Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-06-07
SKETCH.
FAITHFUL.

Inor0 nave been SeVefal.SKetcneS OF the
American House of Representatives, but
none more truly graphic than the following
from the New York Knickerbocker Maya
zine. The reflections to which it gives rise,
are enough to make an American prouder of
his glorious country.
What mass of representatives there are
here! What singular samples of our vast
country! Here sits Tennessean and there
Mssourian, educated among buffalos, and
nurtured in forest, Us intimate with the
passes of the Rocky Mountains, as the cit
with Broadway-who lives where hunters
and trappers have vexed every hill, and who
cares no more for Pawnee than profess
sed beau for pflmed belle. Here is man
from the prairies, and there another from the
swamps and morasses, whose blood the mus
quitoes have utterly stolen away. There is
a sallow face from the rice grounds, and a
flushed cheek from the mountains, and by
his side man from the pine grounds; land
of tar and turpentine. What people we
are! What a country is this of ours How
wide in extent, how ricNy;n production. how
various in beauty. have asked in my trav-
els, for the West, in the streets of the Queen
of the West, fairy city, which but as yes
terday, was wilderness. They smiled al
my inquiry, and said it was among the "hoo-
siers" of Indiana or the suckers" of Illinois.
Then journied along. crossed great riv-
ers and broad prairies, and again ! asked for
the West. They said it was in Missouri. /
that they were too far down East. But GO"
they said, 'if yon seek the West, days
and days. and hundreds of miles up the
Missouri, farther than from us to New Eng
land, and beyond the Rocky Mountains, and
among the Snaky Indians Of the Oregon, and
you may find it." Itwasthe work of dozen
years to find the West, and turned about in
despair. Indeed / have no bounds to my
country. ! have searched for them for
moRths, in almost every cline, under the
torrid sun Of Louisiana, the land of the or
ange and olive, and beneath the cold sky Of
Maine. have seen the rice planter gather
rich treasures from bountiful soil, and the
fisherman anchoring his little barque on the
rocky island, dropping as carefully as if the
the ocean were full Of pearls. and not Of
mackerel. have seen the mill-man saving
wood in all variety of forms, on the farthest
soil of New England; and beheld the same
wood floating down the Savannah or the beau
tiful Alabama, in the strangest metamorpho-
SEES it may be in clock regularly ticking
off the time, or in pail perehance. button |;
and for aught know ina tastelessham, or an
unfragrant nutmeg. ] have never been off
the soil of my own country, and yet have
seen the sun go down bah of fire, withouta
moment'snotice oftwilight, fiiRging over rich
alluvial lands, blooming with nnagnolias and
orange trees, a robe Of gold and again,
have stood upon the bare rocks of colder
climess and when the trees were pinched by
the early frost, have marked the same van
ishing rays reflected from the Feaves, as if a
thousand birds of paradise were resting in the
branches; and when the clouds streaming
with red and purple, and blue, tingcd and
tipped by the pencil Of beauty, were float
ing afar, like rainbows in motion, as If bro
ken from their confinement, now mingling
and interlacing their dyes and glittering
lowing the whole heaven, and then J have
fsncied that was indeed in fairy land,
where the very forest danced its golden
robes, responding to the setting sun, as the
statue of tabled Memnon gave forth its well
como notes as the rays Of the morning play
ed upon its summit. have been twice where
the dog star RACES, scattering pestilence in its
train; where the long moss hangs from the
trees. where the pale faces and the sad coun-
tenance give admonition, this is region of
death have stood by the wide prairie, and
beheld the green pillows rise and fall, and
the undulations chequered with sunlight and
shadow, coursing one after another, afar
over the expanse. And have gone amid
the storms Of winter, over the high hill up
on the loud cracking crust, amidst the mll-
sic of the merry sleigh bells. And here are
the Representatives from all these regions, in
one grand council. all speaking one language,
all @Pelfd BY G9e law a.s on; my Country
linked as one, if the same flag Of our UNION,
never unfurled or defended but by FREEMEN.
then Poetry and Prophecy, stretching to their
utmost, cannot pre-announce that destiny !"
A Fsac Defnition.-A young lady, at an ex-
animation in grammar, was asked why the
noun Bachelor was singular; she replied i'm
mediately, and with much nGipete, " Because
it is very singular they don't get married"