Litchfield enquirer., 1837-08-24
SKETCH,

There have been several sketches of the American House of Representatives but none more truly graphic than the following from the New York Knickerbocker Maga- zine:
 "What a mass of representatives there are here! What singular samples of our vast country Here sits Tennesseean, and there Missourian, educated among buffaloes, and nurtured in the forest-as intimate with the passages of the Rocky Mountains, as the cit with BroadWay-Who cares no more for a Pawnee than professed beau for bright plumed belle. Here is a man from the prai- ries-and there another from the swamps and morasses, whose blood the musketoes have utterly stolen away. There is sal- low face from the rice grounds, and here the flushed cheek from the mountains-and by his side man from the pine grounds-land of tar and turpentine. What people we are! What country is this of ours How wide in extent-how rich in production how various in beauty! have asked in my travels for the West, in the streets of the Queen of the West-a fairy city, which but yesterday was wilderness. They smiled at my, inquiry and said it was among the ;" "hoosiers" of Indiana or "the suckers'' of Illinois. Then journeyed long. crossed great rivers and broad prairies, and again asked for the West. They said it was in Missouri. l arrived at the capital. They complained that they were "too far down east" But go," they said, if you would see the West, days and days, and hundreds ana hundreds of miles up the Missouri iarther than from us to New England, and beyond the Rocky Mountains, and among the snake Indians of the Oregon, and you may ma It." It was the work of dozen m fha '
 despair. have searched for them for months. in almost every clime-under the torrid sun l of Louisiana, the land of the orange and the l olive, and beneath the cold sky of Maine. I have seen the e-planter gathering rich treasures from bountiful soil, and the fish. erman aDchoring his little bark on the rocky island, dropping his hook as carefully as fl the ocean were full of pearls, and not Of macKerel. lhavc seen the mill-man saving wood m all variety of forms, on the farthesi soil ot New England; and have beheld the same wood float down the Savannah, or the beautiful Alabama, in the strangest metamor. phoses 1t may be, in clock regularly tick. ing off the time, or in pail-perchance, in button; and for aught know in a tasteless ham, or an unfragrant nutmeg! have nev. CT been off the soil of my own country: and yet have seen the sun go down, ball oi Ire' without moments notice, twilight flinging over rich, alluvial lands-bloomina with magnolias and orange trees-a robe ol gold and again have stood upon tho bare rocks of colder climes, and when the trees were pinched by the early frost, I have mark ed the same vanishing rays reflected from the leaves, as if thousand birds of paradise were resting in the branches; and when the clouds, streamed with red, and purple, anC piue' tinged andupped by the pencil of Beau ty-were floating nfhr, like r.inbows in mo ton, as # broken from their conlinement- now mingllng and interlacing their dyes and glIitering arches, and anon sprinElef over. and mellowing the whole heaven-thet
 hhve ilncied that l was indeed In a fair, lhnd' where the very forests danced in gold on robes, responding 10 the setting sun, as th, statue ot ihbled Memnon gave forth Its wei
 coming Eoles of tho rays of morning plnyot upon lIs summit. l hnVo been where m, uoB'slhr fhgea, scattering pestllence ln ltl
 lrnil where tho pnlo lhcen ana and counte
 iinncea, give 1dmonIiIon that lhls la n rcgIn, or uchill' have stood by tho wide nrnjrlr and behold tho green bIl0wa rIae At,d lhll md tho llDdulnii0ns, chequered with sun light and shndow, chasing un0 aller tho oih or, nihr over tho Wldo oxpnnse. And 1 hNv, gone AHild tho storms Of winter, over tho hIeI 'hlll, upon tho loud.eracklng crust, and IkI