Litchfield enquirer., 1835-06-04


 ] and felicity, But now Tom heoaIl fo rSe. lax from his strict habits. sand ,vouId occs-
 sionally walk down lo a tavern in fhe neighborhood. This a0on became a hsb;r :, and the habit imperceptibly grew upon Kim: he becanhe . constant touDger about the
 tavern, aud extremely dissipa,ed. The
 inevitable consequence soon followed she
 got in debt and bis creditors soon stripped
 him of all he had. His poor wife used all lthe arts of persuasion to reclaim him, and Ishsl con!d not think of using him harsiIly,
 for she loved him even in his degradaiion. Many an earnest petition did she profer to
 heayenT for his feformaiioD, and i0f1eR did
 she endeaVor to york upon his narental EfeeliBgs. He often promised sfo reform.
 and,wa at last induced to stay from . tay,
 crn three day together; and his solieitous
 companion began 10 cherish hopes ofretur.
 ming happiness. Bun he could endure no longer. Betsey said he, as he arose
 from bis work, sgive me the dscanter. '-.
 These words pierced her heart and seem. ed to sound the kleN of all her cherished hopes hut she could not disebsy him. He went to tie tavern, and dffer some per- suasion induced 1he1 landlord tp till the de. |'carter; ba returned, and plagaa it in the window immediately before hin; 'fosA, said he, II can face my enemy.s& r With a resolution fixed upon overeem- ing his habits he went earnestly to work-- always having the 9ecanter before him, lie never touched it.. Again he began to thriye--and in a few years he was once. more the owner of his former delightful res- idence. His children grew up, and arc now respectable members of society. Old age caRis upon Tom, but he always kept the decanter, in the window where he first put it; and often when his head was sil- yered, over with age,, ho would refer fO his decspter and laugh ats its singular effect; and he never permitted it lo be renewed from that window while he lived, nor was 1t until he had been 7consigned to his mar, row house. .- saperGnes Rsgiste'. r @ea < .Fsons ehe Psosidsnce JossnaI
 Ekegant E1trGct.-The following .ex- tract is taken from an address lately deliV- cred by the Rev. Dr. Wayland, President of Brown University. Itis written ina mass Aerly style, and fusnishess a subject for sole emn reflection :- !, The examples of goodness havB made bad men ashamed of vice, thougbtless men admirers of virtue, without either rendef. ing the one truly penitent, or the other ace lively virtuous. If however, it's partial in- Anence (the influence of the gospel by rs- formaiion) have thus been salutary, what, may not be hoped. when the moral nature of man shall have been subjected to it's a,,- thority2 The sun has indeed risen and the mountain tops are already basking in its beans, but although the plains are illn- minated by reflecting iight, yet the cold dews of evening still rest heavily upon them, while the shades and darkness still hover over the vallies beneath. But how glorious will this seem, when green valley, and silver rivulet, and glassy lake, and wa " plain, and pine clad mountain, are rec Ascting back the qaickening e6ulgcnce of unclonded noon. ;.
 " But, that nnclouded noon has not yet arrived. God grant 1t may speedily come. Whether it shall come nov, prophetic yis- ion has not foretold. Tho results of im- proved civilization, in consequence ef the diffusion of knowledge, ths unlimited free- dom of the press, and the rapid aceumula- iion of capital, have given an energy to hu- man passion, and have taught such skill in deyising modes by which 1t may bs grafifi- ed, thai the impulsivs powers of man have speedily acquired energy before unprece- ,dented. That they are already sufficient to balance the existing forces of moral re- straint, seems, from many indications, far from improbable. The proof of this ss seen in that feverish festlessness, that grow ing disregard for law, and the desire for revolutions which are so characteristic of the present time. ~
 ]" Societies can never remain for lang time stationary. 1.-the expulsivs violence ofhumati passion overthrow ths bdttresses which bind iags,ber the social edifce, the whole fabric will collapse with an over whelming crash. The natural ferocisy of the b0man heart, stimulated and directedby an intslIigence to which it never before at tained, and whetted to anguish by the splendors of helpless ePulence every where within its physical power science and arts are fsrnishing msans of destruction before unkuown, aud capabl6 Of gratifying the full, the. widest love of slaughter; the press raining down in every slaiid one horrible tempest of frebrands, arrows and death. will combine to form alscene of triumphant havoc, such as the historian hath never yet described, nor uninspired imaginationeyer vet conceived. Thus civilization will be fTti. .N .s. cha osSn nF fhn