been obtained. Perhaps from the fact that he was
once professor in that hotbed Of Sociniansm Cam.
bridge College; perhaps because his father was De-
is, which DR. Prestly said was the same thing as Uni
taranism; and possibly because his 'home' is in tina
part Of the country where this anti Christianity -four
shes must uxurantly. But whatever may have beer
the cause which produced this impression, it yer,
certain that there proof either written or verbal
in favor of the assumption; f there were. it would
long this have been published for the benefit Of
the Jackson party. At the time Rev. Moses Stuart
dstinty recoect to have heard Il asserted in Boston
that Mr. Adams who was then in that city, had ire.
| quently declared that the sentiments of Mr. 8. were
| unanswerable by any sober reasoning, and in exact
accordance with his views of scripture ruh. The
statement Of Mr. Handy, also, which 10 worthy Of I'm
pcit belief makes it appear that MrAdams is not only
an efficient supporter Of an evangelical church, but
ven an important officer in the society. Mr. A. prob
dUiy 10 hui, dSCouuB " tnc scripture acceptance OF
the term, Christian but there 10 no evidence that
he is an Unitarian; but If he were thus we should
cordially support him in opposition to Gen jackson.
We should not thus have noticed the subject, it
for the efforts which the Herald and sundry other
papers making to raise him up opponents, bv an
attack upon what they, we believe falsely, call his
Iigous opinions. II hs sentiments upon this subject
be canvassed, let those who the first, or
ven second stone, see to it that they themselves
! without SIN.
Professor "Stuar's Letters to Claiming" have
been re-pubshed 10 Belfast, ireland. The Chris.
tan Observer the oldest and most valuable religious
and literary publication in the world, says that these
Letters furnish ofthe most concise and able de-
fences Of the Deity of Christ, which has been
| given to the public"
The Boston Gazette says that few evenings since,
a Mr. s. P. Judson, of Ohio, while at the fremont
Theatre, had his pocket-book, containing $780, cut
from his coat pocket. These "Schools of Morality -
are wonderful places for pick-pockets, prostitutes,
and gamblers; over whom the "teachers" seem To
very salutary influence JudsOn may bet he
FIRST this season Who has lost heavy purse while
taking "iesson;" bot he 10 not the first who has
lost that which is vastly more valuable conscious
ness of moral retude, by visiting these haun Of dis
| spatiOn.
Messrs Hyatt and PeIby, teachers of theatrical mo-
rails on Sunday. 28th ult. thrown from a pleas
| ure Wagon, between Quincy and Boston, and very
dangerously wounded. They we're beguiling away