Litchfield enquirer., 1839-03-21
"The suns eye had sickly glare"

The suns eye had sckly glare"
There is occasionally ray Of hazy light issuing
from certain lumnary which rises in these parts,
called by the pgmy insects that bask in its shine-"a
sun" but which, from its cratic course, and intermit-
tent light might with greater proprety be denomina
ted-loco:foco Eghtning-bug. The phosphorescent
emanations Of this misnamed sun, are composed of
putrefactons which are attracted by an influence
similar to that which the magnet exerts upon iron
fngs-and by which oil the filth and loa'hsome ex-
halations arc congregated that found floating in
its exceedingly circumscribed orbit. A great part of
this purescent matter s collectedfrom Smithery''
in Sharon-the foreman s that notorious fellow Will
liam Tell-he pulls at the bellows-from which cir
cumstnnce he has received the somewhat windy So
brquet Of "Puff"' Not little is contributed by q
llliputian Sub-Treasurer of Salisbury, with a most
ambiguous and unfortunate name. The joint labors
Of these worthless, together with few More of the
same kidney, "keep the ball in notion" and the llu-
limitations that the good people Of the Hill receive in
the off weekly revolutions ore astonshnely
brilliant. Its effects upon the unlucky wight who per-
chance receives the fun force of lie rays
are not unlike those produced by box Of Bandreths
Pills taken at dose. The tacurn habit is relaxed
and the patient Immediately begins TO beIch forth
in ejacnlatory sentences, words to the following eff
feet" Federalism :" I" Hartford Convention ~ "Bue
Lights" Last Legislature !" imprisonment for
Debt =! "RascalIy Whigs!" and other cries Of like
import and similar significance. Whoever attended
the Loco Foco caucus holden at the Court House in
this Village on the 9Th inst could not have failed to
have witnessed this singular phenomenon. When
Getting rose and shook his ambrosia locks, the loco
foco-thunders rolled, and reverberated; eyes were
ixed-mouths were open-and ears disiended to
catch the inspirations Of the high priest Of locofoco
ism-as he raved and ranted under the influences Of
some spirit, his agrarian oraces Sentences were
dashed off-and in the language Of Hamlet-df we
may be pardoned for using Shakespeare on such an
unworthy subject, they were" words. words,
words !" Whiz pop! Off went the orator, " bis eye
in fine phrcnzy rolling" like Mazeppa.
"Away, away-right on TO dash
Torrents less rapid-and less RASH
There he Stood the acknowledges of loco
focosm and "wih voice most vocferous, he did
vocferate and out voceze in loud vociferation even
sound itself!'
NIB "Loco Focoism rather hazy about these
days! :" A LrTcHFIELpIAN.
The following resolution was passed at the Middle.
sex County Convention. and states fact which the
locos might bear in mind when denouncing the law,
that none of the party opposed its passage, no. even
the great Mr.. Cleveland:
Resolved. That the act "abolishing imprisonment
for debt" which passed both branches Of the Legisia
tre Of this state at its last session without dissent
snC poce or cote from quarter s, in opinion.
better calculated guard end secure the Just RIGHTS at
both Debtor and Creditor than the act Of 1897 but
even admitting the former TO be what our opponents
would have it, would beg leave TO ask, where
their champions tina. thew neither denounced it vo
ted against IT in the legislature
"Hsven't rrchIy earned the thirty pieces spolsr'
as Judas lscarot the Cd said when he cast his vote
into the ballot box for Morris Woodruff and called for
reckoning with his conscience.