Litchfield enquirer., 1836-08-18
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 Pa,:r;nr no other ass.J.d .,d s@s vvas eSteeme,
 a physsl.cs'aDsn snd people protesting a love to
 hoiioras9ply,, ,,,, 10 their profession, husbandinl
 i ac.sS ..ss,eerath and saving their energies. Tn
 lne.Jj HJ sh1ngs of life were leisufely enjoyed-. g.,,eI,s go Were made with caution, and witl J.a ottention to comfort and safety, as vel S. eynedition. A mans life was counted ~orth something, and he who accidentally iost his hold on it was Teckoned unfortunate
 We of this generation have arrived at pet tar th;ngs.-but the change has not been dont Cta Ui ieaS. First in order came the discovery that o,lr stages did not rattle over the rougt roads of a new country with any thing like .heexpedition of tho coaches of old England Gver level roadside pace of the coach hor- ses was far behind the march of mind. Then came turnpike roads, and coachees who did not believe in the necessity of allowing horses 4o breathe. Their pace rounded from five to ten miles the hour, and the express of score of,years previous, was accounted sort oi a snail pace. The newspapers chronicled the speed of travellers as having reached its acme, and exultingly quoted the time when even inc witches of Naumkeag could not wis., ;t tRostor at a less sacrifice of time than from threc days to a week, each way. The union had become compressed into single state by inc bonds made of whiplashes. We were a great people, and should doubtedly become greater as our territory became apparently less, and it ceased to require lifetime to tra- vel from Canada on the North, to Florida on the South. Then began the slight misfor- tune of occasionally breaking down or over- turning a coach. Broken legs, arms and necIs were rated high at first, but in the scale against the wonderful advantages gained by rapid travelling, they were soon at a discount. Next came the steamboat era. Fulton's genius made rivers highways, and the ocean a thoroughfare.A Places were esteemed diyi- ded which had only land between them, while those which were SO fortunate as to be sepa- rated by what our fathers esteemed divi- sion, water, were accounted united. Had it been possible.a joint stock company would have been. formed to flood the continent for the sake of improving communication. The union dwindled in space down to the size of Rhode Island, notwithstanding the marking of of the wilderness into territories, and the erection of those into states. Now came steamboat accidents. The first fireman that burned his finger was accounted a rnartyr-- not so the hecatombs of passengers who were sacrificed afterwards to the Genius of Steam.i Anaccident was accounted naught which had not one cipher at least at the right fthe nu., morals which told the dead and wounded.-. We could not do without stean-the greatest good of the greatest number was the motto and hundred or two killed yearly by boat, only made 1t a remarkable and distinguished vehicle-rot only for helping passengers from one place to another, but for annihilae ting time as well as space, and saving time by an anticipation of eternity. s. . .4
 3 Times ncblest triumph is her last.
 Next came the railroads, and behold our wide spread territory squeezed down to 9 ten acre lot. The ten mile pace of stages and the fifteen knots of steamboats, were distres- singly slow--hHzza for the twenty mile fight ofthe railroad car Now indeed are acci. eenss not to be introduced even incidentally in tic mention of travelling facilities. Ap. pl5s hv the handful you may count-bv the tus1ri w's aac,l't th::sk of such thing. The one killed by stagc-ovcrturns ;o the twenty wounded by steamboat explosions, all 20 for nothing compared with the way the whole sale business is done on the railway. Here are no petty risks of a paltry dozen passen- gers m coach-- Hundreds are at stake in one inyeStnlent of horrid accident-capital in a train of cars. Twenty miles an hour sin gle t@rsck-t,vo @ trains travelling toward each ot,aer-go t like lightning pop into each other ii nke alsimtltaneOa electric discharge crash
 
 rlhs-4.idoNs and orphans of fi1e passengers despatched in the cars---what matter these. while the stock is at ten per cent. advance, and the New York papers are read in Boston the same day as published! X X The stage martyr to travelling had no chance for variety in the mode of imnola- uon the steamboat introduced only one va rlety, but we have our choice of three modes of disposal of the spectre kings ultimate prize, in either of which his chance is vastly better than when our fathers chose to baulk nm by staying at home and minding their own business. Under such advantages 1t be. comes us well to choose, and warily-else we are open to the reproach of insensibility .o our peculiar fortunate situation. The stage Ya toierable guarantee for broken bones, bll " no means to be compared with either o It's rivals, because the coachee is apt to havs some respect for his horses, if none for hi, passengers. Then many of them have fnol ish trick of being careful, which. were th.
 lives of hundreds instead of tens cornn,;,ta, t.,, to their care, they would soon rid themseive of. Death by stage conveyance we canno recommend to those seeking to make wa,
 WLn themselves -unless indeed they will 'b Farylsed to venture to cross Washington.st. { a,most any time of day when omnibuses ar
 .gSaneaant. sssae Parental care is frequently relic
 disc'SS SS conslderate drivers who are pfactic,
 wM,cb a.s ss ot Malthus, and for this we owe the,
 bears rs SSs as the number of children kille
 much ia sks opogtion to the number borl
 lpouulation e csWy wsy of thinning of the surpl,
 sE The stcarnhosssss oe hoped from this sourc,
 laEly at the South, and c,ever.-p -particl
 and as bread stuff ia on sha s s; .ne mississippi
 pista begin 10 hope . decresssa. " pniianthr'
 of mouths for the corn. by the - ra a: sne nnmhs
 commenced by the Sound boasss sss'ngs " wisel M
 do their business sloYenlY ,shs.. !. ctlll the