Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-04-25
THE TRu,MpHs 0FLARoR

We have rarely seen the mighty result Of
the labor Of man more Strikingly elucidated
than in the following extract from an address
by Henry Coleman, of Massachusetts, to sew
eral Agricultural Societies OF that State, as
sembled at their annual festival last October.
We find it in the New England Farmer:
Two wears since, I traversed the great Erie
| Canal, from one end to the other floated on
the waters of the Ohio Canal and return
ed to the sea shore by the Pittsburg and
Pennsylvania Canals and Railroads. What
a magnificent excursion! What mighty tri-
umphs of art and labor are here! What
moving of the affections What an expand
| ing of the imagination How many beauti-
| full and splendid visions have f1oated before
| the mind, which were here surpassed by the
great realities. Here were deep basins exca-
waited, and noble and long stretching en-
bankments, which rivalled the neighboring
hills Here were rivers, hundreds of miles
in length, flowing at mans pleasure. and in
channels formed by his own hands. Here
were streams crossing streams on beautiful
arched aoueducts. Here were mountains of
granite pierced through and through, and
passage opened through the heart of ada
mantine barriers for vehicles freighted with
human life.
"Here were deep inland oceans mingling
their waters with the mighty sea that sweeps
from pole to pole and bearing upon their
quiet tides ten thousand floating and deeply
laden arks; myriads of human beings ac-
tive in the pursuit of business or pleasure !;
Accommodations Of wealth from the deep and
tangled recesses ofthe forest, NOW first spring
ing into life under the touch of civilization,
from the glittering field of polar ice, and
from the shore Of the Western Ocean ac-
cumulations, whose growing extent defies oil
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little animal of the ordinary height of sixty
inches with only two feet and two hands
and of an average duration of life less than
seventy years.
His mighty implements in these great ex-
PLOTS, were only kind of Robinson Crusoe
assortment, hoe, a pickax and spade
Such are the great results of intelligent, con-
centrated, persevering labor achievements
of our own times, and scarcely quarter of
q century old.
"These results are wonderful. They are
of no miraculous creation. They are the
fruits of the labor of individuals, applied in
its most minute forms, and at successive
times. When De Witt Clinton first struck
a spade little bigger than mans two hands
into the ground, and said, This shall bring
the waters of Lake Superior into the ocean,
and the vast, and as yet unimagined treas
ures of the West shall float upon their de-
scending current" few minds could believe
that this was any other than "such stuff as
dreams are made Of" But the prediction
was accomplished, and in his day. The
laundering cannon never sent more electri-
fying appeal, than when its successive &C
CARNATIONS along the whole bright line an
nounced that the nuptial union between the
vast lakes of the north, and the beautiful At
lantic, was contaminated. Never was
gladder note poured into the patriots ear since
the Declaration of 1776, than the assurance
which then fell upon it that these internal
communications, these glittering silver bands,
were to form the strong bonds of friendly
union and sympathy with those distant ter
ritores now brought into such near conjunc-
ton ; territories before, scarcely known to
each other by name, now shaking hands with
each other as next door neighbors. Such are
the great results of Labor"
DREADFUL FIRE-EigM persons burnt to
death I'VE learn from the Providence Cour-
Ter of Saturday, that the house of Mr.. Peck
ham, at Exeter, r. l., was destroyed by fire
on Thursday night, together with its con-
tents, and sad to relate eight persons were
burnt to death in the same. Our informant
gives the following particulars in relation to
this tragical and awful conhagration. A man
called at the door late in the evening and de-
manded admission into the house. The ia
mily was alarmed at his rude and boisterous
behaviour, and refused himadmittance, when
he gave some harsh threats and went Off
Before daylight the house and all its inmates
(ten in number) except two. the owner and
his wife, were burned up. Two of the mum.
Der were ladies on visit to the family, from
Newport.
Since penning the above we learn that the
person alluded TO, as having demanded ad-
mittance in the house, has been arrested, and
is now in custody of the proper officers.
"TAe Secret Circular. Our readers recol-
lect, and the people will not forget, that the
loco focos here latterly, just before the cleo
ton, raised loud outcry against circular,
which it was pretended was issued year
since by the Wing State Committee, direct
ing manufacturers to compel their hands to
vote the Wing ticket, or dismiss them. We
denied that such a circular was ever issued,
and defied them to produce the evidence oft.
They did publish certificate of a contempti-
bic loco foco, that he had certain knowledge
OF such fact-and some men who claim to
possess respectability of character. especial
ly curious politician of this region, not only
endorsed the foul and false libel, but openly
declared their ability and resolution to prove
unequivocaly the truth of the charge. We
now call upon them in this public manner
and challenge them to establish the truth of
their declarations. Let us see, gentlemen, this
boosted proof. We charge that the assertion
is false, utterly false, and You knew it to be
so when you endorsed il. We however have
pretty good proof that loco fOco manufac-
turer in this region, prior to the late election
endeavored to persuade some Of his hand: to
vote the loco foco ticket, and in connection
with that endeavor dismissed such of them as
would not conform to his directions Consis-
tency is a jewel, gentlemen. Shew us your
proof, and ours shall be forthcoming upon
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